Tag: HRW

HRW Urges Algeria to Halt Summary Deportations of Sub-Saharans

December 11, 2016

International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all ... Read More

Human Rights Watch Lauds Morocco’s New Law on Domestic Workers

August 3, 2016

Human Rights Watch, welcomed Morocco’s new law regulating work for domestic workers saying that such a legislation is “ground breaking” in as far as it ... Read More

HRW Urges UN S-G to Intervene for Release of Women Detained by Polisario

March 5, 2016

Human Rights Watch has urged the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is currently touring the Maghreb region to intervene in favor of Sahrawi women ... Read More

Egypt: Right Groups pan Cairo for human right violations

September 22, 2015

Human Rights Watch Tuesday criticised Cairo for smashing people’s rights in its campaign against IS fighters in North Sinai and said it may produce more ... Read More

HRW Denounces Algeria’s Detention of Pro-Autonomy Activists

August 27, 2015

Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities "to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his ... Read More

Libya: Clashes between I.S fighters and Tripoli Government Troops in Sirte

March 16, 2015

libya-extremists-fighters Armed groups loyal to the Tripoli government have clashed with fighters that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the first known confrontation ... Read More

Congolese Gynecologist Adds Sakharov Prize to his Collection of Awards

October 22, 2014

Congolese Gynecologist, Denis Mukwege, has won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2014 awarded by the European Parliament for his standing up for women´s ... Read More

Algeria Should Acknowledge Responsibility Regarding Rights Respect in Tindouf Camps (HRW)

October 20, 2014

Algeria which is hosting on its territory thousands of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps should acknowledge its responsibility regarding the respect for human rights ... Read More

Rounding Up Migrants: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Abusive’ Labor System Condemned

November 6, 2013

Saudi Arabia rounded up thousands of newcomer workers following the expiration of an amnesty introducing new employment rules. It is estimated that about a million ... Read More

Could Human Rights Promotion Have Spared the Arab World all that Turmoil?

March 4, 2013

Long before the advent of the Arab Spring, the region was boiling as people in most of the countries of the region were denied basic ... Read More