Your Excellency, Human Rights Watch is writing to express our deep concern over the February 27, 2001 death of Salim al-Akra while in Palestinian Authority custody. Mr. al-Akra reportedly had been arrested by Military Intelligence Service (MIS) officers on February 6, 2001, and held incommunicado ...
Following Bashar al-Asad's assumption of the office of president of the Syrian Arab Republic in July 2000, there were some promising signs of improvement of the country's human rights record. About 600 political prisoners were released, and the first privately owned newspaper since 1963 ...
Following Bashar al-Asad's assumption of the office of president of the Syrian Arab Republic in July 2000, there were some promising signs of improvement of the country's human rights record. About 600 political prisoners were released, and the first privately owned newspaper since 1963 ...
The United States: keeps company with Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Burma, Syria,and Cuba by refusing to join the Mine Ban Treaty; is one of just two of NATO's nineteen partners that have not banned antipersonnel mines and it continues to insist on the right to use ...
(New York)-- Human Rights Watch today commended the Chinese government for ratifying a key United Nations human rights treaty, but said China must do more to protect the rights of workers. As China prepares to join the World Trade Organization and to dismantle more state-run enterprises, Human ...
(New York)- The Guinean military has killed and wounded dozens of Sierra Leonean civilians in indiscriminate attacks against rebel-held areas of northern Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch said today. The Guinean military was apparently attacking in the vicinity of Sierra Leonean rebel forces, which ...
A recent breakthrough in talks between the governments of Nepal and Bhutan promises new hope for tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, but significant questions remain about how Nepal and Bhutan will carry out the proposed verification and repatriation of the refugees. Nepal is ...
Israeli soldiers systematically abuse Palestinian drivers in the West Bank, often subjecting them to serious beatings and humiliating treatment and causing extensive damage to their vehicles. Human Rights Watch said that hundreds of Palestinian drivers had been subjected to serious abuse since the ...
Human Rights Watch urged an urgent investigation into the mass grave discovered Saturday near the main Russian military base in Chechnya. In a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the international monitoring organization called on the Russian government to make public all available ...
International Law Perpetrators Consequences of Sexual Violence Care for Victims Protection of Civilians in Sierra Leone Today Impunity Recommendations Throughout the nine-year Sierra Leonean conflict there has been widespread and systematic sexual violence against women and girls including ...
Colin Powell Secretary of State Department of State 2201 C Street Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Powell: I am writing in advance of the approaching March 31 deadline for terminating United States government economic assistance to Yugoslavia under the provisions of Section 594 of ...
Human Rights Watch today sharply criticized efforts by the Indian government to exclude caste-based discrimination from discussion at a major U.N. conference on racism. At the just-concluded Asia regional preparatory meeting held in Tehran on February 19-21 for the upcoming World Conference Against ...
Human Rights Watch today welcomed the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's (ICTY) decision to convict Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac, and Zoran Vukovic for rape, torture, and enslavement. The decision was announced today in the Hague. The three received sentences of ...
A rapid growth in government-sponsored human rights commissions across Africa has not generally led to better human rights protection, Human Rights Watch charged in a major new study "Protectors or Pretenders?" Half the countries in Africa now have such commissions, while only one country ...
Human Rights Watch warned today that a repeat of a January 2001 massacre by Taliban forces in Afghanistan was possible unless the international community acted promptly. The January 2001 killings in Yakaolang district, near Bamiyan, detailed by Human Rights Watch in a report released on today ...
Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli military of using indiscriminate force in response to Palestinian gunfire, causing excessive civilian casualties. Human Rights Watch also deplored Palestinian shooting at Israeli settlements, and called on the Palestinian Authority to take measures to prevent ...
(New York)-Human Rights Watch today released fresh eyewitness accounts of a massacre of hundreds of civilians by Taliban forces in Afghanistan last month. Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations to step up efforts to investigate the massacre, citing previous failures by the U.N. to hold ...
Français Senegal's highest court is to rule March 6 on whether Chad's exiled former president, Hissène Habré, should stand trial in Senegal on torture charges. Habré was indicted last February, but in July an appeals court dismissed the charges, arguing that Senegal had no jurisdiction ...
Human Rights Watch criticized the Syrian government's clampdown on the independent civil forums that have grown in popularity over the last few months and invigorated the country's political life. The organizer of one of the groups, parliament member Riad Seif, reported on February 18 ...
Human Rights Watch called for a thorough and objective investigation into the killings of fifteen prisoners during São Paulo's biggest-ever prison uprising. The prison uprising began Sunday in Carandiru, Latin America's largest prison complex, and quickly spread to twenty-eight other ...
