• 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.
  • Olympic Congress: Monitor Host Countries on Rights
    Oct 1, 2009
    The Copenhagen Olympic Congress should create a permanent mechanism to monitor human rights in host countries before, during and after Olympic Games. Human Rights Watch, which has submitted a proposal to the Congress, is particularly concerned about potential abuses in Russia, host for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
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  • Bahrain: Why Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Should Be Free
    Apr 9, 2012

    Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a long-time human rights defender, is on the verge of death because he refuses to accept that he should spend the rest of his life in a Bahraini prison because he led peaceful protests for political reform.

  • Letter to Danish Foreign Minister on Camp Ashraf in Iraq
    Dec 14, 2011
    We are writing to you before the December 31 announced closure of Camp Ashraf (also known as Camp New Iraq) to urge the government of Denmark to take proactive steps to help prevent the stand-off between the Iraqi government and the leadership of the Mohjahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from deteriorating further at a critical moment in Iraq’s precarious transition to democratic rule.
  • 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.
  • Olympic Congress: Monitor Host Countries on Rights
    Oct 1, 2009
    The Copenhagen Olympic Congress should create a permanent mechanism to monitor human rights in host countries before, during and after Olympic Games. Human Rights Watch, which has submitted a proposal to the Congress, is particularly concerned about potential abuses in Russia, host for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
  • Denmark and diplomatic assurances against grave violations of human rights
    Jun 17, 2008
    In a June 18 joint letter to the government of Denmark, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, International Commission of Jurists, and Redress Trust urge the Danish Minister of Justice to uphold the absolute ban on sending national security suspects to places where they are at risk of torture and to reject "diplomatic assurances" against such abuse from governments with poor records on torture and ill-treatment.
  • Letter to EU Foreign Ministers on EU-Libya Relations
    Aug 1, 2007
    EU governments should make human rights a priority in this "new era" of EU-Libya relations.
  • European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity
    Feb 11, 2007
    The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • European Union: Letter Calling for the Withdrawal of the Asylum Procedures Directive
    Mar 21, 2004
    In an unprecedented move, Human Rights Watch and other human rights and refugee organizations across Europe call on the European Union to withdraw proposals for new asylum procedures. The groups contend that the proposals violate member states' obligations under international law.
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