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June 26, 2012 News

UN Human Rights Council: Concern over Increased Restrictions to Limit Human Rights Activities - Ethiopia and Tibet

Oral Statement under Item 3 - General Debate

Human Rights Watch is gravely concerned by increased restrictions used to limit human rights activities in many countries. The Ethiopian authorities continue to severely curtail basic freedoms including freedom of expression and association. Human Rights…

May 4, 2008 News

Universal Periodic Review of Romania

Human Rights Watch's Submission to the Human Rights Council

This submission will focus only on Human Rights Watch’s key concerns regarding Romania’s compliance with international human rights law in its treatment of children and youth living with HIV. It draws on research and recommendations presented in greater…

July 1, 2007 News

Council of Europe Confirms Secret CIA Prisons

On June 8, the Council of Europe released a report confirming allegations first made by Human Rights Watch in 2005 that the CIA used locations in Poland and Romania for the secret detention of terror suspects. During several years of research, we combed…

March 29, 2003 News

HRW and U.S. Congress Advocate Release of Chinese Factory Workers

Human Rights Watch helped to draft and collect signatures for a letter sent by members of the United States Congress requesting the immediate release of two prisoners, Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang, from the Liaoyang area of Liaoning province in northeast…

February 28, 2002 News

Falungong, the Olympics, and President Bush in China

In 1999, the Chinese government banned Falungong, a variant of an ancient exercise and meditation system. The government labeled Falungong an "evil cult" and began an aggressive and often violent campaign against its practitioners which continues…

June 13, 2000 News

Human Rights Violations in Tibet

Statement by Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies, Indiana University to the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs

I am grateful to the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs for affording me this opportunity to appear before you. In addition to my academic work as a specialist in Tibetan Studies, I have also served for some time as a consultant to Human…

March 16, 2000 News

China: Religion in the Service of the State

Statement by Mickey Spiegel, Consultant to Human Rights Watch, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

We appreciate the opportunity to testify before this distinguished commission on the state of religious freedom in China. Beginning in 1991, Human Rights Watch issued a series of reports on freedom of religion in China and Tibet. They include Freedom of…

January 31, 2000 News

China Human Rights Update (February, 2000)

Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, at its next annual meeting, to adopt a strong resolution censuring China for widespread violations of human rights and calling for significant improvements. A serious multilateral…

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