Human Rights Watch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
Raul Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
The international community should strongly back the efforts of prosecutors in the human rights unit of the Honduras Attorney General’s office to investigate army and police abuses in Honduras and to overturn a decree by the de facto government that sev
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
Honduras's de facto government should immediately rescind an emergency decree that severely restricts press freedoms, Human Rights Watch said
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 00:00
"Initial reports suggest that members of the Army may have massacred these people, with the purpose of eliminating and intimidating witnesses of atrocities,"
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 00:00
We hope that you will also take the opportunity to express to President Uribe the importance of acting in accordance with basic democratic and human rights principles, including respect for the separation of powers and for the role of civil society
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico's Misuse of Military Justice to Prosecute Abuses in Counternarcotics and Public Security Operations
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 00:00
This 76-page report details 17 cases involving military abuses against more than 70 victims, including several cases from 2007 and 2008. The abuses include killings, torture, rapes, and arbitrary detentions.
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 00:00
Lina Paola Malagon, an attorney at a human rights organization, the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ), received a death threat signed by the Black Eagles - Capital Bloc on March 2, 2009, citing her work for her organization and on behalf of trade unio
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 00:00
A group of eight labor and human rights organizations called on the Colombian government today to respect the work of trade unionists and human rights defenders in Colombia and to retract statements that put these workers at risk.
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 00:00
Eight labor and human rights organizations call on the Colombian government to respect the work of trade unionists and human rights defenders in Colombia and to retract statements that put these workers at risk.