HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 1995/96 Publications The press, policy makers, citizens’ organizations, the academic community, concerned individuals, and libraries have come to rely on Human Rights Watch reports for the first-hand information and first-rate analysis they provide concerning the most pressing human rights issues of our day.  The following list includes all of the reports released by Human Rights Watch in 1995 and 1996. For a full index of Human Rights Watch reports in print dating back several years, click HERE. Or, for ordering information click HERE. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A	ALBANIA Democracy Derailed: Violations in the May 26, 1996     Albanian Elections Human Rights in Post-Communist Albania The Greek Minority ALGERIA Six Months Later, Cover-Up Continues in Prison Clash     that Left 100 Inmates Dead: Report by Defense Lawyers     Charges Inmates Were Deliberately Massacred ANGOLA Between War and Peace: Arms Trade and Human Rights     Abuses since the Lusaka Protocol
B	BANGLADESH Political Violence on All Sides BOLIVIA Bolivia under Pressure: Human Rights Violations and     Coca Eradication Human Rights Violations and the War on Drugs BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA The Continuing Influence of Bosnia’s Warlords No Justice No Peace: The United Nations International Police     Task Force’s Role in Screening Local Law Enforcement Update: Non-Compliance with the Dayton Accords: Ongoing     Ethnically-Motivated Expulsions and Harassment in Bosnia A Failure in the Making: Human Rights and the Dayton     Agreement Human Rights in Bosnia-Hercegovina Post Dayton Human Rights Abuses during a Cease-Fire and Peace     Negotiations The Fall of Srebrenica and the Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping BRAZIL Fighting Violence with Violence: Human Rights Abuse and     Criminality in Rio de Janeiro BULGARIA Children of Bulgaria: Police Violence and Arbitrary Confinement BURMA Children’s Rights and The Rule of Law The Rohingya Muslims: Ending a Cycle of Exodus? Entrenchment or Reform?: Human Rights Developments and the     Need for Continued Pressure Abuses Linked to the Fall of Manerplaw
C	CAMBODIA Continuing Deterioration of Human Rights in Cambodia The War Against Free Speech: Letter from Human Rights Watch     and the New Cambodian Press Law Cambodia at War CHINA Chinese Diplomacy, Western Hypocrisy and     the U.N. Human Rights Commission Hong Kong: Abuses Against Vietnamese Asylum Seekers     in the Final Days of the Comprehensive Plan of Action Slamming the Door on Dissent: Wang Dan’s Trial     and the New “State Security” Era The Cost of Putting Business First Cutting Off the Serpent’s Head: Tightening Control in Tibet,     1994-1995 Chinese Orphanages: A Follow-Up Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China’s State     Orphanages Religious Persecution Persists “Leaking State Secrets”: The Case of Gao Yu Keeping the Lid on Demands for Change The Three Gorges Dam in China: Forced Resettlement,     Suppression of Dissent and Labor Rights Concerns Enforced Exile of Dissidents: Government “Re-entry Blacklist”     Revealed COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES A Review of the Compliance of the Russian Federation with     Council of Europe Commitments and Other Human Rights     Obligationson the First Anniversary of Its Accession to the     Council of Europe Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Armenia,     Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Russian Federation, and Tajikistan COLOMBIA Colombia’s Killer Networks: The Military-Paramilitary     Partnership and the United States CROATIA Impunity for Abuses Committed during “Operation Storm” and     the Denial of the Right of Refugees to Return to the Krajina Civil and Political Rights in Croatia The Croatian Army Offensive in Western Slavonia and its     Aftermath CUBA Improvements without Reform CZECH REPUBLIC Roma in the Czech Republic: Foreigners in Their Own Land
E	EGYPT Hostage-Taking and Intimidation by Security Forces
G	GENERAL Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 Putting Human Rights Back into the Habitat Agenda Silencing the Net: The Threat to Freedom of Expression On-line Children in Combat Human Rights Watch World Report 1996 Slaughter Among Neighbors: The Political Origins of     Communal Violence Human Rights in the APEC Region: 1995 Blinding Laser Weapons: The Need to Ban a Cruel and     Inhumane Weapon The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women’s Human     Rights Banned, Censored, Harassed and Jailed Writers Receive Grants:     48 Writers from 23 Countries Recognized by Lillian Hellman/     Dashiell Hammett Funds Playing the “Communal Card”: Communal Violence and     Human Rights GEORGIA Georgia/Abkhazia: Violations of the Laws of War and Russia’s     Role in the Conflict Trial in Georgia Draws to a Close GERMANY “Germany for Germans”: Xenophobia and Racist Violence     in Germany GUATEMALA Return to Violence: Refugees, Civil Patrollers, and Impunity Disappeared in Guatemala: The Case of Efraín Bámaca
H	HAITI Thirst for Justice: A Decade of Impunity in Haiti Human Rights after President Aristide’s Return Human Rights Conditions Prior to the June 1995 Elections Security Compromised: Recycled Haitian Soldiers on the Police     Front Line HUNGARY Rights Denied: The Roma of Hungary
I	INDIA Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India India’s Secret Army in Kashmir: New Patterns of Abuse Emerge     in the Conflict Communal Violence & the Denial of Justice Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to     India’s Brothels INDONESIA Tough International Response Needed to Widening Crackdown Election Monitoring and Human Rights Press Closures in Indonesia One Year Later Soeharto Retaliates against Critics: Official Reactions to     Demonstrations in Germany Deteriorating Human Rights in East Timor IRAN Power Versus Choice: Human Rights and Parliamentary     Elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran IRAQ Iraq’s Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign against the     Kurds Iraq’s Brutal Decrees: Amputation, Branding and the Death     Penalty ISRAEL & ISRAELI-OCCUPIED TERRITORIES Israel’s Closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Civilian Pawns: Laws of War and the Use of Weapons on the     Israel-Lebanon Border The Gaza Strip and Jericho: Human Rights under Palestinian     Partial Self-Rule
J	JAPAN Prison Conditions in Japan
K	KENYA Old Habits Die Hard: Rights Abuses Follow Renewed Foreign     Aid Commitments KUWAIT The Bedoons of Kuwait: “Citizens without Citizenship”
M	MACEDONIA A Threat to “Stability”: Human Rights Violations in Macedonia MEXICO Labor Rights and NAFTA: A Case Study No Guarantees: Sex Discrimination in Mexico’s Maquiladora     Sector Torture and Other Abuses during the 1995 Crackdown on     Alleged Zapatistas Army Officer Held “Responsible” for Chiapas Massacre:     Accused Found Dead at Defense Ministry MOROCCO Human Rights in Morocco
N	NEPAL Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to     India's Brothels NIGERIA “Permanent Transition”: Current Violations of Human Rights in     Nigeria The Ogoni Crisis: A Case-Study of Military Repression in     Southeastern Nigeria
P	PAKISTAN Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan PERU Presumption of Guilt: Human Rights Violations and the Faceless     Courts in Peru The Two Faces of Justice   THE PHILIPPINES Human Rights and Forest Management in the 1990s
R	RUSSIA Report to the 1996 OSCE Review Conference The Ingush-Ossetian Conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region Chechnya and Dagestan—Caught in the Cross Fire: Civilians in     Gudermes and Pervomayskoye Crime or Simply Punishment?: Racist Attacks by Moscow Law     Enforcement Partisan War in Chechnya on the Eve of the WWII     Commemoration Neither Jobs Nor Justice: State Discrimination Against     Women in Russia Three Months of War in Chechnya War in Chechnya: New Report from the Field Russia’s War in Chechnya: Victims Speak Out RWANDA Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide     and its Aftermath Rearming with Impunity: International Support for the     Perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide The Crisis Continues
S	SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Persecution Persists: Human Rights Violations in Kosovo SOMALIA Somalia Faces the Future: Human Rights in a Fragmented     Society SOUTH AFRICA Violence against Women in South Africa: The State Response to     Domestic Violence and Rape Threats to a New Democracy: Continuing Violence in     KwaZulu-Natal SOUTH KOREA Labor Rights Violations under Democratic Rule SRI LANKA Stop Killings of Civilians SUDAN Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan Children of Sudan: Slaves, Street Children and Child Soldiers SYRIA The Silenced Kurds Syria’s Tadmor Prison: Dissent Still Hostage to a Legacy of     Terror The Price of Dissent SWEDEN Swedish Asylum Policy in Global Human Rights Perspective
T	TAJIKISTAN Tajik Refugees in Northern Afghanistan Return to Tajikistan: Continued Regional and Ethnic Tensions TIBET Cutting Off the Serpent’s Head: Tightening Control in Tibet,     1994-1995 TURKEY Torture and Mistreatment In Pre-trial Detention     By Anti-terror Police Turkey’s Failed Policy to Aid the Forcibly Displaced in the     Southeast Violations of the Right of Petition to the European     Commission of Human Rights Weapons Transfers and Violations of the Laws of War in Turkey
U	UNITED STATES Cruel and Usual: Disproportionate Sentences for     New York Drug Offenders All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons Race and Drug Law Enforcement in the State of Georgia Modern Capital of Human Rights?: Abuses in the State of     Georgia Children in Confinement in Louisiana U.S. Blinding Laser Weapons Crossing the Line: Human Rights Abuses Along the U.S. Border     with Mexico Persist Amid Climate of Impunity A World Leader in Executing Juveniles
	UZBEKISTAN Persistent Human Rights Violations and Prospects for     Improvement
V	VENENZUELA Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela VIETNAM Human Rights in a Season of Transition: Law and Dissent in the     Socialist Republic of Vietnam The Suppression of the Unified Buddhist Church
W	WESTERN SAHARA Keeping it Secret: The United Nations Operation in the     Western Sahara
Y	FORMER YUGOSLAVIA War Crimes Trials in the Former Yugoslavia
Z	ZAIRE Forced to Flee: Violence Against the Tutsis in Zaire ZAMBIA Elections and Human Rights in the Third Republic