Racism has been a stain on human history, from slavery to the Holocaust to the genocide in Rwanda, yet it continues all over the world, from the silencing of religious minorities and indigenous peoples, to ethnic war, discrimination and xenophobia against migrants.
(Nairobi, 8. Dezember 2008) – Alle an dem eskalierenden Konflikt in Somalia beteiligten Parteien haben während des letzten Jahres regelmäßig Kriegsverbrechen und andere schwerwiegende Menschenrechtsverletzungen begangen, die zu der humanitären Katastrophe in dem Land geführt haben, so Human Rights Watch in einem heute veröffentlichten Bericht.
Good evening everyone. My name is David Mepham and I am the UK Director of Human Rights Watch. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the first Human Rights Watch parliamentary reception.
While events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Bahrain have provoked huge media and political interest here in the UK, there has been much less focus on the situation in Saudi Arabia. This seminar will look at the human rights challenges within Saudi Arabia, as well as the response of the Saudis to popular uprisings across the region.
The eyes of the world were on Egypt in those momentous weeks in January and February, when the extraordinary courage of the Egyptian people led to the fall of the Mubarak regime.
