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Yemen: Review Saudi Woman’s Refugee Claim Don’t Deport Before UN Agency Considers Threat to Life NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Email With a woman’s safety at stake, the Yemeni authorities should allow UNHCR to interview her. Many Saudi women have a very real fear of violence and worse if they marry a man who isn’t their family’s choice. Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director (Sanaa) – Yemeni authorities should not return a Saudi woman to her country without considering her claim that the Saudi government will not protect her against life-threatening family violence. The government should halt any deportation order against her and allow the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to interview her in detention to review her asylum claim. Huda al-Niran, 22, fled from  Saudi Arabia  to  Yemen  with a Yemeni man her family refused to let her marry, so that they could marry in Yemen, her lawyer, Abdulra...

Systematic rape of Tamils violates Genocide convention, says Prof. Boyle [TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 00:51 GMT] Professor Boyle, an expert in International Law and who represented nearly 40,000 raped Women of Bosnia and argued their case for genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, commenting on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, "Sri Lanka: Rape of Tamil detainees," said, "[c]learly, this continuing Campaign of widespread and systematic rape by the Government of Sri Lanka against the Tamils violates Article II(b) of the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which Sri Lanka is a contracting party."   lees hier de rest van het artikel: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36081 lees ook: Sexual violence against Tamils is premeditated, deliberate’: HRW UK Director [TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 06:26 GMT] Responding to a question posed by TamilNet at a Human Rights Watch press meet ...

Iraqi Kurdistan: Law Banning FGM Not Being Enforced One Year After Landmark Bill, Harmful Practice Persists The KRG parliament took a huge step forward when it passed the Family Violence Law. Authorities now need to begin the difficult process of putting a comprehensive plan in place to implement the law, including informing the public, police, and health professionals about the ban on FGM. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director (Erbil) – The practice of female genital mutilation continues in the Kurdistan region of Iraq a year after a landmark law banning it went into effect because the Kurdistan Regional Government has not taken steps to implement the law. The Family Violence Law, which went into effect on August 11, 2011, includes several provisions to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM), recognized internationally as a form of violence against women. The regional government has begun to run awareness campaigns, train judges, and issue orders to police on the article...

Mr. U. Rosenthal Minister of Foreign Affairs PO Box 20061 2500 EB Den Haag The Netherlands Dear Minister Rosenthal, I am writing to you regarding the section in your December 2011 Netherlands Country Report on Iraq about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. While Human Rights Watch appreciates your government’s discussion of Iraqis identifying as LGBT in the report, we are concerned that the section downplays the severe challenges and risks faced by the LGBT community in Iraq. Your report suggests that the most significant problems facing the LGBT community in Iraq are that “homosexuality is a social taboo” and that “people are generally disapproving of homosexuality.” The situation for the LGBT community is much more dire than what the report states. Even though in a footnote the Dutch report refers to the 2009 Human Rights Watch report “They Want Us Exterminated”: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq, it does not address the alarmin...