• Army Officer Held "Responsible" for Chiapas Massacre: Accused Found Dead at Defense Ministry
    6月 1, 1995

    On April 8, 1995, senior Mexican army officers invited us to discuss the human rights situation in Chiapas and offered information on the internal investigations conducted by the army into several violent incidents of the 1994 Chiapas uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army and its suppression.

  • China: Keeping the Lid on Demands for Change
    6月 1, 1995

    One year after President Clinton unconditionally renewed Most Favored Nation status for China and international pressure on China to improve its human rights practices dropped off dramatically, the Chinese government continues to impose tight controls on dissent and to engage in a pattern of systematic abuse of prisoners.

  • Rape for Profit
    6月 1, 1995

    Hundreds of thousands of women and children are employed in Indian brothels—many of them lured or kidnapped from Nepal and sold into conditions of virtual slavery. The victims of this international trafficking network routinely suffer serious physical abuse, including rape, beatings, arbitrary imprisonment and exposure to AIDS.

  • Human Rights Conditions Prior to the June 1995 Elections
    6月 1, 1995

    Haiti faced its first opportunity for genuine, democratic elections since the 1990 contest that brought Pres. Aristide to office with the parliamentary and local elections held on June 25, 1995.

  • Iraq's Brutal Decrees
    6月 1, 1995

    eginning in June 1994, the government of Iraq issued at least nine decrees that establish severe penalties, including amputation, branding and the death penalty for criminal offenses such as theft, corruption, currency speculation and military desertion.

  • War Crimes Trials in the Former Yugoslavia
    6月 1, 1995

    By early 1995, the international tribunal established by the U.N. to adjudicate war crimes and crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia had indicted 22 individuals for serious violations of humanitarian law, including the crime of genocide.

  • Return to Tajikistan
    5月 1, 1995

    Two years after a bloody and devastating civil war, the human rights situation in Tajikistan remains precarious. Since the spring of 1993, refugees and internally displaced persons have returned to their villages in the southern province of Khatlon, from which the largest number of people were displaced following the war.

  • Threats to a New Democracy
    5月 1, 1995

    For the last decade South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal region has been troubled by political violence. This conflict escalated during the 4 years of negotiations for a transition to democratic rule, and reached the status of a virtual civil war in the last months before the national elections of April 1994, significantly disrupting the election process.

  • Partisan War in Chechnya on Eve of WWII Commemoration
    5月 1, 1995

    This report — the fourth in a series — documents Russian forces' flagrant human rights violations against the civilian population in the ongoing conflict with Chechen rebels.

  • U.S. Blinding Laser Weapons
    5月 1, 1995

    The U.S. has pursued the development of at least 10 different tactical laser weapons that have the potential of blinding individuals. The existence of most of these programs is not known to the American public, Congress, or even throughout the military, and services responsible for laser weapons seem largely unaware of the programs in research and development in other services.