Steve Goose Delivers Statement on Cluster Munition Stockpiles and their Destruction
Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch, delivered a statement on cluster munition stockpiles and their destruction at the Intersessional Standing Committee meetings of the Convention on Cluster …Continue Reading
Libya: Warrants Send Strong Message to Abusive Leaders
The International Criminal Court (ICC), by issuing an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi, signaled that the law can reach even those long thought to be immune to accountability. The ICC judges granted warrants on …Continue Reading
Libya: Warrants Send Strong Message to Abusive Leaders
The International Criminal Court (ICC), by issuing an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi, signaled that the law can reach even those long thought to be immune to accountability. The ICC judges granted warrants on …Continue Reading
China Deals ‘Must Not Cost Human Rights’
Economic growth and prosperity have lifted millions of people out of poverty since China reformed its economy four decades ago.Continue Reading
Suspect dies in custody in Palestinian jail
A Palestinian human rights group is demanding an inquiry into the death of a Gaza man in Hamas police custody.Continue Reading
Observations and Recommendations on the International Criminal Court and the African Union
I. Introduction
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Trade trumps human rights as Chinese premier visits
Whitehall officials are firmly focused on improving Britain’s trade links with China as Wen Jiabao visits London – to the frustration of human rights campaigners.Continue Reading
China’s Wen visits Britain amid release of rights activist
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao toured Britain on Sunday and sought to strengthen trade links, as Bejing freed dissident activist Hu Jia in a move seen as defusing tensions over human rights.Continue Reading
China’s Wen visits Britain amid release of activist
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao toured Britain on Sunday and sought to strengthen trade links, as Bejing freed dissident activist Hu Jia in a move seen as defusing tensions over human rights.Continue Reading
China releases human rights activist Hu Jia
One of China’s most prominent prisoners of conscience, Hu Jia, returned home Sunday after completing a jail term for subversion but looked likely to be muzzled along with other top dissidents.Continue Reading
U.N. says sending human rights team to Yemen
GENEVA (Reuters) – A team of United Nations human rights investigators will travel to Yemen next week to assess the situation after months of unrest, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.Continue Reading
U.N. says sending human rights team to Yemen
GENEVA (Reuters) – A team of United Nations human rights investigators will travel to Yemen next week to assess the situation after months of unrest, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.Continue Reading
Gay Marriage: The Issue Is Respect
Earlier this year, a student in a human rights seminar I was teaching declared her conviction that gay parents damage their children by virtue of being gay. I explained as gently as I could why this is a discrimin…Continue Reading
Gay Marriage: The Issue Is Respect
Earlier this year, a student in a human rights seminar I was teaching declared her conviction that gay parents damage their children by virtue of being gay. I explained as gently as I could why this is a discrimin…Continue Reading