Human Rights Watch (Page 68)

The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees

This 107-page report presents substantial information warranting criminal investigations of Bush and senior administration officials, includi…Continue Reading

Armed forces and non-state armed groups should immediately stop targeting schools, teachers and students for attack and comply with new United Nations Security Council measures to protect education in armed confli…Continue Reading

Human Rights Watch attended the opening of the trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former combatant of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), in Gulu, northern Uganda, on July 11, 2011, before the International Crimes Divisio…Continue Reading

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(New York) – The Hong Kong government should immediately investigate allegations that police violated participants’ rights during the annual Hong Kong protest march on July 1, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(New York) – Amendments to the rules of procedure for Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) address some key problems but fail to bring other areas of the law and rules into compliance with international standards, Human Rights Watch said to…Continue Reading

The constitutional revisions approved in the July 1, 2011 referendum can significantly advance Moroccans’ rights, but only if authorities use these new constitutional principles to reform repressive laws and pract…Continue Reading

(Juba) – The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should call on Sudan to cease human rights abuses in Southern Kordofan, Human Rights Watch, Interights, REDRESS, and the Sudan Democracy First Group said today.
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Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama to order a criminal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush and ot…Continue Reading

(New York) – Defectors from Syria’s security forces described receiving, and following, orders to shoot on protesters to disperse them, Human Rights Watch said today.read moreContinue Reading

Yemeni forces may have killed dozens of civilians in unlawful attacks while fighting an Islamist armed group in southern Abyan province since May 2011. The militants in Abyan, called Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of …Continue Reading

Libyan government forces have placed at least three minefields containing antipersonnel and antivehicle landmines outside the village of al-Qawalish in the western Nafusa Mountains.

(Zintan) – Li…Continue Reading