Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad is winner of this year’s Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking. He will be presented the prize at the 14th Annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, which takes place in New York from 13 to 26 June. Read more about Palestinian Filmmaker this year's winner of the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking
Wednesday’s summit among U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Ministers Mahmud Abbas and Ariel Sharon should insert human rights protection into the “roadmap,” Human Rights Watch said today. Read more about Roadmap needs rights component
Human Rights Watch, International Commission of Jurists, International Federation for Human Rights, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network and World Organisation Against Torture
26 May 2003
Amnesty International, the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights (EMNHR), Human Rights Watch (HRW), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) are deeply concerned about the increase of Israeli restrictions against human rights and humanitarian workers. Read more about International rights groups decry increased harassment of monitors
Israel’s arrest of Human Rights Watch’s researcher for Israel and the Occupied Territories sends the wrong signal on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch protested the arrest and called for the researcher’s immediate release [Sissons was released at approximately midnight local time today]. Read more about Human Rights Watch to Appeal Deportation of Researcher
The “roadmap” for ending Israeli-Palestinian violence will fail unless it includes basic human rights safeguards, Human Rights Watch warned today, on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories. Read more about Roadmap fails rights test
The Israeli army should immediately stop using U.S.-supplied flechette shells in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more about HRW: "Israel should stop using flechettes"
Human Rights Watch released its World Report 2003, which states that Israel uses excessive lethal force in its reoccupation of West Bank towns. The report states that IDF soldiers have willfully and unlawfully killed Palestinian civilians, damaged property and looted homes. Read more about Human Rights Watch: "Israel uses excessive force"
The people responsible for planning and carrying out suicide bombings that deliberately target civilians are guilty of crimes against humanity and should be brought to justice, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on 1 November 2002. Read more about Human Rights Watch releases report on suicide bombings
“There is no justification in international law for the collective punishment of relatives of someone responsible for a criminal act, no matter how heinous that act may have been,” says HRW researcher in Gaza, Johanna Bjorken. Read more about Gaza: IDF House Demolition Injures Refugees
The U.N. report on events in Jenin is seriously flawed, Human Rights Watch said today. The report, mandated by a U.N. General Assembly resolution after Israeli objections forced the Secretary-General to disband a U.N. fact-finding team, largely limits itself to presenting competing accounts of the events during the Israeli military operations. Read more about U.N. Jenin Report 'Flawed'