Broken People(1st Edition) Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula, HumanRightsWatch, Yes Illustrated Paperback, 291 Pages, Published 1999 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-228-9, ISBN: 1-56432-228-9
"Among its demands: the repeal of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (
Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.375 Dalits and journalists throughout the
affected areas have blamed the police and district administration for their failure
to effectively respond to increasing tensions in the district arising from publicity for
the conference. According to Frontline, a bi-monthly news ... S. Viswanathan, "
Extreme measures," Frontline, ..."
Landmine Monitor Report 1999 Toward a Mine-free World - International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (Paperback) by HumanRightsWatch Paperback, 1,085 Pages, Published 1999 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-231-9, ISBN: 1-56432-231-9
"... a national mine awareness campaign and to create a national database."
Since the departure of Libyan forces from the north in 1994, there have been a
number of mine clearance efforts. A joint Chadian-Libyan initiative to clear
landmines in the north in 1995 claims officially to have destroyed 529 antitank
mines and 263 others. But, a U.N. official told Human Rights Watch that the
Libyans gave the Chadian official responsible fo ..."
"Mickey Spiegel of Human Rights Watch/Asia wrote the last three sections of Part
2 and Appendix II, and did extensive cross-checking of prisoner lists. The report
was edited by Sidney Jones, Mickey Spiegel and Cynthia Brown, and produced
with the assistance of Paul Lall, all of Human Rights Watch. The research for this
report would not have been possible without the generous financial support of
Dialoog, Harrison Ford, Wilde Ganzen, ..."
"The most startling transformation in a group of children has been documented in
the work with Irina who was tended to full-time by two ... 346 Human Rights
Watch interview, Iliana Danilova, Alla Sergeyeva, Lyuba Fokina, February 15,
1998."
"A circle of political leaders, threatened with the loss of political power, organized
the killings with the help of the military, Hutu militiamen and many other civilians.
1 President Juvenal Habyarimana and a close circle of supporters had governed
..."
"... of modifying the violent culture of prison life; many prisoners expressed to us
their fear of reprisals for talking to our representatives. ... We hope that this
contribution to the debate on penal reform in South Africa will encourage the
continuation and ... standards for the treatment of prisoners, especially the U.N.
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, ... In addition, South
Africa signed several human ri ..."
Angola Unravels The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process by HumanRightsWatch, Alex Vines Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 1999 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-233-3, ISBN: 1-56432-233-5
"Investigations of this incident revealed that UNITA troops had in fact attacked in
FAA uniforms in the early hours of the morning, killing eight ANP officers and nine
FAA soldiers before the FAA forces withdrew. UNITA then killed six mulattos or
white traders; Isidrio Jesus Leitão, Candida Leitão, and Luis Rocha inside a
house and Fernando da Silva Morais and Agostinho Bernardo Afonso outside.
There were twenty-three dead in the in ..."
"In 1996, University of Indonesia political scientist Arbi Sanit published an article
critical of the government's role in the removal of Megawati Sukarnoputri as head
of the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party. Shortly after the article appeared,
..."
"Joanne Mariner, James Cavallaro, Human Rights Watch (Organization) Cynthia
G. Brown. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report was written by Joanne Mariner,
associate counsel at Human Rights Watch, with portions contributed by James
Cavallaro, Brazil office director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch;
it was edited by Anne Manuel, deputy director of the Americas division, and
Cynthia Brown, program director of Human Rights Watch. It ..."
"Tila Municipality — Community of Nuevo Limar On August 21, 1996, some fifty
supporters of the PRD made their way on foot from the community of Nuevo
Limar, in the Tila lowlands, to the municipal capital of Salto de Agua, where they
asked the parish priest, Alan Jenkins, for refuge. Members of the six refugee
families told Human Rights Watch/Americas that their initial departure from
Nuevo Limar was blocked by some sixty civilian gu ..."
Shielded from Justice Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States by Allyson Collins, HumanRightsWatch Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 1998 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-183-1, ISBN: 1-56432-183-5
"If the CRB is intended to ease public anxieties following cases like the Jackson
shooting, it can have little effect in practice, since, according to its own mandate, it
would not be permitted to review the Jackson case until the federal criminal civil
rights investigation, now underway, is completed and any civil actions are
concluded. Indeed, CRB staff told Human Rights Watch that the board was pulled
off the Jackson case after J ..."
"At least 15 million children work as bonded labourers in India. Whether chained to carpet looms, sweating in silver smithies, or working in the field from dawn till dusk, these children endure miserable lives. They earn little and are beaten often."
Slaughter Among Neighbors The Political Origins of Communal Violence (Yale Fastback) by HumanRightsWatch Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Yale Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06544-2, ISBN: 0-300-06544-2
"Slaughter among Neighbors aims to foster an understanding of contemporary causes of conflict and build the foundation on which to construct sound strategies to prevent or contain the violence."
"Robert L. Bernstein is the chair of the executive committee and Adrian W.
DeWind is vice chair. Its Africa division was established in 1988 to monitor and
promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights in Africa.
Abdullahi An-Na'im is the executive director; Janet Fleischman is the Washington
representative; Bronwen Manby, Karen Sorensen, Alex Vines and Berhane
Woldegabriel are research associates; Kimberly Mazyc ..."
Generation Under Fire Children and Violence in Colombia by Robin Kirk, 1444 Hrw Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1994 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-144-2, ISBN: 1-56432-144-4
Routine Abuse, Routine Denial Civil Rights and the Political Crisis in Bahrain (Paperback) by HumanRightsWatch, Joe Stork Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 1997 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-218-0, ISBN: 1-56432-218-1
"Abd al-Wahab Hussain, Ali Qassim Rabi'a, Hisham al- Shihabi, Abd al-Aziz
Hasan Ubol. Ibrahim Sayyid Ali Kamal al-Din. Sa'id al-Asboul, Abdallah al-
Abbasi. and Abdallah Rashid. 49 Often translated in English as "funeral homes."
these are spaces of Shi'a congregation for worship as well as for funerals,
weddings, and preparation for the annual procession for 'ashura.
commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Ali in the first Islamic centur ..."
The Scars of Death Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda (Children's rightswatch project) by HumanRightsWatch, Rosa Ehrenreich Paperback, 137 Pages, Published 1997 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-221-0, ISBN: 1-56432-221-1
"Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda Rosa Ehrenreich,
Human Rights Watch/Africa, Human ... Bruna Barolla of the Camboni Sisters,
Livingstone Sewanyana of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Cathy
Watson, ..."
"This issue has not been directly addressed by U.S. courts. But here too, what little
case law there is provides support for the view that detained children who cannot
afford a lawyer have a constitutional right to government-appointed counsel. The
Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution prohibit the
federal and state governments from denying liberty to any person without due
process of law.43 Based on thes ..."
The Limits of Tolerance Freedom of Expression and the Public Debate in Chile by HumanRightsWatch, Sebastian Brett Paperback, 169 Pages, Published 1999 by HumanRightsWatch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-192-3, ISBN: 1-56432-192-4
""Oficializada baja de 1 0 Carabineros," El Mercurio, July 7, 1 998. Among them
was Capt. Eduardo Perales Martinez, who claimed he had been summarily
dismissed for telling a joke about the alleged disproportionate share of a recent
salary adjustment that went to senior officers. The Carabineros denied that he
had been fired because of the joke, but a police official confirmed that his
witticism had been taken as an insult to the ins ..."
"Children in Confinement in Colorado Dorothy Davidson, Lois Whitman, Michael
McClintock, Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project. in the available
programmes of physical ... Every juvenile has a right to be examined by a
physician immediately upon admission to a detention facility, for the purpose of
recording any evidence of prior ill-treatment and identifying any physical or
mental condition requiring medical attention. 51. T ..."