Human Rights Watch today urged that any tribunal established to try Khmer Rouge leaders should adhere to the highest international standards. The group criticized as inadequate a U.N. proposal for a domestically-constituted tribunal in Cambodia with international participation, although it noted ...
Human Rights Watch continues to believe that justice is best served by a fully international tribunal. In the event, however, that a tribunal is established under Cambodian law, Human Rights Watch considers the following to be minimal acceptable benchmarks for a credible and legitimate tribunal: 1. ...
A Tibetan who was detained in China along with two foreigners investigating the impact of a World Bank project is at serious risk of torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The international monitoring group called on the World Bank along with the U.S. and Australian governments to ...
On Aug. 30, barring further delays, the people of East Timor will vote on whether they wish to remain part of Indonesia as an autonomous region or form an independent state. Virtually all eligible voters, almost 450,000, have now registered, despite violence and intimidation from Indonesian army ...
Human Rights Watch today called on the World Bank to intervene at the highest levels with officials in Beijing to help secure the release of two foreigners detained in Qinghai Province, site of a controversial new World Bank project. "The World Bank should press Beijing to release these two ...
Human Rights Watch expressed grave concerns about widespread shelling and fierce fighting over the last few days in the streets of Kisangani. The fighting is between Rwandan and Ugandan regular forces backing competing factions of the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD). The headquarters of ...
In letters sent to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, Human Rights Watch questioned the U.K. government's pursuit of Northern Ireland journalist Ed Moloney. In July, Moloney was served with an order issued by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), ...
Disregarding allegations of torture, an Uzbek court today convicted six men with ties to a banned political party in a high-profile political trial. The attorney for four of the men reported that all six defendants, including the brothers of exiled political opposition leader Muhammad Solih, ...
An Iraqi leader accused of genocide, mass murder, and torture was released today by the Austrian government. The move was quickly criticized by Human Rights Watch. Earlier today, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the vice-chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and top aide to Saddam ...
Human Rights Watch asked the government of Jordan to hold Iraq's number two leader, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, for trial or for extradition on charges that he is among those responsible for crimes of genocide, torture, and mass murder Ibrahim left Vienna earlier today on a flight to Amman, Jordan, ...
In a letter to Jordanian Prime Minister Abdur-Ra'uf Rawabdeh, the international monitoring organization asked them to hold Ibrahim for trial in Jordan or to extradite him to a country able and willing to try him. Mr. Ibrahim has for much of the last two decades effectively been the number two ...
In a letter to King Abdallah, the international monitoring organization asked them to hold Ibrahim for trial in Jordan or to extradite him to a country able and willing to try him. Mr. Ibrahim has for much of the last two decades effectively been the number two person in the government of President ...
Human Rights Watch today called for the immediate release of a prominent businesswoman and five others arbitrarily detained earlier this week in the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. Rebiya Kadeer, known locally as the "millionairess," is married to a U.S. resident ...
Kaima, an eleven year old girl, described to Human Rights Watch how she and two of her friends were taken away by the Revolutionary United Front guerillas in Sierra Leone. She and her friends each had both hands hacked off- as part of a strategy by the rebels to terrorize the local population. ...
In a letter to Jordanian Prime Minister Abdur-Ra'uf Rawabdeh released today, Human Rights Watch condemned the "honor killings" which continue to take place in Jordan. "Women are being killed by family members who find their behavior improper. Jordanian law excuses these murders ...
On the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions [August 12, 1999], Human Rights Watch hailed the emergence of a new era of enforcement of the important protections codified a half century ago. The international monitoring group pointed to tribunals to judge the perpetrators of war crimes and ...
Approximately twenty leading American filmmakers, including Oliver Stone and Jonathan Demme signed a letter this month condemning the detention of Suh Joon-sik. Korean courts accuse Suh, a former political prisoner and long-time human rights worker, with compromising national security. FilmWatch, a ...
Human Rights Watch released a letter (see below) calling on Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to explain publicly the recent decision not to prosecute the police officers accused of David Adams' assault in February 1994. "Unlike many cases of police abuse that ...
Colombia's military and its Washington admirers claim that the most abusive army in the hemisphere has turned over a new leaf. Soldiers, they say, have purged human rights violators within their ranks and are pursuing the paramilitaries that have converted much of the country into a killing ...
I am writing to express Human Rights Watch's deep concern over the killing of eleven women in the name of so-called ‘family honor' in Jordan since the beginning of this year. Approximately twenty-five to thirty women are killed in Jordan each year in the name of honor, and crimes of honor ...
