World Report 09
Events of 2008
Published on 20. April 2010
592 pages
978-1-58322-988-0 (ISBN)
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Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world's leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World Report prioritizes events in the most affected countries during the previous year. The backbone of the report consists of a series of concise overviews of the most pressing human rights issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular focus on the role—positive or negative—played in each country by key domestic and international figures.
Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the U.S. and international press every year, the World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and all citizens of the world.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than eighty countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.
KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
- Acknowledgements
- TAKING BACK THE INITIATIVE FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS SPOILERS
- WORLD REPORT 2009 - AFRICA
- ANGOLA
- Elections
- Cabinda
- Freedom of Expression
- Housing Rights and Forced Evictions
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- BURUNDI
- Progress in Peace Negotiations and Demobilization
- Political Violence
- Repression of Political Opposition
- Addressing Impunity
- Transitional Justice
- Human Rights Defenders and Journalists
- Violence against Women
- Key International Actors
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)
- Abuses in the North
- Lawlessness and the Zaraguinas
- Lack of Accountability
- Activities of the International Criminal Court
- Key International Actors
- CHAD
- February 2008 Coup Attempt
- EU-UN Civilian Protection Force
- Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
- The Use and Recruitment of Child Soldiers
- World Bank Pipeline Project
- Hissène Habré Trial
- Key International Actors
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
- Efforts to End the Political-Military Stalemate
- Implementation of the Ouagadougou Agreement
- Politically Motivated Violence
- Extortion and Racketeering
- Criminality and the Rule of Law
- Sexual Violence
- Accountability for Past Abuses
- Key International Actors
- DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
- Violence in Eastern Congo
- Violence in Bas Congo
- Political Repression
- Threats to Journalists and Human Rights Defenders
- Justice and Accountability
- Key International Actors
- ERITREA
- Suppression of Free Expression
- Prison Conditions and Torture
- Military Conscription and Arrests
- Religious Persecution
- Relations with Neighboring Countries
- Key International Actors
- ETHIOPIA
- Political Repression
- War Crimes and Other Abuses by Ethiopian Military Forces
- Regional Renditions
- Civil Society and Free Expression
- Key International Actors
- GUINEA
- Insecurity and Abuses in Law Enforcement
- Governance and Legislative Elections
- Drug Trafficking
- Commission of Inquiry for 2007 Strike-Related Abuses
- National Observatory for Democracy and Human Rights
- Rule of Law
- Police Conduct
- Detention-Related Abuses
- Child Labor
- Key International Actors
- KENYA
- Electoral Violence
- Atrocities in Mt. Elgon
- Police Impunity
- Regional Renditions
- Women's, Children's, and LGBT Rights
- Human Rights Defenders and Journalists
- Key International Actors
- LIBERIA
- Ongoing Insecurity and Abuses in Law Enforcement
- Performance of the Judiciary
- Legislative Developments
- Harmful Traditional Practices
- Sexual Violence
- Corruption
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Accountability
- Liberian Army
- Disarmament of Former Combatants
- Key International Actors
- NIGERIA
- Violence and Poverty in the Niger Delta
- Government Corruption
- Intercommunal and Political Violence
- Torture and Policing
- Human Rights Concerns in the Context of Sharia
- Sexual Orientation
- Freedom of Expression
- Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Key International Actors
- RWANDA
- Conventional Courts
- Gacaca Jurisdictions
- International Justice
- "Genocide Ideology"
- Elections
- Human Rights Defenders and Journalists
- Key International Actors
- SIERRA LEONE
- Corruption
- Efforts to Establish the Rule of Law
- Police and Army Conduct
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- National Human Rights Commission
- Accountability for Past Abuses
- Key International Actors
- SOMALIA
- Abuses by TFG Security Forces and Militias
- Abuses by Ethiopian Military Forces (see also Ethiopia chapter)
- Abuses by Insurgent Forces
- Attacks against Humanitarian Workers, Civil Society Activists, and Journalists
- Key International Actors
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Xenophobic Attacks on Foreign Nationals
- Refugees and Migrants
- Excessive Use of Force by the Police
- Socioeconomic Rights
- Women's Rights
- Children's Rights
- International Role
- SUDAN
- Darfur
- Press Freedom
- Southern Sudan
- Key International Actors
- UGANDA
- War in Northern Uganda
- Disarmament in Karamoja
- Extrajudicial Killings, Illegal Detention, and Torture
- Judicial Independence and Freedom of Expression
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Activists
- HIV/AIDS
- Key International Actors
- ZAMBIA
- Presidential Elections
- Constitutional Reform
- Civil and Political Rights
- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
- HIV/AIDS
- Key International Actors
- ZIMBABWE
- Post-Election Violence and Repression
- Impunity and the Rule of Law
- Human Rights Defenders
- Humanitarian Crisis
- Key International Actors
- WORLD REPORT 2009 - AMERICAS
- ARGENTINA
- Confronting Past Abuses
- Criminal Justice System
- Freedom of Expression and Information
- Reproductive Rights
- Key International Actors
- BOLIVIA
- Political Violence, Accountability, and Impunity
- Freedom of Expression
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- BRAZIL
- Police Violence
- Detention Conditions, Torture, and Ill-Treatment
- Forced Labor
- Rural Violence and Land Conflicts
- Impunity
- Human Rights Defenders
- Reproductive Rights
- Key International Actors
- CHILE
- Prison Conditions
- Military Justice
- Police Abuses
- Reproductive Rights
- Freedom of Expression and Information
- Key International Actors
- COLOMBIA
- Progress and Threats to Accountability for Paramilitaries' Accomplices
- Extraditions of Paramilitary Leaders
- New Armed Groups
- Guerrilla Abuses
- Internal Displacement
- Military Abuses and Impunity
- Violence against Trade Unionists
- Threats against Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, and Victims of Paramilitaries
- Key International Actors
- CUBA
- Legal and Institutional Failings
- Political Imprisonment
- Travel Restrictions and Family Separations
- Freedom of Expression and Assembly
- Prison Conditions
- Death Penalty
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- GUATEMALA
- Impunity for Civil War Crimes
- Impunity for Present-Day Crimes Including Attacks on Civil Society
- Excessive Use of Force
- Death Penalty
- Key International Actors
- HAITI
- Violence and Weak State Institutions
- Accountability for Past Abuses
- Detention Conditions
- Child Labor and Access to Education
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- MEXICO
- Criminal Justice System
- Impunity for Military Abuses
- Impunity for "Dirty War" Crimes
- Reproductive Rights, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Abuse
- Freedom of Expression and Information
- Labor Rights
- The National Human Rights Commission
- Key International Actors
- PERU
- Accountability and Impunity
- Torture and Ill-Treatment
- Media Freedom
- Reproductive Rights
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- VENEZUELA
- Independence of the Judiciary
- Freedom of Expression and the Media
- Labor Rights
- Police Abuses
- Prison Conditions
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- WORLD REPORT 2009 - ASIA
- AFGHANISTAN
- Violence and Insecurity
- Governance and Impunity
- Women and Girls
- Children
- Human Rights Defenders
- Media Freedom
- Key International Actors
- BANGLADESH
- Political Developments
- Extrajudicial Killings
- Torture
- Freedom of Expression and Assembly
- Freedom of Association
- Women's Rights
- Privacy
- Impunity
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- BURMA
- Cyclone Nargis
- Constitutional Referendum
- Human Rights Defenders
- Child Soldiers
- Continuing Violence against Ethnic Groups
- Refugees and Migrant Workers
- Key International Actors
- CAMBODIA
- National Elections
- Freedoms of Expression, Association, and Assembly
- Land Confiscation
- Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Prisons and Arbitrary Detention
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Rule of Law
- Key International Actors
- CHINA
- 2008 Beijing Olympics
- Freedom of Expression
- Legal Reform
- Human Rights Defenders
- Labor Rights
- Women's Rights
- HIV/AIDS
- Freedom of Religion
- Tibet
- Xinjiang
- Hong Kong
- Key International Actors
- INDIA
- Protests in Jammu and Kashmir
- Violence in Manipur and Other Northeastern States
- Naxalite Conflict
- Impunity
- Protection of Vulnerable Communities
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- INDONESIA
- Impunity
- Military Business
- Freedom of Religion
- Migrant Domestic Workers
- Child Domestic Workers
- Aceh
- Papua and West Papua
- Death Penalty
- Freedom of Expression and Press
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- MALAYSIA
- Detention without Charge or Trial
- Migrant Workers, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
- Freedom of Assembly and Police Abuse
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Religion
- Privacy
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- NEPAL
- Impunity
- Armed Combatants in UN Cantonments
- Child Soldiers
- Youth Communist League
- Torture
- Situation in the Terai Region
- Arbitrary Arrest and Torture of Tibetans
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- NORTH KOREA
- Right to Food
- North Koreans in China
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers outside China
- North Korean Workers
- Abductees
- Key International Actors
- PAKISTAN
- Elections
- Judicial Independence
- Balochistan
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and "Disappearances"
- Security Operations and Displaced Persons
- Discrimination
- Freedom of Expression
- Death Penalty
- Key International Actors
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- Police Violence, Juvenile Justice, and Detention of Children
- Violence and Discrimination against Women and Girls
- Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
- Right to Health
- Education
- Key International Actors
- THE PHILIPPINES
- Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances
- Summary Executions of Petty Criminals and Street Youth
- Conflict in Mindanao
- Clashes with Other Armed Groups
- Filipino Workers Abroad
- Key International Actors
- SINGAPORE
- Freedom of Expression and Assembly
- Caning
- Death Penalty
- Migrant Domestic Workers
- Privacy
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- SRI LANKA
- Humanitarian Crisis
- Threats and Attacks against Civilians
- Abductions and Enforced Disappearances
- Emergency Regulations and the Prevention of Terrorism Act
- Impunity
- Child Soldiers
- Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, and Humanitarian Workers
- Sri Lankan Migrant Workers
- Key International Actors
- THAILAND
- New "War on Drugs"
- People's Alliance for Democracy
- Freedom of Expression and Media Freedom
- Violence and Abuses in the Southern Border Provinces
- Refugees and Migrant Workers
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- TIMOR-LESTE
- Attacks on Leaders
- Impunity
- Security Sector
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- VIETNAM
- Political and Religious Prisoners
- Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials
- Media and Internet Restrictions
- Freedom of Religion
- Freedom of Association and Labor Rights
- Freedom of Assembly
- Women and Children
- Key International Actors
- WORLD REPORT 2009 - EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
- ARMENIA
- Elections and Election-Related Violence
- Media Freedom
- Freedom of Assembly
- Torture and Ill-Treatment
- Key International Actors
- AZERBAIJAN
- Elections
- Media Freedom
- Torture and Ill-Treatment
- Political Prisoners
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- BELARUS
- Political Freedoms and Civil Society
- Political Prisoners
- Media Freedom
- Death Penalty
- Key International Actors
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- War Crimes Accountability
- Return of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
- Citizenship and National Security
- Human Rights Defenders
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
- Key International Actors
- CROATIA
- Return and Integration of Serbs
- War Crimes Accountability
- Media Freedom
- Migration and Asylum Policy
- Children's Rights
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- EUROPEAN UNION
- Counterterrorism Measures and Human Rights
- Common EU Asylum and Migration Policy
- Human Rights Concerns in EU Member States
- GEORGIA
- Conflict over South Ossetia
- Lack of Accountability for Excessive Use of Force
- Criminal Justice System
- Elections
- Media Freedom
- Key International Actors
- KAZAKHSTAN
- Election Legislation
- Freedom of Expression and Information
- Freedom of Religion
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- KYRGYZSTAN
- Elections
- Civil Society
- Freedom of Assembly
- Media Freedom
- Violence against Women
- Torture
- Refugee Protection
- Key International Actors
- RUSSIA
- Elections
- The Armed Conflict over South Ossetia
- Civil Society
- The North Caucasus
- Migrant Construction Workers
- HIV and Drug Dependence
- Key International Actors
- SERBIA
- War Crimes Accountability
- Treatment of Minorities
- Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
- Media Freedom
- Human Rights Defenders
- Key International Actors
- Kosovo
- TAJIKISTAN
- Institutional Human Rights Reform
- Forced Evictions and Property Rights
- Religious Freedom
- Actions in the Name of Countering Terrorism and Extremism
- Civil Society
- Freedom of Assembly and Expression
- Torture and Deaths in Custody
- Women's Rights
- Key International Actors
- TURKEY
- Freedom of Expression, Association, and Assembly
- Human Rights Defenders
- Torture, Ill-Treatment, and Killings by Security Forces
- Impunity
- Attacks on Civilians
- Key International Actors
- TURKMENISTAN
- Constitutional Reform
- Civil Society and Media Freedom
- Political Prisoners, Government Purges, and Enforced Disappearances
- Freedom of Movement
- Freedom of Religion
- Key International Actors
- UKRAINE
- Criminal Justice System
- Media Freedom
- Employment Discrimination against Women
- Treatment of Asylum Seekers and Migrants
- Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities
- Human Rights Abuses Fueling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
- Key International Actors
- UZBEKISTAN
- Human Rights Defenders and Independent Journalists
- The Andijan Massacre and the Situation of Refugees
- Freedom of Religion
- Criminal Justice, Torture, and Ill-Treatment
- Child Labor
- Key International Actors
- WORLD REPORT 2009 - MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
- ALGERIA
- Freedom of Expression and Assembly
- Religious Freedom
- Impunity for Past Abuses
- Torture, Incommunicado Detention, and the Death Penalty
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Polisario-Run Refugee Camps in Algeria for Sahrawis
- Key International Actors
- BAHRAIN
- Freedom of Expression and Information
- Freedom of Assembly
- Impunity
- Freedom of Association and Civil Society
- Migrant Worker Rights
- Women's Rights
- Counterterrorism Measures
- Key International Actors
- EGYPT
- Political Violence and Torture
- Migrants' and Refugees' Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Association
- Women's and Children's Rights
- Privacy and Personal Integrity Rights
- Religious Intolerance and Discrimination against Religious Minorities
- Key International Actors
- IRAN
- Freedom of Expression and Assembly
- Civil Society
- Criminal Justice and the Juvenile Death Penalty
- Women's Rights
- Minorities
- HIV/AIDS
- Key International Actors
- IRAQ
- Political Developments
- MNF and Iraqi Government Military Operations
- Attacks on Civilians and Displacement
- MNF Detention
- Accountability for Past Crimes
- Gender-Based Violence
- Key International Actors
- ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (OPT)
- Israel
- The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas
- Key International Actors
- JORDAN
- Arbitrary Detention, Administrative Detention, and Torture
- Freedom of Expression, Association, and Assembly
- Situation of Refugees Fleeing Iraq
- Women's Rights
- Migrant Worker Rights
- Key International Actors
- LEBANON
- Internal Fighting
- Legacy of Past Wars
- Torture, Ill-Treatment, and Prison Conditions
- Palestinian Refugees
- Iraqi Refugees
- Hariri Tribunal
- Discrimination against Women
- Key International Actors
- LIBYA
- Political Prisoners
- Freedom of Association and Freedom of Expression
- Torture
- Violence against Women and Girls
- Abu Salim Prison
- Treatment of Foreigners
- Promises of Reform
- Key International Actors
- MOROCCO/WESTERN SAHARA
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- The Justice System and Law Enforcement
- Freedom of Association and Assembly
- Freedom of Expression and the Media
- Family Law and Women's and Children's Rights
- Key International Actors
- SAUDI ARABIA
- Women's Rights
- Migrant Worker Rights
- Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Religion and Religious Discrimination
- Key International Actors
- SYRIA
- Political Activists on Trial
- Freedom of Expression
- Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and "Disappearances"
- Human Rights Defenders
- Discrimination and Repression against Kurds
- Women's Rights
- Situation of Refugees Fleeing Iraq
- Key International Actors
- TUNISIA
- Human Rights Defenders
- The Justice System
- Media Freedom
- Counterterrorism Measures
- Socioeconomic Unrest
- Key International Actors
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE)
- Freedom of Association and Expression
- Prisons and Ill-Treatment
- Migrant Workers' Rights
- Key International Actors
- YEMEN
- Arbitrary Arrests and Enforced Disappearances
- Denial of Humanitarian Access to Conflict Areas
- Freedom of Information
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Criminal Justice and the Juvenile Death Penalty
- Early and Forced Marriage
- Key International Actors
- WORLD REPORT 2009 - UNITED STATES
- UNITED STATES
- Death Penalty
- Juvenile Life without Parole
- Incarceration
- Corporal Punishment in Public Schools
- Women's Rights
- Sexual Violence
- Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Rights of Non-Citizens
- Guantanamo Bay, Indefinite Detention, and Military Commissions
- Torture Policy
- Secret CIA Prisons
- Denial of Refugee Protection
- Domestic Prosecution of Torture Abroad
- Key International Actors
- WORLD REPORT 2009
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