• North Korea: Kim Jong-Il’s Legacy of Mass Atrocity
    Dec 19, 2011
    Governments should mark North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s death with a clear demand that the new leader choose a path of reforming the country’s abysmal human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Zimbabwe: Reverse Ban on Food Aid to Rural Areas
    Jun 4, 2008
    The government should immediately reverse its decision to ban aid agencies from distributing food to hundreds of thousands of hungry people in rural areas, Human Rights Watch said today.
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  • North Korea: Kim Jong-Il’s Legacy of Mass Atrocity
    Dec 19, 2011
    Governments should mark North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s death with a clear demand that the new leader choose a path of reforming the country’s abysmal human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Training Eyes on the Junta
    Sep 5, 2008
    Brad Adams is the Asia Director of New York-based Human Rights Watch. Adams talked to The Irrawaddy about Burma’s constitutional referendum, human rights and the international response to Cyclone Nargis.
  • Zimbabwe: Reverse Ban on Food Aid to Rural Areas
    Jun 4, 2008
    The government should immediately reverse its decision to ban aid agencies from distributing food to hundreds of thousands of hungry people in rural areas, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Burma: China Should Push to Get Aid in
    May 10, 2008
    China, India, Thailand and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should work to convince Burma’s government to lift restrictions on international assistance so aid can reach survivors of Cyclone Nargis.
  • Give North Koreans food
    Sep 27, 2007
    On Monday, Kim Jong Il of North Korea and South Korean President Roh Mu-hyun will hold a three-day meeting in Pyongyang. It will be only the second North-South summit - Kim Jong Il met Roh's predecessor, Kim Dae-jung, in 2000.
  • Sudan Bans All Relief to the South
    Sep 28, 2002
    Sudan must revoke a relief flight ban announced on September 26 to prevent a humanitarian crisis from becoming a famine, Human Rights Watch said today. The ban covers all relief flights and vehicles into southern Sudan from the main relief bases in Kenya and Uganda.
  • Recommendations for Afghanistan Meeting in Bonn
    Nov 27, 2001
    As delegates gather in Germany to discuss the composition of a transitional government in Afghanistan, it is crucial to ensure that principles of international human rights and accountability are incorporated in security and governance arrangements. The re-engagement of women in the political life of Afghanistan, as well as the reintegration of refugees and displaced persons are also essential to long-term peace and stability in the country.
  • Recommendations for Afghanistan Meeting in Bonn
    Nov 27, 2001
    As delegates gather in Germany to discuss the composition of a transitional government in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch issued a statement setting out key recommendations on human rights, accountability, the political engagement of women, and the reintegration of Afghan refugees.
  • Sudan: Analysis of the Current Fighting and its Relation to Famine
    Mar 1, 2001
    Recent experience in southern Sudan has demonstrated that the fighting now in progress will provoke a new humanitarian disaster, unless immediately checked.
  • Food Aid To Sudanese Rebels Opposed
    Dec 13, 1999
    Human Rights Watch today released a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urging that the U.S. administration not supply food aid to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army. A bill has been introduced before the U.S. Congress that would permit such food aid.
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