Human Rights Watch today urged the United States to support a United Nations chemical weapons inspection in Sudan. In a letter to President Clinton released today, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, noted that questions persist about the Khartoum pharmaceutical factory ...
Human Rights Watch today criticized the decision of the Montenegrin government to deny those fleeing the fighting in Kosovo entry into Montenegro. While we acknowledge the burdens faced by the Montenegrin government in responding to this crisis, closing the border effectively traps people who are ...
Human Rights Watch today called on the Algerian government to allow the United Nations to conduct a proper investigation into the massacres that have killed thousands of women, men and children in recent years. The Algerian authorities have steadfastly refused to cooperate with U.N. human rights ...
President William J. Clinton The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Clinton, We are writing to urge you to give full U.S. government support for a United Nations inspection of the site of the bombed al Shifa Pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum for signs of the production or storage of ...
Human Rights Watch today warned that the Taliban's current military offensive in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan could result in the torture and deaths of many more ethnic Hazaras, a Shi'ite minority whom the Taliban has targeted in the past. Aid workers in Pakistan say that ...
As a top British minister prepares to travel to Bahrain, Human Rights Watch urged that the disturbing human rights situation in that country be on the agenda of all high level meetings with Bahraini officials. Human rights conditions in Bahrain have seriously deteriorated since the current ...
Human Rights Watch is gravely concerned about the reported arrests in Burma of 220 members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), including 60 elected members of parliament. According to the NLD, the arrest of democracy supporters began in the capital of Rangoon in the late hours of ...
In a report released today, Human Rights Watch charges that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is now holding more than half of its detainees in jails where they are subjected to punitive treatment and may be mixed with criminal inmates. With its own detention facilities ...
Human Rights Watch today called on senior Indonesian government officials to immediately cease efforts to discredit reports of rapes of ethnic Chinese women during riots in Jakarta in May. In a new report titled " The Damaging Debate On Rapes of ...
Human Rights Watch today condemned the imprisonment of Mr. Abas Amir-Entezam, the former Iranian deputy-prime minister, following the apparent enforcement of a previously suspended life sentence. Amir-Entezam was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1979 on charges of spying for the United States ...
On behalf of Human Rights Watch, a privately-funded nongovernmental international human rights organization based in New York, I commend to your attention the enclosed materials which comprise our written submission to the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. Europe/Central Asia ...
(Jakarta)- In a major new report released today, Human Rights Watch warns that if the current political opening in Indonesia is not followed by legal and institutional protections for basic rights, the entire reform effort could unravel. The new report, " Academic Freedom in Indonesia: ...
(New York) — History was made today when the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) found former mayor, Jean-Paul Akayesu, guilty of nine counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The verdict is the first handed down by ...
(New York)- Human Rights Watch welcomed the recent release of political prisoners in Vietnam, including prominent dissidents Dr. Doan Viet Hoat and Dr. Nguyen Dan Que. This is an extremely positive step by the Vietnamese government," said Sidney Jones, director of the Asia Division of Human ...
(Montreal)- Tomorrow, the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will issue a historic judgment in the case of Jean-Paul Akayesu, who is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes committed in an internal armed conflict. The ...
In a letter to President Yasir Arafat, Human Rights Watch today condemned the executions of Ra'id and Mohammad Abu Sultan, and called upon Arafat not to ratify any pending or future death penalty sentences. This is a major step backward," said Hanny Megally, executive director of Human ...
Human Rights Watch urged the government of Algeria to set up a credible independent investigation into the massacres that have killed thousands of women, men, and children in recent years.In a repot, Algeria's Human Rights Crisis Human Rights Watch disputed the government's claim that ...
(New York) — Human Rights Watch today condemned the killing on Monday of at least 37 civilians, including five priests and nuns, by rebels fighting to unseat President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The organization also expressed alarm at press reports pointing to rebel ...
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Human Rights Watch urges a tough line on human rights during next week's trip to Europe, including stops in Croatia, Bosnia and Russia. The Secretary is expected to leave for Europe on Saturday, for stops in Croatia and Bosnia, before ...
Linking Russia's current economic crisis to widespread corruption, Human Rights Watch has written to President Clinton urging him to address this issue in his upcoming summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Corruption is ruining the Russian ...
