ASEAN: Reject Burma as Regional Group’s Chair
(New York) – Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should reject Burma’s request to chair the regional grouping in 2014 until the Burmese government takes genuine steps towards improving human rights, including the release of mo…Continue Reading
US says to raise rights in China talks
The United States said Thursday that it would raise human rights concerns with China during high-level talks next week despite Beijing’s warnings against foreign comments on its wave of detentions.Continue Reading
Australia: Joint letter regarding Australia’s statements on immigration during the UPR
Letter on behalf of Human Rights Law Centre, Refugee Council of Australia, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Human Rights Watch, University of New South Wales Migrant and Refugee Rights Project, and Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre to UN missions that…Continue Reading
Gotovina Ruling Reaction Shows Croatia Has Yet to Come to Terms with the Past
Negative reactions to rulings from the Hague are par for the course in the Balkans. But the strong response in Croatia to the Gotovina ruling suggests a country struggling to come to terms with its past.
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Americans Value Moms, But Policies Don’t
American moms will be getting generous gifts on Mother’s Day: the National Retail Federation estimates that in 2011 the average American will spend $141 on Mother’s Day gifts, with total spending of about $16.3 billion.
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Bahrain’s Medics are the Targets of Retribution
At about 11pm on 2 May, Bahrain’s criminal investigations directorate summoned Dr Nedhal al-Khalifa, a 42-year-old dermatologist. Her father dropped her off at their headquarters at the ministry of interior at about midnight. Her family, including her …Continue Reading
China frees rights lawyer but another disappears
Chinese human rights lawyer Li Fangping said Thursday he was home after disappearing for five days, but the wife of another attorney said her husband had vanished amid a tough crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading
China frees rights lawyer but another disappears
Chinese human rights lawyer Li Fangping said Thursday he was home after disappearing for five days, but the wife of another attorney said her husband had vanished amid a tough crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading
Killing of Osama bin Laden
Some media reports have erroneously suggested that Human Rights Watch has condemned the killing of Osama bin Laden. Human Rights Watch has said that we do not have enough information about the killing to draw …Continue Reading
Killing of Osama bin Laden
Some media reports have erroneously suggested that Human Rights Watch has condemned the killing of Osama bin Laden. Human Rights Watch has said that we do not have enough information about the killing to draw …Continue Reading
Azerbaijan: Government Stifling Critics
(New York) – Azerbaijani courts sentenced an opposition social media activist to two-and-a-half years in prison on bogus drug possession charges on May 4, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. In addition, a court ordered the detention of a human rights…Continue Reading
Bahrain: Arbitrary Arrests Escalate
Security forces arrested two former members of parliament from Bahrain’s largest opposition group. The arrests were the first targeting elected representatives of the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which won t…Continue Reading
Bahrain: Arbitrary Arrests Escalate
Security forces arrested two former members of parliament from Bahrain’s largest opposition group. The arrests were the first targeting elected representatives of the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which won t…Continue Reading
Activists claim 3 Belarusian human rights defenders arrested in raid
MINSK, Belarus – Human rights defenders in Belarus say police burst into an apartment where activists were preparing to present a report and arrested three people.Continue Reading
Groups fear Khmer Rouge tribunal may halt trials
Legal and human rights groups say they fear Cambodia’s U.N.- backed genocide tribunal will shut its doors prematurely without prosecuting former second-tier Khmer Rouge officials accused of atrocities.Continue Reading