MEXICO CITY - Nearly 20 months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, women and girls have been badly neglected in recovery efforts, subjected to sexual violence and left without access to obstetric care even as they give birth to scores of babies in squalid tent cities, human rights activists say. Despite a mammoth humanitarian-care push in the wake of the Jan. 12, 2010 quake that killed as many as 300,000 people, serious gaps exist in the health care that women and girls are receiving, according to a report released Tuesday by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
BEIJING (AP) -- A leading Chinese Internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity in China's portion of cyberspace, calling for new rules to require people to use their real names when buying a mobile phone or going online, a human rights group said. In an address to the national legislature in April, Wang Chen, director of the State Council Information Office, called for perfecting the system of censorship the government uses to manage the fast-evolving Internet, according to a text of the speech obtained by New York-based Human Rights in China.
View AP video about oil g ONLINE at wvgazette.com NEW YORK - Oil prices soared to the highest level in more than two years as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi urged his supporters to attack protesters who are violently challenging his 42-year rule. Only a small part of Libyas oil production appeared to be affected, though analysts fear similar revolts will spread to OPEC heavyweights like Iran. Benchmark West Texas Intermediate for April delivery jumped $5.71, or 6.4 percent, to settle at $95.42 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil hasnt been that high since it settled at $97.92 on Oct. 1, 2008. Retail gasoline prices in the U.S. held steady overnight at a national average of $3.171 per gallon. Libya holds the most oil reserves in Africa and is the worlds 15th-largest crude ...
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KIWANJA, Congo -- Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town trickled home Thursday to find the bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes in and around mud huts -- and accused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's forces of the slayings. But New York-based Human Rights Watch accused a pro-government militia called the Mai Mai as well as the rebels of deliberately killing civilians in Kiwanja and said U.N. peacekeepers nearby had been unable to protect them.
A planned trip to Switzerland next week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president sanctioned the torture of terrorism suspects. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and several European human rights groups said they were planning to file a complaint against Bush and wanted Swiss prosecutors to open a criminal case against him once he arrived in the country.
Political rights and civil liberties around the world declined for a fourth straight year last year, according to an annual survey of global freedom. The New York-based human rights group Freedom House stated in its report made public Tuesday that basic freedoms were weakened in 2009 by violent repression by Iran's government against election protesters, lengthy prison terms handed out by China's communist government to pro-democracy dissidents, attacks on human rights advocates in Russia, and continued terrorist and insurgent violence in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi government should abide by international obligations and abolish polices that "grossly" discriminate against women, a report by a leading human rights group said. In the report being released Monday, New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the U.S.-allied kingdom to end the practice of sex segregation and polices that make male relatives the legal guardians of women.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Foreign housemaids in the oil-rich Gulf sometimes work 21-hour days without medical care, enough food, or the right to go home, and they also face violence and harassment, a human rights report says. Dubai's government, shaken by a rash of recent labor protests, quickly disputed the charges by New York-based Human Rights Watch, saying it is taking steps to improve conditions of the thousands of Sri Lankan maids working here.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Founded in 2000, China Labor Watch (CLW) is a New-York based not-for-profit organization. CLW views Chinese workers' rights as inalienable human rights and is dedicated to promoting workers' fair redistribution of wealth under globalization. China Labor Watch recently conducted an in-depth investigation of MSI Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese company and supplier of global brand electronics companies including Dell, HP, NEC and other OEM brands.
STRASBOURG, France -- The United States has developed a system for "outsourcing" torture, the head of a European inquiry into alleged CIA secret prisons said Tuesday, accusing European governments of turning a blind eye to breaches of -human rights. But Swiss senator Dick Marty's report failed to uncover tangible evidence proving clandestine detention centers existed in Romania or Poland as alleged by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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