Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Geneva) - United Nations member states should express concerns about the dramatic deterioration of freedom of expression, assembly, and association in Cambodia at today's review of the nation's human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
An international human rights group has hailed the request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to the court's judges to open a Kenya investigation as "decisive".
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Human Rights Watch, which spends almost all of its time -- or so it seems -- on the mighty empire of Israel and its supposed "violations" of human rights -- has been stung, has even suffered, in recent months, as more and more comes out about its personnel. There is Sarah Leah Whitson, who went off to raise money from Saudis in Saudi Arabia, and her selling...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Watch, has accused the federal government of condoning human rights abuses over its failure to charge anyone for the alleged killing of over 130 civilians by security forces during last year's sectarian violence in Jos.The global human rights organisation in a statement yesterday stated that "Nigerian...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... officials that the government does not engage in, collude in or support the use of torture. The Human Rights Watch investigation now casts such doubt on this assurance that I am calling for an independent public inquiry into the role of UK intelligence agencies in the use of torture. John McDonnell MP Lab, Hayes & Harlington • Tom Porteous of Human Rights...
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Jarrod Rudd Nov. 27, 2009 8:50am In 2007 Rwanda applied to be a part of the Commonwealth. They were previously a Belgium colony and only recently switched from being French to English-speaking. Now a lot of people don’t know how to feel about the prospect of them joining. They say that the move will damage the union’s reputation for upholding human rights and the rule of law....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent, on Human Rights Watch report claiming British complicity in Pakistani torture Afua Hirsch
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
LONDON - An international human rights group is urging Britain to investigate its role in the torture of terrorism suspects in Pakistan. Human Rights Watch says the government...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Nigerian government has not brought a single prosecution or even begun investigations a year after Nigerian policemen and soldiers killed more than 130 civilians in responding to deadly sectarian clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Human Rights Watch said today.
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Human Rights Watch has criticised preparations for Sunday's poll in Equatorial Guinea, saying there was "serious doubt" about its credibility.
Andy Worthington (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Human Rights Watch has just issued a new report, “Cruel Britannia,” investigating British complicity in the torture of terror suspects in Pakistan, and calling for an independent inquiry into the British government’s behavior in Pakistan. The report could not come at a worse time for the British government, as it struggles to contain other evidence [...]
chaosMonster (The Mind of Bob 2.0) (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
'Cruel, illegal, immoral': Human Rights Watch condemns UK's role in torture | Politics | The Guardian Blogged with the Flock Browser Robert Hooker supports these messages. Kind of.
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
In a release issued Tuesday, Human Rights Watch called on a Saudi Arabian appellate court to overturn the death sentence imposed on a Lebanese man charged with witchcraft. According to AP , Ali Sabat was arrested by Saudi religious police who spotted him at his hotel in Medina last year while he was on the omra pilgrimage. In Lebanon, many psychics, fortune tellers and astrologers...
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The real abuse taking place in Cuba is the crippling and inhumane American blockade Rob Miller The Guardian Thursday November 26, 2009 Your article on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Cuba gives little context of the complexity of US-Cuba relations (Hopes of new dawn dashed as Fidel Castro's brother cracks down on dissent, 19 November). You report that president Raúl...
Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Human Rights Watch urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to raise the plight of Syria's Kurdish minority in talks with Damascus. Pressure on Syria to reform its political system and grant rights to its Kurdish population has been easing since Western powers resumed ties with
