Rights group urges Sri Lanka to end detention laws
The Human Rights Watch lobby group on Wednesday urged Sri Lanka to scrap draconian detention laws and free thousands of people held under the regulations.Continue Reading
UK/Iraq: Abuse Report an Opportunity for Reform
The findings on September 8, 2011, of the inquiry into the death of an Iraqi detained by British soldiers in 2003 provide an opportunity for the United Kingdom government to reform its military detention and justi…Continue Reading
Syria: Security Forces Remove Wounded From Hospital
Syrian security forces forcibly removed 18 wounded people from al-Barr hospital in the central city of Homs on September 7, 2011, including five from the operating room. Security forces also prevented medical pers…Continue Reading
Jordan rights group: no proof of rape at factory
A Jordanian human rights group found no clear evidence to support allegations of rape made by several female workers at one of the country’s largest garment-makers exporting to the United States, according to an investigative report obtained by The Ass…Continue Reading
Bengal establishes human rights courts
Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) To ensure fast disposal of rights violation cases, the West Bengal government has set up human rights courts in all the state’s 19 districts, a minister said Thursday, claiming the state was the first to do so.Continue Reading
Ten Years After September 11
(New York) – A decade’s perspective highlights the enormous damage that the attacks of September 11, 2001 did to the human rights cause. There was, first of all, the irreparable damage of lives lost that day – some 3,000 people from m…Continue Reading
Rights group: Sri Lanka still uses abusive laws
Despite removing draconian wartime laws, Sri Lanka’s government is using new “abusive” regulations to keep hundreds of people in jails without trial, an international human rights groups said.Continue Reading
Testimonios desde Bahréin: Un hospital sitiado
Testimonio de un profesional médico del Complejo Médico de Salmaniya de Manama.
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A la mañana siguiente de que se decretara la ley marcial en Bahréin, fui a trabajar temprano al Complejo Médico de Salmaniya y me encontré …Continue Reading
‘Crazy’ human rights laws allowing violent criminals to stay on in UK
London, Sept 8 (ANI): Many foreign killers, rapists and violent criminals in Britain were allowed to stay in the country last year because of its ‘crazy’ human rights laws, it has emerged.Continue Reading
Expert excluded from EU-China human rights forum
The European Union said Thursday that it deeply regrets China’s exclusion of a human rights expert from a forum held in Beijing this week and it has communicated its disappointment to the Chinese side.Continue Reading
Rights group urges Sri Lanka to end detention laws
An international human rights group has called on Sri Lanka’s government to abolish abusive detention laws and to free thousands of people being held under them.Continue Reading
Platon, Matthew Marks Gallery Sale Benefits Human Rights Watch
The Matthew Marks Gallery is sponsoring a limited-edition sale of 20 portraits of world leaders by Platon, staff photographer at The New Yorker and contributor of iconic covers to Time Magazine and other publicati…Continue Reading
Sri Lanka: ‘Bait and Switch’ on Emergency Law
Emergency regulations lifted in Sri Lanka do not affect existing and new laws that allow the government to detain people for long periods without trial.
(New York) – Emergency regulations l…Continue Reading
The decade since 9/11 has eroded – and confirmed – American values
In May 2005, Amnesty International in London called the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our times.” That heated rhetoric set off a firestorm of criticism not only from top government officials – President Bush called it an “absu…Continue Reading
Uzbekistan: US Shouldn’t Green-Light Aid
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The US Congress should reject an Obama administration proposal to drop restrictions on assistance to the Uzbek government that are linked to that government’s atrocious human rights re…Continue Reading