Sri Lanka: Joint Letter to the LLRC Outlining the Decision not to Testify before Flawed Commission
Sri Lanka: Groups Decline to Testify Before Flawed Commission
(New York) – Three leading international organizations will not accept an invitation to testify before a Sri Lankan government commission because it lacks the ability to advance accountability for war crimes, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisi…Continue Reading
Kyrgyzstan: Attacks During Trials Undermine Justice
(Osh) – A series of attacks – three this week alone – against people associated with the defense in trials related to the June violence in southern Kyrgyzstan are depriving the accused of their right to a fair trial and undermining justice for victims,…Continue Reading
Turkmenistan: Activist at Serious Risk of Harm
(London) – The following statement was issued today by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch about a credible report of a potentially life-threatening plot against Farid Tukhbatullin, who leads a Vienna-based nongovernmental organization from ex…Continue Reading
Raising Awareness on Chinese Human Rights Issues
New book delves into the problems of implementing Chinese human rights obligations.Continue Reading
U.N. must help arrest wanted Congo general: group
A human rights group urged the United Nations on Wednesday to help immediately arrest indicted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, who last week told Reuters he was a senior commander in U.N.-backed military operations in Congo.Continue Reading
DR Congo: ICC-Indicted War Criminal Implicated in Assassinations of Opponents
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HRW calls on DRCongo to arrest former rebel
US-based campaigners Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on the Kinshasa government to arrest one its own generals, a former rebel wanted by the International Criminal Court.Continue Reading
Human Rights Leaders Protest Abduction of Women in Japan at New York Consulate
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Several human rights leaders and Christian pastors, stoked by a recent documentary on Japanese human rights abuses that aired on Korean television station SBS on October 6, held a press briefing today outsid…Continue Reading
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences and International Support for Drug Enforcement
The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the dangers associated with funding drug control activities in countries with capital drug laws.
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US: Maintain Principled and Consistent Approach to Serbia’s Cooperation with ICTY
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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Dear Secretary Clinton,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences and International Support for Drug Enforcement
The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the dangers associated with funding drug control activities in countries with capital drug laws.
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A Plan B for President Obama: Get Tough on Human Rights
In the 1990s, the United States, though hardly perfect, did more than any other country to promote the responsibility to protect people facing mass atrocities. In Bosnia and Kosovo, though tragically not Rwanda, leaders learned that the slaughter of th…Continue Reading
Liu Xiaobo and the West’s naive beliefs about freedom in China
I heartily applaud the Nobel Committee for awarding its Peace Prize to the imprisoned Liu Xiaobo for his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. In doing so, the committee has challenged the West to re-examine a dangerous no…Continue Reading
UN affirms the right to water and sanitation as legally binding
By Ashfaq Khalfan, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Policy Coordinator, Demand Dignity and ESCR Programme
On 30 September, the UN Human Rights Council affirmed for the first time that the human right to water and sanitation is legally binding.
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