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January 4, 1999 News
Coercion, threats and the repression of opposition activists have characterized the presidential election campaign in Kazakhstan. Journalists and ordinary citizens have also been harassed during the three-month campaign for the ballot, scheduled for…
January 1, 1999 Report
The Enron Corporation Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Key Individuals Named in this Report I.  Summary and Recommendations Recommendations To the Government of India To the Enron Corporation To the Government of the United States To…
January 1, 1999 Report
This report examines the situation of the ethnic Turkish minority of Thrace, a region of Greece. It serves as a follow-up to two earlier reports issued by Human Rights Watch, Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Turks of Greece (August 1990) and "Greece:…
December 31, 1998 News
(New York, December 31, 1998) — Human Rights Watch condemns the fatal shooting by soldiers of at least three Ijaw youths holding a peaceful demonstration yesterday in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta. Another twelve deaths are…
December 28, 1998 News
In a new report issued today, Human Rights Watch called on those concerned about developments in Indonesia to look beyond Jakarta to rising political tensions in Irian Jaya. Those tensions are being fueled by the Habibie government's reluctance to…
December 28, 1998 News

Mexican Government Allows Pregnancy Discrimination by International Business

In a report released today, Human Rights Watch documents the Mexican government's failure to enforce its own labor laws in the export processing (maquiladora) sector. In violation of Mexican labor law, maquiladora operators oblige women to undergo…
December 23, 1998 News
Human Rights Watch today strongly condemned the arrest of two Cambodian human rights workers in Cambodia's port city of Sihanoukville. Meas Minear and Kim Sen, staff members of the Cambodian human rights organization Licadho, were arrested on December 21…
December 21, 1998 News
While most children around the country are celebrating the season's holidays at home with their families, this week hundreds of children in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will be spending Christmas in detention,…
December 21, 1998 News
Human Rights Watch today condemned the harsh sentences given Chinese dissidents Xu Wenli and Wang Youcai after summary trials. "China's signature on a human rights treaty isn't worth the paper it's written on if this is what it does to peaceful political…
December 20, 1998 News
(New York) - Human Rights Watch welcomed the release of Liu Nianchun, one of China's most prominent labor activists, but stressed that China should not be praised for sending one more dissident into enforced exile abroad. It noted that the Chinese…
December 20, 1998 News

Continued Attack on Academic Freedom and the Independent Media

Human Rights Watch today condemned a new clampdown on the Internet in Serbia, part of a concerted effort by President Slobodan Milosevic to stifle free expression and academic freedom. The university administration's order prevents students, professors,…
December 18, 1998 News
Human Rights Watch today strongly condemned the Chinese government's treatment of three pro-democracy activists, Xu Wenli in Beijing, Wang Youcai in Hangzhou, and Qin Yongmin in Wuhan. Xu Wenli is expected to go on trial on Monday at 9 a.m. local time…
December 17, 1998 News
(London) - Human Rights Watch today expressed confidence that a new panel in the House of Lords would also deny immunity to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. "Pinochet will not escape his day of reckoning," said Reed Brody, Advocacy Director of…
December 17, 1998 News
Resolution B4-1078, passed 17 December 1998   The European Parliament, having regard to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, having regard to the 1996 UN report of Mrs Graca Machal (A/51/306) and the appointment of Mr…
December 15, 1998 News

Thousands of children suffer neglect and cruelty in state institutions

Thousands of Russian children abandoned to state orphanages are exposed to appalling levels of cruelty and neglect, according to a 213-page report released in Moscow by Human Rights Watch. The report is a year-long investigation accompanied by a series of…

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