Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to support the immediate establishment of a permanent international monitoring presence in the West Bank and Gaza to report publicly and regularly on the compliance by all parties with international human rights and ...
In schools across South Africa, thousands of girls of every race and economic group are encountering sexual violence and harassment that impede their access to education, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. School authorities rarely ...
(New York) Human Rights Watch today urged Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to issue a presidential decree establishing special human rights courts. On March 21, Indonesia's parliament formally approved special courts to prosecute the 1999 crimes in East Timor, as well as cases stemming ...
Via Facsimile Mr. Marzuki Darusman Attorney General Republic of Indonesia Dear Pak Marzuki, We are concerned that efforts to try suspects in the RATA killings in the newly established human rights court are falling afoul of a legal technicality, and we believe that you as Attorney General may have ...
(New York)- The arrest of Bosnian Serb Milomir Stakic and his transfer to The Hague is a welcome first step in the cooperation between the Federal Republic Yugoslavia and the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Human Rights Watch said today. Serbian police arrested Stakic on Thursday, March 22, and ...
(New York) Human Rights Watch today condemned the mass arrests of political party leaders and activists in Punjab province by Pakistan's military government. On the morning of March 20, the Pakistani government launched the third wave of mass political arrests since the October 1999 coup. The ...
Human Rights Watch expressed profound dismay at the death of prison hunger-striker Cengiz Soydas yesterday morning.Soydas's death comes on the 150th day of a death fast staged by four hundred prisoners in Turkey's newly opened F-type prisons. Soydas's death comes on the 150th day of ...
Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Human Rights Watch today called for an end to caste-based discrimination around the world. The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance will take place in South Africa from ...
(Washington, DC)- Human Rights Watch today welcomed President Ricardo Lagos's proposal to introduce legislation to repeal contempt of authority provisions of the Chilean Criminal Code. The proposed reforms, which would put an end to the special legal protection public officials now enjoy ...
(New York) President George W. Bush should use his Oval Office meeting this Thursday [March 22] with Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen to press for concrete progress on human rights in advance of the president's visit to China later this year. Bush will attend the Asia Pacific Economic ...
Français (Dakar, Senegal)- Senegal's highest court today ruled that Chad's exiled former president, Hissène Habré, could not stand trial on torture charges because his alleged crimes were not committed in Senegal. Victims and their supporters protested the decision, which they said flew ...
March 21, 2001 The Honorable John Ashcroft Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530-0001 Dear Attorney General Ashcroft: Congratulations on your confirmation as Attorney General. As head of the Department of Justice, you ...
European Union governments must press the issue of the "disappeared" in Chechnya when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Stockholm this week, Human Rights Watch urged in releasing a new report The"Dirty War" in Chechnya: Forced Disappearances, Torture, and Summary ...
King Mohammed VI should appoint women's rights activists to a new royal commission on changing Morocco's "personal status" code, Human Rights Watch urged today. The International monitoring group also pressed for swift progress on eliminating sex discrimination from the country& ...
Twenty-five U.S. states still permit the execution of offenders with mental retardation and should pass laws to ban the practice without delay, Human Rights Watch said in releasing today Beyond Reason:The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardationt-the first comprehensive human rights ...
In an open letter sent today to Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khamene'i, Human Rights Watch protested further closure orders against independent newspapers, the closure of an independent political party and the continued detention without access to lawyers or their families ...
Human Rights Watch is seriously concerned by recent actions of the Iranian judiciary that have resulted in the closure of a longstanding political party, the arrests of political activists, and the shutting down of four newspapers. Middle East/North Africa Iran ...
(New York) Human Rights Watch today released details of a case involving a labor organizer in Henan Province that demonstrate China's continued restrictions on basic worker rights in China. Rights violations in China, including labor rights abuses, are likely to be the subject of renewed ...
(New York) Human Rights Watch today welcomed the conviction in Cambodia of a local leader for a politically motivated murder, but expressed concern that the trial ignored the political aspects of the case. On March 15, the Kampot provincial court found commune chief Im Nan, a member of the ruling ...
Two journalists arrested in Burundi for airing a brief interview with a rebel spokesman should be released promptly, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burundi government arrested the journalists after they broadcast a one-minute segment in which the rebel spokesman answered questions about ...
