Iraq: Wikileaks Documents Describe Torture of Detainees
(New York) – The Iraqi government should investigate credible reports that its forces engaged in torture and systematic abuse of detainees, Human Rights Watch said today. Hundreds of documents released on October 22, 2010, by Wikileaks reveal beating…Continue Reading
Vietnam: Free Peaceful Bloggers and Government Critics
(New York) – Vietnam should immediately drop charges against the peaceful online critics Nguyen Van Hai, known as Dieu Cay, and Phan Thanh Hai, known as Anhbasg, and release them, Human Rights Watch said today.
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North Korea says U.N. rights talk is political plot
A North Korean envoy lashed out at the U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee on Friday, saying criticism of Pyongyang was a plot aimed at overthrowing the country’s government.Continue Reading
World Bank Feeding Repression in Ethiopia
The child in the man’s arms is painfully thin. The father is hungry too. He lives in southern Ethiopia, where food shortages are an annual occurrence. There are food distributions in his village but the man, let’s call him Joseph, is a member of the wr…Continue Reading
Lawlessness reigns in Ivory Coast’s ‘Wild West’
Banditry, violence, and rape are widespread in Ivory Coast’s western provinces even as the country gears for historic national elections, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.Continue Reading
Clashes in Guinea amid vote doubts
Amid increasing doubts Friday that the runoff vote in Guinea’s presidential election will be held this weekend, supporters of the two candidates clashed and the U.N.’s human rights office accused security forces of firing at unarmed protesters earlier …Continue Reading
Lawlessness reigns in Ivory Coast’s ‘Wild West’
Banditry, violence, and rape are widespread in Ivory Coast’s western provinces even as the country gears for historic national elections, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.Continue Reading
Lawlessness reigns in Ivory Coast’s ‘Wild West’
Banditry, violence, and rape are widespread in Ivory Coast’s western provinces even as the country gears for historic national elections, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.Continue Reading
UN: ‘human rights violations’ in Guinea protests
The U.N.’s human rights office said Friday that security forces in Guinea “committed serious human rights violations” during recent protests related to the upcoming election.Continue Reading
Côte d’Ivoire: Rampant Criminality, Sexual Violence in West
(Dakar) – Well-armed criminal gangs in western Côte d’Ivoire subject local residents to a relentless stream of abuses, including assault, robbery, and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.read moreContinue Reading
Afraid and Forgotten
This report documents the often brutal physical and sexual violence in the western administrative regions of Moyen Cavally and Dix-Huit Montagnes. The widespread criminality has been fueled by the disintegration of legal institutions, a failed disarmam…Continue Reading
US halts aid to some Pakistan military units
The Obama administration is withholding assistance to some Pakistani military units over concerns they may have been involved in human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and torture, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.Continue Reading
Kenya: Do Not Welcome Bashir Back
(New York) – The Kenyan government should make clear that the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, will be arrested if he returns to Kenya, African civil society organizations, and international organizations with a presence in Africa said in a letter t…Continue Reading
US halts aid to some Pakistan military units
The Obama administration is withholding assistance to some Pakistani military units over concerns they may have been involved in human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and torture, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.Continue Reading
AP source: US halts aid to Pakistan military units
The Obama administration is withholding assistance to some Pakistani military units over concerns they may have been involved in human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and torture, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.Continue Reading