Ireland

US: Defeat at Clusters Parley

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700

US efforts to undermine a new treaty banning cluster munitions met with significant defeat today at the final negotiations in Dublin, Human Rights Watch said.

Preliminary agreement on a draft treaty text on the afternoon of May 28 indicated that virtually all of the 110 countries gathered in Dublin favor a more comprehensive ban of cluster munitions than the US itself can tolerate.

European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity

Human Rights Watch — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800

The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.

Children in Northern Ireland

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 01 Jul 1992 00:00:00 -0700

Children have suffered greatly as a result of the conflict in Northern Ireland; of the almost 3,000 people who have lost their lives since 1969 in political violence associated with "The Troubles," many have been children killed by paramilitaries or by security forces. Moreover, children in the province are caught between two powerful groups - security forces and paramilitaries.