The Kyrgyz government should ensure that Azimjon Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek human rights defender arrested in connection with the June violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, is given a fair and public trial.

Many European companies that publicly embrace workers' rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers' rights in their US operations, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today.

“He was a psy¬chopath,” Sabiha L. (not her real name) said of her estranged abu¬sive hus¬band. “He broke my bones, and I was lying in bed for two months. Even when I was in bed he threw things at me and said ter¬ri¬ble things. There was also sex¬ual abuse.”

Gilles and Marie Concordel, members of Human Rights Watch's Geneva Committee, travelled to Kyrgyzstan following the June violence and its aftermath. They argue that this country needs international support.

Russia should put an end to local rules forcing women in Chechnya to observe an Islamic dress code.

The new UK government has made it clear that an important priority of its foreign policy will be to promote British trade and investment abroad. But recent remarks in Sudan by the Africa minister, Henry Bellingham, raise concerns that, by blindly pursuing commercial interests, the UK runs the risk of undermining international efforts to protect human rights and promote justice for serious abuses.

Some government forces acted, knowingly or unwittingly, to facilitate attacks on ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010.

The Uzbek government should revoke the 13-year prison sentence handed down to the human rights defender Gaibullo Jalilov on August 6, 2010, and set him free.