Human Rights Watch welcomes the Home Office's July 2010 decision to conduct a review of six key areas of UK counterterrorism powers, and we are grateful for the invitation to provide input into the review.  We further welcome the decision to appoint Lord…

The control orders envisioned in the Prevention of Terrorism Bill 2005 (hereafter “the Bill”) offer a seriously flawed alternative to the disastrous policy of indefinite detention under the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001, a policy ruled…

Since the collapse of the corrupt Fujimori government in November 2000 the human rights situation in Peru has improved significantly. During Fujimori's last term in office (1995-2000), Vladimiro Montesinos, the de facto head of the National Intelligence…

(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…

Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned that the measures included in the “Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill” (the bill) introduced by the Home Office on November 13 contravene fundamental European and international human rights guarantees. While we…

Peru continues to violate human rights as part of central government policy. Recently there has been a strong decline in the numbers of extrajudicial executions and disappearances committed in the course of government counterinsurgency operations in the…