• Untold Terror: Violence against Women in Peru’s Armed Conflict
    Dic 1, 1992

    Throughout Peru’s twelve-year internal war, women have been the targets of sustained, frequently brutal violence committed by both parties to the armed conflict often for the purpose of punishing or dominating those believed to be sympathetic to the opposing side.

  • The Anfal Campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan
    Dic 1, 1992

    Just as the Iran-Iraq War was coming to an end in 1988, the Iraqi government and army embarked on a vengeful campaign against Kurdish villagers living in Iraqi Kurdistan. Taken from a Koranic verse, Anfal refers to "the plunder of the infidel," and evidently was intended to give the campaign the veneer of religious justification, though the Kurds are Muslim, and Iraq is a secular state.

  • قضية سارة جين لانديكو ديماتيرا
    Nov 10, 1992

    للعمل خادمة لدى عائلة سعودية تقيم في المنطقة الشرقية؛ وكانت آنذاك في العشرين من عمرها؛ وبعد وصولها بأربعة أيام، تعرضت زوجة مخدومها للضرب حتى الموت في بيتها.

  • THROWING AWAY THE KEY Indefinite Political Detention in Syria
    Nov 1, 1992

    Political detainees in Syria have the distinction of being some of the most isolated in the world. Most have no contact whatsoever with their families; security services for their part, seldom acknowledge having them in their custody.

  • Accounting for the Past
    Oct 23, 1992

    The question of accountability has become increasingly important around the world in recent years, as different states attempting to make a transition to democracy have struggled to achieve a balance between retribution and forgetfulness in the interests of national reconciliation.

  • Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo 1990-1992
    Oct 1, 1992

    With the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, world attention has focussed on the brutal warfare that erupted first in Croatia and, more recently, in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Most of the human rights violations being committed in both conflicts stem from the use of force and terror by Serbian authorities to assert control over territory and to expel or marginalize the non-Serbian population.

  • A Troubled Year
    Oct 1, 1992

    The Dominican government's human rights practices on its state-owned sugarcane plantations in 1992 were shaped by two events in the Dominican Republic and Haiti in 1991.

  • Tunisia: Military Courts that Sentenced Islamist Leaders Violated Basic Fair-Trial Norms
    Oct 1, 1992

    At the end of August, Tunisian military courts pronounced verdicts against 279 Islamists in the most closely watched trials to take place since 1987, when many of the same persons had been put on trial. The 1992 trials were seen as a test of the government's commitment to human rights at a time of growing repression that has affected not only the Islamist opposition, but much of civil society.

  • Bloody May
    Oct 1, 1992

    By early May 1992, hundreds of thousands of protestors were marching in Bangkok, demanding the ouster of General Suchinda Kraprayoon who had declared himself prime minister despite repeated promises to the contrary. On May 17, after talks between the government and opposition parties concerning constitutional amendments broke down, the opposition called a new rally.

  • Foreigners Out
    Oct 1, 1992

    The following report sets out the background to the latest violence in Germany. It focuses primarily on violent attacks in the former German Democratic Republic, but some information is included on West Germany as well.