In a report Crackdown In The Farghona Valley:Arbitrary Arrests and religious discrimination, Human Rights Watch charged that the Uzbekistan government is committing serious abuses in its drive to quell alleged Islamic extremism. Those abuses include mass arbitrary arrests, violation of freedom of ...
Reacting to the U.S. decision to sign the treaty banning antipersonnel landmines in 2006, Human Rights Watch today called the decision a "step in the right direction," but urged that the signing date be moved forward. Human Rights Watch noted that landmines claim an estimated 26,000 ...
Human Rights Watch today said the resignation of Indonesia's long-serving President Soeharto was an important first step toward reform, but it was still unclear whether his successor, President Habibie, would have the will or capacity to transform Indonesia's authoritarian political ...
Three international human rights organizations today expressed concern to the speaker of the Iranian parliament over comments made by one parliamentarian about women lawyers in Iran. The three organizations-- Human Rights Watch, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and the International ...
It is clear that we are witnessing the final stages of President Soeharto's rule in Indonesia, but the end is not likely to come either easily or peacefully. The horrendous violence in Jakarta on May 14 and 15 left an estimated 500 dead, and there were other deaths as rioting swept through the ...
Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) deplore the assassination on May 16 in Nairobi of the outstanding Rwandan political leader Seth Sendashonga. A man of principle and courage, Sendashonga was widely hailed as a leader of moderation. A second person, ...
(New York)- In a letter to President Bill Clinton today, Human Rights Watch urges the president to support an effective and more independent international criminal court (ICC). On June 15, a diplomatic conference in Rome will convene to finalize a statute for the ICC, which would prosecute cases ...
Human Rights Watch today called on the world's seven major industrialized countries and Russia meeting in England this weekend to make a public call for political reform in Indonesia. With Jakarta and other Indonesian cities wracked by rioting, Human Rights Watch urged leaders of the countries ...
Human Rights Watch today commended the "G-8" group of seven industrialized nations plus Russia for including the issue of illegal arms trafficking on its agenda. In field investigations in Africa and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch has discovered that abusive forces are often supplied by ...
In a letter sent to President Ernest Zedillo today, Human Rights Watch strongly criticized Mexico's arbitrary expulsion of foreigners. The letter noted that Mexico uses the term "involvement in internal political affairs" to define unacceptable behavior for foreigners-- a definition ...
Human Rights Watch has previously noted with appreciation the efforts of the Committee against Torture to ensure that Israel honor its obligations under the Convention against Torture, including the Committee's identification of a range of interrogation methods used by Israel which are both ...
In the aftermath of the deaths of six student protesters in Jakarta, Human Rights Watch today called on donor countries to toughen their policies toward Indonesia. Human Rights Watch urged all member countries of the World Bank-chaired Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) to condition all non ...
Human Rights Watch welcomes the fact that human rights issues featured prominently during the World Bank Consultative Group meeting discussions on Zambia in Paris (May 12-13). In it its final communiqué, the delegates at the meeting identified human rights issues as a top priority and "urged ...
Human Rights Watch today condemned the May 12th shooting of Akin Birdal, the General Secretary of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD), the largest human rights organization in the country. Mr. Birdal was shot six times on Tuesday by two unknown gunmen in downtown Ankara at IHD headquarters ...
In a letter to President Laurent Desiré Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Human Rights Watch today denounced the arrest of Suliman Baldo, its DRC country researcher, on the evening of May 8, at the end of a recent official mission to the country. Authorities detained him for twenty ...
(New York, May 12, 1998)- Following the arrest last week of a prominent Nigerian human rights lawyer, Human Rights Watch today called for the immediate release of all those detained in Nigeria for exercising their rights to free speech and association. Olisa Agbakoba, founding president of the ...
Human Rights Watch today called for Zambia's bilateral and multilateral donors to continue suspending balance of payments support, in light of the Zambian government's continued human rights violations. Today in Paris, the donors, joined as the World Bank Consultative Group on Zambia, ...
Indonesia is facing not just an economic crisis but also a growing human rights crisis. In a statement released today in Bonn, Germany, the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), composed of more than 100 Indonesian and non-Indonesian NGOs, issued a call for "urgent reform ...
1. Good morning. My name is Joost Hiltermann, and I am the executive director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. I am here today because the arms trade is, to a large extent, an issue of human rights concern. 2. Established twenty years ago this year, Human Rights Watch monitors human ...
Human Rights Watch today welcomed the possibility of establishing an international tribunal to try the leaders of the Khmer Rouge. The organization urged, however, that any court have the power to try all those who committed crimes against humanity during Cambodia's tragedy. The United States& ...
