NGO Monitor: HRW’s Founder Condemns Moral Failure

This is an historic report on the HRW by the founder himself. I received this by email and has been approved for publication.(Jerusalem) –Robert Bernstein, the founder of Human Rights Watch, has published a very important criticism of the organization in the NY Times. In...

Sri lanka has the highest number of disappearances in the world.

Human Rights Watch Reports: Human Rights Watch research determined that the Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis. Human Rights Watch...

HRW call for international probe

"The government said its forces had been instructed to stop using heavy weaponry and air attacks which could cause civilian casualties. A statement issued by the government said, "The priority would be saving civilians trapped in the war zone". "

President of Guyana called on to end abuse of 'trans' people

In a letter to the President of the Republic of Guyana, several human rights organizations have called for an end to police abuse of transgendered people in Guyana." The letter was signed by the Caribbean Forum...

Government of Canada Hears the Plight of Sri lankan Community

Toronto: A forum was organized by South Asians for Human Rights Association (SAHRA) at Markham City Hall, in Canada was attended by the dozens of Tamil community leaders and Oakridges-Markham constituents on February 20th 2009.   The forum opened up direct dialogue...

Recent NGO & rights groups coverage on Sri Lankan conflict

" UN calls on Tamil rebels to ensure free passage for world body’s staff 22 January 2009 – The United Nations has issued its strongest possible protest to the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

Under reported underdogs

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on 10th December 1948 by the United Nations at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. Since then this day has been celebrated all over the world as...

DR Congo Government "Killed 500 Opponents," Human Rights Group Claims

IT has been claimed today by a civil liberties group, Human Rights Warch (HRW) that the Congolese government deliberately destroyed a number of their opponents, with up to 500 people believed to have been victims, since ballots that took place in 2006 ...

U.N. says US backed Colombian military executing civilians

As Colombian President Alvaro Uribe rejected criticism made by Amnesty International and Human Right Watch nover his administration management of fundamental Rights , the U.N. High Commissioner for Human...

HRW Report Accuses Chavez of Abusing Rights to Tighten Hold on Venezuela (upd...

UPDATES: In reaction to the HRW report, Venezuelan government ordered the expulsion of its Americas director, José Miguel Vivanco, from Caracas.   After various attempts to put the issue in regional and...

Indian state 'backing vigilantes'

Leading human Rights Organisation HRW has accused  Indian provincial government of Chattisgarh of  promoting state backed armed activists to deal with Maoists rebels. HRW has also said that the violence has displaced tens of thousands of people who are...

An ethical 2008 Beijing Olympics ... perhaps

" Shareholders and consumers who care about human rights should not let Olympic corporate sponsors off the hook. Their silence on abuses in the run-up to the Beijing Games makes their claims to support human rights especially disingenuous. Arvind Ganesan, director of...

EU warns Sri Lanka over deteriorating human rights

European Union one of the largest trading partner and the second largest for garments export warned Sri Lanka of losing preferential import tariffs if the human rights record to get worse. The Reuters news story...

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