Governments should mark North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s death with a clear demand that the new leader choose a path of reforming the country’s abysmal human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. read moreContinue Reading

A majority of 28 mostly European countries have failed to comply with freedom of information requests about their involvement in secret CIA flights carrying suspected terrorists, two human rights groups said Monday.Continue Reading

By Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Amnesty International’s Greece and Cyprus campaigner
Hundreds of migrants awaiting deportation from Cyprus are being held for months in squalid conditions with limited access to legal and medical aid.
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The US government should transfer Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) command of aerial drone strikes to the armed forces and clarify its legal rationale for targeted killings, Human Right…Continue Reading

This Q&A focuses on legal and policy issues related to targeted killings, primarily attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles, known as drones, conducted by the US Armed Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency (CI…Continue Reading

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday decried Belarus’ record of human rights abuses since a crackdown on dissent a year ago, and warned that US relations with it will not improve without progress on that front.Continue Reading

Human Rights Watch is deeply saddened by the death of Vaclav Havel, the playwright, political dissident and former Czech president who died on December 18, 2011.

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New York, Dec 18 (IANS) A Sri Lankan government report disregards the ‘worst abuses’ by government forces towards the end of the war that killed the Tamil Tigers in 2009, Human Rights Watch has said.Continue Reading