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Cambodia: UN Review Should Insist on Respect for Rights
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. Cambodia is...
Tags: UN, HRW, UPR, United Nations Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Council, force evictions, Alliance for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia, Cambodian
Uzbekistan: Freed Activist’s Condition Highlights Harsh Treatment
Uzbek political opposition leader Sanjar Umarov's release from prison earlier this month is a positive development, but Umarov's poor health and the fact that he was not acquitted of the politically motivated charges that led to his conviction...
Tags: HRW, Freed Activists, Human Rights Watch, motivated charges, Human rights in Uzbekistan
Indonesian timber corruption hits poor
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 6 hours ago
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Indonesia's forest industry is rife with corruption, a human rights group says, costing the country $2 billion a year with devastating effect on its rural poor. Half of all Indonesian timber harvested from 2003 through 2006 was logged illegally, with...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Indonesian, Indonesia, Jakarta, Environment, Political corruption, Deforestation by region, Illegal logging, Social Issues, Business Finance, Forestry, Deforestation
UK: Judicial Inquiry On Complicity In Torture
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 days ago
Credibility British intelligence and law enforcement colluded with and turned a blind eye to the use of torture on terrorism suspects in Pakistan,” said Ali Dayan Hasan, senior South Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “British officials knew that Pakistani intelligence...
Tags: Pakistani, Human Rights Watch, British, told human, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Ali Dayan Hasan, judicial inquiry, law enforcement, Amin, intelligence services, Pakistan, Karāchi, Human rights abuses, Military of Pakistan, Politics, Torture, War crimes, Violence, Rangzieb Ahmed, Law Crime, Torture in the United States, Inter-Services Intelligence
HRW: Nigeria must prosecute over deaths
Abuja :: Nigeria | 4 days ago
Credibility The Nigerian government has not prosecuted those responsible for 2008 clashes in the country that left more than 130 civilians dead, Human Rights Watch said. The non-governmental organization said in a news release Thursday that 133 unlawful killings...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Nigerian, Nigeria, Abuja, Jos, Economic Community of West African States, Mike Mbama Okiro, Politics, Umaru Yar'Adua, War Conflict
America steers clear of landmine ban
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The Obama administration says it has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines. The American military believes it could not meet its security commitments without them. The US State Department made the announcement despite agreeing to send a delegation...
Tags: American, Washington, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch, Politics, Non-governmental organizations, Mine action, Land mine, Ottawa Treaty, Explosive weapons, Anti-personnel mine
UK complicity in torture in Pakistan,
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 5 days ago
Credibility Eight years of global efforts to combat terrorism have taught us that the use of torture and ill-treatment is deeply counterproductive. It serves as a recruiting sergeant for terrorist organizations and undermines the moral legitimacy of governments who...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Pakistan, Karāchi, Human rights abuses, Morality, Politics, Violence, Torture, Inter-Services Intelligence, Rashid Rauf, Extraordinary rendition by the United States, Central Intelligence Agency, Crimes against humanity, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Philosophy of law, Law Crime
Kazakhstan: Rights Groups Disappointed by Progress Ahead of OSCE Chairmanship
Astana :: Kazakhstan | 5 days ago
Credibility When the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe finally decided to designate Kazakhstan as the chair of the group in 2010, the general hope in Vienna was that the responsibility would encourage Astana to liberalize its political system.
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Kazakhstan, Astana, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Open Society Institute, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Eurasian steppe, Eurasia, Foreign relations of Kazakhstan
Groups want Burundi to end ban on forum
Bujumbura :: Burundi | 5 days ago
Credibility A trio of groups, including Human Rights Watch, said Wednesday Burundi should end a ban on the Forum for the Strengthening of Civil Society. HRW Africa director Georgette Gagnon said. "Along with the threats against two highly respected activists, this...
Tags: Burundi, Bujumbura, Politics, Human rights abuses, Outline of Burundi, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Culture of Burundi, National Forces of Liberation, Gatumba, Impunity
Saudi authorities to behead accused witch
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 5 days ago
Credibility Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia should overturn a death sentence imposed on a Lebanese national convicted of practicing witchcraft during a visit to the conservative kingdom, an international human rights group said in a report late Tuesday. Human Rights...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, saudis arabia, death sentence, rights group, Riyadh, Witchcraft, Law Crime, Year of birth missing, Witch-hunt, Fawza Falih, Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch, Social Issues, Jeddah, Outline of Saudi Arabia, Anthropology, Politics, Western Asia, Red Sea, Legal history, Religion Belief, Anthropology of religion, Al-Khansa
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