Documents on Internally Displaced People

Kuwait: Security Forces Forcibly Disperse Stateless Residents

Press release
May 3, 2012

Kuwaiti security forces arrested at least 16 stateless residents of Kuwait, known as Bidun, during a peaceful demonstration on May 1, 2012, in support of their rights to nationality. Kuwaiti authorities should respect the rights of Bidun to peaceful assembly.
Kuwait: Don’t Deny Right to Freedom of Expression

Press release
Jan 13, 2012

A government order to Bidun residents, a group the government considers “illegal residents,” not to organize demonstrations denies their rights and should be revoked.
Record Number of Palestinians Displaced by Demolitions as Quartet Continues to Talk

Press release
Dec 13, 2011

Israeli authorities have stepped up unlawful demolitions in the West Bank including East Jerusalem over the past year, displacing a record number of Palestinian families from their homes, an international coalition of 20 leading aid agencies and human rights groups said today. The statement comes as the Middle East Quartet meets in Jerusalem in its latest effort to revive peace talks.
Sudan: Southern Kordofan Civilians Tell of Air Strike Horror

Press release
Aug 30, 2011

The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are indiscriminately bombing civilian areas in the Nuba Mountains region of Southern Kordofan and preventing aid from reaching desperate displaced people, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.
Oral Statement - U.N. Follow Up Libya Special Session

Oral statement
Jun 9, 2011
Death and Drugs in Colombia

Commentary
Jun 2, 2011
Libya: End Indiscriminate Attacks in Western Mountain Towns

Press release
May 9, 2011

Libyan government forces have launched what appear to be repeated indiscriminate attacks on mountain towns in western Libya.
Serbia-Kosovo Talks Must Not Forget the Roma

Commentary
Apr 4, 2011

With a little goodwill from both sides the plight of Roma families, who were displaced from Mitrovica in the war and abandoned in lead-contaminated camps, could finally be solved.
16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council - Follow-up to the 15th Special Session on the Situation of Human Rights in Libya

Oral statement
Mar 14, 2011

Human Rights Watch welcomes the appointment of three high-level experts to the Commission of Inquiry for Libya and urges them to begin their investigations. Serious human rights violations are being committed in Libya, and they threaten to get much worse.
The Balkans Must Broaden Approach to Human Rights

Commentary
Feb 28, 2011

For many in Europe, the western Balkans still evoke images of the brutal conflicts that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The legacy of those wars continues to shape European Union and US policy toward the region.