(New York)-- Plans by the government of Pakistan to establish refugee camps inside Afghanistan instead of allowing refugees to cross into Pakistan could seriously endanger the lives of refugees, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Musharraf of Pakistan. Human Rights Watch also ...
His Excellency General Pervez Musharraf President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan Dear President Musharraf, We are writing to urge your government to reconsider current plans to house new refugees from Afghanistan in camps in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of the North ...
(Quetta, Pakistan)-- At least twenty-three civilians, the majority of them young children, were killed when U.S. bombs hit a remote Afghan village located near a Taliban military base on the night of October 21, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the U.S.-led alliance to ensure ...
The U.S. and French governments should declassify files relating to the 1965 “disappearance” of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, human rights organizations said today in letters to the French and U.S. authorities. Ben Barka was intercepted by French policemen on a Paris street October 29 ...
(Pristina, Kosovo)- Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his inner circle of political and military leaders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo, Human Rights Watch said today, three days before Milosevic's next hearing at the war crimes ...
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(New York, October 25, 2001)- Human Rights Watch today condemned the massacre of more than 100 civilians by Nigerian soldiers in several villages in Benue State, apparently carried out as revenge for the killing of 19 soldiers earlier this month. Human Rights Watch urged President Olusegun Obasanjo ...
The State Department's annual report on international religious freedom has failed to single out a number of egregious violators that are members of the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition, Human Rights Watch said today. The report, released today, candidly described violations of religious ...
We are writing to urge you to support the declassification of all U.S. government documents relating to the abduction and enforced disappearance of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka in Paris thirty-six years ago, on October 29, 1965. Urging declassification of documents relating to Ben ...
The United States is not doing enough to implement the human rights criteria of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Human Rights Watch said today. The first U.S.-Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, to be held in Washington on October 29-30, is required by the AGOA, which ...
(New York)-- In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Human Rights Watch urged the United States to use its influence with the United Front (Northern Alliance) in Afghanistan to ensure that their forces do not engage in reprisal killings, indiscriminate shelling, and other serious ...
(New York, October 23, 2001)- Human Rights Watch today condemned a recent ruling by an Islamic court in Northern Nigeria that sentenced Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu to death by stoning. The court issued the death sentence after finding her guilty of having ...
Your Excellency, We are writing to express our deep concern over a ruling by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria that sentenced Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu to death by stoning after finding her guilty of pre-marital sex. We urge you to intervene on her ...
(New York)- Human Rights Watch today called on the Mexican authorities to conduct an independent and thorough investigation into the killing of prominent Mexican human rights advocate, Digna Ochoa. Ochoa was found dead in her Mexico City office Friday ...
As the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s Sixth Committee continues to discuss the Draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (“the Comprehensive Convention”) Human Rights Watch believes that it is crucial that the Comprehensive Convention’s text uphold longstanding and ...
In a letter to Congressional leaders released today, Human Rights Watch criticized the anti-terrorism bills that have emerged from the House and Senate for failing to safeguard the rights of non-citizens. Congressional leaders have bypassed an official conference to reconcile the two bills, with ...
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the proposed expansion of the Attorney General's powers to detain non-citizens in the anti-terrorism bills now under consideration (H.R. 2975, S. 1510). We recognize the challenges faced by Congress as it seeks to legislate effective ...
As the United States prepares now for war against an undefined foe, we must remember how precious are the lives of those who eschew violence and combat. Like the office workers in the World Trade Center, the ordinary women and men of Afghanistan do not deserve to die. United States ...
The Honorable Colin Powell Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Powell, As the frontline in northern Afghanistan shifts to the outskirts of Mazar-i Sharif, Human Rights Watch is concerned about the risk of ethnically-targeted violence ...
A man detained on suspicion of affiliation with a banned religious organization died in police custody in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Ravshan Haidov, age 32, died in police custody this week. Haidov, the father of two, is the latest victim in Uzbekistan's vicious crackdown on ...
