(New York)-- Human Rights Watch today called for a halt to the imminent repatriation to Vietnam of Montagnard asylum seekers in Cambodia under U.N. auspices. Human Rights Watch criticized the planned repatriation this week of Montagnards by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a ...
Since September 11, the U.S. government has extended new military assistance to governments engaged in serious human rights abuse, including torture, political killings, illegal detention, religious persecution, and attacks on civilians during armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...
Human Rights Watch today urged Georgia to commute the death sentence of Alexander Williams, convicted of murder at the age of seventeen. Williams, who is mentally ill, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, February 20. Nobody should be put to death for a crime committed as a teenager," ...
We write to urge the Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute the death sentence of Alexander Williams, who is scheduled for execution on February 20. Diagnosed with schizophrenia-a profound psychiatric disorder that affects the processing of thoughts and beliefs and nearly every level of ...
(Washington)-- During his upcoming Beijing visit, U.S. President George W. Bush should reject Beijing's attempts to use the fight against terrorism to justify serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. President Bush will make his first official visit to Beijing on February 21 ...
Human Rights Watch today welcomed the acquittal of academic Noam Chomsky's Turkish publisher, Fatih Tas, as an important step toward improving Turkey's record on free expression. In an unusually abrupt proceeding attended by Chomsky on February 13, the Istanbul State Security Court ...
Good Afternoon Chairperson Lantos, Chairperson Wolf, members of the Caucus My name is Widney Brown, I am the advocacy director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. For more than twenty years the people of Afghanistan have suffered severe violations of their human rights. These ...
Human Rights Watch expressed its disappointment at today's decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that a Belgian arrest warrant for the acting Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo violated international law. The group stressed, however, that the ruling left ...
Uganda should be held responsible for grave human rights violations taking place in territories it occupies in northeastern Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations Security Council will be discussing the Secretary General’s report on the deteriorating security environment in the D ...
Turkey's courts must protect free expression by throwing out cases charging people with criminal offenses for their expression of non-violent opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 7, the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed new laws ostensibly easing Turkey's longstanding ...
Expresses our concern about the proposed repatriation of Chechen refugees living in the Pankisi Gorge, which we understand is currently under discussion between your government and a delegation of Russian officials. Letter to President Eduard Shevardnadze Europe/Central Asia Georgia Migrants ...
(New York)-- Human Rights Watch asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for access to U.S. facilities in Afghanistan to investigate the conditions under which detainees are being held by U.S. armed forces. In a letter to Secretary Rumsfeld sent today, Human Rights Watch asserted that it was in ...
The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, DC 20301 Dear Mr. Secretary: President Bush affirmed last week the commitment of the United States to treat humanely all detainees from the armed conflict in Afghanistan. Humane treatment of those detainees is not only ...
Expresses our concern about the proposed repatriation of Chechen refugees who are currently living in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge. Letter to President Putin Europe/Central Asia Russia Migrants ...
I am writing to express our concern about the proposed repatriation of Chechen refugees living in the Pankisi Gorge, which we understand is currently under discussion between your government and a delegation of Russian officials. Chechen Refugees in Georgia Europe/Central Asia Georgia Russia ...
(New York)-- The United Nations was right to pull out of negotiations with the Cambodian government over how to bring Khmer Rouge leaders to justice, Human Rights Watch said today, but neither the U.N. nor the Cambodian government should consider the issue closed. Human Rights Watch urged the ...
Despite initial hopes the new government of President Bashar al-Asad would shift course, Syria continues to impose sharp restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also called for the immediate and unconditional release of ten pro democracy ...
(The Hague)- When the history of international justice is written, the trial of Slobodan Milosevic will appear as an important landmark for his victims. But it will also be seen as a prelude to the permanent International Criminal Court, the most important new human rights institution in more than ...
(Guatemala City, February 12, 2002) Women in Guatemala's largest female-dominated labor sectors face persistent sex discrimination and abuse, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. The 147-page report examines two sectors, export processing and private households, which employ ...
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) continues to refuse to disclose basic information about people detained after September 11, Human Rights Watch said today. Although the INS permitted Human Rights Watch and other groups to visit two New Jersey jails on Wednesday, February 6, agency ...
