Dear President Chirac, Human Rights Watch respectfully calls on you to initiate an urgent, thorough and independent inquiry into allegations by retired General Paul Aussaresses that the French government ordered or tolerated the use of torture and summary executions against supporters of Algerian ...
Monsieur le Président de la République, Human Rights Watch voudrait très respectueusement en ... des militants indépendantistes en Algérie au milieu des années 1950. Le Général Aussaresses ayant ...
The U.S. government should call on President Olusegun Obasanjo to ensure thorough and credible investigations and prosecutions for human rights abuses by the Nigerian armed forces. President Obasanjo is on a state visit to Washington, D.C. and will be meeting with President George W. Bush and U.S. ...
Recent changes in Turkey's Anti-Terror Law have not ended the isolation regime in Turkey's new prisons. A Justice Ministry spokesperson this week refused to answer Human Rights Watch's inquiry as to how the new law was being implemented and how many prisoners had been allowed out of ...
PURPOSE Human Rights Watch, one of the founders of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), has repeatedly asked States Parties to come to a common understanding of what acts are and are not permitted under Article 1(c) of the Mine Ban Treaty. This provision obligates each State Party ...
Dear Secretary Powell, We are writing in advance of your meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to ask that you make accountability for human rights abuses in Chechnya a priority in your meeting agenda. We greatly appreciate the role that the U.S. played in securing passage of the ...
The United States should not hold back payment of its United Nations dues because of the loss of its seat on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, major human rights groups said in letters to Senators Jesse Helms and Joseph Biden and Representatives Tom Lantos and Henry Hyde. The letters, released ...
Ethiopian security forces have used excessive force in dealing with student protests and are using the protests as an excuse for cracking down on all government critics. The government's heavy-handed tactics have enflamed what began as a peaceful local student protest into a violent national ...
We are writing to share our perspectives on the proper U.S. response to the loss of its seat on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and to the growing influence of human rights violators on the Commission's work. As human rights groups, we share the concern that the current makeup of ...
United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should launch an independent investigation into allegations of possible war crimes by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, Human Rights Watch said today. The inquiry should examine whether certain U.S. military policies, orders and practices during the ...
As Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica arrived in the U.S., Human Rights Watch urged U.N. and U.S. officials to press him to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Kostunica is slated to meet U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday. ...
Update (May 9, 2001): Human Rights Watch learned today that Vu Cao Quan was released on May 4 after ten days in detention. According to Human Rights Watch sources, a group of Vu's friends met with Vu at his home in Haiphong on May 7 and have confirmed his release. Human Rights Watch welcomes ...
Both the Macedonian authorities and the armed ethnic Albanians operating as a group called the National Liberation Army (NLA) must comply with basic principles of international humanitarian law applicable to internal armed conflicts. Last week Macedonian troops resumed shelling Albanian rebel ...
Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 Dear Secretary Rumsfeld, Human Rights Watch respectfully calls on you to initiate an urgent, thorough, and independent inquiry into allegations that standing orders and practices of the U.S. military and certain of ...
was last seen leaving his home, supposedly en route to a meeting of political parties in the northwestern ... officer, Major Alexis Ruzindana, also disappeared en route to a destination outside the capital. He left ...
Mr. Ali Ahmeti Political Spokesman for the National Liberation Army (NLA) Dear Mr. Ahmeti, Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past ten years, we have committed substantial ...
Prime Minister Ljupce Georgijevski Your Excellency, Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past ten years, we have committed substantial time and effort to investigating ...
President Boris Trajkovski Your Excellency, Human Rights Watch is a privately funded international non-governmental organization dedicated to documenting human rights abuses throughout the world. In the past ten years, we have committed substantial time and effort to investigating violations of ...
In Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika address to the nation on April 30, he announced that he intends to establish an independent national commission of inquiry to investigate the causes of recent violence in the Kabylie region. He said that the commission would be charged with determining all ...
The Algerian President's promised investigation into fatal clashes in the Kabylie region must be truly independent if it is to have any credibility, Human Rights Watch said today. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on April 30 that the Algerian government would undertake an independent ...
