عمليات نقل الأسلحة: الدول تحب السرية ولكننا نريد الحقائق
بقلم ألفيا كوياب، مسؤولة بقسم الاتصالات على الشبكة في منظمة العفو الدولية
جميع الحكومات تقول إنها ترغب في وقف تدفق الأسلحة غير المشروعة، …Continue Reading
Russia: Fully Investigate Estemirova’s Murder
The Russian authorities have made little attempt to effectively investigate possible involvement by local officials in the July 2009 murder of the prominent human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova.
CHINA’S HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIETY SENDS FIRST DELEGATION TO TAIWAN
BEIJING, July 14 (Bernama) — The China Society for Human Rights (CSHR) sentits first delegation to visit Taiwan from July 5 to 8 since it was establishedhere in 1993, at the invitation of Taiwan”s Chinese Association for Human Rights(CAHR). The CSHR …Continue Reading
“Even Dead Bodies Must Work”
Health, Hard Labor, and Abuse in Ugandan Prisons
This 80-page report documents routine physical abuse and the failure of the criminal justice system to protect the rights of prisoners. Prisoners …Continue Reading
Uganda: Forced Labor, Disease Imperil Prisoners
Inmates in Ugandan prisons are subject to brutal compulsory labor, frequent violence, miserable overcrowding, and disease, Human Rights Watch said today in a report examining conditions in 16 prisons throughout th…Continue Reading
German top human rights official urges Iran to release detained opposition leaders
BERLIN – Germany’s top human rights official is urging Iran to release the country’s detained opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.Continue Reading
Transferencias de armas: A los Estados les encantan los secretos, pero nosotros queremos hechos
Por Alaphia Zoyab, encargada de comunicaciones online del Secretariado de Amnistía Internacional.
Todos los gobiernos dicen que quieren acabar con la circulación de armas ilegales, pero tras escuchar a muchos de ellos hoy en la ONU, parece evidente…Continue Reading
Hard Life in Ugandan Prisons
“Help us, we’ll die,” read a note from 10 prisoners at Muinaina Farm Prison in Uganda to Human Rights Watch. They were right to worry. There is hardly any medical care available at Muinaina, yet many of its …Continue Reading
Chinese official says country is drawing up plan to improve human rights record
BEIJING, China – China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
China says it is drawing up human rights plan
China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
Malaysia: Investigate Crackdown on Pro-Democracy March
(Bangkok) – The Malaysian government should launch a prompt, impartial, and transparent investigation into the use of excessive force and unwarranted arrests by the security forces during a march for electoral reform in Kuala Lumpur on July 9, 2011, Hu…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch to President Obama: ‘Prosecute Former President Bush’
COMMENTARY | According to the Daily Caller, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, is pressuring President Barack Obama to formally investigate and prosecute his predecessor, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney for human rights violations during their admi…Continue Reading
Kuwait: Release Jailed Internet Scribes
The Kuwaiti government should immediately release two Kuwaiti men detained over internet postings criticizing the rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
(Beirut) – The Kuwaiti government s…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch: Libyan rebels loot clinics, homes and shops in seized western towns
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan rebels fighting to oust Moammar Gadhafi have looted shops and clinics and torched the homes of suspected regime supporters in some of the towns they seized in the country’s western mountains, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.Continue Reading
UN rights commissioner begins Tunis visit
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived in Tunis Wednesday to plegde support for the country’s democratic transition and open a new UN human rights office.Continue Reading