Human Rights Watch Archives - Institute of the Black World 21st Century

A marcher walks ahead of the large crowd of about 3,500 North Miami residents and members of the South Florida Haitian community as they joined Haitians across the U.S. and the world on Sunday, July 9, 2023 to demand relief for Haiti.

Human Rights Watch: ‘Urgent action needed to address extreme levels of violence’ in Haiti

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald — As deadly gang violence unfolds against another Port-au-Prince neighborhood and another police officer lost his life trying to help the public fend off armed attacks, Human…

August 17, 2023

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Repression and abuse in the favelas of Brazil: Death by violence, hunger or pandemic

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

For Immediate Release May 7th, 2021 – On Thursday, May 6, in Brazil at least 25 people died after more than 200 armed police officers stormed Jacarezinho, one of the…

May 8, 2021

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H.R. 40 Reparations Judiciary Committee Vote Forum

By IBW21Events, News & Current Affairs, Reparations

On April 14, 2021, the House Judiciary Committee voted to send the H.R. 40 – Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act to the floor of the…

April 14, 2021

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US: Congress Advances Slavery Reparations Bill

By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Reparations

(Washington, DC) – The US Congress will take a historic step on April 14, 2021 when a congressional committee is to vote on a slavery reparations bill, Human Rights Watch said…

April 11, 2021

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People march towards the Washington Monument at the Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC 6/6/2020

‘Racism is in the bones of our nation’: Will Joe Biden answer ‘cry’ for racial justice?

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Chris McGreall— In his first few minutes as America’s new president, Joe Biden made a promise so sweeping that it almost seemed to deny history. “We can deliver racial…

January 30, 2021

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US: Congress Should Pass Reparations Bill

By NAARCNAARC News, News & Current Affairs, Press Releases / Statements, Reparations

‘Why We Can’t Wait’ Campaign Builds on Unprecedented Support for HR 40 to Address Racial Injustice. Washington, DC, August 3, 2020 — The US Congress should address systemic racism by bringing House Resolution (HR) 40 to a full vote once it reaches the floor, more than 100 civil rights, human rights, and civil society organizations and businesses said today. The federal bill would establish a commission to investigate the legacy…

August 3, 2020

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Injured and wounded prisoners are taken to hospital under guard after the Tulsa, Oklahoma race riots in 1921 when up to 300 African-Americans were massacred by white mobs

Anniversary of Tulsa race massacre revives calls for reparations

By IBW21Reparations

Demand for justice grows nearly 100 years after racist mob destroyed a black neighbourhood with impunity. By Alex Woodward, Independent — On 31 May, 1921, white mobs staged a two-day massacre of a thriving black town in Oklahoma, mounting one of the bloodiest episodes of racist violence in US history. After a black man in Tulsa was accused of assaulting a white woman, an armed mob supported by law enforcement and city officials…

June 2, 2020

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The Tulsa Massacre and Destruction of Black Wall Street: The Case for Reparations and HR 40

By NAARCEvents, NAARC News, News & Current Affairs, Reparations

Sunday, May 31, 2020 — The National African Reparations Commission (NAARC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) hosted a virtual forum with leaders from around the…

May 31, 2020

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