Human Rights Watch

After jail scandal, spotlight on growing role of women officers

2013-06-15 14:16:41

The 19-year-old felt sick to her stomach when she stepped into the Baltimore prison once nicknamed "Supermax" for her first day of work as a corrections officer. The place was dark and dingy, and she had never been around so many men before. When...

'Game of Thrones' returns, Kevin Ware's injury shocks and pogs in your Easter basket?

2013-04-01 07:09:00

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If not unions, then what?

2013-01-28 13:53:16

You wouldn't know it from our nation's debate over Obamacare, but the U.S. has had government-supported health care for nearly 80 years. Not only that, but our nation bolsters a retirement level well beyond the thin safety net provided by Social Security,...

Senate expected to back Cardin human rights measure despite White House concerns

2012-12-05 17:55:00

— Legislation by Sen. Ben Cardin to pressure Russia on human rights abuses is expected to win approval in Congress Thursday despite concerns that it will hurt already tenuous U.S. relations with the Kremlin. The proposal — which requires the...

Youth in city jail face 'deplorable' conditions

2012-07-28 18:48:00

Before the other boys jumped Tyrone, they asked if he wanted to fight. That was a mere formality. Fights are a regular occurrence among juveniles being held in Baltimore's adult jail — where the 16-year-old was held for six months on attempted-...

Drone strikes: Obama is acting like Bush, with Eric Holder as his Dick Cheney

2012-03-13 12:00:00

Thank you for enunciating my thoughts exactly in your editorial "Death by drone" (March 9). I would think a vast majority of the people voted for Barack Obama as a repudiation of the disastrous Bush-Cheney administration. But President Obama, like his...

Baltimore writer still missing in Libya

2011-08-23 03:35:00

Sharon VanDyke's phone rang Monday afternoon, but after quickly dispensing with the call, she said, sadly, "Well, it wasn't Matthew." The wait continues for the retired principal, who has searched for the past five months for her son, a 32-year-old...

Torture: Wrong then, still wrong now

2011-09-08 11:49:00

The images of the burning towers on Sept. 11 are seared into our collective memory. It seemed unthinkable that we could be attacked on our native soil. During our nation's founding, we were also attacked on our soil. And though the British who captured...

Baltimorean taking up the Libyan rebel cause

2011-10-08 12:21:00

As described by those who know him, Matthew VanDyke comes off as footloose and maybe a little feckless. He has worked sporadically, sometimes getting freelance writing or teaching gigs but more often traveling to the Middle East for months at a time...

What will the U.S. response be to Syria's crimes against humanity?

2011-06-03 06:30:00

The Syrian government's increasingly brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters is putting the Obama administration's revamped Middle East policy to its first real test. It's one thing to say U.S. policy toward the region should spring from America's core...

Hussein's deadly sweeps took in mothers, sisters, too

2003-05-06 00:00:00

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The sister he has never seen is the one Ali Hussain Mohamed misses the most. He misses his other sister, too, of course, and his mother, taken away with her in the dark of night 21 years ago. "But the new sister," he explains, "I want to...

Bush weighs release of abuse photos

2004-05-13 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration faces a difficult decision about whether to publicly release hundreds of images of Iraqi prisoners being abused and sexually humiliated at the Abu Ghraib prison. Some veteran Washington analysts suggested that it's in...

Cynthia Brown, who played a key role for Human Rights Watch for almost two decades, has died after a battle with cancer, the global advocacy group said. She was 60 years old.

2013-05-16 20:38:31

Two boys stand near their destroyed home April 5 in Meiktila, Myanmar. Recent sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims has left dozens dead, and Human Rights Watch said Monday that the attacks on Rohingya Muslims amount to crimes against humanity.

2013-04-22 13:19:00

A report by Human Rights Watch concludes that Mexico's bloody drug war has "resulted in one of the most severe crises of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades."

2013-03-04 18:14:00