New York Human Rights Watch today urged the Indonesian government to investigate allegations of bias and partisan participation by government security forces in the bloody communal conflict in the Moluccan islands (Maluku). During the past two weeks, the islands, located some 1,000 miles to the ...
The government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic denied visas to a delegation of internationally prominent academics. "The government's refusal to allow us in is further evidence of its systematic campaign to dismantle intellectual freedom and isolate independent scholars," ...
Ethnic Turks in Greece face continued serious discrimination in the enjoyment of language, religious, and educational rights, according to a report The Turks of Western Thrace. Greece has enacted a number of discriminatory measures to force ethnic Turks to migrate to Turkey or to disrupt community ...
Newly obtained official data confirm the need for reform of New York's drug laws. Nearly 80% of the drug offenders who received prison sentences in 1997 had never been convicted of a violent felony and almost half had never even been arrested for a violent crime. "New York's drug ...
In the aftermath of civilian deaths during military operations in Aceh on Sunday, Human Rights Watch today urged all parties involved in the conflict there to respect basic principles of humanitarian law banning torture and extrajudicial executions. The operations followed a December 29 attack on a ...
Coercion, threats and the repression of opposition activists have characterized the presidential election campaign in Kazakhstan. Journalists and ordinary citizens have also been harassed during the three-month campaign for the ballot, scheduled for Sunday, January 10. "These presidential ...
(New York, December 31, 1998) — Human Rights Watch condemns the fatal shooting by soldiers of at least three Ijaw youths holding a peaceful demonstration yesterday in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta. Another twelve deaths are reliably reported but their names not confirmed. ...
In a new report issued today, Human Rights Watch called on those concerned about developments in Indonesia to look beyond Jakarta to rising political tensions in Irian Jaya. Those tensions are being fueled by the Habibie government's reluctance to allow a discussion of independence in a " ...
In a report released today, Human Rights Watch documents the Mexican government's failure to enforce its own labor laws in the export processing (maquiladora) sector. In violation of Mexican labor law, maquiladora operators oblige women to undergo pregnancy testing as a condition of work. ...
Human Rights Watch today strongly condemned the arrest of two Cambodian human rights workers in Cambodia's port city of Sihanoukville. Meas Minear and Kim Sen, staff members of the Cambodian human rights organization Licadho, were arrested on December 21 after they monitored demonstrations and ...
Human Rights Watch today condemned the harsh sentences given Chinese dissidents Xu Wenli and Wang Youcai after summary trials. "China's signature on a human rights treaty isn't worth the paper it's written on if this is what it does to peaceful political activists," said ...
While most children around the country are celebrating the season's holidays at home with their families, this week hundreds of children in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will be spending Christmas in detention, separated from family and loved ones. In a ...
(New York)- Human Rights Watch welcomed the release of Liu Nianchun, one of China's most prominent labor activists, but stressed that China should not be praised for sending one more dissident into enforced exile abroad. It noted that the Chinese government is on the verge of sending another ...
Human Rights Watch today condemned a new clampdown on the Internet in Serbia, part of a concerted effort by President Slobodan Milosevic to stifle free expression and academic freedom. The university administration's order prevents students, professors, and researchers throughout Serbia from ...
In a letter made public today, a broad group of U.S. leaders called on President Clinton to support an international prohibition on the use of child soldiers. The letter, identifying the use of children as soldiers as "one of the most alarming and tragic trends in modern warfare," was ...
Human Rights Watch today strongly condemned the Chinese government's treatment of three pro-democracy activists, Xu Wenli in Beijing, Wang Youcai in Hangzhou, and Qin Yongmin in Wuhan. Xu Wenli is expected to go on trial on Monday at 9 a.m. local time, and Human Rights Watch urges the ...
(London)- Human Rights Watch today expressed confidence that a new panel in the House of Lords would also deny immunity to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. "Pinochet will not escape his day of reckoning," said Reed Brody, Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch, an international ...
Bill Clinton and Tony Blair must take all possible steps to protect civilians from injury in the attack on Iraq. Initial reports suggest that many potential targets are in urban areas, where the risk of civilian deaths and destruction is high. The laws of war require the United States to take all ...
An Iranian writer escaped an apparent attempt on his life on December 13, the latest in a spate of killings of Iranian intellectuals and opposition figures. Akbar Ganji, the editor of the recently-banned weekly newspaper Rah-e No (New Way), was approached by two unknown men as he was leaving his ...
Thousands of Russian children abandoned to state orphanages are exposed to appalling levels of cruelty and neglect, according to a 213-page report released in Moscow by Human Rights Watch. The report is a year-long investigation accompanied by a series of powerful color photographs providing ...
