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September 17, 2013 News

UN Human Rights Council: HRW Statement on the Human Rights Situation in China

HRC 24th Session: Statement Delivered Under Item 4

As China’s second Universal Periodic Review approaches, the human rights situation inside the country continues to deteriorate. One positive development since China’s previous UPR is the rise of civil society and human rights defenders. Yet human rights…

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…

February 16, 2012 News

Memorandum to the European Union on Media Freedom in Hungary

Human Rights Watch is concerned about reports of declining media freedom in Hungary. We expressed our concern in January 2011 about the media laws adopted by the government at the end of 2010 which established a new media regulation body that lacks…

September 19, 2011 News

Oral Statement by HRW on Libya

Human Rights Council

The Libya Commission of Inquiry has enormous amounts of work. The list of human rights violations committed during the six-month conflict – which has yet to end – is long, and the abuses involved intense. As the forces of Muammar Gaddafi retreated from…

June 9, 2011 News

Oral Statement - U.N. Follow Up Libya Special Session

Delivered on June 9, 2011 by Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch welcomes the report of the Libya Commission of Inquiry, which has rightly highlighted serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. We believe the Commission…

June 3, 2011 News

China: World Leader of Internet Censorship

Oral Statement at the 17th Session of the Human Rights Council - June 3rd, 2011

In his report on the freedom of expression, the Special Rapporteur makes three separates references to China, regarding the high number of imprisoned journalists (Para. 35), the extensive censorship of internet (Para. 29) and the imposition of…

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