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Human Rights Violations

Terrorist Or Activist? A Young Colombian, Gabriel Gonzalez, Fights For His Country, His Reputation (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Venezuela, Colombia FARC, Human Rights First, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Democratic Security, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Abuses, Diane Tucker, Foreign Policy, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Human Rights Violations, Hillary Clinton Colombia, Human Rights, Tom Brokaw, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade, Alvaro Uribe, Gabriel Gonzales, Farc, Mexico's Drug War, Alvaro Uribe Government, Video, World News
Diane Tucker

Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.

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Human Rights Watch Should Not Be Criticized for Doing Its Job

Aryeh Neier | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Aclu, Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Aryeh Neier, Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Abuses, Abu Graib, Israel, Helsinki Watch, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World News
Aryeh Neier

Human Rights Watch has an immense amount of experience in all parts of the world in fact-gathering and getting the story right. That is why its reporting matters.

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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Torture, Tunisia, Morocco, Toilets, United Nations, Corporal Punishment, United States, Special Rapporteur, Equitorial Guinea, China, Human Rights Violations, Montevideo, Iran, Amman, Alien Deportation, Russia, Israel, Falun Gong Camps, Togo, India, Saudia Arabia, Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria, Manfred Nowak, Immigration Laws, Toga, World News
Betwa Sharma

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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The Vital Importance of Ending Impunity in Israel and Palestine

Navi Pillay | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, West Bank, UN Human Rights Council, Richard Goldstone, Fact-Finding-Mission, World News
Navi Pillay

The blockade, and its effect of collective punishment, must stop. Causing such hardships for the civilian population of Gaza cannot possibly serve the interests of peace and security in the region.

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Four Years Later, Let's End the Human Rights Crisis in KatrinaRitaVille

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Aclu, Fema, Hurricanes, Gulf Coast Recovery, Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, Naacp, Human Rights Violations, Obama New Orleans, Infrastructure, Human Rights, Louisiana, New Orleans Recovery, Lower Ninth Ward, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Nancy Pelosi, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, Politics News
Jeffrey Buchanan

The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.

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China Mounts Defense of Myanmar after Junta Pledges to Free Some Political Prisoners

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Uk, France, China Uighur Protests, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Southeast Asia, United States, UN Security Council, China, Myanmar, Britain, World News
Evelyn Leopold

China's deputy U.N. ambassador has made clear that Beijing, a major trading partner of Burma, would not use its influence to bring about any major change in the isolated southeast Asian nation.

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Increase in Renewables Aids Human Rights

John Gartner | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Human Rights, Solar, Africa, Human Rights Violations, Alternative Energy, Green Energy, Green News
John Gartner

The "curse of oil," which says that national per capita income often goes down after oil is discovered in a nation, is well documented in cases around the globe.

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Breaking: EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits for Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Epa, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Flooding, Waterboarding, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Nick Rahall, Coal, Clean Water Act, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, a human rights violation and it must be abolished, not regulated.

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Peru's Fujimori Convicted In Murder, Kidnapping Trial

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Fujimori, Peru, Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori Human Rights Crimes, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Crimes, Advocacy, Latin America, Fujimori Conviction, Alberto Fujimoro, Lima-Peru, Trials on Genocide 2009 in Peru, Gilmore Fujimori, World News

LIMA, Peru — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday for death squad killings and k...

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UN Condemns Britain's Role In US Torture Cases

The Independent | By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Uk Torture, American Rendition, m15, England, Un Rendition Report, War on Terror, Rendition, Human Rights Violations, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Un Torture Report, Cia, Us Rendition, United Nations, Martin Scheinin, Foreign Affairs, Uk Us Torture, Binyam Mohamed, Torture, World News

Britain was condemned last night for its complicity in the American programme of rendition and alleged torture of hundreds of terror suspects, in a hi...

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Chevron Seeks Money from Wounded and Tortured Protesters

David Weiner | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Big Oil, Chevron Nigeria, Chevron Corp, Oil Profits, Nigeria Oil, Los Angeles Times, Chevron Protesters, Chevron, Chevron Human Rights, Shot Protesters, Chevron Nigeria Lawsuit Reimbursement, World News
David Weiner

Just what is Chevron trying to prove with these actions? Do they really need the money, which includes $190,000 in photocopying charges, and that accounts for less than a rounding error for the company?

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As Obama Urges Action on Zimbabwe, Health Crisis Worsens

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Cholera Outbreak, Cholera, Obama, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Human Rights Violations, World Health Organization, Crisis, Hillary Clinton, ZImbabwe Crisis, Mugabe, James McGee, Barack Obama, South Africa, Health, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

As hopeful rhetoric permeates US leadership, Zimbabwe's health crisis is taking a turn for the worse. The average life expectancy has plummeted from 62 in the early 1990s to 36 today.

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Renowned Doctors Among Four "Destroyed" in Iran

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, HIV/AIDS, Alaei, Human Rights, Iran Justice, Human Rights Watch, Iran Judicial System, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World News, Kamiar Alaei, Arash Alaei, Ali-Reza Jamshidi, Human Rights Groups, Physicians for Human Rights, Tehran, Tehran's Revolutionary Court, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

The rights of doctors Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei have been violated and their commitment to public health has been misrepresented by the Iranian Government as a threat to their regime.

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From Guantanamo to Accountability and Beyond

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Center, Presidential Powers, Office of the Pardon Attorney, US Accountability Project, Interrogation, Jonathan Mahler, Carolyn Patty Blum, Presidential Pardons, Open Society Institute, Military Commissions, Detention, The Challenge, International Center for Transitional Justice, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Violations, International Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Military Tribunals, Aclu, Pardons, Eric Stover, Laurel Fletcher, Osi, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

President-elect Obama made known his intention to close the Guantanamo detention facility. The projected closure raises a plethora of issues.

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The Estimated Cost of Human Life in Zimbabwe is Four Dollars!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Civil War, Abuse, Rape, Zimbabwe, Women and Children and Rape, The Elders, Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections, Tsengeri, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

The state-backed violence has reached a pinnacle in rural areas. Mugabe and his allies think the rural vote will decide the octogenarian's grip on power.

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