Israel: Extend Settlement Freeze
(Jerusalem) – Israel should make permanent and total the partial "freeze" on construction in West Bank Jewish settlements, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Mix and Match at the Guantanamo Military Commissions
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Yes, War Does Have Rules
In Haifa earlier this month, an Israeli colonel identified as "Yossi A." said repeatedly that "in a war zone there are no civilians." The colonel, who drafted operating regulations for military bulldozers, was testifying in a civil …Continue Reading
Statement to the Human Rights Council on Spain
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Mexico: Letter to President Calderon
Dear Mr. President Calderon:
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Statement to the Universal Periodic Review General Debate on Equatorial Guinea
Human Rights Watch welcomes the Human Rights Council’s review of Equatorial Guinea in December 2009 and its March 2010 adoption of the UPR report. As one of several human rights defenders from Equatorial Guinea stated before this body in March, "W…Continue Reading
Statement to the Human Rights Council on Kuwait
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Statement to the Human Rights Council on Kyrgyzstan
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Statement to the Human Rights Council on Tibet
In a new report issued on July 2010, Human Rights Watch documented the widespread abuses committed by Chinese security forces in suppressing the Spring 2008 wave of Tibetan protests.
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Statement to the Human Rights Council on Sudan
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US/ASEAN: Three Years After Crackdown, No Justice in Burma
(New York) – US and Southeast Asian leaders meeting in New York this week should press the Burmese government to end an escalating campaign of repression, release political prisoners, and begin a dialogue with opposition groups ahead of Burma’s coming …Continue Reading
Friends of Yemen: Tie Aid to Human Rights
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Death penalty: the great experiment?
By Brian Evans, campaigner for Amnesty International USA’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign
In a recent report to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the US touted its human rights record and argued that:
“The American experiment is …Continue Reading
End of the MDGs summit: See you in 2013
By Savio Carvalho, Director – Demand Dignity and ESCR Programme, Amnesty International blogging from New York
In the next few hours, the world leaders will start leaving New York with good byes, hugs and some shopping. But their thoughts will a…Continue Reading
Congo’s Civilians Need Protection
"We fled home in 2004 and we haven’t been back," a 33-year-old woman I will call Solange told me. "We lived in Kiwanja: there was no assistance so we lived for two years in a church; then we lived for two years in a camp." After sol…Continue Reading