Indonesia: Revoke Provincial Decrees to Ban a Faith
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia should void decrees recently adopted by two provinces that ban activities by the Ahmadiyah religious community, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch rep…Continue Reading
Egypt dissolves hated state security agency
Egypt’s interior minister on Tuesday dissolved the country’s widely hated state security agency, which was accused of torture and other human rights abuses in the suppression of dissent against ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule.Continue Reading
Côte d’Ivoire: Crimes Against Humanity by Gbagbo Forces
(Abidjan) – The three-month campaign of organized violence by security forces under the control of Laurent Gbagbo and militias that support him gives every indication of amounting to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today.read moreContinue Reading
Egypt dissolves hated state security agency
Egypt’s interior minister on Tuesday dissolved the country’s widely hated state security agency, which was accused of torture and other human rights abuses in the suppression of dissent against ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule.Continue Reading
UK ‘should renegotiate human rights convention’
A constitutional expert has said the UK should consider withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.Continue Reading
Nepal: No Justice for Gang-Rape Victim
Nepali authorities should immediately investigate and prosecute the September 2010 gang rape, physical assault, and forced displacement of 30-year-old Gauri Yadav in Siraha district, Human Rights Watch said today. To date, Nepali police have failed to …Continue Reading
Uzbekistan shuts down Human Rights Watch’s office amid mounting harassment of activists
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that it has been forced to close its office in Uzbekistan after facing years of harassment by the Central Asian nation’s authorities.Continue Reading
Indonesia urged to axe minister for discrimination
Human rights activists urged Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday to sack his religious affairs minister and to lift a ban on a minority Islamic group practising in public.Continue Reading
Rights body closes Uzbek office after government pressure
ALMATY (Reuters) – Uzbekistan has forced Human Rights Watch to shut down its local office, the group said on Tuesday, calling for tougher U.S. and European Union policies towards the authoritarian Central Asian state.Continue Reading
Rights body closes Uzbek office after government pressure
ALMATY (Reuters) – Uzbekistan has forced Human Rights Watch to shut down its local office, the group said on Tuesday, calling for tougher U.S. and European Union policies towards the authoritarian Central Asian state.Continue Reading
Rights body closes Uzbek office after government pressure
Uzbekistan has forced Human Rights Watch to shut down its local office the group said on Tuesday calling for tougher U.S. and European Union policies towards the authoritarian Central Asian state.Continue Reading
Malaysia broke human rights pledges, says watchdog report
KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — Malaysia failed to live up to the human rights standards it had committed to in 2006 in its pre-election pledge to the United Nations Human Rights Council (Council), a Commonwealth human rights watchdog said yesterday.Continue Reading
UN-appointed human rights official warns Abyei violence may derail Sudan talks
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Violence in a contested area of Sudan may derail the country’s peace efforts, a U.N.-appointed human rights expert warned Monday.Continue Reading
A Decade on, Progress on Same-Sex Marriages
(New York) – Ten countries on three continents have legalized same-sex marriage in the past decade, but discrimination persists, even in those countries, Human Rights Watch said today. The first same-sex marriages took place in the Netherlands on April…Continue Reading