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	Human Rights Watch: Permissions: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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	www.hrw.org /about/faq/permissions.htm (2713 words)

	CNN.com - Human Rights Watch: Suicide bombers 'war criminals' - Nov. 1, 2002
		Human Rights Watch also said the Palestinian Authority and its president, Yasser Arafat, have failed to do all they can to stop suicide attacks or bring the perpetrators to justice, thus contributing to "an atmosphere of impunity" for such crimes.
		Human Rights Watch called on all Palestinian armed groups to halt their attacks on civilians "immediately and unconditionally," and urged the Palestinian Authority to make sure those responsible for such attacks are brought to justice.
		Human Rights Watch based its report, "Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks against Israeli Civilians," on interviews with P.A. officials and members of the armed groups, and P.A. internal documents it said were made public by Israel.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/11/01/human.rights.palestinians (1063 words)

	BBSNews - Human Rights Watch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		New research by Human Rights Watch found that torture by forces under the command of Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov and the Ministry of Internal Affairs special investigative bureau is widespread and systematic.
		Human Rights Watch, however, also reminded the IDF that even in the absence of deliberately orchestrated measures to maximize a civilian presence near its targets, any destruction of civilian property must be done strictly in compliance with international humanitarian law.
		Human Rights Watch has also reported extensively on the coerced use of Palestinian civilians during military operations, and documented the use of Palestinian civilians as "human shields" and for military purposes during the Israeli military operations in Jenin in 2002.
	bbsnews.net /index.php?topic=hrw (2391 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human Rights Watch was founded under the name Helsinki Watch in 1978 to monitor the former Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki Accords.
		Human Rights Watch was one of six international NGOs that founded the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in 1998.
		Human Rights Watch made recent headlines by criticizing the Jordanian government for arresting elected officials who praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, at ceremonies held in response to his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_Rights_Watch (1025 words)

	Zimbabwe: Human Rights Watch Report
		Human Rights Watch called on the government of Zimbabwe to reestablish the rule of law, disband youth militia, withdraw military personnel from residential areas, and revise legislation that are contrary to international human rights law.
		The deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe is the continuation of a consistent pattern of human rights abuses over the past three years.
		Urge all actors to respect the human rights of all parties and to abjure the use of violence and intimidation.
	www.africaaction.org /docs03/zim0306b.htm (2347 words)

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		Human Rights Watch (HRW), with a full-time staff of 190 around the world and a budget based entirely on private donations of approximately $22 million per year, describes itself as one of “only two international human rights organizations operating worldwide in most situations of severe repression or abuse,” the other being Amnesty International (AI).
		HRW writes that its “principle advocacy strategy is to shame offenders by generating press attention and to exert diplomatic and economic pressure on them by enlisting influential governments and institutions” on an ever-widening array of issues.
		HRW has received funding from: the Ahmanson Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Ford Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Righteous Persons Foundation; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and the Rockefeller Foundation.
	www.discoverthenetwork.com /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258 (2962 words)

	Who is behind Human Rights Watch?
		Human Rights Watch is organised approximately by continent.
		A curiosity: this human rights supporter is accused of an attempt to destroy the right to free speech, in his post at the International Narcotics Control Board: see A Duty to Censor: U.N. Officials Want to Crack Down on Drug War Protesters in the libertarian Reason Magazine.
		Zabel is a director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html (6574 words)

	"Unbiased" Advice
		However, Human Rights Watch, along with many other organizations which claim to focus solely on human rights without a political agenda, have hardly proven themselves to be an "unbiased" source.
		The international human rights framework was created in response to the horrors of the Holocaust and embodied in the Nuremberg trials and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
		Human Rights Watch is just one of many biased or previously discredited sources that the media often refer to when reporting on Israel.
	honestreporting.com /articles/45884734/critiques/-Unbiased-_Advice.asp (859 words)

	Human Rights Watch
		Human Rights Watch also observed large numbers of landmines of the same types and nearly identical lot numbers in areas of neighboring Eritrea and Uganda which had been taken from rebel groups supported by the government of Sudan.
		Human Rights Watch holds that armed forces that commit gross violations of international human rights or humanitarian law (the laws of war), be they governmental or rebel groups, should not be further armed by members of the international community.
		Human Rights Watch therefore calls on the international community to immediately institute an arms embargo against both the government of Sudan and anti-government insurgents united in the NDA in order to send a strong signal to all sides in the war that their abusive conduct will no longer be tolerated.
	www.commondreams.org /pressreleases/Aug98/082098g.htm (1177 words)

	Human Rights Watch report
		HRW and independent analysts, however, remain hopeful that Khatami, who was elected by in a landslide victory last May, may be more sympathetic to the minorities' plight.
		Iran's constitution guarantees all minority and religious rights provided they are consistent with "the limits of national law." Full exercise of those rights are also qualified by the overriding position of Islam as interpreted by the ruling circle of Shi'a clerics and the power of judges to rule on the basis of Islamic law.
		A U.S.-based human rights group on Wednesday urged Iran's new president to stop what it said was discrimination against, and in some cases persecution of, certain religious and ethnic minorities.
	bahai-library.com /newspapers/human.rights.watch.html (1378 words)

	Project DIANA : Cuban American Bar Association v. Warren Christopher : Brief Amicus Curiae of Human Rights Watch
		Human Rights Watch is an independent nongovernmental organization established in 1978 to monitor and promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and among the signatories of the Helsinki accords.
		Human Rights Watch's credibility and effectiveness in each region of the world is based on its reputation for applying international human rights standards in an evenhanded fashion in evaluating the conduct of different nations.
		The defendants assert, nonetheless, that even the prospect of systematic and egregious abuse of the rights of these refugees by the Cuban government upon their return is legally irrelevant to the authority of the United States government to expel them from their detention camps and repatriate them to Cuba.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diana/haiti/guantana.htm (4284 words)

	Global Watch
		Human rights, whether we live in a developed nation or a developing nation, are constantly violated by corrupt regimes or abusive political or power interests...
		Corporate Watch has an excellent feature called Repression, Inc. which explores the corporate involvement in numerous human rights abuses and the corporate influence in political areas which may have played a part in coups, brutal regimes etc.
		People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) work to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.
	www.zmag.org /GlobalWatch/HumanRights.html (797 words)

	Human Rights First \| International Justice - ATCA and TVPA
		The ATCA thus has provided a means of holding officials accountable for their gross violations of human rights – while also offering the potential to deter future abuses, and to keep the United States from becoming a safe harbor for those responsible for such abuses.
		Human Rights First played a leading role in the 102nd Congress’ passage of the Torture Victim Protection Act, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in March 1992, as a complement to the ATCA.
		Being present in a zone of human rights abuses is simply not sufficient to meet the high threshold.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /international_justice/w_context/w_cont_12.htm (1431 words)

	Human Rights Watch
		In addition, the two organizations urge the United Nations Human Rights Committee to address U.S. criminal disenfranchisement laws in light of international human rights treaties prohibiting unreasonable or racially discriminatory restrictions on the right to vote.
		Human Rights Watch is an independent non-profit organization that uses research and advocacy to promote respect for internationally recognized human rights in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
		Convicted felons can regain the right to vote through a pardon or executive order of the governor, or if the state legislature passes a bill, and the governor signs it, restoring their voting rights.
	www.commondreams.org /pressreleases/Oct98/102298f.htm (1959 words)

	Human Rights Watch Privacy Policy
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		We reserve the right to revise this privacy policy from time to time.
	www.hrw.org /about/privacy.htm (1124 words)

	About Human Rights Watch
		Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
		We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.
		Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide.
	www.hrw.org /about (149 words)

	Human Rights Watch \| Hu Jintao’s Visit to the United States (Site not responding. Last check: )
		China cannot be written off as a political backwater and their human rights violations must be met by the same sort of response the US is happy to give towards the likes of Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.
		The international human rights community needs to step up and respond to reports filed by investigators, who queried doctors at transplant hospitals around China, and were told that patients should come in before May 1- after May 1 the organs will not be easily available.
		Human Rights are those rights without which we cannot live as human being.Under no circumstance no one should be deprieved of his, whatever may be the compulsion, by any individual, society or even any government.We are human first, state comes afterwards.
	extras.hrw.org /plog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=12&blogId=1 (3506 words)

	The Arabist » Is Human Rights Watch racist?
		I think the real issue for HRW is that while Hizollahâs attacks on Haifa are indiscriminate attacks on civilians with no apparent or even alleged military targets, the is âlegally speakingâ no reason to believe that Israel is targeting civilians as opposed to aiming for Hizbollah yet not taking enough care to avoid killing civilians.
		In fact, the best approach here would be to pressure human rights groups to consistently cover both sides of the story, so they hear concerns of bias from a non-unilateral source.
		The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices.
	arabist.net /archives/2006/07/19/is-human-rights-watch-racist (2082 words)

	The Right Coast: "Human Rights Watch" Watch 2Maimon Schwarzschild
		I've met one senior Human Rights Watch officer at several symposia in New York over the past few months, and I was genuinely taken aback at her visceral hatred not only for George Bush (that's to be taken for granted in these circles) but for the US more generally.
		I don't know about the CIA's human rights report, since I imagine they can collate their own data, but much of the content of the UK foreign office's annual HR report is based on information obtained by AI and HRW.
		AI and HRW also need to be concerned about their perception, and they've been failing miserably for years, and at this point are worthy of contempt and disdain.
	rightcoast.typepad.com /rightcoast/2006/08/human_rights_wa.html (4899 words)

	Some US tactics in Iraq are war crimes, group alleges - The Boston Globe
		The military denied the charges by Human Rights Watch, saying it only destroyed homes that were being used to store weapons or as fighting positions, adding that all Iraqis detained were suspected of taking part in attacks on coalition forces.
		The New York-based human rights group said US soldiers demolished at least four Iraqi homes for no apparent military reason other than to punish the families of guerrilla suspects.
		In a letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Human Rights Watch called for a halt to such tactics and asked him to ensure US forces abide by the 1949 Geneva Conventions, holding soldiers accountable for ordering, condoning, or carrying out serious violations of the laws of war.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/01/14/some_us_tactics_in_iraq_are_war_crimes_group_alleges (363 words)

	Kashmir Watch :: Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Just as right to life (understood as right to live in dignity) is the cornerstone of all other rights without which one cannot enjoy any liberty.
		If right of self-determination is what people exercise and not a choice imposed on them then it lends strength to the fact that people want to decide for themselves.
		Thus, there is no full right of appeal on facts and law, and it is a settled law that in such a case post-decisional hearing will be illusory and a violation of natural justice and order will be void.
	www.kashmirwatch.com /hrecord.htm (7703 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Iraq prisoner abuse 'was routine'
		The HRW report gives first-hand accounts of abuses at a detention centre at Baghdad airport called Camp Nama, as well as a facility near Mosul airport and a base near al-Qaim on the Syrian border.
		An interrogator posted at Mosul in 2004 told HRW that he and his fellow interrogators had been told by the officer in charge of their unit to use abuse techniques on some detainees.
		HRW gives accounts of instances where soldiers who were concerned by the abuses were thwarted from reporting it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/5206908.stm (773 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
		The govt must learn to honour the land rights of tribals, whereas the same govts are very keen to regularise the illegal encroachments of public lands by builders in metropolis even daring to by-pass judiciary.
		Detainees in Guantánamo Bay are held in prolonged indefinite detention, which violates a fundamental legal principle: that anyone detained has the right to be promptly brought before an independent judicial officer to challenge the lawfulness of their detention.
		You have repeatedly asserted that the USA strives to "defend and extend a vision of human dignity" and "uphold the rule of law".
	journals.aol.com /nagmysr/HUMANRIGHTSWATCH (1881 words)

	Join the Human Rights Watch Mailing List
		The Arms Division of Human Rights Watch was established in 1992 to monitor and curb the flow of arms to abusive forces, and to oppose the development and use of inhumane weapons.
		Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Action Network provides news and updates on the rights of children around the world.
		The Refugee Policy Program at Human Rights Watch was started in 1998 to advocate for the rights of asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and refugees around the world.
	www.hrw.org /act/subscribe-mlists/subscribe.htm (2181 words)

	Human Rights
		The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago.
		The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises.
		Each year, DRL develops, edits, and submits to Congress a 5,000-page report on human rights conditions in over 190 countries that is respected globally for its objectivity and accuracy.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/hr (509 words)

	The Cat's Blog: Watching Human Rights Watch - Open Letter to Kenneth Roth, Executive Director Human Rights Watch
		The problem with HRW's work, in general, is who is selected as a human rights abuser, and when the reports are released.
		HRW's recent statements condemning secret torture prisons are a welcome respite from their unrelenting support of US policies, and I think this is due to recent changes in elite Washingon opinion rather than any rebellion on HRW's part.
		HRW has long been a shill for American power, dating back to its origins as Helsinki Watch, highlighting all of the human rights abuses of the Eastern Bloc, of which there were many, and eliding those of the so-called Free World, of which there arguably more.
	www.thecatsdream.com /blog/2005/12/watching-human-rights-watch-open.htm (1826 words)

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