Human Rights Watch

Today the state and federal drug war is disproportionately focused on the poor and people of color. As speakers at a 2002 civil rights conference lamented, Our criminal laws, while facially neutral, are enforced in a manner that is massively and pervasively biased. The injustices of the criminal justice system threaten to render irrelevant fifty years of hard-fought civil rights progress. Nowhere is this truer than in the drug war. As noted by Human Rights Watch ... 

Key Recommendations from Punishment and Prejudice Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs." (2000, June). Washington, DC Human Rights Watch. http //www.hrw.org/campaigns/drugs/war/key-reco.htm... 

Kirk, Robin. More Terrible than Death Massacres, Drugs, and America s War in Colombia. New York Public Affairs, 2004. A researcher with Human Rights Watch vividly chronicles the ongoing violence in Colombia between paramilitary forces, guerrillas, and drug cartels. Drawing upon extensive interviews and observations, the author focuses mainly on the situation within Colombia but also points out ways in which U.S. policy has contributed to the violence. 

Interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch, February-August 1996, www.hrw.org/reports98.htm. 

JNA, Speciajalne Rucne Bombe M-79, Belgrade (1988). Translated by Human Rights Watch (1999). 

Goldstone Report, p. 113 see also reports from Amnesty International 2009, pp. 74—75 International Crisis Group 2009, p. 3 Human Rights Watch 2009, p. 21. 

Human Rights Watch 1998. See also Roberts and Siveikumaran 2012, p. 127. 

See Human Rights Watch Centinl African Republic ICC Investigation Needed, (26 June 2014) http //www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/26/central-african-republic-icc-investigation-needed (accessed 15 June 2015). 

Early in 2014, Human Rights Watch urged the DRC to adopt new mechanisms—including the establishment of specialized mixed chambers and the adoption of legislation implementing the Rome Statute of the ICC—to prosecute war crimes, which was adopted by the Council of Ministers on April 22 and presented to the National Assembly on May 2P... 

See Human Rights Watch World Report 2015, http //www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/democratic-republic-congo (accessed 3 July 2015). 

In June, Human Rights Watch called for a special investigation cell to be established to start investigations into serious crimes committed during the country s 2012-2013 armed conflict. The fighting continned as nine United Nations peacekeepers were killed in Mali in an ambush characterized by the deputy head of the United Nations mission as a cowardly act of terrorism. ... 

See Human Rights Watch, Mali Establish Special Investigation Cell, (25 June 2014) http //www.hrw.oig/news/2014/06/25/mah-establish-special-investigation-cell (accessed 1 July 2015). 

Obama s Speech on Drone Policy, NY Times (23 May 23 2013), http //www.nytimes. com/2013/05/24/us/politicsAianscript-of-obamas-speech-on-drone-policy.html (accessed 27 March 2015). See also Human Rights Watch, The Wedding that became A Funeral 2014, p. 21 (where the President Obama s May 2013 statement on drones is described as a policy approach). 

Human Rights Watch (2004) The wedding that became a funeral US drone attack on marriage procession in Yemen http //www.hrw.org/reports/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funer2il. 

Ghaemi, H. (2006). Building towers, cheating workers Exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates. Human Rights Watch, http //www.hrw.org/ en/reports/2006/11/1 l/buUding-towers-cheating-workers... 

Human Rights Watch (2011), You Dress According to Their Rules, Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women in Chechnya. Available at www.hrw.org/ reports/2011/03/10/you-dress-according-their-mles (accessed Apr. 7, 2012). 

See, for example, Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, Russia (1996) The Ingush-Ossetian conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region. Available at http //hrw.org/ reports/1996/Russia.htm (accessed Apr. 7, 2012). 

Human Rights Watch, Georgia/Abkahzia, Violations of the Laws of War and Russia s Role in the Conflict, Mar. 1995, available at www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/g/ georgia/ georgia953.pdf... 

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