(New York) – Thai authorities are using emergency powers to violate fundamental rights and obstruct efforts to bring abusers to justice six months after violent clashes between anti-government groups and government security forces, Human Rights Watch s…Continue Reading
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(New York) – Kuwait’s prime minister should withdraw charges against a writer accused of libel and slander and free him from prison immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. Mohammad al-Jasim was sentenced to a year in jail on November 22, 2010, base…Continue Reading
(Cairo) – Egypt has carried out mass arbitrary arrests, wholesale restrictions on public campaigning, and widespread intimidation of opposition candidates and activists in the weeks leading up to parliamentary elections on November 28, 2010, Human Righ…Continue Reading
(Geneva) – Substantial progress is being made in the global effort to eradicate antipersonnel landmines, but the United States remains on the sidelines, Human Rights Watch said today as a new report about landmines was released. In the United States, a…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch called today for nominations for the prestigious Hellman/Hammett grants for 2011, for writers who have suffered persecution because of their work and are in financial need.
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This 24-page report documents the vague and subjective criteria in Egypt’s Political Parties Law that allow the government and ruling party to impede formation of new political parties.
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To the Governments of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka,
In the wake of recent cases of alleged abuse against Indonesian and Sri Lankan migrant domestic workers employed in Saudi Arabia, we write to urge your governments to ensure a timely and co…Continue Reading
(Nairobi) – Burundi is cracking down on civil society, media, and opposition parties in the wake of troubled local and national elections from May through September 2010, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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This 69-page report documents abuses including torture, arbitrary arrests, banning of opposition activities, and harassment of civil society groups. Human Rights Watch called on the government to end the abuses and to strengthen institutional mechanism…Continue Reading
(New York) – Pakistan’s government should immediately introduce legislation to repeal the country’s blasphemy law and other discriminatory legislation, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also take legal action against Islamist militan…Continue Reading
Dear Secretary Blake:
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(New York) – President Pratibha Devisingh Patil of India should address the systemic abuse of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates and press for urgent labor reforms during an official visit that begins November 22, 2010, Human Rights Watch said…Continue Reading
The horrors of napalm and other incendiary weapons impelled the negotiation of the third protocol to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (the CCW). Drafters of the protocol reacted to the death, disfigurement, and severe and painful injuries that in…Continue Reading