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1. January 23, 2001 Letter

   Iranian Women Blocked from Overseas Education

   Letter to the Guardian Council

   The Academic Freedom Committee of Human Rights Watch strongly protests the recent decision of the Guardian Council to preserve the discriminatory laws that deny women equal access to universities outside Iran. On January 7, 2001, the Majlis voted overwhelmingly to strike provisions of article 3 of ...

2. January 23, 2001 News Release

   Nigeria: Teenage Mother Whipped

   "Cruel and Inhuman Punishment" a Violation of International Standards

   (New York, January 23, 2001)- Human Rights Watch today condemned the Nigerian government's failure to protect a teenage mother, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, from being whipped by local officials. Officials of Zamfara state carried out a flogging of one hundred lashes as punishment for Magazu's ...

3. January 22, 2001 News Release

   U.S.: Bush Assails Freedom of Expression

   On his first business day in office, President George W. Bush flouted free expression by reinstating a U.S. government policy, known alternatively as the Mexico City Policy and the Global Gag Rule, that requires international women's health advocates ...

4. January 22, 2001 News Release

   WTO Sends Wrong Message with Qatar Choice

   Human Rights Watch called on the World Trade Organization's General Council to reverse the decision announced that the WTO will hold its next ministerial meeting in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The selection of Qatar, reportedly made in an informal meeting earlier today, is slated to be ...

5. January 22, 2001 News Release

   Congo: Massacres in Ugandan-Controlled Areas

   Museveni Urged to Discipline Ugandan Troops in Bunia

   The Ugandan government must be held responsible for the security of the population and humanitarian workers in areas under its control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Human Rights Watch said today. On January 19, rival Lendu and Hema militias killed at least one hundred and fifty ...

6. January 21, 2001 News Release

   Council of Europe Must Continue to Censure Russia

   Russia's conduct in Chechnya has not improved and the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly must not restore Russia's voting rights. In a memorandum, Human Rights Watch documented the arbitrary detention, torture, "disappearances," and extortion of Chechnya residents ...

7. January 21, 2001 Statement

   Field Update on Chechnya

   With major military clashes between Russian and Chechen forces ending in spring 2000, civilian lives in Chechnya are blighted by Russian forces who detain, torture, extort, and harass them on a daily basis. Europe/Central Asia Russia ...

8. January 19, 2001 News Release

   Qatar: Inappropriate Venue for Next WTO Meeting

   No Right to Freedom of Assembly

   The upcoming meeting of the World Trade Organization should not be held in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. "Holding this meeting in Qatar would shut down any possibility of peaceful protest," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. "The WTO can't avoid ...

9. January 19, 2001 News Release

   Congo: The Kabila Legacy

   (New York)- Laurent-Desire Kabila took control of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after a bloody war in which his supporters and Rwandan and Ugandan allies killed tens of thousands of civilians. He defended his regime in a second war after his erstwhile allies, Rwanda and Uganda, ...

10. January 18, 2001 News Release

    Iran: Independent Magazine Banned

    Human Rights Watch strongly condemned Iran's closure of Kiyan, a ten-year-old independent journal that specialized in issues of philosophy, religion, and literature. Kiyan's closure was announced by state-controlled radio and television on January 17. "This closure is the final nail ...

11. January 17, 2001 News Release

    Bush Urged to Promote Human Rights

    Human Rights Watch highlighted 31 specific steps that President-elect George W. Bush should take to improve human rights in the United States and the world. "Support for human rights in the world is firmly in the U.S. national interest and directly reflects the nation's highest ideals, ...

12. January 16, 2001 Commentary

    Beyond Rhetoric: Give Teeth to a Policy on Human Rights in China

    Mr. Bush must back up his campaign commitment with action

    In May, George W. Bush told Boeing aircraft workers, "When I am president, China will know that America's values are always part of America's agenda. Our advocacy of human rights is not a formality of diplomacy. It is a fundamental commitment of our country." One meaningful way ...

13. January 16, 2001 News Release

    Harsh Sentences Against Iran Reformists Condemned

    Human Rights Watch condemned the sentences handed down by an Iranian Revolutionary Court against Akbar Ganji and six other leading reformists. "The conspiracy charges against them had no basis in fact, and the secret trials were a travesty of justice," said Hanny Megally, Executive ...

14. January 16, 2001 Letter

    Iran: Harsh Sentences Condemned

    Letter to H. E. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi

    Human Rights Watch condemns the arbitrary and harsh sentences handed down by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran on Saturday January 13, 2001 against seven of the seventeen defendants being tried for attending an international conference in Berlin, Germany, in April 2000. We believe there is no basis ...

15. January 12, 2001 News Release

    Chile: Keep Pinochet-Era Prosecutions Alive

    (New York)- Even though the Chilean armed forces have admitted responsibility in the deaths of some 200 people who "disappeared" under military rule, the Chilean courts should continue to prosecute those and all other cases of the "disappeared," Human Rights Watch said today. ...

16. January 12, 2001 News Release

    Mexican Judicial Decision to Extradite Argentine Rights Abuser Hailed

    (New York)- Human Rights Watch today applauded a Mexican judicial decision to proceed with the extradition of Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, a former military official from Argentina who has been implicated in atrocities during the country's 7-year military ...

17. January 11, 2001 News Release

    Leading Human Rights Groups Oppose Renewed Funding for Colombia

    Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Washington Office on Latin America Say Colombia Hasn't Met Human Rights Conditions

    Three leading human rights groups called on President Bill Clinton to enforce congressionally-mandated human rights conditions on Colombia, thereby blocking delivery of the final funds from last year's 1.3 billion US Dollars aid package. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the ...

18. January 8, 2001 News Release

    Turkey: Government Seeks to Quash Scrutiny of Prisons Transfer

    Prisons Activist Jailed

    Human Rights Watch condemned the Turkish government's crackdown on those seeking to expose torture, beatings and other police abuses during the violent December raid of Turkish prisons. Nimet Tanrikulu, former president of the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (HRA) was ...

19. January 8, 2001 News Release

    Turkey: Isolation and Beatings in New Prisons Must Stop Now

    Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have urged immediate reforms to the Turkish penal system after receiving reports of torture and beatings of prisoners transferred to smaller cells in a recent high-profile operation. Representatives of the groups are currently in Turkey to research the ...

20. January 4, 2001 Letter

    Letter to United Nations Security Council

    New York, January 4, 2000 Ambassador Richard Holbrooke President of the United Nations Security Council Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations 799 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017- 3505   Dear Ambassador Holbrooke, As the Security Council continues to grapple with the ...

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