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Video of Syrian rebel fighter cutting out heart of regime soldier and eating it condemned
Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it. “International news agencies and social media websites have been circulating a video clip in which a person claiming to…
Obama urged to address drug war related human rights violations during visit to Mexico
US President Barack Obama should address human rights violations related to Mexico’s Washington-backed war on drugs when he visits the country this week, Human Rights Watch urged. Obama is slated to meet Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office in December and inherited a drug war that had killed…
Afghan policewomen face assault and sexual harassment: Human Rights Watch
An international rights group called Thursday for Afghan authorities to provide separate toilets and changing rooms at police stations for women officers, saying they face harassment and assault at work. Addressing the concerns of policewomen is necessary to address the “rampant violence” against women in wider Afghan society, said Human…
Myanmar accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ by human rights watchdog
Myanmar has waged “a campaign of ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya Muslims, a top rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement affecting tens of thousands. The Rohingya, who are denied citizenship by the country also known as Burma, have faced crimes against humanity including murder, persecution,…
Russia raids offices of Amnesty International and other human rights groups
Germany and France summoned Russian diplomats in Berlin and Paris on Wednesday, after Russia launched a series of raids on international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the country amid a wider crackdown on critics of the Kremlin. The sweeps, billed as an attempt to weed out “foreign agents”, targeted human rights…
Arkansas law jails tenants who don’t pay their rent
Under a state law in Arkansas, renters can be imprisoned for failing to pay their rent. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, titled “Pay the Rent or Face Arrest: Abusive Impacts of Arkansas’s Criminal Evictions Law,” hundreds of tenants each year are taken to court, fined and jailed…
Human Rights Watch: Arab Spring must respect basic rights
The Arab Spring has given way to new governments that are failing to respect basic rights such as freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch warned as it published its annual report Thursday. The US-based group urged the young Islamist regimes of countries such as Egypt, Libya and Tunisia to build…
HRW condemns Russia’s ‘worst post-Soviet crackdown’
Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the Russian authorities under President Vladimir Putin for unleashing the toughest crackdown against civil society since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. “The Kremlin in 2012 unleashed the worst political crackdown in Russia’s post-Soviet history,” the New-York based rights watchdog said in…
Report details ‘callous’ lack of sexual assault investigation by D.C. police
By Joanna Walters, The Guardian Human Rights Watch calls for investigation after report found victims endure ‘callous and traumatising’ treatment from police Victims of sexual assault in Washington DC too often endure “callous and traumatising” treatment from the police while attacks are dismissed on the spot and never investigated, according to…
Washington police accused of ‘disturbing’ failures to investigate rape
by Joanna Walters Human Rights Watch to publish report that shows some victims experience fresh trauma from police neglect in rape cases Police in Washington DC frequently fail to investigate reports of rape, and treat victims so dismissively at times, that they experience fresh trauma while the chances of the…
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