has been using against the palestinians since it occupied the west bank in particular in 1967 human rights watch says it's been 52 years of some systematic repression of palestinian civil liberties what is new with this report according to human rights watch is that it is now demanding that the israeli government grant palestinians in the west bank the civically the same rights that it grants israeli citizens bear in mind that because the palestinians are living under occupation we are not talking about civil laws here we are talking about the use of the military and military orders to deal with the palestinians and human rights watch is looking at orders that they say have targeted activists protestors non-governmental organizations and as a result have often shut down media outlets and imprisoned activists and polished certain non-governmental organizations. in the 3rd consecutive night of protests in lebanon's capital supporters of the 2 main shiite groups hezbollah and i'm out of clashed with security forces police repeatedly 5 tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters in

being wrong it was afterwards what did you do when you saw the human rights watch report in 2015 what action did you take against any of the generals they named. when i discovered that. i brought. brought down the commander of the the the army and many more generals and i tell you i don't know why you don't want to accept this i was the one responsible for tradition. why do you insist on denying that i'm not denying i'm just not at the time you did remove the heads of army air force navy but you said it was a routine change you didn't say it was punishment for the fall it was no sir that's what the telegraph member quotes he was saying i went to 15 that is not true so you have to move them punish you remove them as punishment for being unless. they removed against against this after which they are now in the present. they're now being the hatches of an army navy an air force and you know what joe may be an air force no head of the army is now being prosecuted as a result of your decision made as. a result of the process yes just look at hell part of the world it seems beset by politic

marcia care joins in there from him on his human rights what's she's israel and palestine directed good to have you with us on the news our human rights watch is no stranger to criticizing israel when it comes to palestinians so what's particularly new in this reports this report concludes that after 52 years of suspending the civil rights of palestinians in the west bank israel must not only fully respect their rights but must grant them rights on par with what it provides its own citizens it's simply intolerable that in the west bank today you have israeli settlers on one side of the road but how full civil rights what palestinians on the other side do not for too long the international community has cited the absence of a peace agreement as the basis for not pressing israelis to provide palestinian civil rights but it's clear today that the peace process has become a fig leaf for the ugly discriminatory one state reality in israel's obligation today is to provide palestinians the same rights it provides its citizens until the day comes that we do have a political agreement to the ongoing ugly reality on the ground now in this report you'

when it comes to the military's crackdown on the hinge of muslims look at the reaction from human rights watch. and sticking with myanmar we take a closer look at a system of segregation that some compare to apartheid top and across wrong kind state. plus priests have kept track of them for centuries now this sacred ice ridges of japan's lakes could be melting away into history. i'm melissa chan welcome to g.w. news asia think you for joining us it's day 2 of the international court of justice is hearings in the genocide case against myanmar and the country's leader on sun suchi has spoken she acknowledged the possibility that the military could have used just a portion of force and that it might not have taken into account civilian safety enough but also said that these actions do not fulfill the definition of genocide. mr president it cannot be ruled out that disproportionate force was used by members of the defense of this is in some cases in this is a god of international humanitarian law or that they did not distinguish clearly enough between also fighters and civilians. the spirit and mi

get some more perspective on the story now we can speak to carlos condé he is a researcher at human rights watchin the philippines carlos thank you very much for joining us on our program you have commented on this verdict today calling it a rare triumph of justice what do you mean by that. basically just because something like use. of where i learned cannot just assume lucius assume is so. broken and where a lot of politicians political leaders and political warlords are often get away with a lot of money so. this is something that's a momentous event and certainly a welcome development in this country a lot of people have said it is a test of the philippines justice system do you think the system then passed that test. well in this case yes it had and you know we have to give credit to the court and the supreme court so also because they really extradited expedited case and and awestruck to the move it along very quickly and they you know they put up a special order for this another intervention so this considering the sheer number of people who are who are being tried and we were talking abou

get some more perspective on the story now we can speak to carlos condé he is a researcher at human rights watchin the philippines carlos thank you very much for joining us on our program you have commented on this verdict today calling it a rare triumph of justice what do you mean by that. basically just because something like use. of where i learned could not just assume lucius assume it's. broken and where a lot of politicians political leaders and political warlords are often get away with a lot of money so. this is something that's a momentous. and certainly a welcome development in this country a lot of people have said it is a test of the philippines justice system do you think the system then passed that test. well in this case yes it had and i you know we have to give credit to the court and the supreme court so also because they really extradited expedited case and and awestruck to the move it along very quickly and they you know they put up a special order for this and other interventions at least considering the sheer number of people who are who are being tried and we were talking a

has been using against the palestinians since it occupied the west bank in particular in 1967 human rights watch says it's been 52 years of some systematic repression of palestinian civil liberties what is new with this report according to human rights watch is that it is now demanding that the israeli government grant palestinians in the west bank specifically the same rights that it grants israeli citizens bear in mind that because the palestinians are living under occupation we are not talking about civil laws here we are talking about the use of the military and military orders to deal with the palestinians and human rights watch is looking at orders that they say have targeted activists protestors non-governmental organizations and as a result have often shut down media outlets and imprisoned activists and. certain non-governmental organizations we spoke to an activist. longtime activists and he tells us that since 2005 he has been arrested 8 times he has spent more than a year in prison he describes his treatment by the israeli military as quote violent and inhumane he says that each of hi

basic civil rights as israeli citizens or moshe care is the israel and palestine director at human rights watch he says there is a lack of democracy and fundamental freedoms in the palestinian territories. this report concludes that after 52 years of suspending the civil rights of palestinians in the west bank israel must not only fully respect their rights but must grant them rights on par with what it provides its own citizens it's simply intolerable that in the west bank today you have israeli settlers on one side of the road but how full civil rights will palestinians on the other side do not for too long the international community has cited the absence of a peace agreement as the basis for not pressing israel east provide palestinian civil rights but it's clear today that the peace process has become a fig leaf for the ugly discriminatory one state reality in israel's obligation today is to provide palestinians the same rights it provides its citizens until the day comes that we do have a political agreement to the ongoing ugly reality on the ground. or under the age of 50 have never had

aim and our work to support and this is what we're doing right of a company spokesperson for human rights watch there thank you for coming in and everything that you. and staying on the topic of human rights lawmakers in india's lower house have approved controversial legislation that could grant says unship to religious minorities from neighboring countries but not to muslims the law if approved by the senate on wednesday would grant citizens ship to non muslims who arrived from bangladesh but to stand and afghanistan before 2015. this is the latest flashpoint for india's culture wars protesters in the northeast border region fear the government's new citizenship bill will beckon an influx of migrants by day time the anger hard boiled into rage roads were blocked for hours an effigy of the prime minister hung in the streets. if you did you live garmin is endymion cost it isn't there andy some record there and disagree. with i did. and the lower house of parliament there were right the scenes as the government finally got their bill through. but for this muslim lawmaker no cause for celebration

wishful thinking and it's enormously harmful to hundreds of thousands of children well i know human rights watch has said that this is about a whole generation of children and you've said now that this is clearly in contravention of international human rights all various treaties and conventions so what is the next step here at what could aid groups who are working in those camps potentially do to try to change the situation. i think the difficulty for the aid groups working in the camps is that they are quite anxious that if they are too vocal in their criticism of what bangladesh is limiting them from doing their permits will be revoked they won't be able to run those programs and that refugee children will be will be deprived of the little education they are currently getting so i don't think this is really the responsibility of the aid groups in the camps this is the responsibility of the international community this policy of deprivation of education didn't start with the mass influx of refugees in august 2017 it's been going on for generations bangladesh has gotten away with it. deserves e

it's got the analysis re brody joins us legal advice at human rights watch re getting to you ang sung su chi says this is not genocide- i just put straight toto you w what do you think. wl janice. site is very difficult to prove- but we have. many investigations including a u. n. fact finding investigation. that found that all of the hallmarks. of genocide existed here on the systematic deniaial of the rights of the row hanga keepingg thehem in detention camps- debasing and- them as a group it's very interesting that on song soon she did not even use the word row his yeaea. in her statatement which i think that iff the judge's notice i i mean it's reaeally the definitin of a just wishing it to have just trying to dedestroy a group's existence b but again genocide is very dififficult t o prove you n need to show that there was an intense- on the part. of the country- to destroy a group as such and you know what also answer she was saying was you know that a lot of. bad things happened here but you can't prove genocidal intense are reporting here france twenty four seems to back up prec

it's set to be preventing thousands of fro ing a refugee children from getting an education human rights watch says teaching inside camps is inadequate particularly due to language barriers and children are banned from enrolling in schools outside camps hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims are sheltering in bangladesh after fleeing a military campaign in neighboring me and maher the former malaysian prime minister najib razak has been on the witness stand for the 1st time to defend himself against corruption allegations the trial in the high court house to do with a multi-billion dollar scandal that malaysia's state fund known as one and now is accused of illegally receiving about $10000000.00 when he was in office he's pleaded not guilty to all the charges which include money laundering and abuse of power. lawyer has also emphasized the alleged role of a businessman known as joe who's been named by u.s. investigators the. scheme was devised by. together with 4 arabs ok 2 from saudi and another 2 from the right and the empire management or one and b b c were all paid off by duty. 127 peop

level needed groups and human rights organization and the media community say here that you were still monitoring the case. of phil robertson is deputy director of human rights watch and he joins us on skype from a bank called phil robertson very well warm warm welcome to the program it's been a long journey for any sort of justice in this case how significant is it to finally have a verdict. well this is a momentous verdict this is and in our view should help finally provide justice to the families of the victims and we also hope that it will be something we can use to build towards greater accountability for rights abuses across the country we're talking about 28 defendants who have been convicted including the key members of the impound one clan who are the masterminds behind this massacre so i mean 10 years was a long time to wait for justice for the relatives of the 58 people who were murdered in this case but. it was worth waiting for. phil there was a lot happened in that decade was in there just take history why it took so long for this verdict to come out of course there are still some people still at large john. well we've got 80 people who are still at

and now human rights watch has released a report highlighting what it says is more than half a century of israel depriving palestinians of their human rights with no end to the occupation all the peace prize or any peace process in sight would says it it's time for israel to provide palestinians equal rights especially good name reports on this now from east jerusalem. oh and with his bright pink shirt of della abu rama was easy to spot in the crowd on this day 3 years ago he was arrested near the separation wall at the end of a bike rally he organized commemorating the neck or the day the israeli state was the stablished in 1988 the israeli military is well acquainted. this long time activist he says since 2005 he's been arrested 8 times it has spent more than a year in prison for protesting against the occupation yet the mythos. dealt with those prisoners in a violent and bob barrack way with inhumanity and humiliation the last time they threaten to push me out of a speeding military jeep and say that i tried to run away this is a threat that is most dangerous and most terrifying. on

and human rights watch is accusing israel of using sweeping military orders to criminalize nonviolent political activity by palestinians in the west bank it says in a report the orders are being used to shut down media outlets to outlaw all political organizations and jail activists howlers along in 25 minutes with the news hour next on our dear techno. al-jazeera where. this is the fact this morning poor place on the planet could soon be lost. with an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen. this is.

on tuesday human rights watch released a report highlighting the israeli army's use of military orders in the occupied west bank it says for 52 years these orders have deprived palestinians like abu rama of their human rights by targeting activists protesters non-governmental organizations and journalists the group says these military orders were intended for short term use under emergency law not for a more than half a century occupation but it is now time for israel to grant and respect the rights of palestinians the civil rights of palestinians all of the human rights of palestinians using as a benchmark the right sick grants to israeli citizens we spoke to correspondent and author bob who recently published a book delving into the balance between protecting israel's national security and human rights in the west bank it's good that you know the world you know focuses and looks at you know is israel doing enough it's good to have that pressure on the other hand again i think whenever groups want to criticize israel or say you know having done enough it's a point to recognize reforms

the time to maintain peace unity and brotherhood and joining me now is south asia director of human rights watch menard she done really don't reap prime minister more the has appealed for calm in the midst of these violent protests do you think the extent of the opposition has caught the government by surprise. i do hope that that is the case that the prime minister now recognizes that there is public opinion against this and that he does the right thing. in diverse in these policies in a democracy it's very important for. for an elected leader he protests. are making this about politics but do you think that these protests that we're seeing across the country represent the large majority view on the citizenship amendment. it is hard to test that the question the question really is that there has been. a very significant number of voices students who are out on the streets. the government has made a difference in lux on this issue initially it was all about trying to control immigration which of course is a is also a problematic because it is immigration trying to control immigration based on re

chinese and hong kong officials for any human rights abuses beijing is also imposing sanctions on several u.s. based rights organizations including human rights watch the international court of justice in the netherlands is holding public hearings on an appeal that was made in connection to the blockade of qatar that's after the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and bahrain closed their airspace to qatar as national airline cats are says airspace restrictions by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. violate international law and the annual un climate conference has opened in spain where delegates have been warned our planet is fast approaching the point of no return chilean politician carolina schmidt took over as presidents of cop 25 in madrid delegates from nearly 200 countries are at the conference we stand at that critical juncture you know our collective efforts to limit dangerous global heating by the end of the coming decade we will be on one of 2 paths when is the path of surrender where we have sleepwalked bus the point of no return the other option is the path of hope oppressive resolve of sustainable solutions. summer was prime minister is shutting down t

human rights violations in particular the crime of in force or disappearance and i can tell you. the numbers are estimated in tens of thousands there are credible reports previously published by human rights watch amnesty international and other rights groups and even according to my own research findings since 2001 including 2 previous reports that were published by the office of the attorney general in eritrea the numbers of people who have been weakened victimized by the specific crime of inforce or disappearance is to mated way beyond 10000 saw this numbers are very high for a small country like or a trio it is or which has a population of plus minus $5000000.00 people so it's a very very problematic situation and this needs to come to an end and. that's that's the fundamental question we need to address now we should point out that this show did extend an invitation to eritrea authorities for them to to sense i want to join us for their perspective on this unfortunate we didn't get someone's participation from officials let me present perhaps the other side is the of the argument in terms of the government's achievements and that the government would probably argue well it's made quite sig

amy: we want to thank you so much, reed brody, counsel and spokesperson for human rights watch.nd hisistoricck, presidential forum on education. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the last democrat presidential debatate at the yer this thursday in los angeles, seven candidates appeared saturday at a historic democratic presidential forum on public education in pittsburgh coming event organized by public education groups, unions, civil rights groups. for more we're joined by three guests. in atlanta, georgia, keron blair is director of the alliance to reclaim our schools. in chicago, jitu brown is the national director of the journey for justice alliance. and in new york carol burris, , executive director of the network for public education action. she recently authored a report titled "still asleep at the wheel: how the federal charter schools program results in a pileup of fraud and waste." i spoke with them and asked them about this forum that did not get very much attention. we began in atlan

on tuesday human rights watch released a report highlighting the israeli army's use of military orders in the occupied west bank it says for 52 years these orders have deprived palestinians like abu rama of their human rights by targeting activists protestors non-governmental organizations and journalists the group says these military orders were intended for short term use under emergency law not for a more than half a century occupation but it is now time for israel to grant and respect the rights of palestinians the civil rights of palestinians all of the human rights of palestinians using as a benchmark the rights of grants to israeli citizens we spoke to correspondent and author bob who recently published a book delving into the balance between protecting israel's national security and human rights in the west bank it's good that you know the world you know focuses and looks at you know is israel doing enough it's good to have that pressure on the other hand again i think whenever groups want to criticize israel or say you know having done enough it's a point to recognize reforms

reports by the respectful, the most respectful international human rights organisations such as amnesty, such as, you know, human rights watch. so it is illegal, what the australian government has done is illegal and also png supreme court order that keeping people in that prison camp is illegal. what the australian government has done is a crime against humanity. and i say this strongly, and it is not only me. many people, many organisations say that. and i think the australian government has nothing to say in front of this. in 2015, i think it was, you and a group of other people decided to stage a hunger strike to protest the conditions and, i believe, some of you sowed your lips together to refuse to eat. what was the response of the local staff, because let us not forget these detention centres were actually run by people from papua new guinea? how did they treat you when you tried to protest? you know, before that hunger strike, after six months, there was a protest in manus island and the result of that protest was the authorities, the australian guards with the local people, they attacked us and they injured 100 peop

there is one tweet in particular i saw from kenneth roth, the executive director of human rights watch, which is interesting because he was criticizing the japanese justice system and putting at that carlos ghosn was not able to have communication with his wife in over seven months. and of course we have the famous pines -- puns. ghosn with the wind, ghosn in 60 seconds. people are having fun with that. another big story we are covering -- thousands of angry supporters of a shiite militia have smashed security cameras on the walls surrounding the u.s. embassy in baghdad. they also set on fire three empty trailers that were used by guards. at one point, protesters stormed a security kiosk for setting it on fire. u.s. airstrikes killed 25 fighters of the iran backed militia in iraq. the iraqi prime minister is warning about representations in baghdad, asking protesters us out -- protesters outside the u.s. embassy to leave. washington hitting those bases after an attack that killed an american contractor. reporter: clashes at the u.s. embassy in baghdad as angry protesters break into the

which happened you're talking about human rights watch yes exactly when you go around and you visit group homes like this what kind of information to elect about the quality of care. for the residents at least 1st of all is the observation how the staff is acting with the children usually it's something which can all be i hear them because they're a sibling gives us normal and for me all this signs are the most important if somebody is very good or hit the towers thing front of me or my colleagues if you can imagine might have been where we are not. in bank areas capital an attorney in. reduces us to a man who knows all about how institutional life can breed a peace. sign off lived in one of the country's most new torrijos institutions where he says for 7 years he was forcibly medicated and put in isolation for a lengthy period. managed to leave when he was 28. dollars drifted towards it the more it's probably the earlier version of the more. it is because there's a rational it's there in america. institutes at that it took us back about the sum of all it doesn't was the just total cut th

>> that's had a lot of foreign criticism and human rights watch have come out condemning it.ut within c china, criticism hs been at a murmur. most of the criticism has been at the use of ththe data and commercial intnterests. who will l pick get targeted by from this data? the reason from -- the reason for lack of criticism i is probably to prompt. there's not much of a platform for people to be critical in china or even debate these issues. second, it is being sold as a positive thing for china that china is a technological global leader, which it is. anand people largely agree with that. brent: it is hard to know what public opinion is in china. should we be worried about this? we are talking about a country with a billion people? >> exactly. the human rights issues are apparent and really clear. closer to home of a perhaps, this technology is been used elsewhere. in serbia, hundreds of wally made cctv cameras -- huawei cameras are being installed around belgrade. nobody knows what the data is being used for. the u.s. has been very critical in particular saying that the com

citizenship but it excludes muslims even though the country is home to around $200000000.00 most human rights watch and the united nations have condemned of the measure as discriminatory and protesters say that the bill violates the indian constitution and the opposition is threatening to take the case to the supreme court hundreds have joined a hunger strike in india's northeast where troops have been deployed. good aspects of the law. the indication of the law is actually quite good. it basically wanted to drag my knowledge. from 3 to 3 neighboring countries to be allowed a solution india the problem is that those of you that minorities are not muslim they are hindus christians sikhs buddhists and other communities all modern slummy non muslim i think this law is unconstitutional. i think it is illegal i challenge you this law in the honorable. and i am confident it will be struck down but. it is not a trick only was from stands for the government this. is because the government wants to make this muslim issue today would this does not affect everybody i think people need to be educated the peopl

human rights watch the u.n. though have already labeled the new law the scrutiny of. protesters say the bill is not only discriminatory but also on constitutional as the country's opposition threatens to take the case to the supreme court hundreds have joined a hunger strike in india's northeast where troops are being deployed on the internet shutdown. that has some good aspects of the law. the indication of the law is actually quite good. it basically wanted. my knowledge these. 3 neighboring countries to be allowed a solution india the problem is that those of you that minorities are not muslim they are hindus christians sikhs would do this and other communities all modern islam need non muslim i think this law is unconstitutional. i think it is illegal i challenge you this law in the. book and i am going to do it it will be struck. he does not think when he was from stands. in this because the government wants to make this muslim issue today would this does not affect everybody adding people need to be educated the people protesting don't necessarily understand wha

people filipino lawmakers and now being used to revive this efforts to shut down the network human rights watch says deterred say misusing the government's regulator to school parts of a broader crackdown on media outlets and civil society groups that dare criticize it ok onto a story that we touched upon last week bloomberg news in the us owned by the newly declared democratic candidate for president michael bloomberg announcing that it would not be investigating its owner joining the course of this campaign what's the fallout as we reported last week no investigative reporting on bloomberg by bloomberg news nor will they be doing investigative journalism on other democratic candidates the trump white house is not impressed it's rescinded the press credentials of bloomberg reporters so they can't cover the president either the trunk campaign called bloomberg editorial policy troubling and wrong and it's hard to argue that the other democratic contender is just as deserving of scrutiny as president trump and one of the democratic hopefuls elizabeth warren went on bloomberg news to talk about th

guest now by skype from the hague break bread adams executive director of the asia division of human rights watch in london your win executive director of human rights network and from. an international lawyer and head of the justice coalition welcome to all of you and brad your there at the hague it must be an extraordinary thing i mean we're talking about someone here who had been compared to know some mandela to see hood now in court defending the very generals who locked up and arguing that this is not genocide in the face of the evidence that the u.n. has presented what was going through your mind. well i was very sad because we worked very hard for armstrong suchi to be released to be allowed to participate in political life in burma we thought that she were the elite are on human rights and democracy that she would free our political prisoners and that she would do or best to keep the army in check and then of things went wrong as they have in the military and those like this that she would speak out and she would use her moral capital with the burmese people in ash community to try to pre

violence they were meant to house around 7000 migrants but now they're crammed with 40000 people human rights watch says the conditions there are unsafe for women and children and call on the government to take action athens says other e.u. countries should do more to share the burden of the migrant crisis and accept more people well talking all the demands by germany's green party political analyst told us that coherent long term solutions were needed instead of one time christmas office. is a crisis of countries not prepared to live up to their self i mean commitment they signed international of treaties. opposition pollute politicians before christmas can say whatever he wants because it doesn't have to erect consequences the government prefers to keep working on a coherent european multilateral solution and that any unilateral actions like let's take a number of kids is understandable but the question of why only children. camps why not also from their own or from jordan so we have to develop something like who here in systems based on the rule of law and principles and not just at heart fuelin

and china has sanctioned several american and among them human rights watch and freedom house on top of that beijing suspended all u.s. navy visits to hong kong it's all in retaliation against new u.s. legislation targeting rights abuses people in hong kong those celebrated waving american flags to show their support. that brings you up to speed with the news from all around while there's plenty more on all our stories on our website com coming your way now though it's crosstalk. and we're going to fulfill your purposes of politics to the people come on you know we've all bots the truth. is really really what. you want to work. you know. for 5 the. coming. what hopes of institutions and. he put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be cross that's what the before 3 of them or can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the hottest. place should. the world is driven by shaped by the curse of those great. new day or thinks. we dare to ask. in this community there are people who

and from getting an education human rights watch says teaching inside camps is inadequate particularly due to language barriers and children are banned from unrolling in schools outside camps hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims are sheltering in bangladesh after fleeing a military campaign in neighboring me and maher a former malaysian prime minister has been on the witness stand for the 1st time to the fence himself against corruption allegations the trial in the high court has to do with a multi-billion dollar scandal that malaysia state fund known as one m d be accused if it legally receiving about $10000000.00 when he was in office he's pleaded guilty to all the charges which include money laundering and abuse of power . more news coming up right after inside story that's that thanks for watching by. multis prime minister josef moscow to resign over the murder of a journalist who exposed government claims to corruption is this enough to stem public anger and with those responsible for death and the one i got to see is death face justice this is the inside story. hello and wel

national democratic institute for international affairs international republican institute human rights watch freedom house and other n.g.o.s are actively involved in the hong kong riots as to when it will end it depends on america's behavior. this comes out on the heels of trump signing into law 'd last week the hong kong human rights and democracy act. place in which sanction and the chinese and hong kong officials believed to be involved in human rights violations in this special administrative region comes decision was about with jubilation by hong kong protesters they swarmed outside the u.s. consulate waving american flags and singing the national anthem like no one at the university of bath and k. believes that the outcome in hong kong will be the opposite of what the u.s. what. i think what mr trauma storing he's trying to increase. bargaining chips in this hand in trying to get a good deal with china and obviously ward china is doing is trying to touch on up more measures on the whole called. unfortunates the hong kong looks like toole increasingly become a battleground between the u