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World Report 2012 : Russia | Human Rights Watch
▻http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-russia
Rapport 2012 de l’#ONG sur les droits_de_l’homme en #Russie

Rapport HRW : Italie : Les renvois de migrants vers la Grèce constituent une violation de leurs droits

(Rome,le 22 janvier 2013) – L’Italie renvoie de manière sommaire des mineurs migrants non accompagnés et des demandeurs d’asile adultes vers la Grèce, où ils subissent les dysfonctionnements du système d’asile et des conditions de détention abusives, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd’hui. Les passagers clandestins à bord des ferrys provenant de Grèce, parmi lesquels figurent des enfants dès 13 ans, sont renvoyés par les autorités italiennes dans les heures qui suivent leur découverte, sans prise en compte adéquate des besoins spécifiques des mineurs, ou de la volonté de ces personnes de demander l’asile.

►http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2013/01/22/italie-les-renvois-de-migrants-vers-la-grece-constituent-une-violation-de-leurs

#migration #Italie #Grèce #HRW #renvois #refoulements #asile #mineurs

Italy Often Turns Back Asylum Seekers Arriving Illegally From Greece, Report Says

ROME — Instead of following international standards on how to treat asylum seekers and unaccompanied migrant children who arrive illegally from Greece, the Italian authorities have been summarily returning them, according to a report by Human Rights Watch scheduled to be published Tuesday.

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/world/europe/italy-said-to-turn-back-asylum-seekers-from-greece.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

#Italie #Grèce #asile #refoulements #push_back #Human_rights_watch

Xenophobic violence in Greece (HRW):

Greece has become anything but hospitable to migrants and asylum seekers over the years, as anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobic violence spread. In July, we documented dozens of attacks on foreigners, who had been beaten, kicked, and chased down the streets of Athens by gangs of Greeks. Victims included migrants and asylum seekers, children and women, two of them pregnant.

There is also growing evidence that Golden Dawn members and sympathizers are involved in xenophobic attacks.

“They say it’s a free country but then they beat me because I’m a migrant,” Qadir Hossaini, a legal Afghan migrant, told us after a group of people attacked him in September 2011.

Hossaini, like the vast majority of the victims, has little chance to see justice done. We found that attackers are rarely arrested, and police inaction is the rule. Many victims don’t report attacks to the police because of lack of trust, but the police themselves actively discourage many victims from filing complaints. The police tell the victims it’s not worth it because they cannot recognize the assailants, that they should fight back themselves, or, in the case of undocumented migrants, that they could be detained and deported. Those who insist face a 100 Euro fee to file an official complaint.

One positive development, if slow in coming, was the establishment last month by Minister Nikos Dendias of specialized police units to address racist violence. Unfortunately the units do not have a clear mandate to investigate all hate crimes comprehensively, no matter the legal status of the victim, and there are outstanding questions about how the units will be staffed. These issues raise concerns about how effective the units will be.

There is no more excuse for vigilante violence, or for the failure of the police, the courts and government to demonstrate zero tolerance for xenophobic violence by ensuring justice for all victims.

Eva Cossé monitors Greece for Human Rights Watch

►http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/30/xenophobic-violence-greece

#Greece #xenophobia #violence #migration #police #justice
@reka

Human Rights Watch épingle la Grèce sur l’accueil des réfugiés Syriens

Depuis le début de la guerre en 2011, des milliers de Syriens affluent en Europe. Un rapport de l’organisation de défense Human Rights Watch, sorti ce dimanche 23 décembre, appelle le continent à leur donner davantage de protection. En Grèce, ils sont parfois détenus « dans des conditions très difficiles », selon HRW.

►http://labogrec.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/12/23/human-rights-watch-epingle-la-grece-sur-laccueil-des-refugies-

#Grèce #Syrie #réfugiés_syriens #expulsion #HRW #asile #migration
@reka

LeTemps.ch | Tragédies humaines vues du ciel

►http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/7f6d83c2-4855-11e2-af70-1eb6d7d7767f/Trag%C3%A9dies_humaines_vues_du_ciel
Angélique Mounier-Kuhn

Les images satellite ne peuvent pas mentir. L’ONG Human Rights Watch y recourt de plus en plus pour étayer ses enquêtes, notamment sur la Birmanie, le Sri Lanka et la Syrie

Mercredi 24 octobre en fin d’après-midi, le téléphone sonne dans les locaux genevois de Human Rights Watch (HRW). Au bout du fil, un correspondant birman de l’organisation de protection des droits de l’homme communique des informations préoccupantes : depuis quelques heures, des rumeurs d’affrontements circulent à l’ouest du pays, dans l’Etat de Rakhine. Un incendie aurait démarré, d’origine inconnue, qui ravagerait des quartiers d’habitations dans la ville côtière de Kyauk Pyu, majoritairement peuplée de musulmans rohingyas. A Genève, Peter Bouckaert, directeur des urgences chez HRW, prend l’alerte très au sérieux. Ces derniers mois, l’Etat de Rakhine a replongé dans les affrontements sectaires, dont les Rohingyas, minorité musulmane apatride et persécutée, sont les principales victimes. Depuis une première vague de violence en juin dernier, au moins 180 personnes ont péri et plus de 110 000 ont été déplacées. Le manque de volonté des autorités à endiguer les heurts opposant bouddhistes et musulmans est l’ombre la plus tenace au tableau enchanteur de la démocratisation birmane.

«Des enfants seraient enrôlés par les rebelles syriens»

Âgés de 14 à 17 ans, des adolescents syriens seraient envoyés au combat par l’#Armée_syrienne_libre, selon le dernier rapport de #Human_Rights_Watch. Des recrutements qui, s’ils étaient avérés, constituent un #crime_de_guerre.

►http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/11/30/01003-20121130ARTFIG00585-des-enfants-seraient-enroles-par-les-rebelles-syr

Syria: Opposition Using Children in Conflict
►http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/29/syria-opposition-using-children-conflict

Armed opposition groups fighting in Syria are using children for combat and other military purposes, Human Rights Watch said today. Children as young as 14 have served in at least three opposition brigades, transporting weapons and supplies and acting as lookouts, Human Rights Watch found, and children as young as 16 have carried arms and taken combat roles against government forces.

JURIST - Paper Chase: Syria military using banned cluster bombs: HRW
►http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/syria-military-using-banned-cluster-bombs-hrw.php

Syria military using banned cluster bombs: HRW
Matthew Pomy at 3:00 PM ET

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[JURIST] The Syrian military is using cluster munitions [HRW backgrounder] against opposition forces, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [text] on Sunday. A Youtube video [video], posted by Syrian opposition forces, showed remnants of cluster munitions allegedly near several towns. Markings on the remnants suggest they were dropped from aircraft. The report details several instances of cluster munitions being used and being reported by civilians. HRW has called for Syria to stop using these munitions and for local media to detail the dangers of them more extensively.The use of these munitions are prohibited according to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) [text, PDF], which Syria has neither signed nor ratified, because of the potential harm they pose to civilians. The CCM bans the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster bombs, weapons that break apart, releasing large numbers of smaller, self-contained explosives which spread out before detonating on impact.

This is not the first HRW report calling attention to Syria using cluster munitions. In July HRW reported evidence of Soviet-made cluster munitions being used [JURIST report] in Syria. The Convention was initially agreed upon [JURIST report] by nations in May 2008 following 10 days of negotiations at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions [official website] while the US, Russia and China each declined to sign it. In November 2010 the former UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro [UN profile] had urged more states to join the CCM at the First Meeting of States Parties [official website]. The CCM officially went into effect in August 2010, six month after the UN’s announcement [JURIST reports], as binding international law with 107 countries having signed the treaty and 37 countries having ratified it.

Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse | Human Rights Watch
►http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/02/ghana-people-mental-disabilities-face-serious-abuse

Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse
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October 2, 2012

At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.
© 2011 Shantha Rau Barriga/Human Rights Watch

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Ghana: Serious Abuse for People With Mental Disabilities

The government needs to take immediate steps to end abuses against people with mental disabilities in institutions, prayer camps, and the community. The conditions in which many people with mental disabilities live in Ghana are inhuman and degrading.
Medi Ssengooba, Finberg fellow

People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Ghanaian government has done little to combat such abuse or to ensure that these people can live in the community, as is their right under international law.

The 84-page report, “‘Like a Death Sentence’: Abuses against Persons with Mental Disabilities in Ghana,”describes how thousands of people with mental disabilities are forced to live in these institutions, often against their will and with little possibility of challenging their confinement. In psychiatric hospitals, people with mental disabilities face overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. In some of the spiritual healing centers, popularly known as prayer camps, they are often chained to trees, frequently in the baking sun, and forced to fast for weeks as part of a “healing process,” while being denied access to medications.

Setback for teen facing blasphemy charges
►http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/world/asia/pakistan-blasphemy-girl

There have been 1,400 blasphemy cases since the laws were first enacted in 1986, according to Human Rights Watch. There are more than 15 cases of people on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan, and 52 people have been killed while facing trial for the charge, he said.

Kazakhstan : Riposte démesurée contre des grévistes du secteur pétrolier | Human Rights Watch

►http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2012/09/10/kazakhstan-riposte-d-mesur-e-contre-des-gr-vistes-du-secteur-p-trolier

10 septembre 2012

Les autorités devraient respecter les droits des travailleurs, prévenir toute forme de harcèlement et refréner les tendances antisyndicales.

(Almaty) – Les lois répressives et les pratiques abusives du gouvernement et de certaines compagnies pétrolières enfreignent les droits du travail de milliers d’ouvriers travaillant dans le secteur pétrolier florissant du Kazakhstan, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport paru aujourd’hui. De violents affrontements au Kazakhstan occidental en 2011 suite à une grève prolongée des ouvriers pétroliers mettent en lumière un plus vaste problème, à savoir le non-respect des droits des travailleurs et d’autres droits humains dont les partenaires commerciaux et financiers du Kazakhstan devraient se préoccuper.

Le pétrole représente littéralement le carburant de l’économie kazakhe en plein essor, mais le gouvernement et les pétrolières enfreignent les droits fondamentaux des travailleurs qui assument la lourde tâche d’acheminer le pétrole de leur pays vers le marché, dans des conditions difficiles et souvent dangereuses. Les droits des travailleurs sont bafoués alors que ces derniers n’ont personne vers qui se tourner pour résoudre les conflits sociaux.

#kazakhstan #droits-humains #syndicalisme #pétrole #énergie #asie-centrale

HRW report details persecution of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims
►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/burm-a30.shtml

By John Roberts and Peter Symonds
30 August 2012

Reports from the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International, and from Al Jazeera, have shed further light on the oppressive conditions facing the Rohingya Muslim population in Burma’s Rakhine state (also known as Arakan), as well as the communal violence that broke out in June.

The Rohingya are a distinct ethnic group in Burma and neighbouring Bangladesh. They have lived in the area for centuries and are believed to have descended from Arab traders. Both countries treat them as illegal immigrants, deny them citizenship and discriminate against them. In times of rising economic stress and social tension, they become convenient scapegoats for nationalist demagogues.

#birmanie #minorités #rohingas #discrimination #massacres #réfugiés

Saudi Arabia : Reversal on Women Olympians | Human Rights Watch
►http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/11/saudi-arabia-reversal-women-olympians

Saudi Arabia: Reversal on Women Olympians
Broken Pledge to Send Women to London Games Should Trigger Ban

L’Arabie saoudite sera-t-elle exclue des Jeux Olympiques de Londres ?

Syrie : Mettre un terme aux tirs aveugles dirigés contre les civils en fuite | Human Rights Watch

►http://www.hrw.org/fr/node/108475

Amman, le 27 juin 2012

Les forces frontalières tirent manifestement à vue sur les Syriens qui tentent de fuir vers la Jordanie

« La Syrie maintient qu’elle combat les terroristes armés, quand bien même de toute évidence les forces frontalières tirent sans distinction sur quiconque tente de franchir la frontière, attaquant les civils, hommes, femmes, enfants et blessés de la même manière qu’elles attaquent les combattants. En procédant à des attaques à l’aveugle contre les civils fuyant le pays, la Syrie viole ouvertement les droits humains fondamentaux, notamment le droit à la vie, le droit de quitter son pays et celui de chercher asile dans un autre pays. »

Les soldats syriens stationnés à la frontière syro-jordanienne semblent ouvrir le feu sans discernement sur quiconque tente de fuir la Syrie, y compris des civils dont des femmes et enfants, a déclaré Human Rights Watch aujourd’hui. Les autorités syriennes devraient immédiatement intimer à leurs forces armées stationnées à la frontière de cesser toute attaque aveugle perpétrée contre des civils, et prendre toutes les mesures possibles pour empêcher que ces derniers ne soient blessés dans leur tentative de passage vers les pays voisins, respectant ainsi leur droit à quitter le pays.

Chine/Birmanie : Les réfugiés kachin manquent d’aide et sont confrontés à des exactions | Human Rights Watch

►http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2012/06/25/chinebirmanie-les-r-fugi-s-kachin-manquent-d-aide-et-sont-confront-s-des-exacti

Un hangar industriel ouvert dans la province du Yunnan en Chine, occupé pendant la nuit par plusieurs centaines de réfugiés kachin qui pendant la journée cherchent du travail, de la nourriture et des médicaments.

« Le gouvernement chinois a généralement toléré les réfugiés kachin séjournant au Yunnan, mais il doit maintenant s’acquitter de ses obligations légales internationales pour s’assurer que ces réfugiés ne soient pas renvoyés et que leurs besoins fondamentaux soient satisfaits. La Chine n’a aucune raison légitime de les repousser vers la Birmanie ou de les laisser sans nourriture et sans abri. »
Sophie Richardson, directrice pour la Chine

(Bangkok, le 26 juin 2012) - Plusieurs milliers de réfugiés appartenant à l’ethnie Kachin de Birmanie sont isolés au Yunnan, en Chine, où ils encourent le risque de retour à une zone de conflit et manquent d’une aide humanitaire nécessaire, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un nouveau rapport publié aujourd’hui. Le gouvernement chinois devrait immédiatement fournir une protection temporaire et permettre aux Nations Unies et aux agences humanitaires un accès sans entrave aux réfugiés kachin au Yunnan qui ont fui les exactions de la guerre en Birmanie, a ajouté Human Rights Watch.

Jamming Tripoli : Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret #Surveillance Network | Threat Level | Wired
►http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/ff_libya/all

Amesys, with its Eagle system, was just one of Libya’s partners in repression. A South African firm called VASTech had set up a sophisticated monitoring center in Tripoli that snooped on all inbound and outbound international phone calls, gathering and storing 30 million to 40 million minutes of mobile and landline conversations each month. ZTE Corporation, a Chinese firm whose gear powered much of Libya’s cell phone infrastructure, is believed to have set up a parallel Internet monitoring system for External Security: Photos from the basement of a makeshift surveillance site, obtained from Human Rights Watch, show components of its ZXMT system, comparable to Eagle. American firms likely bear some blame, as well. On February 15, just prior to the revolution, regime officials reportedly met in Barcelona with officials from Narus, a Boeing subsidiary, to discuss Internet-filtering software. And the Human Rights Watch photos also clearly show a manual for a satellite phone monitoring system sold by a subsidiary of L-3 Communications, a defense conglomerate based in New York.

#libye

Exploitation et morts accidentelles : les dessous du #Mondial_2022 au #Qatar | Humanite
►http://www.humanite.fr/sports/les-dessous-de-la-coupe-du-monde-2022-au-qatar-498827

Les conditions de travail des ouvriers immigrés qui construisent les infrastructures de la future Coupe du Monde de football sont proches de l’esclavage. Un an après un rapport de la Confédération Syndicale Internationale, l’organisation Human Rights Watch tire à son tour la sonnette d’alarme. Dans son document paru cette semaine, l’association révèle l’exploitation de ces centaines de milliers de travailleurs, venus pour la plupart des pays d’Asie du Sud.

Vive le sport

#travail #esclavage #exploitation

Russian arms dealer targeted over #Syria

Russian arms dealer targeted over Syria
Published: June 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM
PARIS, June 11 (UPI) — Human Rights Watch objected to a French arms expo featuring a Russian military company thought to be a major supplier to Syrian government forces.

The Eurosatory arms show gets under way in France this week, featuring more than 1,000 exhibitors from 70 countries.

Human Rights Watch said it objected to the participation of Russian arms supplier Rosoboronexport at the event.

Jean-Marie Fardeau, French director for Human Rights Watch, said it’s duplicitous for the French government to both condemn the Syrian government for the ongoing bloodshed and host one of Syria’s largest arms suppliers.

►http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-99441339429863

“It’s not acceptable to do business as usual with a company arming a government engaged in atrocities against its people,” he said in a statement.

The rights organization says that providing weapons to Syria while the government there is suspected of committing crimes against humanity may by a violation of international law.

U.N. officials last week said they suspected Syria had committed atrocities against its people during a series of massacres the government in Damascus blames on terrorists.

Russia and China are among the leading critics of formal action against Syria at the U.N. Security Council.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Sky News he would continue to pressure Russian officials to get in line behind the peace plan brokered by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

“Every other solution of any kind to the Syrian crisis involves a lot more deaths,” he said.

Russian arms dealer targeted over #Syria

Russian arms dealer targeted over Syria
Published: June 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM
PARIS, June 11 (UPI) — Human Rights Watch objected to a French arms expo featuring a Russian military company thought to be a major supplier to Syrian government forces.

The Eurosatory arms show gets under way in France this week, featuring more than 1,000 exhibitors from 70 countries.

Human Rights Watch said it objected to the participation of Russian arms supplier Rosoboronexport at the event.

Jean-Marie Fardeau, French director for Human Rights Watch, said it’s duplicitous for the French government to both condemn the Syrian government for the ongoing bloodshed and host one of Syria’s largest arms suppliers.

►http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-99441339429863

“It’s not acceptable to do business as usual with a company arming a government engaged in atrocities against its people,” he said in a statement.

The rights organization says that providing weapons to Syria while the government there is suspected of committing crimes against humanity may by a violation of international law.

U.N. officials last week said they suspected Syria had committed atrocities against its people during a series of massacres the government in Damascus blames on terrorists.

Russia and China are among the leading critics of formal action against Syria at the U.N. Security Council.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Sky News he would continue to pressure Russian officials to get in line behind the peace plan brokered by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

“Every other solution of any kind to the Syrian crisis involves a lot more deaths,” he said.

Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Lies of the Free Syrian Army
Well, despite denials and deceptions, wives of the Lebanese kidnapped pilgrims recognized two members of the Free Syrian Army as their kidnappers. Responding to the story, Human Rights Watch said that they don’t have enough staff to interview the witnesses because they are busy skyping with Free Syrian Army folks to give them stories.

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►http://networkedblogs.com/yrjst

#MALI : Des #enfants_soldats présents dans le conflit
►http://ipsinternational.org/fr/_note.asp?idnews=7017

Selon Corinne Dufka, une chercheuse principale en Afrique de l’ouest pour ’Human Rights Watch’ (HRW), qui a conduit une mission d’enquête de 10 jours au Mali en avril, tous les témoins que son organisation a interrogés avaient déclaré avoir vu des enfants soldats dans les rangs des rebelles.

Des enfants combattants avaient été vus dans les rangs des rebelles touaregs, notamment le Mouvement national pour la libération de l’Azawaad (MNLA).

Selon un rapport de HRW intitulé « Mali - Des crimes de guerre commis par les rebelles dans le nord », publié le 30 avril « beaucoup (d’enfants) ont été décrits comme transportant des fusils d’assaut militaires et portant des tenues qui, selon certaines personnes, étaient trop grandes pour leurs corps ».

Les viols de guerre sévissent encore dans le nord du #Mali - Afrik.com : l’actualité de l’Afrique noire et du Maghreb - Le quotidien panafricain
►http://www.afrik.com/article25553.html

D’après un rapport de Human Rights Watch (HRW), des viols et violences sexuelles se déroulent dans les villes et les villages au nord du Mali. « Nous sommes très préoccupés par ce qui semble être une augmentation drastique dans le ciblage et l’abus sexuel des femmes et des filles par des groupes armés dans le nord », a déclaré à l’IPS, Corrine Dufka, chercheuse senior Afrique de l’Ouest à Human Rights Watch.

#violences_sexuelles

Rape as a weapon in Syria
►http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=388100

Both men and women are victimized by sexual violence, according to reports by Amnesty International and the United Nations, though so few people report rapes that it is impossible to know how many people have been affected. Human Rights Watch fears that the extent of these violations may be underestimated in some cases and, in other cases, exaggerated in order to encourage people to arm themselves.

However, according to a HRW researcher who did not want to be named because he is not authorized to speak on the subject, it has been confirmed that rape is being used as a method of torture against men and women in Syrian prisons. The researcher also mentioned reports of sexual assault against women when the army raids houses in search of wanted men or weapons.

info à vérifier
#Syrie #violences_sexuelles #viol_comme_arme

Uzbekistan’s policy of secretly sterilising women
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550

The BBC has been told by doctors that Uzbekistan is running a secret programme to sterilise women - and has talked to women sterilised without their knowledge or consent.

“It’s a simple formula - less women give birth, less of them die,” said one surgeon.

The result is that this helps the country to improve its ranking in international league tables for maternal and infant mortality.

“Uzbekistan seems to be obsessed with numbers and international rankings,” says Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

“I think it’s typical of dictatorships that need to construct a narrative built on something other than the truth.”

l’éducation des filles est le meilleurs rampart pour limiter les naissances et la mortalité infantile

#Ouzbekistan #stérilisations_forcées