Angola, the incoming chair of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), should allow regional civil society debate and media coverage of the SADC summit meeting that began in Luanda on August 16, 2011. …Continue Reading
The European Union (EU) should freeze the assets of the Syrian National Oil Company, Syrian National Gas Company, and the Central Bank of Syria until the Syrian government ends gross human rights abuses against it…Continue Reading
The new Thai government should make human rights a priority when it issues its inaugural policy statement to parliament.
(Bangkok) – The new Thai government should make human rights a prio…Continue Reading
We read your statement on August 7 in which you called on Syrian authorities to “immediately cease violent actions and security campaigns” against their people. We are writing to urge you to follow up by coord…Continue Reading
As you move forward to form a government, we write to urge you to address a number of important concerns regarding major human rights issues in Thailand.
August 15, 2011
Yingluck Shinawatra
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The Australian prosecutor’s office should drop the asset-seizing case against former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks for money he earned from a book he wrote about his six years in US custody at Guantanamo Bay. …Continue Reading
The League of Arab States should hold an emergency meeting about the crackdown in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Nabil al-Arabi, secretary general of the league.
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All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the country’s humanitarian catastrophe. A Human Rights Watch report says all sides should i…Continue Reading
Internal military documents that recently came to light expose the Indonesian military’s surveillance of peaceful activists, politicians, and clergy in the easternmost province of Papua.
(New Y…Continue Reading
United States Vice President Joe Biden should directly address the Chinese government’s recent assault on human rights during his visit to Beijing beginning August 17, 2011.
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Dear Dmitry Anatoliyevich,
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1. Why is there a search for a new prosecutor for the International Criminal Court?
2. What are the requirements to be the next ICC prosecutor?read moreContinue Reading
The Azerbaijani authorities, without warning, illegally demolisheda building housing three leading human rights organizations in the capital, Baku, on August 11, 2011.
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The Burundi authorities’ arrests of lawyers and intimidation of journalists are cause for concern. Although the release of two of three lawyers arrested since mid-July, 2011, was a positive step, the government …Continue Reading
An ethnic Uzbek detained and allegedly tortured by police in southern Kyrgyzstan died on August 9, 2011, two days after he was released from police custody.
(New York) – An ethnic Uzbek det…Continue Reading