Vietnam: Torture, Forced Labor in Drug Detention
People detained by the police in Vietnam for using drugs are held without due process for years, forced to work for little or no pay, and suffer torture and physical violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report r…Continue Reading
Tunisia: Government Lifts Restrictions on Women’s Rights Treaty
Tunisia’s lifting of key reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an important step toward gender equality. The Tunisian government should next en…Continue Reading
Myanmar announces human rights commission
Myanmar has formed a National Human Rights Commission in response to an appeal by a UN envoy for the new government to investigate alleged abuses, an official said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Testimonies from Bahrain: Memories of a jailed activist’s wife
Khadija al-Mousawi and her jailed husband ‘Abdulhadi al-Khawaja © Private
By Khadija al-Mousawi, wife of imprisoned human rights defender ‘Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
It was on a Friday when we gathered in my daughter Fatima’s flat as a famil…Continue Reading
Las mujeres que desafiaron a Gadafi no se libran de la brutalidad de la cárcel
Por Diana Eltahawy, investigadora sobre Libia de Amnistía Internacional
Una de las características más sombrías del conflicto armado en Libia ha sido la oleada de detenciones arbitrarias y desapariciones forzadas de miles de presuntos opositores …Continue Reading
Myanmar establishes human rights commission
Myanmar’s nominally civilian government has formed a National Human Rights Commission to investigate reported abuses, state-run media reported Tuesday, although a similar body in 2000 failed to have any impact.Continue Reading
UN raps Australia over Swedish crim
Australia violated the human rights of a Swedish-born convicted criminal and should let him return, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled.Continue Reading
UN rules man’s deportation from Australia illegal
Australia has been accused of breaching international law and violating the human rights of a permanent resident who was deported four years ago.Continue Reading
Angola: Stop Repression of Anti-Government Protests
The Angolan authorities should immediately end the use of unnecessary and disproportionate force against demonstrators. It should also ensure the protection of demonstrators and journalists covering anti-governmen…Continue Reading
Indigenous US activist Peltier wins rights prize
Leonard Peltier, an indigenous rights activist jailed in the United States for decades, has received the first Mario Benedetti Foundation international human rights prize, the group said Monday.Continue Reading
Rights chief urges probe of CIA detention centers
Europe’s human rights chief urged Lithuania, Poland and Romania on Monday to investigate the roles their governments allegedly played in the CIA’s program of “secret detention and torture” of terrorism suspects.Continue Reading
Women who defied al-Gaddafi regime not spared from brutal jails
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s researcher in Libya.
One of the grimmest features of the armed conflict in Libya has been the spate of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of thousands of suspected opponents of Colonel Mu’…Continue Reading
Nigeria’s forced evictions: All this was houses
By Amnesty campaigner Bridget Burrows,
“All this was houses”, Prince Peter says, pointing over the scar of Njemanze waterfront community. “My house was down there, under the mango tree, but now there is nothing, nothing left.”
Behind him wher…Continue Reading
Libya: Stop Arbitrary Arrests of Black Africans
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The de facto authorities in Tripoli, the National Transitional Council (NTC), should stop the arbitrary arrests and abuse of African migrant workers and black Libyans assumed to be merce…Continue Reading
Visual Journalism Grant to Honor Tim Hetherington
To honor the life and work of the late Tim Hetherington, Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo have established an annual visual journalism award focusing on human rights.
(New York) – T…Continue Reading