Human Rights Watch blasts new U.N. rights watchdog
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U.S.-based Human Rights Watch called the United Nations' Human Rights Council a "huge disappointment" as the new international watchdog prepared to wrap up only its second session on Friday.
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Human Rights Watch said Monday that new cases had come to light of deaths of men in American custody in Afghanistan and it accused the Defense Department of operating
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In a scathing report, Human Rights Watch blamed the U.S. and Europe for undermining human rights around the world by allowing autocrats to pretend they are democratic simply by holding rigged elections.
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U.N. human rights monitors on Friday  accused Sudan's army of bombing villages in North Darfur,  killing and injuring civilians, and forcing hundreds of people  to flee their homes.
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China&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called United States-based Human Rights Watch ``wicked&#39;&#39; for issuing a critical report on rights in Hong Kong ahead of Sunday&#39;s Legislative Council election.
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The United Nations' top human rights body, scorned by the U.S. administration and shunned by the only two countries it has sought to scrutinize, is still trying to set the rules for combatting atrocities a year after its creation by the General Assembly.
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The State Department declared today that the genocide in Darfur is the worldâs gravest human rights abuse.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan on  Tuesday demanded that the world body's human rights watchdog,  meeting in special session on Sudan's Darfur, send a clear  message that the "nightmare" of violence had to stop.
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In its harshest condemnation of Israel since last summer's war, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from "indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes," according to a report to be released Thursday.
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A U.S.-based human rights group denounced on Tuesday the recent arrests of democracy activists by Syrian authorities and called for an investigation of alleged beatings during interrogations.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 10 (IPS) - Two leading human rights groups have criticised the  U.N. Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee for  refusing to castigate governments that crack down on human rights  in the name of fighting terrorism.
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Human Rights Watch urged Mexican  lawmakers on Wednesday to overhaul a justice system that breeds  torture and feeds notorious rights scandals like the murders of  hundreds of women near the U.S. border.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon joined Western nations on Wednesday in criticizing the  world body&#39;s own Human Rights Council for picking on Israel as  part of an agreement on its working rules.
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Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to impose targeted sanctions on Sudan if it fails to stop attacks on civilians in Darfur or disrupts the work of a planned peacekeeping force.
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Human Rights Watch condemned a crackdown on Mennonite Christians in Vietnam and accused the communist regime of intensifying its campaign against religious freedom.
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The UN Human Rights Council on Monday blamed Sudan for gross human rights abuses in Darfur in a report that charged Khartoum with direct involvement in war crimes in the region.
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Cambodia complained to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday about a damning human rights assessment of the country by Ban's special rapporteur.