China: Olympic Flame Turns Up Heat on Sponsors
Corporate Social Responsibility Rhetoric Does Not Match Reality
With fewer than four months remaining until the start of the Beijing Games, corporate sponsors of the Olympics risk lasting damage to their brands if they do not live up to their professed standards of corporate social responsibility by speaking out about the deteriorating human rights situation in China, Human Rights Watch said today.
April 16, 2008 Press Release
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Olympic Corporate Sponsors: Rhetoric and Reality
Excerpts from all 12 “TOP” Olympic sponsor companies’ policies on commitment to social responsibility and their comments on China, the Olympics, and human rights.
April 16, 2008 Background Briefing
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North Korea’s Transformation: Famine, Aid and Markets
Published in Review of North Korea Economy
This essay is an extended version of "How Famine Changed North Korea," an oped published on the Washington Post on February 28, 2008. Its Korean translation was published on the April 2008 edition of Korea Development Institute’s monthly magazine, Review of North Korea Economy.
April 15, 2008 Commentary
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China: Educate Children of North Korean Women
Policies Marginalize Children, Force Family Breakups
Many children of North Korean women living in China are denied legal identity and access to education, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. To comply with international standards and its own laws, China should ensure all children can go to school, without preconditions such as requiring them to show household registration papers. China should also stop arresting and summarily repatriating North Korean women who have had children with Chinese men.
April 13, 2008 Press Release
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Denied Status, Denied Education
Children of North Korean Women in China
 | This 23-page report documents how such children live without legal identity or access to elementary education. These children live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Jilin Province, northeast China (near its border with North Korea). Some are from North Korea while others were born in China and have Chinese fathers and North Korean mothers. |
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-304-8
April 12, 2008 Report
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Open Letter from Human Rights Watch to Heads of Government and Heads of State
Regarding possible attendance at the opening or closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing
Open letter from Human Rights Watch to heads of government and heads of state regarding possible attendance at the opening or closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
April 9, 2008 Letter
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China: Leaders Should Not Attend Olympics Without Rights Improvements
Leverage Beijing’s Desire for Recognition into Durable Rights Change
World leaders should defer accepting invitations to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing until the Chinese government makes key human rights improvements, Human Rights Watch said in an open letter today. In order to secure leaders’ participation, the Chinese government should allow an independent international investigation into events in Tibetan areas since March 10, lift restrictions on the press nationwide, stop jailing dissidents, and increase pressure on Sudan.
April 9, 2008 Press Release
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How China breaks up refugees' homes
By Kay Seok, North Korea researcher at Human Rights Watch
Published in The International Herald Tribune
April 9, 2008 Commentary
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US: Torch Arrival Illuminates Olympic Rights Abuses
San Francisco Mayor Should Deplore Rights Crackdown in China
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom should use the Olympic torch’s passage through San Francisco on Wednesday, April 9 to defend the freedom of expression and assembly and to highlight ongoing abuses in China linked to the Beijing Games, Human Rights Watch said today.
April 8, 2008 Press Release
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France: Torch Relay Should Not Mask Olympic Rights Abuses
French President and Paris Mayor Should Highlight Rights Violations in China
President Nicolas Sarkozy and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë should use the occasion of the Olympic Torch’s passage through Paris on Monday, April 7, to highlight ongoing abuses in China linked to the Beijing Games, Human Rights Watch said today.
April 7, 2008 Press Release
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UK: Olympic Torch Illuminates Lack of China Rights Policy
“No Strategy” to Address Tibet, Olympic-Related Rights Crises
In welcoming the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay outside 10 Downing Street, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sending the Chinese government exactly the wrong message on its ongoing crackdown in Tibet and on human rights advocates in China, Human Rights Watch said today.
April 4, 2008 Press Release
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China: Activist’s Jailing Spotlights Olympics’ Negative Effect on Rights
Governments, IOC Must Press for Hu Jia’s Release
The jailing of China’s leading human rights activist, Hu Jia, reflects a further hardening of Beijing’s stance towards dissent in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Human Rights Watch said today.
April 3, 2008 Press Release
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China: International Olympic Committee Operating in Moral Void
The Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should articulate human rights standards for host countries to end the moral void in which it operates, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today. The IOC, which is scheduled to hold meetings in Beijing from April 1 to April 12, has refused to publicly articulate concerns about the human rights situation in China.
April 1, 2008 Press Release
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China: Letter to Ethics Commission of International Olympic Committee
On April 10, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will meet in Beijing. The meeting will take place less than four months before the scheduled opening of the Games in China, and amidst growing international alarm over China’s human rights record, particularly after the recent events in Tibet. There is also broad concern about the jailing of dissidents who publicly linked human rights and the Olympics, and other abuses directly related to preparations for the Games.
March 31, 2008 Letter
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UN: Rights Council Chooses Consensus Over Victims
Council Fails to Act on Tibet and Remains Timid on Darfur
The UN Human Rights Council showed little resolve to take on states responsible for serious human rights violations in its session ending today, Human Rights Watch said. Although the council took action on Burma and Somalia, it ignored other human rights crises such as Tibet, and adopted a disturbingly weak resolution on Darfur.
March 28, 2008 Press Release
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Nepal: Fears for Safety of Tibetans in Kathmandu
Police Threaten to Return Peaceful Tibetans Protesters to China
The government of Nepal should end arbitrary detention, threats and harassment against peaceful Tibetan protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. Government forces are pre-emptively arresting Tibetans in Kathmandu as they attempt to move around the city on foot, in taxis, or on buses. The police have directly threatened several individuals in detention with deportation to China.
March 26, 2008 Press Release
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UN: Rights Council Should Address Tibet Crisis
The Human Rights Council should actively engage on serious human rights abuses wherever they occur, including the current crisis in Tibet, Human Rights Watch said today. In the council’s session yesterday, states and nongovernmental organizations raising the situation in Tibet were continually interrupted by China and other states, and discussion was eventually curtailed by procedural motions.
March 26, 2008 Press Release
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Statement on Minority Rights
Intervention under Agenda Item 8 of the Human Rights Council
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirmed the obligation of all states to ensure that persons belonging to minorities can fully exercise all their fundamental human rights. It is the responsibility of governments to provide security for all citizens regardless of their ethnicity. Human Rights Watch strongly condemns acts of violence committed against minority groups exercising their right to peaceful dissent, and government’s forceful suppression of these movements, the likes of which we have seen on our television screens in recent weeks in China.
March 25, 2008 Oral Statement
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China: Investigate Crackdown Before Torch Relay’s Passage Through Tibet
Account for Missing and Dead; Reopen Lhasa to Media and Monitors
The Olympic torch, which was lit today in Olympia, Greece, should not go through Tibet unless the Chinese government agrees to an independent investigation into the recent unrest in Tibetan areas, Human Rights Watch said today.
March 24, 2008 Press Release
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Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation
by Some Chinese Intellectuals
March 22, 2008 Press Release
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