Now in its 22nd year, the 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival makes its debut in Nairobi, Kenya with an extraordinary program of films set to inspire, inform, and spark debate. The films will demonstrate the pow…Continue Reading
The photojournalist Stephen Ferry has been awarded the first Tim Hetherington Grant, an annual visual journalism award focusing on human rights.
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The Chinese government should address the underlying causes of protests that have led 11 Tibetans to set themselves on fire since March 2011.
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Positive actions by Burma’s new government should not obscure the serious human rights problems persisting in the country one year after the November 2010 elections.
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Eight residents of Kenya’s Mt. Elgon region, whose family members were forcibly disappeared during an internal armed conflict nearly four years ago, were finally able to file complaints with the Kenyan police on…Continue Reading
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The government of Equatorial Guinea should immediately release an opposition party member and civil society activist arrested on November 1, 2011, in what appeared to be a politically mo…Continue Reading
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Honduras has failed to bring to justice those responsible for the serious human rights violations committed in the aftermath of the June 2009 coup d’etat.
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Chinese-run copper mining companies in Zambia routinely flout labor laws and regulations designed to protect workers’ safety and the right to organize. Zambia’s newly elected president, Michael Sata, a longtim…Continue Reading
The Federal Supreme Court trial of five Emirati activists accused of “publicly insulting” top United Arab Emirates officials in an internet forum has been grossly unfair, and the case against them has no basis in …Continue Reading
The Bangladeshi government should investigate threats to defense lawyers and witnesses in cases at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and take steps to prevent them.
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The Bosnian parliament’s move on October 31, 2011, to amend the constitution to allow members of minority groups to run for high public office is a positive step.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should immediately arrest an armed group leader running for political office who is wanted for crimes against humanity, including mass rape.
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Members of the United Nations Security Council should press for the arrest and surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC) of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Sanussi by Libya …Continue Reading
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The bill before Nigeria’s National Assembly to ban “same gender marriage” would threaten all Nigerians’ rights. The bill, under consideration for the third time in five years, wo…Continue Reading
An Istanbul court’s decision on November 1, 2011, to imprison a publisher and a political science professor pending their trial on terrorism charges exposes the huge deficiencies of Turkey’s criminal justice s…Continue Reading