(Bangkok) – Governments should mark North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s death with a clear demand that the new leader choose a path of reforming the country’s abysmal human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. 

Dakar, N'Djamena, Bruxelles, Paris, le 17 mars 2011

Monsieur le Président de la République,

(Nueva York) - El Congreso mexicano debería modificar sustancialmente la propuesta presentada por el Presidente Felipe Calderón para reformar el Código de Justicia Militar, afirmó hoy Human Rights Watch. La reforma propuesta no pondría fin a la impunidad actual de los abusos militares contra civiles.

(New York) - Mexico's congress should substantially modify President Felipe Calderón's proposed revisions to the Code of Military Justice, Human Rights Watch said today.  The proposed reform would not solve the current lack of accountability for abuses of civilians by members of the military.

(Milan) - The Libyan government should immediately end what appears to be a policy that allows shooting at boats carrying migrants from Libya to Italy, and Italy should stop participating in joint patrols with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.

(Dakar) - The Nobel Peace Prize winners Bishop Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi, as well as 117 African human rights groups from 25 countries, called today for the government of Senegal and the African Union to move forward with the trial of  Hissène Habré.  The exiled former dictator of Chad is accused of thousands of political killings and systematic torture.