Cluster Bomb Ban: New Treaty Making Impressive Progress
(Bangkok) – The new treaty banning cluster bombs, which took effect just three months ago, has already made impressive strides in eradicating the weapon, Human Rights Watch said today. Seven countries have finished destroying their stockpiles of clus…Continue Reading
UN leader Ban meets with Chinese President Hu
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked China to play a greater role in solving African crises during a meeting Monday with the president, but did not discuss the country’s human rights record or the imprisonment of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.Continue Reading
Philippines: Army Should Hold Abusive Soldiers to Account
(New York) – The Philippine armed forces need to take effective measures to prevent unlawful killings and hold abusive soldiers to account, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, Gen. Ricardo A….Continue Reading
Uganda: Keep Election Campaign Free of Abuses
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Sudan arrests nine Darfur activists: civic leader
Sudan arrested nine Darfur activists including a prominent human rights lawyer, just weeks ahead of a southern referendum on secession, a civil society leader said on Monday.Continue Reading
Russian demonstrators vow to continue the fight for freedom of assembly
By Friederike Behr, Russia researcher for Amnesty International
After eighteen months of excuses, the Moscow authorities finally gave permission for a ‘31st Day’ demonstration on Sunday in support of the right to freedom of assembly.
The organiz…Continue Reading
Resource Page: Cancelling the UNESCO-Obiang Prize
The UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences is named after and financed by the brutal and corrupt dictator of the oil-rich West African country of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.read moreContinue Reading
Clinton urges human rights progress in Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring Khmer Rouge leaders are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
Clinton urges human rights progress in Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring Khmer Rouge leaders are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
Clinton urges rights progress in Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
Protesting as a Terrorist Offense
This report is based on a review of 50 cases. It describes 26 cases of individuals prosecuted for terrorism simply for taking part in protests deemed by the government to be sympathetic to the outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Hundreds o…Continue Reading
Turkey: Terrorism Laws Used to Jail Kurdish Protesters
(Istanbul) – Human Rights Watch unequivocally condemns the October 31, 2010 suicide bomb attack in Istanbul. It is essential that Turkey’s response targets the perpetrators, not legitimate dissenters, Human Rights Watch said.
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India Should Say No to Blood Diamonds
India’s new role as a global leader at the United Nations Security Council faces a critical test this week on the issue of "blood diamonds". The term refers to diamonds mined under conditions of gross human rights abuse, and was popularised b…Continue Reading
Kimberley Process: Demand End to Abuses in Diamond Trade
(Jerusalem) – The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme should not allow further exports from the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe until the government makes clear progress in ending abuses and smuggling, Human Rights Watch said today. Participants …Continue Reading
Clinton visits Cambodian genocide museum
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured Cambodia’s genocide museum on Monday during a visit to the capital in which she is expected to urge the country to respect human rights and fight corruption.Continue Reading