World Report 2016 summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries
and territories worldwide. It reflects investigative work that Human Rights
Watch staff undertook in 2015, usually in close partnership with human rights
activists in the country in focus.
In his keynote essay, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth
details how fear drove global developments of 2015. Fears of terror attacks and
potential impact of refugee influx led to a scaling back of rights in Europe
and other regions.
In China, Ethiopia, India, and Russia, fears that social
media will energize social and political movements helped to drive a disturbing
global trend: the adoption of repressive new laws and policies targeting civil
society. Roth traces the ways in which human rights law can and should guide
responses to these major global developments.
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