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Human Rights Watch's World Report 2014 is the global rights
watchdog's flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in
human rights. An invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats,
and citizens, it features not only incisive country surveys but
also hard-hitting essays highlighting key human rights issues and
striking photo essays by award-winning photographers. Customers
outside of the UK and Europe: copies are available from
Sevenstories.com
This 119-page report, entitled Playing with Fire: Weapons
Proliferation, Political Violence, and Human Rights in Kenya,
documents the dangerous nexus between arms availability and ethnic
attacks in Kenya. The report highlights politically instigated
armed violence on Kenya's coast during the last general election
cycle, in 1997. Human Rights Watch describes in detail the armed
political violence in Kenya's Coast Province in mid-1997 and the
role of ruling-party officials in stoking the violence. A
quasi-military force of well-organized and well-armed attackers
carried out brutal attacks on civilians from other ethnic groups in
areas around Mombasa, Coast Province.
CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM
WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM Human Rights Watch's twenty-third annual World
Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries
and territories worldwide. An invaluable and respected resource for
journalists, diplomats, and citizens, the book includes essays that
tackle major human rights themes, and country chapters addressing
key human rights abuses and the roles -positive or negative - that
significant domestic and international figures played during the
year. It reflects extensive investigative work by Human Rights
Watch staff, often in close partnership with domestic activists.
If you eat bananas give a moment to think- a quarter of the bananas
exported to the USA and the EU are grown in Ecuador in conditions
where: - workers might expect to be fired if they organise, -
children as young as eight work long hours, exposed to toxic
chemicals, and face accidents from sharp machetes and knives -
corporations are complicit
The northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is
home to one of Africa's richest goldfields. This report documents
widespread human rights abuses linked to ruthless efforts by
foreign armies and armed groups to control two key gold mining
areas: Mongbwalu and Durba. In their battles for gold, armed groups
carried out widespread ethnic slaughter, torture and rape leaving
more than 60,000 civilians dead in this remote corner of Congo.
Armed group leaders together with their local business allies used
the proceeds from the sale of gold to gain access to money, guns,
and power. In 2003 alone nearly $60 million of tainted gold was
smuggled out of Congo to Uganda, destined for the global gold
markets in Europe and elsewhere. These funds enriched only the
fortunate few and left many others impoverished and abused.
Multinational mining companies also sought to start gold mining and
exploration activities in this volatile area. One such company,
AngloGold Ashanti, one of the largest gold producers in the world,
launched a gold exploration program in Mongbwalu, an area
controlled by an armed group responsible for war crimes and crimes
against humanity. In return for assurances of security and access
to the mining site, AngloGold Ashanti established a relationship
with this murderous armed group which in turn obtained financial,
material and political benefits There will be no peace in Congo
unless those who are involved in the exploitation of its natural
resources make respect for human rights a fundamental consideration
in their business activities. Multinational companies need to
ensure that no support of any kind is provided to armed groups
responsible for serious human rights crimes. Congolese citizens
deserve to benefit from the country's rich resources, not be cursed
by them.
The backbone of the report is a series of overviews of pressing
issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular
focus on the role played in each country by the government and key
domestic and international organisations.
Human Rights Watch publish a report surveying the US government's
human rights policy in many of the countries that they monitor.
This volume includes an analysis of human rights developments in
those countries and a discussion of each country's respect for the
right to monitor human rights conditions. Each chapter contains a
description of Human Rights Watch's work in promoting human rights
in that country. The survey covers more than 60 countries, spanning
every region of the world. It aims to be an unbiased and thoroughly
accurate review including issues of free speech, the laws of war,
and US foreign policy.
The backbone of the report is a series of overviews of pressing
issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular
focus on the role played in each country by the government and key
domestic and international organisations.
For the past nine years, Human Rights Watch has published a report
surveying the US government's human rights policy in many of the
countries that they monitor. In this volume they have also included
an analysis of human rights developments in those countries. They
have added a discussion of each country's respect for the right to
monitor human rights conditions, and each chapter contains a
description of Human Rights Watch's work in promoting human rights
in that country. The survey covers 57 countries, spanning every
region of the world. It aims to be an unbiased and thoroughly
accurate review including issues of free speech, the laws of war,
and US foreign policy.
The transformation of Czechoslovakia into a democratic society has
had both positive and negative effects on the Romanies. On the
positive side, Romanies have been recognized as a national
minority, guaranteeing them important cultural and legal protection
under the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Czech
and Slovak Federal Republic. Despite improvements in their legal
status, however, Helsinki Watch finds that the consequences of past
policies towards Romanies continue to affect the Romany community
in the 1990s. One matter is the government's failure to condemn
publicly and to investigate and prosecute those responsible for
medical procedures in which Romany women were sterilized without
their consent and, in some cases, without their knowledge. In
addition, Helsinki Watch notes the charges that Romanies suffer
from many human rights abuses. It shows that discrimination against
Romanies have reportedly increased in housing, employment, and
access to public and private services since the democratic changes
in 1989. It also notes that post-communist development has meant an
incrase in nationalist tendencies that has led to the formation of
several groups which have repeatedly attached members of the Romany
population both verbally and physically.
"A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where
emotion tends to dominate."-Simon Jenkins, former editor of "The
Times" (London)
"The reports of the New Yorkbased Human Rights Watch (HRW) have
become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical,
these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights
abuses in the country."-Ahmed Rashid, "The New York Review of
Books"
"World Report 2010" describes events around the world during the
past year, giving concise overviews of the most pressing human
rights issues with particular focus on the roles-positive or
negative-played in each country by key domestic and international
figures.
Human Rights Watch is the largest US-based international human
rights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curb
human rights abuses in over seventy countries.
The backbone of the report is a series of overviews of pressing
issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular
focus on the role played in each country by the government and key
domestic and international organisations.
The introduction to this annual publication reflects on recent
events and recent changes in the world. The body of the annual
report considers the human rights record of some 150 governments
throughout the world.
CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM
WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM The 25th annual World Report summarizes human
rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories
worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in
2014 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic
rights activists. The World Report 2015 focuses in particular on
the roles--positive or negative--played in each country by key
domestic and international figures. Human Rights Watch executive
director Kenneth Roth's introduction addresses the tumultuous
events of the past year, and describes inattention to human rights
as an aggravating factor in the rise of brutal non-state actors
such as ISIS and Boko Haram. Other essays focus on the
strangulation of civil society by both repressive and so-called
democratic countries; the need to keep surveillance on the human
rights agenda; the alarming rise of explosive weapons in populated
areas; and human rights abuses linked to mega-sporting events.
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