Human Rights Watch's World Report 2014 is the global rights watchdog's flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in human rights. An invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, it features not only incisive country surveys but also hard-hitting essays highlighting key human rights issues and striking photo essays by award-winning photographers. Customers outside of the UK and Europe: copies are available from Sevenstories.com

This 119-page report, entitled Playing with Fire: Weapons Proliferation, Political Violence, and Human Rights in Kenya, documents the dangerous nexus between arms availability and ethnic attacks in Kenya. The report highlights politically instigated armed violence on Kenya's coast during the last general election cycle, in 1997. Human Rights Watch describes in detail the armed political violence in Kenya's Coast Province in mid-1997 and the role of ruling-party officials in stoking the violence. A quasi-military force of well-organized and well-armed attackers carried out brutal attacks on civilians from other ethnic groups in areas around Mombasa, Coast Province.

CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM Human Rights Watch's twenty-third annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. An invaluable and respected resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, the book includes essays that tackle major human rights themes, and country chapters addressing key human rights abuses and the roles -positive or negative - that significant domestic and international figures played during the year. It reflects extensive investigative work by Human Rights Watch staff, often in close partnership with domestic activists.

If you eat bananas give a moment to think- a quarter of the bananas exported to the USA and the EU are grown in Ecuador in conditions where: - workers might expect to be fired if they organise, - children as young as eight work long hours, exposed to toxic chemicals, and face accidents from sharp machetes and knives - corporations are complicit

The northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to one of Africa's richest goldfields. This report documents widespread human rights abuses linked to ruthless efforts by foreign armies and armed groups to control two key gold mining areas: Mongbwalu and Durba. In their battles for gold, armed groups carried out widespread ethnic slaughter, torture and rape leaving more than 60,000 civilians dead in this remote corner of Congo. Armed group leaders together with their local business allies used the proceeds from the sale of gold to gain access to money, guns, and power. In 2003 alone nearly $60 million of tainted gold was smuggled out of Congo to Uganda, destined for the global gold markets in Europe and elsewhere. These funds enriched only the fortunate few and left many others impoverished and abused. Multinational mining companies also sought to start gold mining and exploration activities in this volatile area. One such company, AngloGold Ashanti, one of the largest gold producers in the world, launched a gold exploration program in Mongbwalu, an area controlled by an armed group responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In return for assurances of security and access to the mining site, AngloGold Ashanti established a relationship with this murderous armed group which in turn obtained financial, material and political benefits There will be no peace in Congo unless those who are involved in the exploitation of its natural resources make respect for human rights a fundamental consideration in their business activities. Multinational companies need to ensure that no support of any kind is provided to armed groups responsible for serious human rights crimes. Congolese citizens deserve to benefit from the country's rich resources, not be cursed by them.

The backbone of the report is a series of overviews of pressing issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular focus on the role played in each country by the government and key domestic and international organisations.

Human Rights Watch publish a report surveying the US government's human rights policy in many of the countries that they monitor. This volume includes an analysis of human rights developments in those countries and a discussion of each country's respect for the right to monitor human rights conditions. Each chapter contains a description of Human Rights Watch's work in promoting human rights in that country. The survey covers more than 60 countries, spanning every region of the world. It aims to be an unbiased and thoroughly accurate review including issues of free speech, the laws of war, and US foreign policy.

The backbone of the report is a series of overviews of pressing issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular focus on the role played in each country by the government and key domestic and international organisations.

For the past nine years, Human Rights Watch has published a report surveying the US government's human rights policy in many of the countries that they monitor. In this volume they have also included an analysis of human rights developments in those countries. They have added a discussion of each country's respect for the right to monitor human rights conditions, and each chapter contains a description of Human Rights Watch's work in promoting human rights in that country. The survey covers 57 countries, spanning every region of the world. It aims to be an unbiased and thoroughly accurate review including issues of free speech, the laws of war, and US foreign policy.

The transformation of Czechoslovakia into a democratic society has had both positive and negative effects on the Romanies. On the positive side, Romanies have been recognized as a national minority, guaranteeing them important cultural and legal protection under the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Despite improvements in their legal status, however, Helsinki Watch finds that the consequences of past policies towards Romanies continue to affect the Romany community in the 1990s. One matter is the government's failure to condemn publicly and to investigate and prosecute those responsible for medical procedures in which Romany women were sterilized without their consent and, in some cases, without their knowledge. In addition, Helsinki Watch notes the charges that Romanies suffer from many human rights abuses. It shows that discrimination against Romanies have reportedly increased in housing, employment, and access to public and private services since the democratic changes in 1989. It also notes that post-communist development has meant an incrase in nationalist tendencies that has led to the formation of several groups which have repeatedly attached members of the Romany population both verbally and physically.

"A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate."-Simon Jenkins, former editor of "The Times" (London)

"The reports of the New Yorkbased Human Rights Watch (HRW) have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses in the country."-Ahmed Rashid, "The New York Review of Books"

"World Report 2010" describes events around the world during the past year, giving concise overviews of the most pressing human rights issues with particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures.

Human Rights Watch is the largest US-based international human rights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curb human rights abuses in over seventy countries.

The backbone of the report is a series of overviews of pressing issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular focus on the role played in each country by the government and key domestic and international organisations.

The introduction to this annual publication reflects on recent events and recent changes in the world. The body of the annual report considers the human rights record of some 150 governments throughout the world.

CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM The 25th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2014 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic rights activists. The World Report 2015 focuses in particular on the roles--positive or negative--played in each country by key domestic and international figures. Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth's introduction addresses the tumultuous events of the past year, and describes inattention to human rights as an aggravating factor in the rise of brutal non-state actors such as ISIS and Boko Haram. Other essays focus on the strangulation of civil society by both repressive and so-called democratic countries; the need to keep surveillance on the human rights agenda; the alarming rise of explosive weapons in populated areas; and human rights abuses linked to mega-sporting events.