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‘Hall of Shame’ Shows Reach of Homophobia
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 7:37 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – As people in more than 50 countries today mark the International Day against Homophobia, Human Rights Watch named to a “hall of shame” five public officials who have actively promoted prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ... More >>
Rwanda: Hundreds Illegally Detained in Warehouse
Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 7:22 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) — Hundreds of persons, many of them children, are being held in deplorable conditions in an unofficial detention center in the Gikondo neighborhood of the Rwandan capital Kigali, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper issued today. More >>
An Orwellian Aftermath to Slaughter - Uzbekistan
Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 7:19 pm | Human Rights Watch
Dadakhon Khasanov's crime was clear: he wrote a couple of songs referring to what happened on 13 May last year in Andijan, eastern Uzbekistan. On that day there was an armed uprising, followed by a demonstration involving thousands of unarmed people, ... More >>
Vietnam: Fledgling Democracy Movement Under Threat
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 7:49 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The Vietnamese government must end its harassment of members of a fledgling human rights and democracy movement, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
U.N.: New Council Must Champion Fight for Rights
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 7:40 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The 47 countries elected yesterday to the new Human Rights Council by the United Nations General Assembly represent a substantial improvement over the recent membership of the former Commission on Human Rights. More >>
Lebanon: Hariri Tribunal Can Restore Faith in Law
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 7:38 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The international tribunal being created to try those responsible for the Hariri assassination should also prosecute similar attacks in Lebanon since October 2004, if investigators determine there are links between the bombings, Human Rights ... More >>
Uzbekistan: Still No Justice for Andijan
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 7:35 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Moscow) – One year after Uzbek government troops gunned down hundreds of unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, no one has been held accountable for this crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community must do more to ensure ... More >>
Morocco: Convictions Show Limits on Press Freedom
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:38 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Brussels) – Politically motivated prosecutions of independent newsweeklies are rolling back press freedom in Morocco, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. Today the Casablanca appeals court confirmed a fine and one-year suspended ... More >>
Egypt: Award-Winning Blogger Among New Arrests
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:31 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Egyptian security officials arrested 11 more political reform activists, including an award-winning blogger, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. This brings to more than 100 the number of people detained over the past ... More >>
U.S.: Bush Should Close Guantanamo Now
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:26 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – President George W. Bush should shut the Guantanamo Bay detention facility now and not wait for a Supreme Court ruling, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Iran: Top Scholar Detained Without Charge
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:20 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – One of Iran’s most prominent scholars, Ramin Jahanbegloo, is being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where he is at risk of being tortured, Human Rights Watch said today. Iranian authorities must immediately release Jahanbegloo, who is ... More >>
North Korea: Policy Changes May Foster New Hunger
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 7:33 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Seoul) – Recent decisions by the North Korean government to suspend the operation of the World Food Programme, ban the private sale of grain, and fully reinstate the discredited Public Distribution System could lead to renewed hunger for North Korea’s ... More >>
India: End Communal Violence in Gujarat, Kashmir
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 7:30 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The possibility of a return to massive sectarian violence in Gujarat must be forestalled with prompt action by government authorities, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
U.S. Immigration Law Inhumane to Same-Sex Couples
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 6:30 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Washington, D.C.) – Thousands of U.S. citizens and their foreign same-sex partners face enormous hardships, separation and even exile because discriminatory U.S. immigration policies deprive these couples of the basic right to be together, Human Rights Watch ... More >>
India: Draconian Response to Naxalite Violence
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 6:27 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The adoption of a draconian law by the Chattisgarh state government to address the Naxalite armed movement and its appointment of a known human rights abuser as security advisor are likely to lead to serious abuses, Human Rights Watch ... More >>
Burma: U.N. Must Act to End Attacks on Karen
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 6:23 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The U.N. Security Council must urgently respond to Burmese army attacks on ethnic Karen civilians that have displaced more than 10,000 villagers since November, Human Rights Watch said today. Civilians seeking refuge in Thailand have been placed ... More >>
Palestinian Authority: Hamas Must Condemn Attacks
Friday, 21 April 2006, 7:43 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority put itself on the wrong side of the most fundamental principle of international humanitarian law when Hamas’s official spokesman defended Monday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Human Rights Watch ... More >>
Will Human Rights Council Have Better Membership?
Friday, 21 April 2006, 7:40 pm | Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch observed in April 2001 that countries with poor human rights records were seeking seats on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Commission) not to strengthen human rights but instead to protect themselves from criticism. ... More >>
East Timor: Torture and Mistreatment by Police
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 7:41 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Dili) – The East Timorese government needs to urgently address the problem of police torture and ill-treatment of detainees before it becomes widespread, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Independent and internal accountability ... More >>
China's silence boosts tyrants
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 7:37 pm | Human Rights Watch
NEW YORK U.S.-China summit meetings traditionally include discussion of Beijing's human rights practices. When President Hu Jintao of China visits the White House on Thursday, the Bush administration's own problematic record will make the conversation ... More >>
