The United Nations Security Council should take immediate steps to ensure international monitoring in Southern Kordofan, where reports of massive human rights violations by Sudanese forces have emerged. Council me…Continue Reading
The United Nations Security Council should take immediate steps to ensure international monitoring in Southern Kordofan, where reports of massive human rights violations by Sudanese forces have emerged. Council me…Continue Reading
Burundian authorities should investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the dozens of political killings in Burundi since late 2010
(London) – Burundian authorities should investigat…Continue Reading
The Ethiopian government should stop using a restrictive and vague counterterrorism law to repress free speech and due process rights.
(New York) – The Ethiopian government should stop using a r…Continue Reading
The Ugandan government should immediately release or bring to court Augustine Okello, a journalist from Lira-based Radio Rhino, who was forcibly disappeared on July 12, 2011.
(Kampala) – The U…Continue Reading
The government of Malawi should open a prompt, independent, and transparent investigation into the killings of several peaceful demonstrators. The deaths resulted from the security forces’ apparent excessive use…Continue Reading
Last month, the first woman ever was convicted of genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s former minister for family and women’s affairs, guilty of genocide, …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
After six months of violence, almost everyone in Côte d’Ivoire has a horrific story to tell: a loved one killed gruesomely, the memory of being raped, a house burned or pillaged of everything. I have listened t…Continue Reading
In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based on…Continue Reading
(Kigali) – Rwanda’s community-based gacaca courts have helped communities confront the country’s 1994 genocide but have failed to provide credible decisions and justice in a number of cases, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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(Kigali) – Rwanda’s community-based gacaca courts have helped communities confront the country’s 1994 genocide but have failed to provide credible decisions and justice in a number of cases, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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(Kigali) – Rwanda’s community-based gacaca courts have helped communities confront the country’s 1994 genocide but have failed to provide credible decisions and justice in a number of cases, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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(Kigali) – Rwanda’s community-based gacaca courts have helped communities confront the country’s 1994 genocide but have failed to provide credible decisions and justice in a number of cases, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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(Kigali) – Rwanda’s community-based gacaca courts have helped communities confront the country’s 1994 genocide but have failed to provide credible decisions and justice in a number of cases, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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