On the 20-year anniversary of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, Amnesty International today renewed its calls for justice and full reparation for gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law perpetrated by the United States-led Coalition.
Human Rights Watch’s Role in Conflict and Crisis. How HRW Documents Wartime Abuses, Advocates to Protect Civilians, and Promotes Justice. December 22, 2023 News Release.
Presenting the PMU as somehow uniquely implicated in human rights violations overlooks the fact that there is a far broader culture of impunity that is unfortunately exhibited by all armed actors in Iraq: from the pre-2003 regime 29 to U.S. and British forces 30 to security contractors 31 to the Iraqi federal police, 32 Iraqi army, 33
UNAMI report, “Update on Demonstrations in Iraq: Accountability for Human Rights Violations and Abuses by Unidentified Armed Elements: May 2021, Baghdad,” May 2021, available at https
During the early stages of the Iraq War, a group of soldiers committed a series of human rights violations including physical and sexual abuse against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of October 29, North Korea had tested 12,072 people for Covid-19, with all resulting “negative” for the virus, and as of August 20, a total

On February 6, Human Rights Watch issued a report documenting how authorities illegally detained women and subjected many to torture and ill-treatment, including sexual abuse. Iraq’s judiciary

In 1994 and 1995, Human Rights Watch urged states to bring a case against Iraq for genocide against the Kurds before the International Court of Justice. Human Rights Watch is preparing a detailed

campaign and violations of the laws of war. p. cm -- (A Middle East Watch report) Human Rights Watch is composed of Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia THE AIR WAR AGAINST IRAQ Background

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the
For more than a decade Human Rights Watch has monitored and reported on violations of IHL in numerous armed conflicts, including Iraq (1991) and Yugoslavia (1999) in which the United States was a Almost eight years after US-led forces invaded Iraq, the country's transition to a functioning and sustainable democracy built on rule of law is far from accomplished. The rights of Iraq's most
Using an ambulance for military operations would raise grave concerns for the safety of patients and medical workers in violation of the laws of war. Human Rights Watch did not find evidence that
COMMON ANALYSIS. Saddam Hussein and the Baath party used violence, killing, torture, execution, arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention, enforced disappearance, and various forms of repression to control the population [ Targeting, 1.1.1, 1.7]. Kurdish people were systematically persecuted. The al-Anfal military campaign against Kurdistan in
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