US demands Iran stop adultery execution
The White House on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the reportedly imminent execution of a mother-of-two for adultery, saying the case showed the regime’s “fundamental disregard for human rights.”Continue Reading
Ethiopia: Submission to the UN Committee against Torture
Introduction
This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s concerns and recommendations regarding serious patterns of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in Ethiopia. Human Rights Watch’s reports are based on exten…Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia: Free Debtors From Prison
(New York) – Saudi authorities should release insolvent debtors from jail, including Tariq Yunis al-Mashharawi, who has been held in Buraiman Prison in Jeddah for close to four years, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Abortion policy to be reviewed in N.B.
The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold an investigation into the province’s controversial abortion policy.Continue Reading
Prisoners To Get Vote After Legal Wrangle
Prisoners are to get the right to vote after ministers conceded defeat in a long-running legal battle with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Continue Reading
Sudan: End Continuing Repression of Darfur Activists
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UN chief criticized for failing to press China
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection of dissidents.Continue Reading
UN chief criticized for failing to press China
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection of dissidents.Continue Reading
Cluster Bomb Ban: New Treaty Making Impressive Progress
(Bangkok) – The new treaty banning cluster bombs, which took effect just three months ago, has already made impressive strides in eradicating the weapon, Human Rights Watch said today. Seven countries have finished destroying their stockpiles of clus…Continue Reading
UN leader Ban meets with Chinese President Hu
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked China to play a greater role in solving African crises during a meeting Monday with the president, but did not discuss the country’s human rights record or the imprisonment of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.Continue Reading
Philippines: Army Should Hold Abusive Soldiers to Account
(New York) – The Philippine armed forces need to take effective measures to prevent unlawful killings and hold abusive soldiers to account, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, Gen. Ricardo A….Continue Reading
Uganda: Keep Election Campaign Free of Abuses
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Sudan arrests nine Darfur activists: civic leader
Sudan arrested nine Darfur activists including a prominent human rights lawyer, just weeks ahead of a southern referendum on secession, a civil society leader said on Monday.Continue Reading
Russian demonstrators vow to continue the fight for freedom of assembly
By Friederike Behr, Russia researcher for Amnesty International
After eighteen months of excuses, the Moscow authorities finally gave permission for a ‘31st Day’ demonstration on Sunday in support of the right to freedom of assembly.
The organiz…Continue Reading
Resource Page: Cancelling the UNESCO-Obiang Prize
The UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences is named after and financed by the brutal and corrupt dictator of the oil-rich West African country of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.read moreContinue Reading