Uganda: Forced Labor, Disease Imperil Prisoners
Inmates in Ugandan prisons are subject to brutal compulsory labor, frequent violence, miserable overcrowding, and disease, Human Rights Watch said today in a report examining conditions in 16 prisons throughout th…Continue Reading
German top human rights official urges Iran to release detained opposition leaders
BERLIN – Germany’s top human rights official is urging Iran to release the country’s detained opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.Continue Reading
Transferencias de armas: A los Estados les encantan los secretos, pero nosotros queremos hechos
Por Alaphia Zoyab, encargada de comunicaciones online del Secretariado de Amnistía Internacional.
Todos los gobiernos dicen que quieren acabar con la circulación de armas ilegales, pero tras escuchar a muchos de ellos hoy en la ONU, parece evidente…Continue Reading
Hard Life in Ugandan Prisons
“Help us, we’ll die,” read a note from 10 prisoners at Muinaina Farm Prison in Uganda to Human Rights Watch. They were right to worry. There is hardly any medical care available at Muinaina, yet many of its …Continue Reading
Chinese official says country is drawing up plan to improve human rights record
BEIJING, China – China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
China says it is drawing up human rights plan
China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
Malaysia: Investigate Crackdown on Pro-Democracy March
(Bangkok) – The Malaysian government should launch a prompt, impartial, and transparent investigation into the use of excessive force and unwarranted arrests by the security forces during a march for electoral reform in Kuala Lumpur on July 9, 2011, Hu…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch to President Obama: ‘Prosecute Former President Bush’
COMMENTARY | According to the Daily Caller, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, is pressuring President Barack Obama to formally investigate and prosecute his predecessor, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney for human rights violations during their admi…Continue Reading
Kuwait: Release Jailed Internet Scribes
The Kuwaiti government should immediately release two Kuwaiti men detained over internet postings criticizing the rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
(Beirut) – The Kuwaiti government s…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch: Libyan rebels loot clinics, homes and shops in seized western towns
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan rebels fighting to oust Moammar Gadhafi have looted shops and clinics and torched the homes of suspected regime supporters in some of the towns they seized in the country’s western mountains, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.Continue Reading
UN rights commissioner begins Tunis visit
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived in Tunis Wednesday to plegde support for the country’s democratic transition and open a new UN human rights office.Continue Reading
Pakistan: Upsurge in Killings in Balochistan
(New York) – Pakistan’s government should immediately act to end the epidemic of killings of suspected Baloch militants and opposition activists by the military, intelligence agencies, and the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the southwestern province of…Continue Reading
Iraq: Revise Draft Law That Curbs Protests, Speech
Iraq should revise its draft law on freedom of expression and assembly to remove provisions that restrict those freedoms. The draft law would allow authorities to curtail rights to protect the "public interes…Continue Reading
China says it is drawing up human rights plan
China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
CHINA DRAFTING NEW HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION PLAN
BEIJING, July 13 (Bernama) — China is drafting a new human rights actionplan for the next four years, aimed at improving the country”s human rightsrecord, a senior official with the State Council Information office said.The National Human Rights Acti…Continue Reading