The number of Americans in prison older than 55 is growing at a faster rate than the group's share of the population at large, and many prisons are unprepared to provide them with health care, which can cost as much as nine times more than for younger inmates, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday. The complications in handling the...
TRIPOLI, LIBYA -- When I first met Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, now the chairman of Libya's Transitional National Council, in April 2009, he was the beleaguered justice minister in Muammar el-Qaddafi's Libya, virtually the sole brave voice among senior officials demanding accountability from the country's security services. He had been brought in as a...
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son and presumed heir of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, is alive and well and being held by a rebel militia outside the Libyan capital, according to an American human rights organization that was granted rare access to him. But the group said that Mr. Qaddafi had been denied access to legal counsel as he...
Human Rights Watch er en menneskerettighedsorganisation, der blev oprettet i 1978 under navnet Helsinki Watch.
Organisationens hovedkvarter ligger i New York, USA, og den er derudover til stede i et større antal byer verden over. Pr. 1. marts 2004 havde organisationen 190 ansatte. Derudover er der mange frivillige og medlemmer der støtter organisationen, både i form af penge og arbejde.
Organisationen arbejder også aktivt imod dødsstraf.