Some of the torture allegations had been substantiated by forensic medical exams, and some of the confessions were apparently extracted by force. The cause of human rights, freedom, and dignity is close to the American heart. Human Rights Watch Film Festival home page featuring human rights films and festivals in various cities. Forced returns and blocked returns of displaced persons persisted throughout 2019. We applied the criteria in UNGA Resolution 60/251, In each of these cases, the trial courts took the torture allegations seriously, found them credible, assessed the evidence, and acquitted the defendants. Project: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ORGANIZATION(HRW)-UNICEF-UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency)-UN Human Rights OHCHR-OCHA (RELIEF WEB)- … Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization that investigates and reports on human rights in more than 90 countries worldwide. En su ensayo introductorio, el director ejecutivo Kenneth Roth señala que el gobierno chino, el cual recurre a la represión para mantenerse en el poder, está llevando a cabo el ataque más intenso contra el sistema internacional de derechos humanos que se haya registrado en décadas. While sexual assault is criminalized, article 398 provides that such charges be dropped if the assailant marries the victim. Conforme la organización creció, se crearon los Comités de Observación (Watch Committees) para cubrir otras regiones del mundo. environmental rights (ESCERs)’, 28 March 2020 c. NGOs 1. Paragraph 401 of the penal code holds that any person who commits an “immodest act” in public can be put in prison for up to six months, a vague provision that could be used to target sexual and gender minorities, although such cases have not been documented. However, no ISIS member in Iraq has been prosecuted or convicted for those specific crimes. Iraqi forces arbitrarily detained ISIS suspects, many for months. In at least 30 of the cases, US forces facilitated the transfer from SDF to Iraqi custody according to court documents, testimony from defendants, and other sources. During 2019, the extremist group ISIS continued to carried out attacks, mostly killings of community leaders and targeting security forces. Authorities systematically violated the due process rights of ISIS suspects and other detainees, such as guarantees in Iraqi law that detainees see a judge within 24 hours, have access to a lawyer throughout interrogations, and have their families notified and  able to communicate with them. Iraq has long had one of the highest rates of executions in the world, alongside China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. 2020 has turned the global risk environment on its head. Iraqi judges prosecuted ISIS suspects with the charge of ISIS affiliation, on the overbroad charge of Iraqi counterterrorism legislation. A Human Rights Watch study of appeals court decisions in terrorism-related cases showed that in close to two dozen cases in 2018 and 2019 judges appeared to ignore torture allegations or to rely on uncorroborated confessions. In 2017, Human Rights Watch documented China’s ... Council on Syria,17 and in February 2020 it blocked Between January 2017 and April 2020, 39 adults died in ICE custody or immediately after being released. Human Rights Watch - 2021 (PDF), 2020 (PDF), 2019 (PDF) Human Rights Watch Profiles - Crackdown in Nicaragua: Torture, Ill-Treatment, and Prosecutions of Protesters and Opponents - July 2019 (PDF) ETHIOPIA 2019 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ethiopia is a federal republic. Women’s Rights, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Morality Laws Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Human Rights Watch Author(s): Conde, Carlos H. “I Want to Continue to Study”: Barriers to secondary education for Syrian refugee children in Jordan As the conflict in Syria enters its 10th year, the education crisis for Syrian refugee children in Jordan who now are progressing into secondary education has become more acute. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. A source within the penitentiary system shared with Human Rights Watch photos of overcrowded prison cells in Nineveh holding women and children on charges of ISIS affiliation in conditions so degrading that they amounted to ill-treatment. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2019 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The law prohibits such practices, but there were several reports from domestic NGOs alleging that HNP officers beat or otherwise abused detainees and suspects. The degradation of Basra’s water sources became a full-blown crisis in the summer of 2018, when at least 118,000 people were hospitalized due to symptoms doctors identified as related to water quality. A coalition of ethnically based parties known as the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) controlled the government until its successor, the Prosperity Party, was formed in December. An Iraqi law from 2009 created commissions to compensate Iraqis affected by terrorism, military operations, and military errors. Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Dimensions of COVID-19 Response, 19 March 2020 2. International Commission of Jurists, Pollard M, ‘ICJ Guidance on the Courts and COVID-19’ (International Commission of Jurists, 7 April 2020) d. Academic Institutions 1. Iraqi families perceived to have ISIS affiliation, usually because of family name, tribal affiliation, or area of origin, were often denied security clearances required to obtain identity cards and all other civil documentation. 3. Judges at the court required a higher evidentiary standard to detain and prosecute suspects, minimizing the court’s reliance on confessions alone, erroneous wanted lists, and unsubstantiated allegations. On 10 September 2018, the High Commissioner for Human Rights informed the Human Rights Council during its 39th session that the OHCHR report’s findings and recommendations had “not been followed up with meaningful improvements, or even open After an unknown gunmen killed a Turkish diplomat in Erbil in July 2019, Turkey carried out airstrikes. Security forces also used live ammunition in other cities. The US-led coalition against ISIS, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, as well as Iranian and Turkish forces, continued to support Iraqi and KRG troops in military operations against ISIS. A 2017 UN Security Council resolution created a UN investigative team to document serious crimes committed by ISIS in Iraq. HRW – Human Rights Watch World Report 2020 - Guatemala Guatemala’s progress in prosecuting corruption and abuse in recent years is at risk after the government decided not to extend the mandate of the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). This restricted their freedom of movement, right to education, and right to work, as well as access to welfare benefits and birth and death certificates needed to inherit property or remarry. I am honored to release the 45th annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to placing human rights at the center of our foreign policy. Concluye que las acciones de Pekín alientan y cosechan el apoyo de populistas autocráticos en todo el mundo, a la vez que las autoridades chinas usan su influencia económica para desalentar críticas de otros gobiernos. Iraq’s criminal code does not prohibit same-sex sexual relations, although article 394 makes it illegal to engage in extra-marital sex. HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM ... threat China poses to the U.N. human rights system. Nuestro análisis anual sobre los derechos humanos en el mundo. As a result of the killing, the KRG imposed severe movement restrictions on Turkish residents of a camp in its territory who are seen as broadly sympathetic to the PKK. Efforts in parliament to pass a draft law against domestic violence stalled throughout 2019. Despite the March 2019 adoption of a government action plan to combat xenophobia , African and Asian foreigners in the country suffer routine harassment and abuse. of human rights violations in Kashmir. Authorities detained criminal suspects in overcrowded and in some cases inhumane conditions. We scrupulously investigate abuses, expose facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. Two of the French citizens transferred from northeast Syria to Iraq and prosecuted in Baghdad for ISIS affiliation told the judge that Iraqi security forces tortured or coerced them into making a confession. In addition, US-led coalition and SDF forces transferred at least 47 non-Iraqi foreign males suspected of ISIS affiliation to Iraq for investigation in 2018 and early 2019, including at least 11 French nationals who have been sentenced to death. Authorities prosecuted child suspects as young as 9 with ISIS affiliation in Baghdad-controlled areas and 11 in the Kurdistan region, younger than the minimum age of criminal responsibility under international law, and in violation of international standards that recognize children recruited by armed groups primarily as victims who should be rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The counterterrorism court in Nineveh represents an exception, where Human Rights Watch observed improvements to trial proceedings in 2019. Despite requests, the government failed to disclose which security and military structures have a legal mandate to detain people, and in which facilities. Trials were generally rushed, based on a defendant’s confession, and did not involve victim participation. The report also contained video footage and witness testimony. Denial of security clearances also blocked such families from making claims to the commissions established in 2009 to compensate Iraqis affected by terrorism, military operations, and military errors, and from bringing court cases or challenging seizure of property by security forces or local families. The CITIZEN Group (CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD. and its group companies) endeavors to ensure that there are no violations of human rights nor complicity in the violation of human rights in any way in our own business operations or our Because of high rainfall and snowmelt in late 2018/early 2019, the health crisis did not recur in 2019, but authorities took no significant steps to address the causes of the health crisis. At least 30,000 Iraqis who fled Iraq between 2014 and 2017, including some who followed ISIS as it retreated from Iraqi territory, were housed in and around al-Hol camp in northeast Syria. Compensation commissions in areas that fell under ISIS control have received thousands of compensation requests but have not paid out many claims since 2014. In August 2019, authorities released Ministry of Justice data that showed 8022 detainees were on death row and the state had executed over 100 between January and August 2019. Turkey increased its operations in northern Iraq against the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The PKK, an armed group outlawed but active in Turkey, has long maintained a presence in northern Iraq near the Turkish, Iranian, and Syrian borders. HRW – Human Rights Watch World Report 2020 - Pakistan Although Prime Minister Imran Khan pledged to make social justice a priority after taking office in July 2018, his administration has increased restrictions on media, the political opposition, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). One man had to have his arm amputated because of arterial damage caused by torture in custody. On 17 September 2020, Human Rights Watch published a 64-page report detailing the widespread xenophobic violence in South Africa. In August, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report documenting that security forces tortured and beat prisoners, army deserters, national service evaders, persons attempting to flee the country without travel documents, and members of certain religious groups. According to witnesses and family members, security forces regularly detained suspects without any court order or arrest warrant, and often did not provide a reason for the arrest. Human Rights Watch and other organizations documented a system of organized rape, sexual slavery, and forced marriage by ISIS forces of Yezidi women and girls from 2014 to 2017. Despite extensive evidence of torture in detention in Iraq, in 2019 the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria transferred at least 900 Iraqi detainees with alleged links to ISIS to Iraq. 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Instead, article 41(1) provides that a husband has a legal right to punish his wife, and parents can discipline their children within limits prescribed by law or custom and the penal code also provides for mitigated sentences for violent acts including murder for so-called “honorable motives” or if catching his wife or female relative in the act of adultery/sex outside of marriage. HRW – Human Rights Watch World Report 2020 - Peru Judicial investigations into grave human rights abuses committed during the 20-year armed conflict that ended in 2000 remain slow and limited. While the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has a 2011 law on domestic violence, women have few legal protections to shield them from domestic violence in Baghdad-controlled territory. World Report 2020 is Human Rights Watch’s 30th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. 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