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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
de mettre en place une commission nationale d'enquête indépendante chargée d'enquêter sur ... les causes des récentes violences en Kabylie. Vous avez déclaré que la commission serait chargée de ... faire toute la lumière sur ce qui s'est passé, "en toute liberté et en toute ...
Several countries with poor human rights records should not have been voted onto the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Joining the 53-member commission today were Sudan, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Togo, among others, to a three-year rotating membership. These countries will join Syria, ...
Four child soldiers must not be executed by the government of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. In a meeting today with the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, She Okitundu, Human Rights Watch urged the government to spare the lives of the four children, who were between ...
Human Rights Watch wrote today to Ruud Lubbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, on the eve of his arrival in Pakistan. In the letter, Human Rights Watch expressed concern about reports that the High Commissioner was actively seeking a reassessment of the refugee status of up to 1.5 million ...
Human Rights Watch welcomes the Turkish parliament's decision to amend Article 16 of the Anti-Terror Law, so as to remove legal provisions that prohibited out-of-cell activities. This amendment signals the last legal obstacle to lifting small-group isolation in the F-type and other prisons, ...
Mr. Ruud Lubbers United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Geneva, Switzerland Dear High Commissioner, We welcome your current visit to Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we very much hope that your visit will bring renewed international attention to the plight of the Afghan refugees. We are ...
Dear Minister Okitundu: We write to urge your government to commute the death sentences of four child soldiers, each of whom was between fourteen and sixteen at the time he was arrested and sentenced. Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Children's Rights Juvenile Justice ...
