• Q&A: Human Rights in Europe in the Aftermath of the Norway Attacks
    Aug 4, 2011
    Human Rights Watch today released the following questions and answers in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Norway.
    Press release
  • US: European Corporate Hypocrisy
    Sep 2, 2010
    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.
    Press release
  • EU: Defer Hasty Returns of Migrant Children
    Jun 4, 2010
    The European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council conclusions on unaccompanied migrant children focus too much on how to send them back to their countries of origin and too little on how to guarantee their safety. The conclusions were adopted on June 3, 2010.
    Press release
  • UK: Don’t Water Down Cluster Ban Treaty
    Apr 18, 2008
    The UK government should abandon its insistence on exempting certain weapons from the new cluster munitions treaty whose text is being finalized next month, Human Rights Watch said today. The government is seeking to weaken the treaty in other ways as well, Human Rights Watch said.
    Press release
  • Europe: Shrinking Safe Haven for War Criminals
    Jun 28, 2006
    Prosecutors in Europe are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to pursue foreign war criminals in national courts, a strategy that is gaining momentum across the continent and should be expanded.
    Press release
  • No Guidelines on Empty ‘No Torture’ Promises
    Apr 2, 2006
    A Council of Europe expert group has rightly decided not to develop guidelines for the acceptable use of diplomatic assurances to justify sending people to places where they are at risk of torture, Human Rights Watch said today.
    Press release
  • U.N. Rights Body In Serious Decline
    Apr 25, 2003
    This year's session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has proved even more disappointing than last year.
    Press release
  • Turkmen dissident granted safety in Norway
    Sep 30, 2002
    Following intense efforts by Human Rights Watch, Turkmen dissident Gulgeldi Annaniazov, who fled Turkmenistan in early September, narrowly escaped the near-certain imprisonment and torture that he would have faced had he been forcibly returned to the country from Kazakhstan.
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