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3 Jun 2004, 7:12 am
New York-based Human Rights Watch has called on the US to create an independent investigation into which officials authorized the use of coercive tactics against detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guatanamo Bay. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 8:35 am by Elizabeth Lowman
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] on Thursday accused [press release] the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of backing "Yemeni forces that have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and abused dozens of people during security operations. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 10:27 am by Miracle Jones
In an open letter [text] released Thursday, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International [advocacy websites], along with five other advocacy groups, urged Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma [official website] to sign a bill that would increase women's access to safe and legal abortion. [read post]
30 Apr 2003, 9:53 am
UC Berkeley has posted an extensive report on the experiences of Human Rights Center Director Eric Stover as one of only two human-rights investigators in all of Iraq during the war.Undertaking a campaign that cried out for a legion of human rights workers, Stover and [Human Rights Watch monitor Hania] Mufti assessed the situation of displaced persons in Iraqi Kurdistan; investigated Kurdish [read post]
23 Feb 2008, 9:14 am
The U.S. delegation knows the world is watching for them to bring human rights back home. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 10:40 am by Brandon Gatto
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] on Monday urged [press release] the Indian government to prosecute Border Security Force (BSF) [official website] soldiers that it has long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the Bangladesh border. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 7:24 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] Alabama's controversial new immigration law [HB 56; JURIST news archive] is resulting in human rights violations [press release], Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. [read post]
A group of NGOs including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International Friday released a joint statement criticizing the Iraqi government’s decision to require applicants for reparations under the Yazidi Survivors Law to file a criminal complaint. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 10:04 am by David Hart QC
For more on the human rights basics, see our Introduction to Human Rights as well as our index of each of the rights contained in the European Court of Human Rights. [read post]
  Human rights organizations–including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch–wrote a joint letter to the President of FIFA Gianni Infantino to work with Qatari authorities, trade unions, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and other institutions to establish a comprehensive program to ensure all labor abuses to which FIFA contributed are remedied, and to set aside appropriate financial resources. [read post]
16 Feb 2015, 5:39 am by Jillian York
The Syrian government should immediately free the prominent Syrian human rights defenders Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Gharir, 71 human rights groups said today, on the third anniversary of their arrest. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 2:18 pm by Wessen Jazrawi
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your weekly smörgåsbord of human rights news. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 12:22 pm by Walter Olson
And coincidentally: today’s NYT reports that George Soros is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch, a group in the forefront of advancing novel human rights claims. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 12:22 pm by Walter Olson
And coincidentally: today’s NYT reports that George Soros is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch, a group in the forefront of advancing novel human rights claims. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 10:17 am by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday accused [press release] all parties to Somalia's ongoing armed conflict of engaging in rights violations and urged the parties to immediately end abuses against citizens. [read post]
21 Jun 2013, 5:19 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
We received the following press release from Human Rights Watch: Morocco/Western Sahara: Dubious Confessions, Tainted Trials No Fair Trials Until Courts Reject Statements Obtained by Torture, Abuse (Rabat, June 21, 2013) – Morocco's courts are convicting defendants based on confessions... [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 8:29 pm
It is a clear statement from the Court of Human Rights that indiscriminate surveillance will generally be incompatible with the right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights. [read post]