Press
Press Releases and Advisories
Chronological
Thematic
Detainees and Counter-Terrorism
Racial Profiling and Counter-Terrorism
Caste Discrimination
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Transitional Justice
Project on Extrajudicial Executions
Chronological
CHRGJ Launches Documentary Americans on Hold, Exposing Discrimination (April 27, 2010)
Rights Groups Testify about Haiti and Human Rights before Inter-American Commission (March 23, 2010)
Brief to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: The Human Rights Obligations of OAS Member States Providing International Assistance in the Region
Mémoire pour la Commission interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme: Les Obligations liees aux droits de l'homme des États membres de l'OEA Apportant une assistance internationale dans la Region
Groups Call for Respect for Human Rights, Accountability at Haiti Donors’ Conference (March 18, 2010)
Groups to Testify on Haiti and Human Rights before Inter-American Commission (March 17, 2010)
CHRGJ to Address Critical Gaps in New Constitution at the CCD (March 17, 2010)
New Evidence Confirms Poland Complicit in CIA Secret Detention Program (March 9, 2010)
Submission to the Polish Prosecutor: Data String Analysis Submitted as Evidence of Polish Involvement in US Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention Program
Rights Groups Travel to Haiti to Assess Human Rights Situation (March 3, 2010)
Albania can do more to eliminate blood feuds and domestic violence, says UN expert (February 23, 2010)
Press Statement: UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Professor Philip Alston, Mission to Albania
Deklaratë për Shtyp: Raportuesi i Posaçëm i Kombeve të Bashkuara për ekzekutimet jashtëgjyqësore, Professor Philip Alston, Misioni në Shqipëri
Rights Groups Present New Documents that Show Congress Knew More about CIA Rendition, Secret Detention, and Torture Than Previously Disclosed (February 22, 2010)
Documents Read the Newly Released FOIA Documents
Groups Call on Donors to Advance Human Rights in Rebuilding Haiti (February 17, 2010)
Recommendations for the March 2010 Haiti Donors’ Conference
CHRGJ Releases New Report Urging Nepal to Ensure Equality and Human Rights in the New Constitution (February 9, 2010)
Full Report: Rights Within Reach: Securing Equality and Human Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution
CHRGJ Calls on Congress to Stop Discriminatory Profiling, Fix Watchlists (January 20, 2010)
Rights Groups Urge Respect for Human Rights in Delivering Aid to Haiti (January 14, 2010)
Press Statement: A Call for Human Rights-Based Approach to Humanitarian Assistance for Haiti (January 14, 2010)
Grupos Humanitarios Urgen Respeto a los Derechos Humanos en la Entrega de Ayuda a Haiti (January 14, 2010)
Press Statement: Un Llamado de una Estrategia de los Derechos Humanos al Través de la Asistencia Humanitaria a Haití (January 14, 2010)
Organizations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme Réclament Respect pour les Droits de l’Homme dans la Réponse Humanitaire en Haïti (January 14, 2010)
Press Statement: Appel à ce que l’aide humanitaire pour Haïti soit ancrée dans une approche fondée sur les droits de l’homme (January 14, 2010)
Rights Groups Urge Congress Not to Block Disclosure of Details about CIA Rendition, Secret Detention, and Torture (January 7, 2010)
UN expert concludes that Sri Lankan video is authentic, calls for an independent war crimes investigation (January 7, 2010)
UN expert on extrajudicial executions calls on UN to end support to Congolese military operations commanded by known war criminals (December 16, 2009)
Press statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 5-15 October 2009 (December 16, 2009)
Rights Groups Urge Action as Nepal’s Dalits Rally (December 10, 2009)
UN expert says impunity is a key cause of illegal killings around the world (October 27, 2009)
Statement by Philip Alston to the United Nations General Assembly, Third Committee (October 27, 2009)
Musicians Protest Music Used for Torture at GTMO – Seek Declassification of Secret Documents on Music-Related Abuses (October 22, 2009)
Obama Administration Continues to Abuse ‘National Security’ Defense (September 23, 2009)
Rights Groups: New Administration Abuses ‘National Security’ Defense (September 18, 2009)
Rights groups Receive Cheney Documents, Call for Investigation, Prosecution (August 24, 2009)
Rights Groups Respond to CIA's Denial of Former Vice President Cheney's Request for Documents' Release (May 15, 2009)
Campaign to Establish Presidential Torture Commission Launched (April 28, 2009)
Rights Groups Call on Obama to Declassify Documents on Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture (April 13, 2009)
Groups Urge New Direction for International Assistance to Haiti (April 9 2009)
CHRGJ Calls on Administration to Stop Racial Profiling in Citizenship Process (March 31. 2009)
Activist Zuhair Mahd to Be Sworn in Tuesday after Long Immigration Battle (March 30, 2009)
Recasting Justice: Securing Dalit Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution (February 24, 2009)
Nepali Translation
CHRGJ Calls on Obama to Prosecute Abuse of Detainees (February 19, 2009)
Joint Statement on Commission Relating to Detention, Treatment, and Transfer of Detainees
Related Press Release: Former FBI Director, General, Diplomat, Clergy Call for Presidential Commission on Detention, Treatment and Transfer of Detainees
Rights Groups Release Documents Obtained in FOIA Case Relating to Secret Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, and Torture Program (February 12, 2009)
Rights Groups Hold Press Call to Release Documents Relating to Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture Program FOIA (February 11, 2009)
CHRGJ Welcomes Executive Order Closing CIA Prisons (January 26, 2009)
Citing Omissions, Group Calls for Action in Open Letter to President Obama
Rights Groups Demand CIA Turn Over 49 Cables Relating to Use of Waterboarding (December 23, 2008)
FBI Name Check Process Causing Mass Disenfranchisement in Election (October 30, 2008)
Rights Groups File Motion to Compel Department of Justice to Release Documents on U.S. Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture Program (July 21, 2008)
Rights Groups Launch Groundbreaking Report on Right to Water in Haiti (June 23, 2008)
Full report: Wòch Nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti (June 2008)
CIA Acknowledges it Has More Than 7000 Documents Relating to Secret Detention Program, Rendition, and Torture (April 23, 2008)
Groundbreaking Report on Caste Discrimination in Nepal (April 21, 2008)
Full report: Recasting Justice: Securing Dalit Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution (April 2008)
World Economic Forum Names Paul Van Zyl a 2008 Young Global Leader (March 11, 2008)
CHRGJ and HRW report highlights "Business: Rights at Risk in the Global Economy Companies Harm Human Rights Worldwide" (February 19, 2008
Full report: On the Margins of Profit: Rights at Risk in the Global Economy (February 2008)
Federal Court Urged to Pursue Justice against ‘Torture Flights’ Provider Jeppesen (February 5, 2008)
CHRGJ Releases Unprecedented Testimony about CIA “Black Sites” (December 17, 2007)
Full report: Surviving the Darkness: Testimony from the U.S. “Black Sites” (December 2007)
Leading Human Rights Groups Name 39 CIA "Disappeared" Detainees; 3 File Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Information (June 7, 2007)
Full report: Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the " War on Terror" (June 2007)
Government Fails to End Caste-Based Segregation and Attacks (February 13, 2007)
Full report: 'Hidden Apartheid': Caste Discrimination Against India's "Untouchables" (2007)
Profiled Immigrants Delayed Years in Seeking Citizenship (April 25, 2007)
Full report: Americans on Hold: Profiling, Citizenship, and the " War on Terror" (2007)
International Human Rights Clinic Seeks Information about Disappeared Persons (August 15, 2006)
NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Urges Review of U.K. "Shoot-to-Kill" Policy On Anniversary of de Menezes? Death (July 21, 2006)
Minorities Will Bear the Brunt of "Shoot-To-Kill" Policies (May 10, 2006)
Full report: Irreversible Consequences: Racial Profiling and Lethal Force in the "War on Terror" (May 2006)
More Than 600 U.S. Personnel Implicated in Detainee Abuse (April 26, 2006)
Full report: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (Joint HRW, HRF, CHRGJ Report: By The Numbers) (April 2006)
States Must Investigate Allegations of Torture Assistance (February 28, 2006)
Full report: Enabling Torture: International Law Applicable to State Participation in the Unlawful Activities of Other States (February 2006)
U.S. to Make Decision in Indian Extradition Case (December 27, 2005) (hyperlink to PDF provided)
United States Must Clarify Fate of 28 Individuals (December 17, 2005) (hyperlink to PDF provided)
Full report: Fate and Whereabouts Unknown: Detainees in the "War on Terror" (December 2005)
Dalits at High Risk of Torture in Nepal: CHRGJ Urges Investigation by the U.N. Committee Against Torture (November 8, 2005)
Full statement: CHRGJ Statement on Nepal to the U.N. Committee Against Torture (November 8, 2005)
CHRGJ Releases Report on Caste Discrimination in Nepal (August 11, 2005)
Full report: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Caste Discrimination and the Conflict in Nepal (2005)
Report launch: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Caste Discrimination and the Conflict in Nepal (August 11, 2005)
Photo gallery: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Photo Gallery
CHRGJ Releases Report on Continued Outsourcing of Torture (June 28, 2005)
Full report: Beyond Guantánamo: Transfers to Torture One Year After Rasul v. Bush (June 2005)
CHRGJ Endorses Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act (February 22, 2005)
CHRGJ Releases Report on Extraordinary Rendition (October 29, 2004)
Full report: Torture by Proxy: International and Domestic Law Applicable to "Extraordinary Renditions" (2004)
To access the latest press releases and statements of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, click here.
Thematic
Detainees and Counter-Terrorism
New Evidence Confirms Poland Complicit in CIA Secret Detention Program (March 9, 2010)
Submission to the Polish Prosecutor: Data String Analysis Submitted as Evidence of Polish Involvement in US Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention Program
Rights Groups Present New Documents that Show Congress Knew More about CIA Rendition, Secret Detention, and Torture Than Previously Disclosed (February 22, 2010)
Documents Read the Newly Released FOIA Documents
Rights Groups Urge Congress Not to Block Disclosure of Details about CIA Rendition, Secret Detention, and Torture (January 7, 2010)
Musicians Protest Music Used for Torture at GTMO – Seek Declassification of Secret Documents on Music-Related Abuses (October 22, 2009)
Obama Administration Continues to Abuse ‘National Security’ Defense (September 23, 2009)
Rights Groups: New Administration Abuses ‘National Security’ Defense (September 18, 2009)
Rights groups Receive Cheney Documents, Call for Investigation, Prosecution (August 24, 2009)
Rights Groups Respond to CIA's Denial of Former Vice President Cheney's Request for Documents' Release (May 15, 2009)
Campaign to Establish Presidential Torture Commission Launched (April 28, 2009)
Rights Groups Call on Obama to Declassify Documents on Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture (April 13, 2009)
CHRGJ Calls on Obama to Prosecute Abuse of Detainees (February 19, 2009)
Joint Statement on Commission Relating to Detention, Treatment, and Transfer of Detainees
Related Press Release: Former FBI Director, General, Diplomat, Clergy Call for Presidential Commission on Detention, Treatment and Transfer of Detainees
Rights Groups Release Documents Obtained in FOIA Case Relating to Secret Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, and Torture Program (February 12, 2009)
Rights Groups Hold Press Call to Release Documents Relating to Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture Program FOIA (February 11, 2009)
CHRGJ Welcomes Executive Order Closing CIA Prisons (January 26, 2009)
Citing Omissions, Group Calls for Action in Open Letter to President Obama
Rights Groups Demand CIA Turn Over 49 Cables Relating to Use of Waterboarding (December 23, 2008)
Rights Groups File Motion to Compel Department of Justice to Release Documents on U.S. Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture Program (July 21, 2008)
Federal Court Urged to Pursue Justice against ‘Torture Flights’ Provider Jeppesen (February 5, 2008)
CHRGJ Releases Unprecedented Testimony about CIA “Black Sites” (December 17, 2007)
Full report: Surviving the Darkness: Testimony from the U.S. “Black Sites” (December 2007)
Leading Human Rights Groups Name 39 CIA "Disappeared" Detainees; 3 File Lawsuit Seeking Disclosure of Information (June 7, 2007)
Full report: Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the " War on Terror" (June 2007)
International Human Rights Clinic Seeks Information about Disappeared Persons (August 15, 2006)
More Than 600 U.S. Personnel Implicated in Detainee Abuse (April 26, 2006)
Full report: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (Joint HRW, HRF, CHRGJ Report: By The Numbers) (April 2006)
States Must Investigate Allegations of Torture Assistance (February 28, 2006)
Full report: Enabling Torture: International Law Applicable to State Participation in the Unlawful Activities of Other States (February 2006)
U.S. to Make Decision in Indian Extradition Case (December 27, 2005) (hyperlink to PDF provided)
United States Must Clarify Fate of 28 Individuals (December 17, 2005) (hyperlink to PDF provided)
Full report: Fate and Whereabouts Unknown: Detainees in the "War on Terror" (December 2005)
CHRGJ Releases Report on Continued Outsourcing of Torture (June 28, 2005)
Full report: Beyond Guantánamo: Transfers to Torture One Year After Rasul v. Bush (June 2005)
CHRGJ Endorses Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act (February 22, 2005)
CHRGJ Releases Report on Extraordinary Rendition (October 29, 2004)
Full report: Torture by Proxy: International and Domestic Law Applicable to "Extraordinary Renditions" (2004)
Racial Profiling and Counter-Terrorism
CHRGJ Launches Documentary Americans on Hold, Exposing Discrimination (April 27, 2010)
CHRGJ Calls on Congress to Stop Discriminatory Profiling, Fix Watchlists (January 20, 2010)
CHRGJ Calls on Administration to Stop Racial Profiling in Citizenship Process (March 31. 2009)
Activist Zuhair Mahd to Be Sworn in Tuesday after Long Immigration Battle (March 30, 2009)
FBI Name Check Process Causing Mass Disenfranchisement in Election (October 30, 2008)
Profiled Immigrants Delayed Years in Seeking Citizenship (April 25, 2007)
Full report: Americans on Hold: Profiling, Citizenship, and the " War on Terror" (2007)
NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Urges Review of U.K. "Shoot-to-Kill" Policy On Anniversary of de Menezes Death (July 21, 2006)
Minorities Will Bear the Brunt of "Shoot-To-Kill" Policies (May 10, 2006)
Full report: Irreversible Consequences: Racial Profiling and Lethal Force in the "War on Terror" (May 2006)
Caste Discrimination
CHRGJ to Address Critical Gaps in New Constitution at the CCD (March 17, 2010)
CHRGJ Releases New Report Urging Nepal to Ensure Equality and Human Rights in the New Constitution (February 9, 2010)
Full Report: Rights Within Reach: Securing Equality and Human Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution
Rights Groups Urge Action as Nepal’s Dalits Rally (December 10, 2009)
Recasting Justice: Securing Dalit Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution (February 24, 2009)
Nepali Translation
Groundbreaking Report on Caste Discrimination in Nepal (April 21, 2008)
Full report: Recasting Justice: Securing Dalit Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution (April 2008)
Government Fails to End Caste-Based Segregation and Attacks (February 13, 2007)
Full report: 'Hidden Apartheid': Caste Discrimination Against India's "Untouchables" (2007)
Dalits at High Risk of Torture in Nepal: CHRGJ Urges Investigation by the U.N. Committee Against Torture (November 8, 2005)
Full statement: CHRGJ Statement on Nepal to the U.N. Committee Against Torture (2005)
CHRGJ Releases Report on Caste Discrimination in Nepal (August 11, 2005)
Full report: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Caste Discrimination and the Conflict in Nepal (2005)
Overview: Overview of the Report Launch: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Caste Discrimination and the Conflict in Nepal
Photo gallery: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Photo Gallery
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Groups Call for Respect for Human Rights, Accountability at Haiti Donors’ Conference (March 18, 2010)
Groups to Testify on Haiti and Human Rights before Inter-American Commission (March 17, 2010)
Rights Groups Travel to Haiti to Assess Human Rights Situation (March 3, 2010)
Groups Call on Donors to Advance Human Rights in Rebuilding Haiti (February 17, 2010)
Recommendations for the March 2010 Haiti Donors’ Conference
Rights Groups Urge Respect for Human Rights in Delivering Aid to Haiti (January 14, 2010)
Press Statement: A Call for Human Rights-Based Approach to Humanitarian Assistance for Haiti (January 14, 2010)
Grupos Humanitarios Urgen Respeto a los Derechos Humanos en la Entrega de Ayuda a Haiti (January 14, 2010)
Press Statement: Un Llamado de una Estrategia de los Derechos Humanos al Través de la Asistencia Humanitaria a Haití (January 14, 2010)
Organizations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme Réclament Respect pour les Droits de l’Homme dans la Réponse Humanitaire en Haïti (January 14, 2010)
Press Statement: Appel à ce que l’aide humanitaire pour Haïti soit ancrée dans une approche fondée sur les droits de l’homme (January 14, 2010)
Groups Urge New Direction for International Assistance to Haiti (April 9 2009)
Rights Groups Launch Groundbreaking Report on Right to Water in Haiti (June 23, 2008)
Full report: Wòch Nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti (June 2008)
CHRGJ and HRW report highlights "Business: Rights at Risk in the Global Economy Companies Harm Human Rights Worldwide" (February 19, 2008)
Full report: On the Margins of Profit: Rights at Risk in the Global Economy (February 2008)
Transitional Justice
World Economic Forum Names Paul Van Zyl a 2008 Young Global Leader (March 11, 2008)
Project on Extrajudicial Executions
Albania can do more to eliminate blood feuds and domestic violence, says UN expert (February 23, 2010)
Press Statement: UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Professor Philip Alston, Mission to Albania
Deklaratë për Shtyp: Raportuesi i Posaçëm i Kombeve të Bashkuara për ekzekutimet jashtëgjyqësore, Professor Philip Alston, Misioni në Shqipëri
UN expert concludes that Sri Lankan video is authentic, calls for an independent war crimes investigation (January 7, 2010)
UN expert on extrajudicial executions calls on UN to end support to Congolese military operations commanded by known war criminals (December 16, 2009)
Press statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 5-15 October 2009 (December 16, 2009)
UN expert says impunity is a key cause of illegal killings around the world (October 27, 2009)
Statement by Philip Alston to the United Nations General Assembly, Third Committee (October 27, 2009)
To access the latest press releases and statements of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, click here.
