(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 humanrights record, HumanRightsWatch said today. read more
An international humanrights 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".
HumanRightsWatch, which spends almost all of its time -- or so it seems -- on the mighty empire of Israel and its supposed "violations" of humanrights -- 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...
A non-governmental organisation, HumanRightsWatch, has accused the federal government of condoning humanrights 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 humanrights organisation in a statement yesterday stated that "Nigerian...
... officials that the government does not engage in, collude in or support the use of torture. The HumanRightsWatch 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 HumanRights...
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 humanrights and the rule of law....
LONDON - An international humanrights group is urging Britain to investigate its role in the torture of terrorism suspects in Pakistan. HumanRightsWatch says the government...
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, HumanRightsWatch said today.
HumanRightsWatch 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 [...]
'Cruel, illegal, immoral': HumanRightsWatch condemns UK's role in torture | Politics | The Guardian Blogged with the Flock Browser Robert Hooker supports these messages. Kind of.
In a release issued Tuesday, HumanRightsWatch 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...
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 HumanRightsWatch (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...
HumanRightsWatch 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