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March 16, 2012 News

Statement at the Human Rights Council on the adoption of the Universal Periodic Review report of Uganda

Oral statement under Item 6

Human Rights Watch welcomes the Human Rights Council’s review of Uganda in October 2011 and its March 2012 adoption of the Universal Periodic Review report. The Uganda delegation committed to adopt a National Action Plan on human rights, establish a human…

March 8, 2011 News

Venezuela: Judge Afiuni before the United Nations Human Rights Council

Human Rights Watch Oral Statement at the 16th Session of the Human Rights Council

(Geneva) - Human Rights Watch would like to thank the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) for its Opinion 20/2010 on the arbitrary detention of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni of Venezuela. The decision to prosecute Judge Afiuni for upholding…

April 28, 2009 News

Uganda: Brutality in the name of security

"I kindly beg you to ensure that you keep our children. I don't think I will be coming back." Those were the last words of Saidi Lutaaya, spoken over the phone to his wife. He had been picked up from Old Taxi Park in Kampala in November 2007 by men…

August 13, 2005 News

Not Worth the Paper They're Written On

Despite what the Prime Minister says, the rules of the game have not changed

In the days after the bombings of 7 July, there were many reasons to feel proud to be a Londoner. Politicians responded with dignity to the terrible events. People of all faiths stood together in the knowledge that those who had commissioned these crimes…

May 11, 2005 News

Call for Action against the Use of Diplomatic Assurances in Transfers to Risk of Torture and Ill-Treatment

Governments in Europe and North America are increasingly sending alleged terrorism suspects and others to abusive states based on so-called “diplomatic assurances” of humane treatment that expose these individuals to serious risk of torture or cruel,…

January 28, 2004 News

Torture and Non-Refoulement

Briefing to the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

In its annual resolution on torture, the Commission on Human Rights should reaffirm the absolute obligation of states not to return (“refouler”) a person to a country where he or she is at risk of being subjected to torture or other cruel or inhuman…

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