EFF and Partners Support Media Monitoring Service in Fight for Fair Use
A media monitoring service that creates a text-searchable database of television and radio content is defending its fair use rights before a federal appeals court. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), New York University’s Technology Law and...
Israel/Palestine: Summary Execution of Wounded Palestinian
The open and casual way that a soldier appears to execute a wounded, prone Palestinian, which was captured on video, suggests a dangerous climate of impunity for war crimes. The soldier fired an assault rifle at the head of a man identified as Abd al-...
ICTY/Bosnia: Karadzic Convicted for Srebrenica Genocide
The conviction of Radovan Karadzic, the former president of the Republic of Srpska, for his role in the Srebrenica genocide and other grave crimes shows that persistence can deliver justice, Human Rights Watch said on March 24.
Iran: Detainees Denied Fair Legal Representation
Iran should remove restrictions on access to lawyers for people charged with national security crimes, Human Rights Watch said on March 24. Nine months after Iran’s new criminal procedure expanded detainees’ access to a lawyer during the investigative...
Chad: Court Order, But No Cash, for Ex-Dictator’s Victims
Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre is escorted by military officers after being heard by judge...
UN rights chief urges Egypt to halt 'clampdown' on civil society groups
Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, holds his first press conference...
UN welcomes 'historic' guilty verdict against Radovan Karadžić
Radovan Karadžic at his initial appearance in court, July 2008.
Sudan: Silencing Women Rights Defenders
Sudanese security forces have used sexual violence, intimidation, and other forms of abuse to silence female human rights defenders across the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on March 23, 2016. The government should investigate...
US: Transgender Women Abused in Immigration Detention
An illustration depicts a transgender woman housed in a men's immigration detention facility.
Côte d’Ivoire: 5 Years On, Awaiting Justice
Côte d’Ivoire has not yet delivered justice for victims of grave crimes by both sides in the country’s 2010-2011 post-election crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on March 22, 2016. President Alassane Ouattara and his new justice...
