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The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, is the latest to voice ''great concern'' at his deteriorating condition. She reiterated ''the EU's long-standing concern about the extensive use by Israel of detention without formal charge''.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, is the latest to voice her ''great concern'' at his deteriorating condition. She reiterated ''the EU's long-standing concern about the extensive use by Israel of detention without formal...
Christoph Wilcke, author of a Human Rights Watch report titled, ��Steps of the Devil�: Denial of Women and Girls� Right to Sport in Saudi Arabia,� speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Human Rights Watch is calling on... View Photo »
Human Rights Watch has wrongly alleged the villagisation program to be unpopular and problematic
One wonders when the Communists will wake up to the reality that some of such policies and practices just do not work in winning over the heart and mind of anyone on the receiving end. On the other hand, what we hear from the Tibetan...
These prosecutions contradict statements by Moroccan officials that authorities arrested no one for advocating a boycott. One of several such trials resumes on February 22, 2012, before the Marrakesh First Degree Court. Charged with distributing fliers...
Bands of former rebels are holding some 8,000 detainees in about 60 detention centers, most of which are operated with little or no government oversight, according to Human Rights Watch. Most courts aren't working, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
Sarah Kureshi, an American Muslim athlete who has competed at the Islamic Women Games, speaks at a news conference held by Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. The group is calling on the International Olympic Committee to... View Photo »
The policies of the current government of Israel are being criticized by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross, and the World Court. It's absurd to say they're anti-Semitic.
Within days of the strike, journalists on the ground were collecting accounts from local Afghans that the dead men were civilians gathering scrap metal. The Pentagon media pool began asking questions, and so the long decade of the drone began. John...
Leyzaola Perez was later kicked upstairs to a position in Baja California state government before his hiring as Juarez police chief. Leyzaola Perez also had garnered special attention from human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch for his...
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Sarah Kureshi, an American Muslim athlete who has competed at the Islamic Women Games, speaks at a news conference held by Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. The group is calling on the International Olympic Committee to require that Saudi Arabia's...
View Photo »The hand if an investigator is seen at a crime scene where a corpse of a policeman was found in the touristic port city of Acapulco, on January 26, 2012. The fight against drug trafficking in Mexico has caused a 'dramatic increase' in murder, torture and abuses by security forces,...
View Photo »Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch attends the Associated Press debate on 'Democracy' at the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Western-style democracy is still a valid model for the world, as long as it draws in all segments of society and...
View Photo »MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 05: Tawakkul Karman, Nobel peace laureate 2011 (L) speaks to Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch during day 3 of the 48th Munich Security Conference at Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 5, 2012 in Munich, Germany. The 48th Munich conference...
View Photo »Anna Sevortian, head of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch, holds a copy of her organisation's annual report during a news conference in Moscow January 23, 2012. The international non-governmental organisation presented its annual overview of the worldwide state of human rights on...
View Photo »Carroll Bogert, Human Rights Watch(HRW) deputy executive director for external relations speaks to the media during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Human Rights Watch on Monday said Russia is continuing the mistakes of Western governments during the Arab...
View Photo »Carroll Bogert, Deputy General Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during a news conference in Moscow January 23, 2012. The international non-governmental organisation presented its annual overview of the worldwide state of human rights on Sunday.
View Photo »Carroll Bogert, Deputy General Director of Human Rights Watch, holds a copy of her organisation's annual report during a news conference in Moscow January 23, 2012. The international non-governmental organisation presented its annual overview of the worldwide state of human rights on...
View Photo »Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth speaks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world exposed biases by Western governments that supported Arab autocratic rulers for the sake of "stability" while turning a...
View Photo »Samer Muscati, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, speaks to Reuters about the conviction of five political activists outside the federal supreme court in Abu Dhabi November 27, 2011. The activists were convicted on Sunday of insulting the leaders of the United Arab Emirates by...
View Photo »Yemeni street vendor child, Abdu al-Rahman Ali, 8, displays used clothes for sale in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Yemen's president, who is in New York protected by diplomatic immunity while he receives medical treatment, ordered a crackdown on Arab Spring...
View Photo »Human Rights Watch's China director Sophie Richardson speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong Thursday Nov. 10, 2011. A human rights group says it's worried that debt-ridden European countries pondering the idea of bailout money from China may be tempted to dial back the pressure...
View Photo »Michael Oreskes, Vice-President of The Associated Press, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Rachid Ghannouchi, Co-Founder Ennahda Movement, Tunisia, David T. Dreier, Republican Congressman from California and Kenneth Roth,...
View Photo »Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to people protesting his presence in the United States as he exits his hotel in New York, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. Saleh arrived in the United States on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, for treatment of burns he suffered during an assassination attempt in...
View Photo »FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2012 file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to people protesting his presence in the United States as he exits a hotel in New York. Saleh is in the U.S. protected by diplomatic immunity while he receives treatment of burns he suffered during an...
View Photo »Jordan's Human Rights Watch researcher Christoph Wilcke holds a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. Jordan has some of the region's most robust laws on paper to protect migrant domestic workers, but human rights groups said Tuesday its failure to enforce them...
View Photo »Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), addresses a conference in Tripoli on December 12, 2009, attended by journalists, Western diplomats and families of the victims of a 1996 massacre by Libyan security forces of at least 1,200 prisoners. The New...
View Photo »This image provided by Human Rights Watch on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 shows part of a secret document dated June 19, 2003 discovered by Human Rights Watch in Tripoli, Libya, detailing a meeting regarding a CIA visit to Libya's WMD programs. The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies...
View Photo »This image provided by Human Rights Watch on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, shows a secret document dated April 15, 2004 discovered by Human Rights Watch in Tripoli, Libya, detailing a request for Libya to take custody of a terrorist suspect known as "Shaykh Musa." The CIA and other Western...
View Photo »In this citizen journalism image provide by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released on Thursday Feb. 2, 2012, Syrian rebels rais up their weapons as they attend a funeral procession of their comrade who his dead body, front, is seen wrapped by the Syrian revolution...
View Photo »In this citizen journalism image provide by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2012, a Syrian rebel stands next to a destroyed government forces tank as they replace on it Syrian revolution flags, in Homs, central Syria. Syrian forces have...
View Photo »Eric Guttschuss, Human Rights Watch researcher, speaks during a press conference in Lagos, Nigeria Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Nigeria's anti-corruption agency is unable to challenge the corrupt politicians who cling to power in the oil-rich nation, according to a Human Rights Watch...
View Photo »Rasha Moumneh, researcher for the Middle East and North Africa Human Rights Watch (HRW), speaks during a press conference in Kuwait City on January 15, 2012, where HRW accused Kuwaiti police of torturing and sexually abusing transgender women and called on the Gulf state to hold officers...
View Photo »Elaine Pearson (R), deputy Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) talks during a press conference in Manila on July 19, 2011. While the new government has improved its 'rhetoric' on human rights and is more receptive to change, military men still targettig anto...
View Photo »Yemeni protestors march during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived at an unspecified location in the United States, according to the country's foreign press office.
View Photo »Sarah Kureshi, an American Muslim athlete who has competed at the Islamic Women Games, speaks at a news conference held by Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. The group is calling on the International Olympic Committee to require that Saudi Arabia's...
View Photo »Human Rights Watch has wrongly alleged the villagisation program to be unpopular and problematic
The policies of the current government of Israel are being criticized by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross, and the World Court. It's absurd to say they're anti-Semitic.
Human Rights Watch investigated the events of 2003 and 2004 in Gambella and we called for an investigation of that at the time, so if he is now talking about his role, I would hope that that might provide an opportunity to investigate what happened back then and to hold some of those people to account
In several cases, Human Rights Watch found that police officers took advantage of the law to blackmail transgender women into sex
Human Rights Watch and others report of torture, detention of activists, you squelched the democratic uprising in Bahrain, you tried to overturn the democratic uprising in Egypt, and indeed you continue to oppress your own people. What legitimacy does your regime have — other than billions of dollars an...
It seems like there is something of a double standard because a lot of organizations like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, etc. will say, ‘Oh yeah, coercion in abortion is a bad thing,’ but then they really won’t focus on it. Instead, they will bring up other issues, which may be valid, but ...
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Human Rights Watch found evidence that strongly suggests the participation of security forces in more than 170 cases of torture, 39 ‘disappearances’ and 24 extrajudicial killings since Calderón took office in December 2006
News of the vote in the National Assembly has been covered worldwide. Human Rights Watch, for example, described it as 'a blow to freedom of expression and democratic accountability'
The independent commission’s findings confirm what Human Rights Watch and others have documented since Bahraini authorities opened their punitive campaign of retribution against pro-democracy protesters in March
A witness told Human Rights Watch that on November 11, military personnel detained individuals solely on the basis of their Somali appearance. The witness saw military personnel picking up suspects at pubs around Garissa, including DRC Pub and Locus; he later drove to Town Club and saw military personne...
