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China levanta parcialmente las restricciones a Internet durante los Juegos
2008-08-01 22:00:00 China levantará parcialmente las restricciones a Internet durante los Juegos Olímpicos. Hoy se levantó la censura a sitios la BBC, Wikipedia, la Radio Free Asia, Amnistía Internacional, Human Rights Watch, y el diario de oposición a china, Apple Daily de Hong Kong. La idea es que la gente crea que en China no hay censura.
By: La Página
Human Rights Watch on Ahmadiyah
2008-04-24 03:17:00 The Indonesian government should reject proposals to ban the minority Ahmadiyah faith and not align itself with the extremists who have fomented violence against them, Human Rights Watch said today.The Religious Affairs Ministry, the Home Ministry and the Attorney-General?s Office are drafting a decree to ban the Ahmadiyah after a government monitoring board declared the faith ?heretical.? On April 16, 2008, Indonesia?s Coordinating Board for Monitoring Mystical Beliefs in Society (Bakor Pakem) recommended banning the Ahmadiyah faith. Such a ban would violate the internationally recognized right to religious freedom and Indonesia?s own constitution. Human Rights Watch called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reject the decree and guarantee the rights of all religious minorities to practice their faith freely. Founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Ahmadiyah identify themselves as Muslims but differ with other Muslims as to whether Muhammad was the ?final? monotheist proph...
Human Rights Watch?s Annual Report: Silent on Plight of Iranian Gays
2008-04-03 02:10:00 While we have evidence of an Iraqi gay helping defeat the anti-gay forces of Islamofascism, Michael Petrelis alerts us to the silence of Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the persecution of gays in a nation ruled by an Islamofascist regime. According to Petrelis: HRW, for unknown reasons, omits gays not just from their 2007 country ...
By: GayPatriot
Bush Vetoed Torture Bill
2008-03-08 17:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 9:30 AM MST WASHINGTON ? President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks. “The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools ...
By: Suzie-Q
Pakistan: Judges Remain Under Arrest Before Election - Human Rights Watch (
2008-02-09 00:00:00 Pakistan: Judges Remain Under Arrest Before ElectionHuman Rights Watch (press release) -1 hour agoJudicial review of the decisions of the Election Commission can be sought in the High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan. ?Days before Pakistan goes to ...The Pakistan Lawyers' Movement: A Lost Cause?JURISTall 2 news articles More: ...
By: Pakistan News
Informe Human Rights Watch
2008-02-07 15:53:00 Las ejecuciones extrajudiciales son un problema por resolver en Venezuela RCTV
Human Rights Watch criticises US, UK support for Musharraf
2008-02-03 12:22:00 The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has come down heavily on the US, the UK and other western nations for thier support to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. According to the HRW, Musharraf has tilted the electoral playing field by rewriting the constitution and firing the independent judiciary in that country. The group has criticised the US and the UK for refusing to condition assistance to the Pakistan Government on improving pre-electoral conditions and for ignoring undemocratic acts by Musharraf because of his support for the "war on terror", the Dawn reported. "Thousands of lawyers and political opponents were arbitrarily detained in 2007, most of the country's senior judges sacked and harsh curbs imposed on the media," the group said in its annual report. "The US, the UK and the European Union (EU) all issued statements urging Musharraf to end the state of emergency, release those arrested, and hold free and fair elections. However, their actions did n...
By: B4U India
US senators and Human Rights Watch demand UN probe into Benazir’s killing
2008-01-29 07:30:00 The US senators and Human Rights Watch have demanded a United Nations probe into assassination of Benazir Bhutto which has been welcomed by the Pakistan People’s Party. Eight US senators addressed a letter to President George W Bush on Thursday, "calling on the government of Pakistan to permit an immediate, thorough, and credible investigation, to be conducted under the aegis of the UN into the murder of Benazir Bhutto". They also asked the US President to ask President Pervez Musharraf to form a new Election Commission for Pakistan, with a consent from all major political parties". Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has also demanded a UN probe into the matter saying an independent inquiry is must to uncover Benazir’s killer as Pakistan Government’s record had been bleak in the matter which would lead to further political tension and instability in the country. "The regime must listen to the strident calls by both national and international figures,...
By: B4U India
Human Rights Watch - Open Letter to our PM
2007-12-18 00:09:00 Photo: sunrise.sevenCopy & pasted in it's entirety from the Human Rights Watch website...December 17, 2007The Hon Kevin Rudd MPPrime MinisterParliament HouseCANBERRA ACT 2600 Re: Australian foreign policy with regard to Burma, China, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea and Australian domestic policy on counter-terrorism, refugees, indigenous Australians, and same-sex relationshipsDear Prime Minister Rudd:Congratulations on your recent election as Prime Minister of Australia.Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization based in New York that monitors and reports on international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law issues in more than 70 countries around the world.We write to you outlining key areas of foreign and domestic policy where we believe that Australia can and should do more to promote and protect human rights. On foreign policy, Australia is a significant political actor and donor in the Asia-Pacific region, so your government is well placed to play a leadi...
Cluster munitions: Arguments for and against
2007-11-28 12:25:00 Last week's meeting of states party to the Mine Ban Treaty (8MSP) in Jordan provided an opportunity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) to offer a lunchtime briefing to states on the Oslo Process to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions. Austrian Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch shared information about next week's Vienna Conference, and CMC Coordinator Thomas Nash talked about campaigning against cluster munitions in general.The briefing was timely: with 8MSP about to wrap up successfully, diplomats were beginning to turn their minds to the recently released "Vienna text" and reflect upon the tactical implications of the CCW's mandate to work on cluster munitions in 2008 agreed on 13 November in Geneva. 8MSP offered a good opportunity for Oslo process outreach with a number of countries party to the Mine Ban Treaty (which has 156 members) who either aren't members of the CCW (which has 103 members) or who are but...
Human Rights Watch urges independent probe into Gaza killings(AFP) (Middle
2007-11-19 01:15:00 Human Rights Watch urges independent probe into Gaza killings(AFP) AFP - The New York-based Human Rights Watch group has called for the Hamas-run government in Gaza to set up an independent probe into shootings at a rally that killed eight people, calling the violence excessive and indiscriminate. Settler enclave mocks Mideast peace prospects(AFP) AFP - When the Israeli ...
Sudan Update: Displaced Persons Being Forced From Camps
2007-11-17 08:40:00 A girl stands in front of a camp in Sudan for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's). The camp is so large that only part of it is shown and seems to never end. (Photo by: REUTERS/Stuart Price/AMIS/Handout (SUDAN)). After forcing their citizens into camps, the Sudanese government is now trying to drive them out of those camps. 2.5 million people or more are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP?s) from Sudan and most of these people end up in humanitarian camps. In October, the United Nations reported that the Sudanese government was forcing hundreds of families from the camp at Otash, near Nyala. The camp is home to 60,000 displaced persons in Southern Darfur. The United Nations has denounced the practice but human rights groups are calling it a violation of international law. John Holmes, under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs said, ?Given that security forces were threatening the displaced with sticks and rubber hoses at Otash camp, the involuntary n...
Egypt: Urgent Press Release by EIPR & Report of Human Rights Watch
2007-11-13 02:59:00 The following Press Release was just published by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) regarding the ID card crisis in Egypt. The two links at the end of this Release will take you to the comprehensive 98 page report of EIPR & Human Rights Watch regarding the ID crisis, titled "Prohibited Identities" in PDF or HTML format. [Arabic version of Report & Arabic version of Press Release].BBC coverage of the Press Release can be seen here in English & Arabic.Press Release- 12 November 2007Egypt: Allow Citizens to List Actual Religion on ID CardsEnd Discrimination, Harassment of Baha’is, Converts From Islam(Cairo, November 12, 2007) – Egypt should allow all citizens to use their actual religious identity when required to list religion on government documents, Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said today. The government’s discriminatory practice of restricting identity to three religions, directed at Baha’is and preve...
Business as usual - Iraq Body Count, Human Rights Watch and that empire-bui
2007-11-04 14:14:00 by Gabriele Zamparini Iraq Body Count, a “divisive” issue The list of Iraq Body Count’s supporters is getting longer by the day. Just three examples may help you to get the picture: - The Weekly Standard - the voice of the Neo-Con in Washington and whose Editor, William Kristol, is also Chairman of the Project for the New American Century – used IBC to attack actor and anti-war activist Tim Robbins - The Washington Post used IBC to attack MoveOn.org - The right-wing American Spectator used IBC to attack Codepink While the mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll, too many “on the left” and within the so-called “anti-war movement” keep being silent when not openly defending Iraq Body Count and attacking those who have been trying to highlight this bloody scandal. It’s a “divisive” issue, they say. One da...
Human Rights Watch urges Musharraf to stop intimidating Supreme Court
2007-10-24 12:19:00 New York-based Human Rights Watch has severely criticised Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for initiating veiled attacks on Supreme Court and for intimidating judges ahead of ...
By: B4U India
30% less pupils in Helmand province
2007-10-10 09:28:00 According to IRIN (the Integrated Regional Information Networks of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)), more than 30,000 pupils attending school in the Helmand province in southern Afghanistan last year were absent in 2007. This represents a reduction of more than 30% in school attendance:?This year we have 70,000 students in 90 functioning schools in Helmand province,? said Saeed Ibrar Agha, head of the provincial education department.[]In 2002, less than a year after the Taliban were toppled, there were 224 functioning schools all over the province [].?Insecurity explains why most schools are shuttered in the Helmand province. In the past 15 months, according to Saeed Ibrar Agha, Taliban insurgents and other armed groups targeting schools as symbols of the government have burned down more than 20 schools and killed 17 students, teachers and other staff.The deterioration of security conditions has led to a flow of children to Lashkar Gah, the capita...
Children?s drawings describing Darfur atrocities
2007-09-24 09:53:00 Human Rights Watch (HRW): What's happening here? 13-year-old artist: These men in green are taking the women and the girls.HRW: What are they doing?Boy: They are forcing them to be wife. The houses are on fire.HRW: What's happening here?Boy: This is an Antonov. This is a helicopter. These here, at the bottom of the page, these are dead people.Last week, while looking for a picture to illustrate a post on systematic rape in DRC, I came across a series of drawings from children who were refugees in camps along the Chad-Darfur border.These pictures date from February 2005, when two Human Rights Watch researchers, Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault, visited refugee camps in Chad in order to assess issues of insecurity and sexual violence.The two researchers gave paper and crayons to children so that they could draw while their parents and caretakers were interviewed.Without any instructions or guidance, the children drew scenes from their experiences of the conflict in Sudan?s Dar...
Le rapport de Human Rights Watch fortement critiqué au Liban
2007-08-31 04:51:00 Un rapport de Human Rights Watch (HRW) qui accuse le Hezbollah d'avoir lancé des roquettes sans discernement sur des régions civiles en Israël lors de la guerre en été dernier, a été sévèrement critiqué au Liban, a rapporté Daily Star jeudi. Hussein Rahhal, chef de l'unité des médias du Hezbollah, a déclaré qu'il y a dans le rapport "une déformation de faits".
Kenya / Press conference Human Rights Watch
2007-08-13 13:15:00 Just back from a Human Rights Watch press conference. Please listen to the short talk I had with Tom Porteous who asks European Union and the United States to adress the violation of Human Rights in... Read about the whereabouts of independent Africa Correspondent Arjen Westra. travelling the continent and reporting on things he sees and hears and.... smells.
US disappointed by new rules for UN human rights watchdog
2007-06-20 20:28:00 The United States said Tuesday it was disappointed by new rules adopted by the UN Human Rights Council and accused the fledgling institution of denying its own members voting rights. The Geneva-based human rights watchdog decided on its ground rules after fractious wrangling ...
By: The Hot Joints
Human Rights Watch urges Musharraf to ensure genuine media freedom i
2007-04-28 12:55:00 New York, Apr 28 : The Human Rights Watch, an organisation dedicated to protecting the human rights around the world, has reportedly urged Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to demonstrate a commitment to genuine media freedom.
By: newkerala.com
Human Rights Watch demands release of Justice Iftikhar
2007-03-14 08:12:00 New York, Mar 14: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded of the Pakistan government to end the arbitrary detention of the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, and also called upon the US and other governments to urge President Musharraf to promptly take meaningful steps to restore respect for the rule of law in the country.
By: newkerala.com
Human Rights Watch: Secret CIA Prisoners Still Missing
2007-03-02 19:34:01 Via LA Times : Human Rights Watch lists 39 secret CIA detaineesA human rights group Tuesday published the names of 38 men and one woman it believes have been locked up in secret overseas facilities.The New York-based human rights organization included those and other names in a Monday letter to Bush that was made public Tuesday.Human Rights Watch officials said the letter and the report were part of... [read more]
By: Munaeem's Blog
Human Rights Watch clearly pre-determined their positions
2007-01-01 15:54:01 Zombietime shows how Human Rights Watch is clearly biased in favor of the Hezbollah and other of Israel's enemies in a weak report they gave on the IAF supposedly targeting ambulances for the wrong reasons (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin). See also this entry and this one from Al-Hamatzav, which has some good questions to offer as well.If I'm correct, is HRW an affiliate of Amnesty International? I'm not sure just now, but in any case, they're just as worthless.See also this item on Amnesty Irrational from NGO Monitor (via LGF).
By: Tel-Chai Nation
Hizbullah's War Crimes -- Amnesty & Human Rights Watch Falsi
2006-12-02 15:30:11 The propaganda attacks on Israel --the continual defamation by the media, politicians, diplomats, and so-called "non-governmental organizations" [that are usually funded by governments]-- are meant to defame Jews and Israel and justify attacks on them. These attacks are similar in purpose to smear campaigns against Jews in the past, such as the Damascus Affair of 1840, the Beilis Case, the Nazi lies against Jews, the recent [2001] racist Durban Conference [which pretended to be anti-racist], and others.Jimmy Carter, ex-president of the United States, has smeared Israel as an apartheid state. This is a big lie worthy of Goebbels. Two American political scientists, Walt & Mearsheimer, falsely claim that Israel controls --and has always controlled-- American policy in the Middle East, thereby disregarding the weight of the American oil lobby and of the immense wealth of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, and other oil-rich Arab states, in addition to the ties to Arabs and oil of many inf...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Rush to Judgment: Human Rights Watch Must Retract Its Shamef
2006-12-02 14:59:04 By NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN11/30/06Counterpunch-Even by the grim standards of Gaza, the past five months have been cruel ones.Some four hundred Palestinians, mostly unarmed civilians, have been killed during Israeli attacks. (Four Israeli soldiers and two civilians have been killed.) Israel has sealed off Gaza from the outside world while the international community has imposed brutal sanctions, ravaging Gaza's already impoverished economy."Gaza is dying," Patrick Cockburn reported in CounterPunch, "its people are on the edge of starvation.A whole society is being destroyed.The sound that Palestinians most dread is an unknown voice on their cell phone saying they have half an hour to leave their home before it is hit by bombs or missiles. There is no appeal. ""Gaza is in its worst condition ever," Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz, "The Israeli army has been rampaging through Gaza--there's no other word to describe it--killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling indiscriminately....This ... |
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