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| | Rights group: Key evidence in Saddam’s trial stolen - |
 | | Human Rights Watch also said that it is seriously concerned that Saddam’s tribunal is fundamentally flawed and may be incapable of delivering justice. | | | Human Rights Watch stressed that the availability of concrete documentary and forensic evidence will be crucial elements in the success of any trials in Iraq, enforcing and providing extra weight to witness testimonies. | | | Human Rights Watch said that Saddam’s tribunal may be incapable of delivering justice. |
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| | The covenant permits governments to temporarily suspend some of these rights in cases of civil emergency only, and lists those rights which cannot be suspended for any reason. | | | It also restricts the death penalty to the most serious of crimes, guarantees condemned people the right to appeal for commutation to a lesser penalty, and forbids the death penalty entirely for people under 18 years of age. | | | the right to legal recourse when their rights have been violated, even if the violator was acting in an official capacity |
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| | Human Rights Watch: Court Martial of Ugandan Opposition Candidate... | | | Habré was arrested in Dakar on November 15, but 10 days later a Senegalese court said that it had no jurisdiction to rule on the extradition request, throwing the case into a legal limbo. | | | To date, Uzbek authorities have not confirmed to Human Rights Watch whether the trial has even started or whether Zainabitdinov has already been sentenced. |
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| | Questions and Answers about Venezuela’s Court-Packing Law www.vcrisis.com |
| | Human Rights Watch believes that the Charter could again provide the basis for the OAS to engage with Venezuela, under the terms outlined in article 18, to address the current threat to the country’s democratic order. | | | In the determination of any criminal charge against him, or of his rights and obligations in a suit at law, everyone shall be entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law. | | | Report on the situation of Human Rights in Venezuela |
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| | The briefing paper, "Under a Shadow: Civil and Political Rights in Zimbabwe," details the government's policy of repression and the harassment of opposition party members by state institutions and supporters of the ruling party. | | | Serious restrictions on citizens' rights to assembly and association have made it difficult for elected representatives to regularly meet with their constituents - meetings are either declared illegal or are otherwise disrupted. | | | However, in order for such efforts to result in substantive improvement in human rights conditions in Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwean government must undo the damage wrought by persistent patterns of human rights abuse and the impunity that has accompanied them. |
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| | Although it is not a law firm per se, it has lawyers on staff and substantial expertise on issues of international human rights law that are germane to this case. | | | A treaty should be interpreted "in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose." Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, May 23, 1969, art. | | | For the foregoing reasons, Human Rights Watch, as amicus curiae, respectfully submits that the district court's order should be affirmed. |
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| | While holding perpetrators of serious human rights abuses criminally liable -- in national or international courts -- is ordinarily preferable, in many instances this form of accountability is simply not available. | | | The ATCA thus has provided a means of holding officials accountable for their gross violations of human rights – while also offering the potential to deter future abuses, and to keep the United States from becoming a safe harbor for those responsible for such abuses. | | | It is based on our strong belief that, in appropriate circumstances, victims of gross human rights abuses &; those that violate the “law of nations” – should be entitled to seek civil damages in U.S. courts for such abuses. |
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| | Human Rights Watch also approves of Italy's refusal to extradite Ocalan to Turkey on the basis of its maintenance of the death penalty. | | | Human Rights Watch has welcomed the leadership role that Italy has played in bringing the world closer to realization of a permanent International Criminal Court. | | | We urge you to exhibit that same commitment to international justice in resolving the Ocalan case. |
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| | * Human Rights Watch urges the Colombian government to amend the constitutional provision granting military court jurisdiction in cases involving crimes by military personnel against civilians, and to extend this amendment to include police. | | | Members of the security forces should be tried by civilian courts and punished according to civilian law when they violate the rights of civilians. | | | Please contact Human Rights Watch for further information.. |
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| | Offenders who have been convicted of more than one offense can only get the right to vote back by waiting at least two years after release from prison and applying to the court or by obtaining a pardon from the governor. | | | Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project call for an end to permanent disenfranchisement. | | | People who were convicted before 1986 can only get their voting rights back by petitioning the court, while most of those convicted after 1986 get their rights back automatically. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Bush under fire over human rights |
| | Human Rights Watch also points to shortcomings in security laws in Iraq proposed by the US. | | | In the vast majority of trials it had observed there, defendants were detained without judicial warrants, and had no prior access to a lawyer. | | | It points out that the British government refuses to rule out using information extracted from torture in court proceedings. |
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| | Human Rights Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1988, all of the committees were united under one umbrella to form Human Rights Watch. | | | It has also called for condom distribution in prisons [3]. | | | It also specializes in documenting and reporting violations of the laws of armed conflict and international humanitarian law. |
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| | Defendants do not always have access to lawyers, and when a lawyer is available, he or she usually has no more than one or two days to prepare a defense. | | | Discrimination in Employment and Education: The PRC ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1980 and enacted the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests in 1992. | | | The Chinese government continues to suppress dissenting opinions and maintains political control over the legal system, resulting in an arbitrary and sometimes abusive judicial regime. |
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| | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : Turkey |
| | All of these abuses violate international human rights laws and standards that have been signed or endorsed by the government of Turkey, including the European Convention on Human Rights and the Paris Charter. | | | Since that time, Turkish citizens who believe that the state has violated their rights guaranteed under the Convention and who have not been able to find domestic legal redress can bring suit against their own government under Article 25. | | | We issued this report upon learning of a tense debate within the U.S. State and Defense Departments over whether to allow the export to Turkey of the most advanced and deadly cluster bomb in the U.S. arsenal, the CBU-87. |
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| | The Convention against Torture, which the United States has ratified, specifically prohibits torture and mistreatment, as well as sending detainees to countries where such practices are likely to occur. | | | Such acts violate international legal prohibitions against torture and other ill-treatment under treaties that the United States has ratified, said HRW. | | | Moreover, should senior U.S. officials become aware of acts of torture by their subordinates and fail to take immediate and effective steps to end such practices, they would be criminally liable under international law for “command responsibility.” |
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| | A law passed in 1980 and a presidential decree issued in 1990 effectively transferred management of the Vak1flar from elected committees—a right assured under the Treaty of Lausanne and preceding Greek legislation—to state officials, who were granted an iron hand over budgetary matters. | | | More ominously, the 1980 law struck directly at the financial holdings of the foundations by ordering that any property for which an official deed could not be presented would be confiscated by the state. | | | A local journalist known as a community activist has become the subject of several prosecutions in an effort to limit his internationally-protected right to free expression. |
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| | In order for those rights to be restored, and for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi to have any impact on the political impasse, many of the laws which are currently in place, including SLORC Order 4/91 and 10/91, must be repealed. | | | their right, as expressed in Article 25 of the ICCPR, to "take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly or through freely elected representatives." In doing so they have not only violated the most basic of international human rights standards but also their own laws. | | | Thousands of people have been arrested for trying to exercise this right and the right to freedom of association and expression. |
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| | We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. | | | This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. | | | Human Rights Watch: Probe Needed Into US Action in Falluja |
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| | The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether those held at Guantanamo should be given access to lawyers and courts. | | | It suggested that "police rules" of law enforcement should be applied in such cases instead. | | | Human Rights Watch, however, said such claims were invalid. |
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| | Human Rights Watch releases a report critical of Peru's court system. | | | Human Rights Watch/Americas Letter to Fujimori on Rape in Peruvian Prisons | | | Human Rights Watch urges President Fujimori to end the use of 'faceless' courts. |
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| | IFEX :: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INVESTIGATES FREE EXPRESSION CONDITIONS |
| | Human Rights Watch says Libyan laws continue to criminalise free expression. | | | Under the Penal Code, anyone who criticises Qaddafi or the 1969 revolution that brought him to power can be sentenced to death. | | | Human Rights Watch interviewed Libya's most well-known political prisoner, Fathi al-Jahmi, who has been held for more than 13 months without trial at an internal security facility in Tripoli. |
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| | Reuters AlertNet - Afghanistan: U.N. Rights Monitoring Still Needed |
| | Human Rights Watch also urged the United States to help increase human rights monitoring. | | | Bassiouni had criticized the United States last year for its policies of holding detainees in Afghanistan without legal protections. | | | Human Rights Watch documented intimidation of civil society groups and journalists during the presidential campaign. |
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| | CNN.com - Rights group: U.S. arguments resemble terrorists' - Jan. 14, 2003 |
| | Human Rights Watch said the administration is using the same argument as terrorists -- that the ends justify the means -- to achieve its goals, and faulted the United States' treatment of combat prisoners and its handling of criminal suspects. | | | • Misused immigration laws to deny rights to criminal suspects in the United States | | | State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said "the United States made very clear that we will treat detainees... |
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| | Who is behind Human Rights Watch? |
| | In the United States, HRW is not legally obliged to disclose who donates money. | | | The United States, she said, was committed to human rights and... | | | HRW also recruits its employees in the United States, in English. |
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| | Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide |
| | United States: Protect Rights of Teen at Guantánamo | | | © Copyright 2004, Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA | | | Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide |
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| | WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net |
| | Moroccan law denies these children basic labor rights, and the authorities rarely punish employers who abuse them. | | | For a web broadcast of the proceedings visit FIRE | | | Most women's rights practitioners would agree that getting progressive laws passed to protect women's rights is difficult, but the real battle is in getting them implemented. |
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| | ZNet Haiti Open Letter to Human Rights Watch |
| | In your recent letter to the U.N. Security Council dated May 16, 2005 you stated, "During a recent mission to Haiti, Human Rights Watch documented daily acts of violence in Port-au-Prince. | | | I will tell them that whenever they read statements released by you they should be suspicious and return any fund raising appeals they receive by you marked: "What about your position on Haiti? | | | With one-hand you praise the Haitian police for raids into poor neighborhoods of the capital with the U.N., where evidence also exists of human rights violations, and with the other hand you acknowledge abuses by the police during peaceful demonstrations without holding them accountable to justice. |
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| | Finally, there is an urgent need to establish credible judicial procedures to try those in custody who stand accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or other serious violations of international humanitarian law. | | | The humane treatment of all persons not actively taking part in hostilities, including detained or surrendered enemy soldiers, is a fundamental principle of international humanitarian law (the laws of war). | | | The requirement of humane treatment also includes a positive obligation to protect against dangers posed by other detainees. |
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| | In case after case, the report documents how governments of industrialized nations mouth fine words, and then act (or fail to act) in the face of massive and heinous human rights abuses. | | | Bruce Klatsky is the Chief Executive Officer of PVH and also a board member of Human Rights Watch. | | | Despite his public proclamations of support of civil and human rights, President Bill Clinton displayed a startling lack of will to preserve rights under attack, and in some cases took the lead in eliminating human rights protections," the report says. |
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| | Human Rights Watch is concerned about these tests being used on women who are not prostitutes. | | | The report explicitly states that detaining women against their will and forcing them to undergo vaginal examination is acceptable if they are proven to be prostitutes. | | | This raises the history of advocacy for sex workers rights in the UN system in general and WHO in particular. |
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| | Human Rights Watch is able to have regular access to prisons and detention centers under Kurdish control in northern Iraq. | | | Military officials told Human Rights Watch that they have insufficient staff at the prison and could not cope with more than a maximum of 30 visits per day. | | | uman Rights Watch has repeatedly tried to gain access to U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, but U.S. military officials in Baghdad have denied requests for visitation rights. |
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| | Violations of international law unconnected with acts of international terrorism against the United States, such as the abuses in Afghanistan cited above, would not be covered by the military order. | | | Human Rights Watch said prosecuting human rights violations and war crimes in Afghanistan was critical to the future of the country, and again urged the United Nations to establish a commission of experts to investigate war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious abuses in Afghanistan. | | | Human Rights Watch noted that President Bush on November 13 issued a military order authorizing the trial by special military commissions of non-U.S. citizens he has reason to believe are members of al Qaeda, have assisted al Qaeda members, or have engaged in or aided acts of international terrorism. |
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| | Uzbekistan: Report Cites Evidence Of Government 'Massacre' In Andijon - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | The Uzbek Embassy in Washington was closed when the HRW report was issued, so no comment was available. | | | But it disputes the government charge that Muslim extremists were behind the uprising. | | | In this case [of the HRW report], the Uzbek government is going to follow the same pattern and ignore the report completely, or it may criticize HRW and their conclusions through other means, [such as the Uzbek media]." |
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| | Salon.com Joe Conason's Journal |
| | The United States made very clear that we will treat detainees, Guantanamo or elsewhere, in a manner that's consistent with the Geneva Convention even though we don't necessarily agree with all these groups over precisely how they're covered. | | | This is one of the issues that was in the [HRW] report." | | | What worries HRW is the State Department's insistence that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to those captured in Afghanistan (just as the Justice Department says the Constitution doesn't apply to "prisoners of war," including American citizens, who are arrested here). |
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas US 'erodes' global human rights |
| | It also calls for an international criminal court to ensure crimes committed in Darfur do not go unpunished. | | | "The US government is less and less able to push for justice abroad, because it's unwilling to see justice done at home," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW. | | | HRW singles out China and Russia - UN Security Council veto members - in particular for being more concerned about protecting oil contracts and arms sales to Khartoum than saving lives. |
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| | Prison scandal blunts human rights report - After Saddam - www.smh.com.au |
| | Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content. | | | At the same time, Mr Craner said, some of the governments accused of violating rights have objected to criticism and cited the prison scandal. | | | This year, it drew wide publicity when the department held back its scheduled release on May 5 as the Abu Ghraib scandal was growing. |
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| | Canada-US Human Rights Information and Documentation Network (CUSHRID) | | | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - OHCHR | | | Judicial Watch - Because no one is above the law! |
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| | The question of impunity in Spain and crimes under Franco | | | Our work includes the socialization of human rights related information and analysis through the internet and other media, the promotion of prosecutions of human rights violators and the support of local human rights NGOs and activists. | | | Equipo Nizkor, work for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world. |
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| | HRW was set up by the United States government to monitor human rights in Eastern Europe following the signature of the Helsinki Accords. | | | HRW may claim that it is independent and nongovernmental, but its origins inidicate that these properties were absent. | | | The United States used Helsinki Watch for propaganda purposes, and to amplify the "human rights" contradictions in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. |
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| | Human Rights Watch (HRW), started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. | | | HRW meets with government officials to urge changes in policy and practice -- at the United Nations, the European Union, in Washington and in capitals around the world. | | | Using information reported on an organization's most recent Form 990, we include as compensation an individual's salary, cash bonuses, and unusually large expense accounts and other allowances. |
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| | Among these decisions, HRW highlights as pivotal the post-September 11, 2001, moves by members of the Pentagon, Justice Department, and White House Counsel's Office to provide legal arguments suggesting the U.S. was not bound by international law. | | | On May 5, 2004, he told a television interviewer the Geneva Conventions 'did not apply precisely' in Iraq but were 'basic rules' for handling prisoners." According to international human rights groups, however, as a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, the United States is bound by their rules. | | | HRW cites comments from Cofer Black, former director of the CIA's counterterrorism unit, who testified to Congress that "after 9/11 the gloves came off." Secretary of Defense Donald Donald Rumsfeld is also cited in the report as having justified the torture of prisoners. |
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| | Peter Bouckaert: We have not investigated this particular case because we have been pre-occupied by the investigation in Jenin. | | | My question is a military vs. human rights one. | | | Washington, D.C.: I was just curious if the Human Rights Watch has ever investigated Human Rights Violations carried out against Palestinian children who are urged to pick up stones and become martyrs? |
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| | It's a matter of how human rights organizations willingly become instruments of state policy. | | | "Indeed, human rights concerns could be used as an excuse for extra-legal military actions that bypass the security council and/or Congress." | | | "Human rights is just another affinity cause to be used by Clinton and Albright when it suits them, rather than consistently and broadly". |
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| | They are white, middle-class, and in a position to take a slightly abstract stance toward the issue of human rights; to see human rights more in the general terms of the United Nations Charter than in terms of particular sites of violence. | | | The topic of human rights would seem to be well served by the discourse of sobriety (to use Bill Nichols's term) that characterizes conventional documentary film: claiming a direct relation to the real and the ability to prescribe action. | | | Yet when it is possible for individuals to identify themselves as part of a "universal" audience, the sources of that solidarity are worth interrogating. |
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| | U.S. Department of State :Iraq Report on Human Rights Practices for 1997 | | | U.S. Department of State ; Iraq Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998 | | | Human rights abuses in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991 (1995) |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Some US tactics in Iraq are war crimes, group alleges |
| | BAGHDAD -- A top human rights group yesterday accused the US military of committing war crimes by demolishing homes of suspected insurgents and arresting the relatives of Iraqi fugitives. | | | In a letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Human Rights Watch called for a halt to such tactics and asked him to ensure US forces abide by the 1949 Geneva Conventions, holding soldiers accountable for ordering, condoning, or carrying out serious violations of the laws of war. |
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| | These committees seek to increase awareness of local and global human rights issues and enlist the public and influence governments to support basic rights for all. | | | Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s largest research and advocacy organizations. | | | By generating press through reporting and advocacy, Human Rights Watch seeks to shame abusive governments, change policies and practices, and inform the public about important human rights issues. |
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