Dear World Bank Executive Directors: We are writing to express our serious concern regarding the pending payment of the next $100 million tranche of the World Bank's coal sector structural adjustment loan to the Russian Federation. to urge you once again to postpone payment of the pending $100 ...
In a letter sent yesterday, Human Rights Watch and five other organizations asked the United Nations Security Council to take decisive steps to address the humanitarian emergency in Iraq. "The Council should make Friday's meeting open and public," said Hanny Megally, executive ...
Dear Minister: Now that the Fifty-Sixth U.N. Commission on Human Rights has opened we would like to relay to you some urgent concerns about the process of accountability for abuse by Russian forces in the context of the Chechnya conflict, and the challenge this Commission faces in pursuing this ...
Russian government investigations into atrocities committed in Chechnya have shown that they are unlikely to produce any serious result, Human Rights Watch said in letters sent to several European and U.S. foreign ministers today. Yesterday, the Russian military prosecutor's office said that ...
Human Rights Watch is grateful to Chairman Smith and the other commissioners for the opportunity to participate in this important hearing on what the commission accurately named the "most repressive of the New Independent States." Every year since 1993, the U.S. State Department's ...
Congratulations on your confirmation as Attorney General. As head of the Department of Justice, you will be in a position to play a pivotal role in ensuring respect for the basic rights of all people, citizens and non-citizens alike, who reside in the United States. We urge you to make this a key ...
NEW YORK- The international community protested loudly last month against the inclusion of an extremist right-wing party in Austria's coalition government. But the policies espoused by India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, and its sister organizations are equally insidious. ...
Commanding officers bear criminal responsibility for a pattern of gang-rapes by Serbian and Yugoslav forces in Kosovo during the NATO bombing campaign, Human Rights Watch said in a report Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia Kosovo: Rape as a weapon of "ethnic cleasing". Human Rights Watch ...
(Geneva)—Human Rights Watch today urged the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to hold China accountable for widespread abuses and to investigate Russian atrocities in Chechnya. The organization made the appeal on the eve of the Commission's annual six-week meeting, which will start in ...
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 Religion in China (1992), Religious ...
(Washington, D.C.)- Human Rights Watch today called on President Ricardo Lagos to veto a proposed constitutional amendment that would give former presidents immunity from criminal prosecution. The bill, approved by both chambers of Congress during the final months of the Frei administration, allows ...
Human Rights Watch strongly supports the Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2000. The legislation would address the problem of police brutality-- one of the most serious, enduring, and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The legislation would improve accountability ...
In a letter sent to the U.S. Justice Department on March 8, Human Rights Watch's California Committee called on the agency's Civil Rights Division to insist on significant changes in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The Justice Department is now conducting a "pattern or ...
International and local human rights organizations marked the first anniversary of the murder of Rosemary Nelson by urging the UK government to act immediately to set up an independent inquiry into all the circumstances surrounding her death. Rosemary Nelson was killed by a car bomb in Lurgan on 15 ...
The Security Council will hold an open briefing on Angola on March 15 at 10 am. Ambassador Robert Fowler of Canada, chair of the Council's Sanctions Committee on Angola, will present a report on the sanctions regime against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The ...
(New York)—Human Rights Watch today condemned the harsh prison sentence handed down in the case of Uighur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer. The eight year sentence was issued by the Urumqi Intermediate Court in Xinjiang, China on March 10. The international monitoring organization called for Kadeer' ...
(Washington, D.C.)- President Eduardo Frei should grant a pardon to journalist José Ale Aravena, who was convicted last month of "insulting" the former president of the Supreme Court in Chile, Human Rights Watch said today. The Supreme Court gave Ale a suspended 541-day prison sentence on ...
Yesterday Uzbek police confiscated reports published by the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch. Police at the Syrdarya regional court took the reports from a Human Rights Watch representative who is monitoring the trial of twelve men charged with membership in Hizb-ut-Takhrir, a peaceful Muslim ...
Sudanese rebels should go back to the negotiating table with international aid agencies to avoid massive civilian suffering. Hundreds of thousands of civilians in southern Sudan face the cutoff of essential services, including food, because the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army ...
South Dakota must stop subjecting children to inhumane treatment in detention, Human Rights Watch urged in a letter to South Dakota Governor William Janklow. Since the death of a fourteen-year-old girl at the state boot camp for girls last year, a growing number of youth and their parents have come ...
