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A Modern Form of Slavery
Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand
by Women's Rights Project, Asia Watch Committee, Sidney Jones, Dorothy Q. Thomas
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1994 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-107-7, ISBN: 1-56432-107-X

"others forced or lured into prostitution) from punishment under domestic laws relating to immigration and prostitution. ... Female sexual slavery has also been clearly condemned, most notably in the 1949 Convention on the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and the ... female sexual slavery, which involves the transport and sale of women into forced prostitution, servile forms of marriage and other forms of ..."






Double Jeopardy(1st Edition)
Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan
by Asia Watch Committee, Women's Rights Project, Asia Watch Staff
Paperback, 153 Pages, Published 1992 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-063-6, ISBN: 1-56432-063-4

"Sonai, also called Nailia, had been in prison for four months. She was charged with Zina. She had been living with a man to whom she was not married. Both were arrested. She was held in the Gulberg police station for 10 days before she was produced before a magistrate. No other women had been present, nor were there any female officers. She said she was twice beaten by the SHO who was interrogating her. She could hear her co-defend ..."






Continuing Religious Repression in China
by Asia Watch Committee, Human Rights Watch
Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 1993 by Asia Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-102-2, ISBN: 1-56432-102-9

"JI Xiaoshang (see Wei Daquan) • LI Jiayao, a shop owner and house church leader from Guangzhou, born October 12, 1959, was administratively sentenced to three years' re-education through labor on May 23, 1992 for distributing Bibles and other illegal religious materials sent ... On September 17, 1991, Li's van was intercepted by Public Security Bureau officials as he was driving on a Guangzhou street. ... On November 6, 1991, MA Sh ..."






Political Prisoners in Tibet
by Asia Watch Committee, Tibet Information Network, Human Rights Watch
71 Pages, Published 1992 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-055-1, ISBN: 1-56432-055-3

"19. TSULTRIM CHAMPA (Tshul-khrims byams-pa), 25; from Lhoka Gongkar; a Sungrab Ling monk; sentenced to three years in prison. Tsultrim Champa is No. 78 on List No.2; from Gongkar Dzong; arrested in 1990; in 5th Division of Drapchi . For further details of the charges against Tsultrim Champa, see Yeshe Dradul ( No. 16 this list). Lobsang Tsultrim has two listings in Two Years After Tiaitanmen, one under his correct name and the other u ..."






Land Mines in Cambodia
The Coward's War, September 1991 [Paperback] by Asia...
by Asia Watch Committee, Eric Stover, Human Rights Watch
Paperback, 129 Pages, Published 1991 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-001-8, ISBN: 1-56432-001-4

"... President, City University of New York Medical School; Carola Eisenberg, Vice President, Harvard Medical School; Judy Ann Bigby, ... North Carolina; Howard Hu, Harvard Medical School; Maria Judge, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Robert Kirschner, Cook County ... Alfred Haynes, Howard Hiatt, David Hodges, Edith Irby Jones, Samuel Katz, Cynthia Krane, Joyce Lashof, Philip Lee, Roy Menninger, ..."






Human Rights in India
Kashmir Under Siege (An Asia Watch Report)
by James A. Goldston, Patricia A. Gossman, Asia Watch Committee, Human Rights Watch
Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 1991 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-010-0, ISBN: 1-56432-010-3

"Kashmir Under Siege James Goldston, Patricia Gossman ... the owner of a local ice factory, and Abdul Rouf, a Jammu and Kashmir policeman in his 20s from Pattan, had been killed by army gunfire, the police told them that it was dangerous ..."






The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir
A Pattern of Impunity
by Patricia Gossman, Human Rights Watch, Asia Watch Committee
Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 1993 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-104-6, ISBN: 1-56432-104-5

"At die time, he was accompanied by his wife, Dr. Farida Ashai, and his daughter, Rehana. The car in which diey were traveling was marked by a diree-inch cross on die front and rear windows." As diey turned off die bridge, diey slowed to a crawl and turned on die car's interior light to make diemselves visible to die security force post located just past die bridge. They passed diat bunker, and as diey approached a second CRPF bunke ..."






Kashmir Under Siege Human Rights in India
by Human Rights Watch, James Goldston, Asia Watch Committee, Patricia Gossman
Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 1991 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05614-3, ISBN: 0-300-05614-1

"Later that day Abdul Qayoom was moved into Adil's cell, which they shared for the night. In the morning Adil ... At 1:00 p.m. persons who had been interrogated and beaten along with Adil told Abdul Qayoom that Adil had died from his beatings and that a CRPF doctor had seen the body. Asia Watch ... The body of Altaf Ahmed Khan, a 65-year-old resident of Haihame, was brought to the hospital in July 1990 by local police who asked the ..."






Continuing crackdown in inner Mongolia
An Asia Watch report
by Human Rights Watch, Asia Watch Committee
Paperback, 38 Pages, Published 1992 by Asia Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-059-9, ISBN: 1-56432-059-6

"The 37-page text of this dialogue appears in a paper delivered by Professor Gyorgy Kara, of the Uralic and Altaic Department of Indiana University, to the Midwest Conference of Asian Studies at Indiana University in November 1990. Professor ..."






Political Control
Human Rights and the U.N. Mission in Cambodia
by Dinah Pokempner, Asia Watch Committee, Human Rights Watch
Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 1992 by Asia Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-085-8, ISBN: 1-56432-085-5

"The first full-time protection officer was not in place until March 1988, and more staff was not recruited until September ol that year. Despite the common belief that only a fraction of incidents ever reached the attention ol UNBRO, in the first two ..."






Prison conditions in Indonesia, August 1990, an Asia Watch report
by James Vorenberg, Asia Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch, Asia Watch Committee, Elizabeth Vorenberg
Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 1990 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-929692-67-8, ISBN: 0-929692-67-5

"Almost all bathing facilities are outside, mostly large tubs supplied with water from wells. One man from Irian Jaya, recently released from Kalisosok, complained of lack of privacy for bathing, saying the prisoners made tents with their towels for privacy. He also complained about the dirty water: "People who bathe first get the best water." Lack of soap is a major complaint. The only soap issued is laundry soap which is used for ..."






Bad Blood
Militia Abuses in Mindanao, the Philippines (Asia Watch Report)
by Human Rights Watch, Asia Watch Committee
Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 1992 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-060-5, ISBN: 1-56432-060-X

"Today, it includes five divisions covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, as well as the signatories of the ... Ellen Lutz, California director; Juan Mendez, general counsel; Susan Osnos, communications director; Jemera Rone, ... Gara LaMarche, Free Expression Project; Joanna Weschler, Prison Project; and Dorothy Q. Thomas, Women's Rights Project. ... H. Henkin, Stephen L. Kass, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Alexander MacGreg ..."






An Asia Watch Report Ser.
Retreat from Reform : Labor Rights and Freedom of Expression in South Korea
by Asia Watch Staff, Asia Watch Committee, Human Rights Watch
Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 1990 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-929692-75-3, ISBN: 0-929692-75-6

"KIM Jung-im: TC Company, president, arrested on December 1, 1989, charged with committing physical violence, [being held in Masan]. LEE Yon-sil: TC Company, ... being held in Masan]. IM Jong-ho: Tong-il Company (Unification Church-invested), convention delegate, arrested on April 24, 1989, charged with arson, [sentenced to a one-and-a-half-year prison term ... LEE Ho-sung: Tong-il Company (Unification Church-invested), arrested Aug ..."






HUMAN RIGHTS IN TIBET
AN ASIA WATCH REPORT FEBRUARY 1988. [Taschenbuch] by
by Asia Watch Report, Asia Watch Committee
Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 1988 by Asia Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-938579-38-0, ISBN: 0-938579-38-X

"... the repression following the demonstrations: Dorjee Dolma (Rdo-rje sgrol-ma), 30; Tseten Dolkar (Tshe-brtan sgrol-dkar), 30; Ten- zin (Bstan-'dzin), 22; Migmar ( Mig-dmar), 30; Yeshi Yangchen (Ye-shes dbyangs-can), 32; Thinlay (Thrin-las) ..."






Merciless Repression Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
(An Asia watch report)
by Watch 594 Asia, Asia Watch Staff, Asia Watch Committee, Human Rights Watch
Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1990 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-929692-59-3, ISBN: 0-929692-59-4

"distribution of slogans and leaflets in favor of Tibetan independence and against the socialist system and the Communist Party. ... A sixth monk, also from Dala Lupuk, named Dawa Tsering (Zla-ba tshe-ring), is awaiting trial on charges of organizing separatist activities. ... 72 Perhaps Rindrol (Rin-sgrol) or Rigdrol (Rig- sgrol); the actual Tibetan form is difficult to determine on the basis of the transcription ..."






Critique
Review of the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1989
by Helsinki Watch, Asia Watch Committee, Americas Watch Committee
267 Pages, Published 1990 by Human Rights First
ISBN-13: 978-0-934143-34-9, ISBN: 0-934143-34-X

"It makes no mention of the dozens of editors, lawyers, professionals and even school children detained and arrested in 1989 for publicly discussing what ... for example, a 17-year-old schoolgirl from Konya was imprisoned for two months for stating that she was of Kurdish origin. Similarly, on July 23, Dr. Nuray Ozkan was detained at Diyarbakir and taken to Ankara where she was charged on July 24 with ..."






Critique
Review of the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1987: Human Rights Watch , Americas Watch/Asia Watch/Helsinki Watch
by Americas Watch Committee, Helsinki Watch, Asia Watch Committee
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1988 by Lawyers Committee For Human Rights
ISBN-13: 978-0-938579-63-2, ISBN: 0-938579-63-0

"... Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Sol C. Chaikin, Kenneth Clark, Roberta Cohen, Ellen Dahrendorf, Drew S. Days, III*, Istvan Deak, Adrian DeWind*, Ed Doctorow, Fr. Robert Drinan, Lee Elman. Stanley Engelstein* , Jean Fairfax, Jonathan Fanton, ..."






An Asia Watch Report
Human Rights in Nepal
by Asia Watch Committee
208 Pages, Published 1989 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-929692-31-9, ISBN: 0-929692-31-4

"PRISON CONDITIONS* The 1962 Prison Act, a reform measu' ., recognizes certain fundamental human rights of prisoners, and prisoners today are treated better than prior to 1951,* * when the Ranas were in power. However, there is a wide discrepancy between the 1962 law as written and as implemented. A study of six prisons in different regions of Nepal by two lawyers, Sita Maiya Singh Thapa and Bharat Raj Uprety, in the fall of 1986 an ..."






An Asia Watch Report
Human Rights in Burma (Myanmar) by Asia Watch Staff (1990, Hardcover)
by James A. Goldston, Asia Watch Committee
Paperback, 58 Pages, Published 1990 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-929692-61-6, ISBN: 0-929692-61-6

""See Article 51, Protocol I. "Article 58, Protocol I. "M. Bodie, KJ. Partsch, W.A. Soll, New Rules for Victims of Armed Conflicts (1982) at 371. At 2 p.m. the column began marching again. From this 5. Exposing Porters to Undue Risk of Death or ..."






Punishment Season
Human Rights in China After Martial Law/English Version (An Asia Watch report)
by Robin Munro, Asia Watch Committee, Asia Watch Staff
Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 1990 by Human Rights Watch
ISBN-13: 978-0-929692-51-7, ISBN: 0-929692-51-9

"On January 20, the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Bao reported that the CPC Propaganda Department had issued an order sometime after New Year calling for a renewed and intensified purge of the news media, so that editors who had failed to fall into line after June 4 could be replaced and the "cleaning out" of journalistic ranks could begin properly. Mu Qing, director of the New China News Agency, and Zhou Bingde, deputy director of Voice ..."



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