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US: Support Liberian Pres, Seek Taylor's Surrender
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 8:48 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Washington, D.C.) – When Liberia’s newly elected president visits Washington today, the U.S. government should give her strong support in seeking Charles Taylor’s surrender to face trial at the Sierra Leone war crimes court, Human Rights Watch said today. ... More >>
Syria: Rights Activist Arrested Upon Return Home
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 8:43 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) — The Syrian government should immediately release from detention a spokesman for the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria, Dr Ammar Qurabi, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
New Council Opposed by Unusual Duo: U.S. and Cuba
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 8:42 pm | Human Rights Watch
By Richard Dicker New York - Slobodan Milosevic conducted his legal defense much as he did his political life: with bombast, bullying and belligerence. Observing Milosevic for weeks and weeks in The Hague in the first half of his four-year trial, ... More >>
New Council Opposed by Unusual Duo: U.S. and Cuba
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 8:40 pm | Human Rights Watch
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton was not the first to oppose a draft resolution establishing a new U.N. Human Rights Council—Cuba beat him to it. More >>
Brazil: Caveirão -- Rio’s real “bogeyman”
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 8:36 pm | Human Rights Watch
11-year-old Carlos Henrique was on his way home when police stormed the Vila do João favela in July 2005. According to eyewitnesses, he was shot in the head by a bullet fired from a military-style vehicle, popularly known as the caveirão. Between May ... More >>
Thailand: Govt Covers Up Role in ‘Disappearance'
Monday, 13 March 2006, 7:15 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Two years later and despite repeated pledges, Thai authorities have failed to bring to justice the police officials responsible for the enforced disappearance and presumed murder of a prominent Muslim human rights lawyer, Human Rights Watch ... More >>
Milosevic Escapes Judgment, Not Justice Process
Monday, 13 March 2006, 7:12 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, has died before a verdict could be rendered on his alleged crimes, but overall his trial at the war crimes court in The Hague represents an advance in the cause of international justice, ... More >>
China: House Arrests Stifle HIV/AIDS Petitions
Monday, 13 March 2006, 7:08 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – By imposing house arrest on potential petitioners to the National People’s Congress, the Chinese authorities are preventing people living with HIV/AIDS from seeking redress for a government blood sales scheme that left hundreds of thousands ... More >>
China: NPC Should Censure Govt on Human Rights
Friday, 10 March 2006, 7:27 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Hong Kong) – Delegates to China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) should exercise their constitutional authority to censure the government over the serious and widespread human rights violations perpetrated by officials across the country, Human Rights ... More >>
Iran: Police Attack Women’s Day Celebration
Friday, 10 March 2006, 7:24 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch said ... More >>
Southern Sudan: Khartoum Reneges on Promises
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 8:20 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – More than a year after the Sudanese government and southern-based rebels signed the peace agreement that ended their 21-year war, Sudan’s ruling party has failed to undertake promised reforms that would help end human rights abuses throughout ... More >>
Pakistan: Protect Civilians From Fighting in North
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 8:26 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Pakistan’s government and Taliban militants must ensure that civilians are not deliberately targeted and that necessary precautions are taken to avoid civilian casualties in fighting in Pakistan’s volatile tribal areas on the Afghan border, ... More >>
Netherlands: Threat to Gay & Lesbian Iranians
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 8:20 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Brussels) – Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk’s threat to end a six-month moratorium on deporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) asylum-seekers back to Iran rests on serious misunderstandings of Iranian law, Human Rights Watch ... More >>
Mexico: Rape Victims Denied Legal Abortion
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 8:17 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Mexico City) Mexican officials actively prevent rape victims from gaining access to legal and safe abortion, and they fail to punish rape and sexual violence inside and outside the family, said Human Rights Watch in a report released today. More >>
Uzbekistan: HR Defender Sentenced “Puppet Theater"
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 8:13 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Tashkent) – The criminal process that led to the conviction of Uzbek human rights defender Mukhtabar Tojibaeva violated international fair trial standards, and the conviction should ultimately be set aside, Human Rights Watch said today. Tojibaeva, ... More >>
Uganda: Election Irregularities, Judicial Probe
Friday, 3 March 2006, 4:36 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Kampala) — Reports of ballot stuffing, multiple voting, and potentially hundreds of thousands of people denied the right to vote in the Ugandan elections require urgent investigation, Human Rights Watch said today. Uganda’s Electoral Commission ... More >>
Libya: Hopeful Sign as Political Prisoners Freed
Friday, 3 March 2006, 4:33 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The Libyan government’s pardoning today of 132 political prisoners is a hopeful sign of reform, Human Rights Watch said. Most of them had spent more than seven years in detention, imprisoned for nonviolent activities after unfair trials. More >>
Nigeria: Obasanjo Must Act Now on Taylor
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 3:52 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Lagos) – When Liberia’s newly elected president visits Abuja on Friday, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo should announce that Nigeria will promptly surrender Charles Taylor to face trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Campaign ... More >>
Afghanistan: Death Sentence of Intel Chief Flawed
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 3:45 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The trial of Assadullah Sarwari, who was sentenced to death on Sunday for his role in heading Afghanistan’s brutal intelligence agency during the Communist government of the late 1970s, violated basic fair trial and due process standards, ... More >>
China: Religious Rights Still Restricted
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 2:47 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – One year after China’s Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force, Chinese citizens’ ability to exercise their right to freedom of religion remains as subject to arbitrary restrictions as ever, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
