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Burundi: Paramilitaries Commit Killings, Rapes (New York, December 14, 2001) -- Government-sponsored paramilitary forces known as “Guardians of the Peace” have committed many killings, rapes, and other crimes over the last four years in Burundi, Human Rights Watch charged today. December 14, 2001 Press Release Past U.S. Criticism of Military Tribunals (Washington, November 28, 2001) Under President Bush's November 13th Executive Order on military commissions, any foreign national designated by the President as a suspected terrorist or as aiding terrorists could potentially be detained, tried, convicted and even executed without a public trial, without adequate access to counsel, without the presumption of innocence or even proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and without the right to appeal. November 27, 2001 Special Focus South Africa: Stop Court Fight on AIDS Drugs We write to ask for your leadership in the struggle against a grave threat to the human rights of all South Africans, that of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. November 21, 2001 Letter South Africa: Stop Court Fight on AIDS Drugs (New York, November 21, 2001) Appealing to his history of leadership in the country’s struggle for rights and freedoms, Human Rights Watch today urged President Thabo Mbeki to have his government drop its fight against a legal appeal for low-cost AIDS treatment for pregnant women. November 21, 2001 Press Release Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Opposition Condemned HRW Letter to the Southern African Development Community I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to express our concern at the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe and to ask that you intervene urgently and at the highest level on behalf of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). November 21, 2001 Letter Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Opposition Condemned (New York, November 22, 2001) Human Rights Watch today called on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to speak out strongly on the need to ensure that the rule of law is respected in Zimbabwe. November 21, 2001 Press Release No Questions Asked: The Eastern Europe Arms Pipeline to Liberia Following the release of a new United Nations report on sanctions violations in Liberia, the U.N. Security Council is weighing what further steps, if any, to take to address the violations. The report, prepared by a five-person independent panel of experts, presents fresh evidence of violations of an arms embargo and travel and diamond bans imposed on Liberia by the Security Council. November 20, 2001 Background Briefing Liberian Arms Embargo Must Be Enforced We are writing to urge you to take immediate measures to enforce the arms embargo in Liberia. As you know, the United Nations panel of experts on Liberia, which investigated violations of arms, diamond, and travel sanctions imposed in Security Council Resolution 1343 (2001), recently documented numerous arms shipments to Liberia within the past eighteen months. November 20, 2001 Letter Burundi: Children Abducted for Military Mandela and U.N. Should Act to Free Child Soldiers Dozens of students abducted from Burundian schools last week must be released and the Burundian rebel movement that captured them must stop such kidnappings, Human Rights Watch said today. November 14, 2001 Press Release Congolese Activist Detained and Beaten in Eastern DRC (New York, 15 November 2001) The head of a Congolese non-governmental organization from Uvira has been detained and severely beaten by the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) Human Rights Watch said today. November 14, 2001 Press Release Human Rights Watch Honors Global Rights Defenders Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, and Uzbekistan Activists Recognized On Wednesday, November 7, Human Rights Watch will give its highest honor to five leading human rights activists from around the world. Those chosen to be human rights "monitors" for the year 2001 have defended civilians in brutal wars in Sudan and Aceh, and worked to build civil society from the ground up in Pakistan, Guatemala and Uzbekistan. Human Rights Watch staff work closely with these brave individuals as part of our defense of human rights in more than 70 countries around the world. November 5, 2001 Press Release Liberia: U.N. Arms Embargo Failing The United Nations Security Council must enforce the international arms embargo on Liberia, Human Rights Watch said today. November 5, 2001 Press Release Nigeria: Hold Military to Account Bush Meeting with Obasanjo Should Address Killings In advance of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, Human Rights Watch urged Bush to raise concerns about the recent massacre by soldiers in Benue State, Central Nigeria. November 1, 2001 Press Release Africa: Use Trade Law for Human Rights The United States is not doing enough to implement the human rights criteria of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Human Rights Watch said today. October 25, 2001 Press Release Nigeria: Soldiers Massacre Civilians in Revenge Attack in Benue State Human Rights Watch today condemned the massacre of more than 100 civilians by Nigerian soldiers in several villages in Benue State, apparently carried out as revenge for the killing of 19 soldiers earlier this month. October 25, 2001 Press Release |
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