Since the beginning of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav media have been flooded with praise for Milosevic's defense. If you were relying on this commentary alone, you would have to conclude that Milosevic is getting the better of the tribunal prosecutors. In fact, while the media ...
Russian forces on sweep operations in Chechnya continue to commit serious violations, Human Rights Watch said today. Fourteen witnesses have told Human Rights Watch researchers in the field about torture and ill-treatment, forced disappearances, and the ...
The Bush administration's frustration with a decade of increasingly porous sanctions against Iraq has led to active consideration of military action. Yet one alternative has yet to be seriously tried-- indicting Saddam Hussein for his many atrocities, particularly the 1988 genocide against ...
(Washington, DC)- The Peruvian government has failed to reform the country's draconian and much-criticized anti-terrorism legislation, Human Rights Watch said in a backgrounder released just prior to U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Peru. Human Rights Watch hailed important ...
The Defense Department's new rules for military commissions include important due process protections, Human Rights Watch said today. The rules nevertheless fail to meet the core human rights requirement of appellate review by an independent and impartial court, or to meet the requirements of ...
KABUL-- Achter Mohammed was expecting quite a different kind of welcome when he returned home to Afghanistan from 15 months of exile in Iran. But what mattered to the Uzbek warlords in power in his hometown was that he was an ethnic Pashtun, and probably had brought back some money from work in ...
In a letter sent today, Human Rights Watch urged Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akaev to promptly establish an independent team to investigate police killings of at least five protesters on March 17. Human Rights Watch called on President Akaev to ensure that ...
We are writing to you today to express our deep concern regarding the March 17 events in Jalal-Abad province, in which police killed at least five protesters and wounded many more during a demonstration, and to ask that you establish, as a matter of ...
(New York)- Human Rights Watch welcomed the release of the UN Planning Mission report and this week's Security Council discussion on the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and urged immediate steps be taken to establish the court. The Special Court is ...
Since the collapse of the corrupt Fujimori government in November 2000 the human rights situation in Peru has improved significantly. During Fujimori's last term in office (1995-2000), Vladimiro Montesinos, the de facto head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN) and a close Fujimori ...
The U.N. Organization Mission in Congo (MONUC) should immediately send more military and civilian observers to the strife-torn Ituri province in northeastern Congo, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The latest ...
Human Rights Watch today expressed disappointment that Mary Robinson would not continue as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and pointed a finger at the United States for opposing her renomination for a full second term. Mary Robinson paid a price for her willingness to stand ...
Today, as the Commission opens its 58th session, Chechnya remains the only place in Europe where civilians are killed on a daily basis in armed conflict. Russian and Chechen rebel forces subject civilians to a vicious cycle of abuse. Since the 57th UNCHR ...
Recent fighting between Hema and Lendu militias in the Ituri region of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced thousands more over the past few weeks. Africa Democratic Republic of Congo United ...
(New York)- In a new report issued today, Human Rights Watch criticized the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas-HAM) for failing to actively pursue an investigation into one of the worst massacres in post-Soeharto Indonesia. The Indonesian government in general and Komnas-HAM in ...
Lieutenant General Omar Hassan El Bashir President of the Republic of Sudan People's Palace P.O. Box 281 Khartoum Sudan Your Excellency, We are writing to express concern about the detention of Hassan al Turabi, the leader of the opposition Popular ...
Saudi authorities should conduct an independent, thorough, and transparent investigation of the March 11 fire at a girls' public intermediate school in Mecca that claimed the lives of at least fourteen students, Human Rights Watch said today. The tragedy has focused attention on the role of ...
The United States should comply with a request by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that a competent tribunal be convened to resolve the legal status of Guantanamo detainees, Human Rights Watch said today. The Commission is part of the Organization of American States. It has played a ...
Summaries human rights situation in Georgia. Europe/Central Asia Georgia ...
(New York)- Human Rights Watch today called on the government of India to take all necessary and appropriate measures to prevent communal violence that may arise from a March 15 ceremony at a contested religious site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. It also urged India to bring to justice those ...
