Accountability for Congo's Palm Oil Workers
After Pledging Reforms, UK Development Bank Should Implement Them
A United Kingdom development bank, CDC Group, has taken another step toward addressing human rights abuses at oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In May, the bank committed to reforming its complaints mechanism and adopting a…
Google Defends Internet Freedom
The search engine stops censoring information and ideas in China
Last month, Google - one of the world's most important technology companies - stood up to the Chinese government by making it clear that it will not be complicit in censoring information and ideas. For years, corporations - including Google, Yahoo!,…
UK: European Court Rebuke Over Indefinite Detention
Revise Policies to Ensure Fair Hearing
(London) - The ruling today by the European Court of Human Rights on the United Kingdom's detention policy for foreign terrorism suspects confirms that indefinite detention violates basic rights, Human Rights Watch said. The court ruled that the…
May 1, 2007 News
UK Court Rules Diplomatic Assurances Not Reliable in Deportation Cases
UK efforts to deport terrorism suspects to countries where they risk torture suffered a major blow on April 27 when a British court ruled that two men, alleged members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, could not be sent back to Libya, despite the al-…
July 1, 2006 News
United Kingdom: Parliamentary Committee Denounces British Torture Practices
The Joint Committee on Human Rights of the U.K. Parliament last month released a report criticizing the U.K.'s compliance with the U.N. Convention Against Torture, particularly its use of diplomatic assurances. Human Rights Watch played a significant…
Torture Worldwide
Torture is common in China's criminal justice system. Recent HRW research suggests that abuses are particularly likely in Tibet and Xinjiang. In Tibet, authorities have subjected religious figures and activists to mistreatment in detention. In…
HRW and U.S. Congress Advocate Release of Chinese Factory Workers
Human Rights Watch helped to draft and collect signatures for a letter sent by members of the United States Congress requesting the immediate release of two prisoners, Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang, from the Liaoyang area of Liaoning province in northeast…