• NATO: Clarify Response to Deaths at Sea
    Mar 26, 2012
    Press release
    NATO and its member states should provide information to help clarify the chain of events that led to the death of 63 boat migrants in the Mediterranean a year ago.
  • Canada: Vote No on Migrant Detention Bill
    Mar 16, 2012
    Press release
    A bill that would require mandatory detention for some migrants would violate Canada’s binding international legal obligations.
  • Canada: Don’t Let Bush Get Away With Torture
    Oct 12, 2011
    Press release
    The Canadian government should investigate possible criminal charges against former US President George W. Bush for his role in authorizing the torture of detainees. Bush is scheduled to visit to Surrey, British Columbia on October 20, 2011.
  • Canada: Intelligence Service Accused of Libya Interrogations
    Sep 28, 2011
    Press release
    A Libyan-Canadian citizen who was imprisoned for eight years by the Muammar Gaddafi government says that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were among foreign agents who interrogated him while he was in Libyan custody for suspected terrorist ties.
  • Canada: Investigate Cheney for Role in Torture
    Sep 24, 2011
    Press release
    The Canadian government should be prepared to bring criminal charges against former US Vice President Dick Cheney for his alleged role in the torture of detainees when he visits Vancouver on September 26, 2011.
  • Canada: Caribbean Activists Honored
    Jun 9, 2011
    Press release
    Today, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch will jointly present their 2011 International Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights to the late Dr. Robert Carr and the organization he founded and co-chaired, the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities coalition.
  • Canada: Make Human Rights a Priority
    May 9, 2011
    Press release
    Canada should take concrete steps to renew its reputation as a global leader on the international human rights stage, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
  • Papua New Guinea: Serious Abuses at Barrick Gold Mine
    Feb 1, 2011
    Press release
    Private security personnel employed at a gold mine in Papua New Guinea have been implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Porgera mine has produced billions of dollars of gold in its twenty years of operation, and  is operated and 95 percent owned by Barrick Gold, a Canadian company that is the world's largest gold producer.
  • US: Khadr Sentencing Should Reflect Juvenile Status
    Oct 25, 2010
    Press release
    The military commission sentencing jury at Guantanamo should fully take into account Omar Khadr’s status as a former child soldier captured when he was 15. According to media reports, Khadr accepted a plea deal on October 25, 2010, to purported war crimes and other charges, making the US the first Western nation since World War II to convict someone for acts committed as a child in a war crimes tribunal.
  • US: End Military Commission Trial of Former Child Soldier
    Oct 15, 2010
    Press release
    The US government should stop the Guantanamo military commission trial of Omar Khadr, a former child soldier captured when he was 15. According to news reports, US military prosecutors are currently in talks with Khadr’s defense counsel regarding a plea agreement before trial proceedings resume on October 25, 2010.