Letter to the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health
World Health Organisation
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Switzerland
Chairpersons President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
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UN urges probes into abuse of migrants in Mexico
The U.N.’s top human rights official urged Mexico on Friday to investigate possible abuses and complicity by officials in kidnappings and extortion involving 40 Central American migrants.Continue Reading
Afghanistan: Who Benefits from Taliban Revisionism?
Farooq Wardmak, the Afghan education minister and a key ally of President Hamid Karzai, claims that the Taliban leadership no longer opposes education for girls.read moreContinue Reading
Colombia: Letter to Vice-President Angelino Garzón
Dear Vice-President Garzón,
In anticipation of your upcoming visit to Washington, I am writing to bring to your attention pressing human rights issues facing Colombia. We look forward to discussing these issues and to building on the constructive dia…Continue Reading
Lawmakers press China’s Hu on North Korea, rights
Lawmakers pressed Chinese President Hu Jintao on North Korea and human rights on Thursday, while Vice President Joe Biden said the Chinese understand they must work on the currency dispute that is a major irritant between the world’s top two economies.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch Launches iPad App
(New York) – Human Rights Watch is launching a new application for Apple’s iPad on January 20, 2011, making it a pioneer among human rights groups in offering its reports, articles, videos, and photographs through an iPad app. Users can download the ap…Continue Reading
Letter to Croatian Prime Minister Ms. Kosor Regarding a Master Plan for Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Disabilities
Dear Prime Minister Kosor,
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US lawmakers raise human rights concerns with Hu
U.S. lawmakers say they complained about human rights abuses in China as they met Thursday with President Hu Jintao, a day after the communist leader conceded that his country needed to improve its rights record.Continue Reading
Hu is right: China needs a lot more to be done on human rights
By Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director
Many are parsing Hu Jintao’s comments for something new. The fact is, he has not taken a different stand on human rights than the Chinese government–or even he–has in…Continue Reading
Human rights raised at US-China dinner
A star-studded White House dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao was not without talk of human rights, with a prominent activist using the occasion to raise concerns, a fellow campaigner said Thursday.Continue Reading
Iraq: Use of Ambulances in Attacks a War Crime
According to media reports, Iraqi security forces came under attack by a suicide bomber when an ambulance packed with explosives blew up outside a police headquarters on January 19, 2011 in Diyala Province, north of Baghdad. This follows a similar inci…Continue Reading
U.N. sending human rights team to Tunisia
U.N. human rights officials will go to Tunisia next week to help investigate violence and advise the new coalition government on justice and reforms U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Chinese rights activists hope Obama won’t disappoint
The wife of missing Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng fought back tears Wednesday as she spoke of her children’s pain living without their father, who disappeared in April 2010.Continue Reading
Obama, Hu spar over human rights, hail econ ties
Chinese President Hu Jintao declared Wednesday that “a lot still needs to be done” to improve his country’s record on human rights, a rare concession that came after President Barack Obama asserted that such rights are “core views” among Americans.Continue Reading