NCJ Number
192118
Date Published
2001
Length
114 pages
Annotation
This compilation of Human Rights Watch documents includes articles compiled in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
Abstract
The Human Rights Watch condemned the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States as a cruel attack. A speech by President Bush said that the United States would make no distinction between the terrorists that committed the acts of terrorism and those who harbored them. Yet, distinctions must be made: between the guilty and the innocent; between the perpetrators and the civilians who may surround them; and between those who commit atrocities and those who may simply share their religious beliefs, ethnicity or national origin. People committed to justice, law, and human rights must never descend to the level of the perpetrators of such acts. That is the most important distinction of all. This compilation of documents written by Human Rights Watch contains information on issues relating to the September 11 attacks as well as other issues concerning human rights abuses. The following is a list of these documents: U.S. Policy on Assassination; Letter to Bush Urges Restraint; Human Rights Watch Statement on Discriminatory Attacks; Safe Refuge Must be Provided for Afghan Refugees; Escalating Crackdown in Eritrea; U.N. Commission Must Address the September 11 Attacks; HRW Letter to German Mission of the United Nations; Letter to U.S. State Governors on the Prevention of Hate Crimes; U.S. Should Oppose Allies’ Misuse of Anti-Terror; Letter to the Honorable Colin Powell; European Union: Safeguard Rights in Anti-Terror Campaign; Open Letter to the President of the European Union; Open Letter to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder; Uzbekistan: Background on Human Rights; Press Backgrounder: Human Rights Abuse in Uzbekistan; Memorandum to the U.S. Government Regarding Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan; Letter to Attorney General Ashcroft; United Nations: Responding to Sept.11; Letter to the General Assembly; Regarding the United Nations Debate on Terrorism; Uzbekistan: U.S. Cautioned on New Ally; Tajikistan: Background on Human Rights; Press Backgrounder on Tajikistan; Afghanistan: Poor Rights Record of Opposition Commanders; Military Assistance to the Afghan Opposition Backgrounder; Afghanistan: Armed Conflict Poses Risk of Further Ethnic Violence; Afghanistan: Ethnically-Motivated Abuses Against Civilians; Memorandum: U.S. Policy on Central Asia; Afghanistan and Refugees: Need for Humanitarian Action; Egypt: U.S. Must Not Ignore Rights Abuses; Egypt: Background on Human Rights; Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy; U.S., Others Should Reject Landmine Use in Afghanistan; Backgrounder on Landmine Use in Afghanistan; Open Letter to European Union President Guy Verhofstadt; America and China Can Go Further; European Union: Scrutinize New Security Proposals.