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The following articles / commentaries / letters to the editors /testimony were written by the staff of Human Rights Watch. They express our concerns regarding a few of the many pressing human rights issues addressed by the organization on a regular basis.


Bhutan's ethnic cleansing
By Bill Frelick
Published in New Statesman
Bill Frelick examines the plight of Bhutan's stateless ethnic Nepalese.
February 1, 2008
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Troubled Times
Published in Progress Magazine
For years, the Bush administration in the United States has stood by the government of President Álvaro Uribe in Colombia unconditionally, turning a blind eye to Colombia’s serious human rights problems. The Blair government in the UK, for the most part, quietly followed suit, providing substantial assistance to Colombia’s military with no strings attached. It’s time to rethink that policy.
February 1, 2008
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Making exceptions for Ethiopia
By Tom Porteous, London Director
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Meles Zenawi thinks the west's attitude to Africa is unbalanced and unfair. But his country is being torn apart by human rights abuses
January 31, 2008
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A Return to the Marcos Era?
By Sophie Richardson
Published in The FEER Forum
Late last year, Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, released his final report on the Philippines. The results were not encouraging: Mr. Alston found that at least 100 journalists, labor leaders, land reform advocates, and church members had been killed by the government since 2005.
January 31, 2008
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The Right Way Forward for Kenya
Chris Albin-Lackey and Ben Rawlence
Published in The print edition of The Standard
Kenya's electoral crisis is spinning out of control, threatening the country's future, and exacting a terrible toll on thousands of ordinary Kenyans. Hundreds have been killed and thousands more chased out of their homes by mobs made up of former neighbours. The need for a political settlement between Kibaki and Odinga grows more urgent by the day as violence spreads and public anger deepens. But any compromise should address the crime that sparked this crisis to begin with— the rigging of Kenya's Presidential poll.
January 30, 2008
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Jordan: Aid Should be Tied to Human Rights
Critics Raise Sovereignty to Sidestep Human Rights Issues
By Christoph Wilcke, researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division
Published in Al-Arab al-Yawm
On December 17, 2007, Human Rights Watch released its report, “Shutting Out the Critics,” which detailed violations of the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association in Jordan. Since then, the new government of Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi withdrew a dangerous draft law regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and promised to amend the law on public gatherings and, with the input of NGOs, draft a new law.
January 30, 2008
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How not to fight HIV/AIDS
By Joe Amon
Published in Guardian Unlimited
The charity founded by Bill Gates is pouring millions into combating HIV in China. But it's repeating old mistakes.
January 28, 2008
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South Korea: Defend Human Rights
By Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch
Published in The Korea Times
We congratulate you on your election as South Korea's next president. With only a month left until you take office, we are writing to draw your attention to urgent human rights issues on the Korean Peninsula.
January 23, 2008
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Protecting Children from Sexual Violence: Don't Adopt the Adam Walsh Act
By Sarah Tofte, criminal justice researcher
Published in Sacramento Bee
As state legislatures begin their 2008 sessions, lawmakers will need to decide whether to comply with the federal Adam Walsh Act on sex offenders or lose federal money for law enforcement. The choice for states is to dramatically increase their registration and community notification requirements for convicted sex offenders by 2009 or lose significant federal law enforcement grant money. Yet, adoption of this Act will, in fact, harm those who it purports to protect.
January 22, 2008
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Human rights in Libya
By Fred Abrahams
Published in New Statesman
Despite his global rehabilitation, Libyans continue to face torture if they criticise Gaddafi's government. A case of drilling rights not human rights?
January 14, 2008
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India and Burma: time to choose
By Meenakshi Ganguly, senior researcher on South Asia for Human Rights Watch
Published in openDemocracy
A change of policy towards Burma's military dictatorship is needed to put India on the right side of history, says Meenakshi Ganguly.
January 14, 2008
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Injudicious imaginings
The UK must forge its own, more realistic Pakistan policy
By Ali Dayan Hasan, South Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch
Published in Progress Magazine
January 11, 2008
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Loving Libya
'Normal' relations with Colonel Gadafy risk glossing over real concerns about Libya's human rights record.
By Tom Porteous, London Director
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Last October, EU foreign ministers gave a green light for negotiations on a "framework agreement" between Brussels and Tripoli. EU member states should use them to start pushing for genuine reform in Libya. And that should mean not just indulging in fancy human rights rhetoric, but insisting on concrete progress on reforming Libya's judicial system and ending torture, disappearances, arbitrary detention and repression of political rights.
January 8, 2008
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Commentary: Dynasties, democracy and dictatorship
By Ali Dayan Hasan, South Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch
Published in CNN International
Honoring Benazir Bhutto's last wishes, her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) today named her teenage son Bilawal, and her husband, Asif Zardari as its leaders.
December 31, 2007
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Pakistan's future imperfect
While Britain and the US refuse to challenge Musharraf's rule, the media remains muzzled and free elections are nowhere in sight
By Ali Dayan Hasan, South Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch
Published in Guardian Unlimited
Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan and serial coup-maker, kept his "promise" to the west, lifting on December 15 the state of emergency he imposed on November 3, resigning from his position as army chief and calling parliamentary elections for January 8 next year. The international media that had descended on Islamabad in droves has largely gone home and the crisis is over. London and Washington are congratulating themselves on a job well done: Musharraf is now a "civilian president", the constitution stands "restored", and full democracy is around the corner.
December 21, 2007
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Killing the messengers
Published in The International Herald Tribune
This autumn I had coffee with a journalist colleague who was forced to leave Colombia for more than two years due to death threats. When he returned, President Álvaro Uribe welcomed him home by publicly calling him a liar. Soon after, fresh death threats arrived at his office.
December 18, 2007
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Civil society needs freedom, not government control
Published in http://www.alghad.jo/?article=7777
Jordan's newly elected deputies would be wise to draw on the experience that the country's civil society representatives have built up over the past decade. This would give guidance when they face the task of critically reviewing laws that the government wants them to pass. One such law, however, is designed to foreclose this opportunity by shutting civil society out of Jordan's policy debates.
December 18, 2007
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Blackwater in Baghdad: "It was a horror movie"
New testimony from witnesses and victims provides the most in-depth, harrowing account to date of the US security firm's deadly rampage in Iraq
By Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel
Published in salon.com
Interviews with victims and witnesses to the Sept. 16 shooting in Nissour Square bring to light more information about the problems caused by private contractors, which have effectively operated with impunity as they've brought violence and widespread ill will to US operations in Iraq.
December 14, 2007
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New Human Rights Council Requires Greater Political and Diplomatic Effort to Realize Its Potential
By Lawrence Moss
Published in UNA-USA E-Newsletter
Much legitimate criticism of the Council centers on its disappointing treatment of specific country situations. The problems are political, not institutional. The challenge is to develop the political will for this system to directly address abuses, rather than hold back criticism to avoid giving offense. There is a special need for engagement by the United States.
December 11, 2007
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Kosovo: the vulnerable have been forgotten
By Wanda Troszczynska-van Genderen, Western Balkans researcher
Published in Guardian Unlimited
The search for a solution to Kosovo's status must not be an excuse for the authorities turning a blind eye to its serious human rights problems
December 10, 2007
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