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March 9, 2021 News

Submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Resolution 43/1

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Resolution 43/1 Report on the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Africans/People of African Descent against Excessive Use of Force March 9, 2021 Human…

Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.

January 14, 2010 News

Counterterrorism and Human Rights: A Report Card on President Obama’s First Year

Within days of taking office in January 2009, President Barack Obama issued executive orders that repudiated key elements of the Bush administration's abusive approach to fighting terrorism. By changing course in such a swift and high-profile way,…

April 24, 2009 News

Report Card on President Obama’s First 100 Days

As a candidate, Barack Obama signaled his clear intention to break with the Bush administration's abusive counterterrorism policies. Once sworn in as president, Obama immediately issued executive orders that set a course toward reform. Human Rights…

June 28, 2006 News

US: Supreme Court to Review Case Suspending Military Commissions

A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper

On November 7, the Supreme Court agreed to review the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who is challenging the lawfulness of the U.S. government trying him for alleged war crimes before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay. The Court is expected to render a…

November 30, 2005 News

List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody

List of Detainees Published by Human Rights Watch

The following is a list of persons believed to be in U.S. custody as "ghost detainees" -- detainees who are not given any legal rights or access to counsel, and who are likely not reported to or seen by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The…

November 21, 2005 News

Descriptions of Techniques Allegedly Authorized by the CIA

Forced standing and sleep deprivation • Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin described in his memoirs being subjected to sleep deprivation in a Soviet prison in the 1940's: “In the head of the interrogated prisoner a haze…

March 10, 2005 News

United States of America: Human Rights Concerns for the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights

Objective The Commission on Human Rights should condemn "disappearances," torture and other mistreatment of detainees by the United States in the "global war on terrorism" and request that the United States grant the Commission's Special Procedures…

October 26, 2004 News

Accounts by 33 Former Guantanamo Detainees

The following is a compilation by Human Rights Watch of accounts by thirty-three former detainees at Guantanamo of their experiences there. Human Rights Watch interviewed sixteen of the detainees, reviewed press reports containing statements by former…

August 19, 2004 News

Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Techniques Remain Mysterious

The interrogation techniques used by U.S. personnel on detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba remain shrouded in mystery. While U.S. policy is that the detainees be treated “humanely,” the Department of Defense has never revealed publicly how…

November 27, 2001 News

Fact Sheet: Past U.S. Criticism of Military Tribunals

(Washington, DC) - Under President Bush's November 13th Military Order on military commissions, any foreign national designated by the President as a suspected terrorist or as aiding terrorists could potentially be detained, tried, convicted and even…

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