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1. June 4, 2001 Letter

   Congo Ratifies Ban on Child Soldiers: Urged to Demobilize Children in it's Forces

   Letter to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila

   Human Rights Watch commends the DRC government for its recent ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (June 2), and to urge the government to declare a minimum age for voluntary recruitment of at least ...

2. June 3, 2001 News Release

   Israel/Palestinian Authority: Discotheque Bombing Condemned

   Human Rights Watch strongly condemned the June 1 suicide-bomb attack on a Tel Aviv discotheque. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) claimed responsibility for the attack. "There can never be any justification for indiscriminate attacks on civilians, especially when young people are ...

3. June 3, 2001 News Release

   U.S.: Bush Administration Energy Policy Criticized

   The Bush administration's new energy policy proposes no strategy to keep energy investment from perpetuating dictatorships or fueling conflicts, as has happened from Angola to Sudan to Central Asia. The report of the Bush administration's National Energy Policy Development Group, issued ...

4. June 1, 2001 Impact

   Dictator Hunter: On the Trail of Hissène Habré

   https://www.hrw.org/french/themes/habre-documentary.html For more on the case against Hissène Habré visit https://www.hrw.org/en/habre-case Africa Chad ...

5. May 31, 2001 Statement

   Israel: Sharon Investigation Urged

   Israel: Sharon Investigation Urged Page 4 Middle East/North Africa Israel/Palestine ...

6. May 31, 2001 Impact

   Q&A on the Loss of the U.S. Seat on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights

   On May 3, the United States failed to win re-election to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. This is the first time since the founding of the Commission in 1947 that the United States will not have a seat on it. The vote reflected both a growing effort by human rights abusers to shield ...

7. May 31, 2001 News Release

   Iran: Election Marred by Human Rights Attacks

   Conservative institutions undermine rule of law, says new report

   The factional struggle behind the current presidential elections in Iran is having a devastating impact on human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report "Stifling Dissent: The Human Rights Consequences of Factional Conflict in Iran." The 20-page report says that conservative ...

8. May 31, 2001 News Release

   Iran: Election Marred by Human Rights Attacks

   Conservative institutions undermine rule of law, says new report

   The factional struggle behind the current presidential elections in Iran is having a devastating impact on human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report "Stifling Dissent: The Human Rights Consequences of Factional Conflict in Iran." The 20-page report says that conservative ...

9. May 31, 2001 News Release

   Israel: Sharon Investigation Urged

   Israel: Sharon Investigation Urged Middle East/North Africa Israel/Palestine MENA ...

10. May 31, 2001 Impact

    Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools

    Human Rights Watch's report, " Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools," details the prejudice, harassment, and abuse faced by gay youth-- and the failure of school officials to protect them. United ...

11. May 31, 2001 Impact

    Child Farmworkers Legislation Introduced in the U.S. Senate

    On May 10, Senator Tom Harkin introduced new legislation into the US Senate to address abusive and exploitive child labor in the United States. The legislation would eliminate the current double-standard which allows children to work in large-scale commercial agriculture at younger ages, for longer ...

12. May 31, 2001 Impact

    Progress in Bahrain

    Bahrain has seen some extraordinarily positive developments over the past six months, including the release of all of the country's political prisoners and the return of the country's numerous political exiles. Shortly after a referendum on the National Charter in which both women and men ...

13. May 31, 2001 Impact

    Congo Spares Child Soldiers

    In the face of international pressure, on May 5 the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo promised not to execute four child soldiers sentenced to death by a special military court. In a meeting on May 2 with Foreign Minister She Okitundu, Human Rights Watch senior researcher Suliman ...

14. May 31, 2001 Impact

    Congo Spares Child Soldiers

    In the face of international pressure, on May 5 the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo promised not to execute four child soldiers sentenced to death by a special military court. In a meeting on May 2 with Foreign Minister She Okitundu, Human Rights Watch senior researcher Suliman ...

15. May 30, 2001 News Release

    Macedonian Police Abuses Documented

    Ethnic Albanian Men Separated, Tortured at Police Stations

    Macedonian forces are systematically separating out ethnic Albanian males fleeing fierce fighting in northern Macedonia, and severely beating some of the men at police stations, Human Rights Watch said today. In the most severe cases documented by Human Rights Watch, the ill-treatment appears ...

16. May 29, 2001 Letter

    Impact of Energy Development on Human Rights

    Dear Mr. Vice President: Human Rights Watch is seriously concerned about the implications the Administration's recently released energy strategy may have for the protection of human rights in energy producing nations. United States ...

17. May 29, 2001 News Release

    U.S. Gets "Failing Grade" Protecting Gay Students

    Widespread Bullying, Teacher Indifference in U.S. Schools

    Gay teenagers are often subject to so much bullying in U.S. schools that they are not receiving an adequate education, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools. The 203 ...

18. May 29, 2001 News Release

    Congo Rebel Group Forces Children into Army

    New Report Details Recruitment Campaign

    adults en route to work or the market. In some cases, they raided homes, taking away anyone who might ...

19. May 28, 2001 News Release

    Macedonian Government Abuses in Runica Village

    International Community Should Push for a Full Investigation

    Macedonian government forces arbitrarily shelled and burned the ethnic Albanian village of Runica and beat some of its civilian inhabitants last week. Six members of one family were wounded by mortar fire and one man was killed. Seven others civilians were severely beaten. "Our investigations ...

20. May 25, 2001 News Release

    Burma: Parliamentarians should be Freed

    Detailed Information Released on Detained MPs

    Human Rights Watch today released detailed information on eighty-five Burmese parliamentarians who were elected in May 1990 and still remain in prison or in government "guest houses." May 27 marks the eleventh anniversary of the elections, the results of which the military government has ...

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