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UNCHR Must Address the September 11 Attacks

Tuesday, 25 September 2001, 12:26 am | Human Rights Watch

The U.N. Commission Must Address the September 11 Attacks Condemn the Attacks; Safeguard Human Rights More >>

G-8 Leaders Must Address Jeopardized Democracy

Wednesday, 18 July 2001, 10:08 am | Human Rights Watch

(New York, July 17, 2001)-The decline of democratic freedoms in Russia should be a leading issue at the G-8 meeting this weekend in Genoa, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>

China: Second Foreign Scholar Detained

Tuesday, 3 April 2001, 8:02 am | Human Rights Watch

New York, March 31, 2001 China's detention of a respected U.S. sociologist sends a chilling message to foreign researchers and investors, Human Rights Watch said today. The international monitoring organization urged that Chinese authorities reveal ... More >>

Indonesia: Escape of Suspected NGO Killers

Tuesday, 3 April 2001, 7:58 am | Human Rights Watch

New York, March 28, 20001 Human Rights Watch expressed outrage over reports yesterday that four suspects in the killings of NGO workers in Aceh had escaped from detention in Medan, North Sumatra. The international monitoring group called for an immediate ... More >>

South Africa: Sexual Violence Rampant in Schools

Tuesday, 3 April 2001, 7:53 am | Human Rights Watch

Johannesburg, March 27, 2001 In schools across South Africa, thousands of girls of every race and economic group are encountering sexual violence and harassment that impede their access to education, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released ... More >>

Indonesia: President, establish rights tribunals

Tuesday, 27 March 2001, 9:21 pm | Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch today urged Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to issue a presidential decree establishing special human rights courts. On March 21, Indonesia's parliament formally approved special courts to prosecute the 1999 crimes in East ... More >>

U.N. Urged to Act on Chechnya

Friday, 16 March 2001, 9:26 am | Human Rights Watch

(Geneva, March 14, 2001) The Russian government has utterly failed to comply with the demands of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which must take action on the ongoing atrocities in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization ... More >>

U.S. Also Bears Responsibility, Landmines Crisis

Thursday, 8 March 2001, 7:07 am | Human Rights Watch

(Washington, March 5, 2001) At the outset of "Ban Landmines Week" in Washington, D.C., Human Rights Watch said that nearly eighty percent of the Pentagon's $25 million budget for humanitarian demining is used for travel costs and other logistical aspects ... More >>

Is Moscow using rape as weapon in Chechnya?

Tuesday, 27 February 2001, 2:24 pm | Human Rights Watch

On March 27, 2000, Kheda Kungaeva, an eighteen-year-old woman, was taken from her home in Chechnya, beaten, raped, and murdered. On February 28, 2001, the Rostov District Military Court will try Col. Yuri Budanov for Kungaeva's murder. It is the first ... More >>

E.U. Should Press Russia on Chechnya

Thursday, 15 February 2001, 3:19 pm | Human Rights Watch

(Brussels, February 13, 2001) Russian officials have done almost nothing to investigate atrocities in Chechnya and European officials should not let them off the hook, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>

U.N. Must Condemn Russia for Chechnya Abuses

Friday, 15 September 2000, 12:51 am | Human Rights Watch

(New York, September 14, 2000) The U.N. Commission on Human Rights must expose and condemn Russia's failure to investigate gross abuses of human rights in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>

Clinton Must Not Drop the Ball on Chechnya

Thursday, 7 September 2000, 9:37 am | Human Rights Watch

(New York, September 6, 2000) -- President Clinton must continue to press Russian President Vladimir V. Putin to hold accountable perpetrators of gross abuses in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said today. The U.S. president is slated to have a bilateral meeting ... More >>

Chechnya: War Through Children's Eyes

Thursday, 10 August 2000, 10:38 am | Human Rights Watch

War is hard on kids. In Chechnya, thousands of children huddled in freezing and dark basements for months, while Russian warplanes systematically reduced the capital Grozny to rubble. More >>

Russian Atrocities in Chechnya Detailed

Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 9:10 am | Human Rights Watch

(New York, June 2, 2000) -- As U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives in Moscow for a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Human Rights Watch has released a report detailing the massacre of at least sixty Chechen civilians in the Grozny ... More >>

Human Rights Watch Summary -Sierra Leone Violence

Tuesday, 9 May 2000, 11:16 am | Human Rights Watch

In the early hours of January 6, l999, rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) launched an offensive against the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, capturing it from government troops and the soldiers of the Nigerian-led peacekeeping force known ... More >>

Clinton Should Pressure Ivanov on Chechnya

Wednesday, 26 April 2000, 11:31 am | Human Rights Watch

(New York, April 25, 2000) -- Human Rights Watch today urged the Clinton Administration to keep up the pressure on Russia for a credible investigation into atrocities committed in Chechnya. More >>

U.N. Chechnya Vote Welcomed

Wednesday, 26 April 2000, 11:29 am | Human Rights Watch

U.N. Chechnya Vote Welcomed (Geneva, April 24, 2000) -- Human Rights Watch today welcomed the passage of a United Nations resolution expressing grave concern about Russia's conduct of the war in Chechnya. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, ... More >>