The human rights organization, which publishes its annual report Thursday, invites the international community to show the same indignation and the same actions in the face of all countries which violate fundamental rights.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Mobilization in the face of the war in Ukraine must show the way, pleads in substance Human Rights Watch in its annual report published Thursday, January 12. The international response to the Russian invasion should be duplicated in other countries where human rights are violated, underlines the organization.
In this report of more than 700 pages, which refers in the denunciation of human rights abuses, she documents the “abuse litany” committed in 2022 in the world, from China to Afghanistan, in passing through Iran, Ethiopia and of course Ukraine.
“In the fog of war [in Ukraine] and the darkness in which this war plunged Ukraine, there is a light that has turned on: it is the international response and the commitment to the International justice “, said Tirana Hassan, its acting executive director in an interview with the France-Presse agency.
If the NGO has noted “abuses of all parties”, the Russian forces are at the origin of “plethora” of violations, especially on the civilian population. And HRW welcomes the speed with which the International Criminal Court (ICC) was seized for investigation and with which the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and other governments have imposed unprecedented sanctions on The counter of Moscow.
“We have never seen in the history of responses to conflicts such a coordinated international response” and “what we must do now, is to ensure that states are making accounts at the same level as what has been Observed in Ukraine, in all other situations “of human rights violations, she added.
Do not forget the tiger
She calls in particular the international community to “continue to push” so that the officials of the abuses committed in the Tiger region in Ethiopia are judged in the wake of the peace agreement concluded last November, while Russia and China blocking the registration of this conflict on the agenda of the UN Security Council.
Likewise in China, where Beijing has still not had to answer for its policy with regard to the Ouïgoure Muslim minority, despite a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights which has concluded that certain acts of the regime could constitute crimes against humanity.
or in Iran, where the regime accentuates its massive repression of manifestations. “We cannot wait until the Iranian population alone can change” the situation of human rights in the country, insisted Ms. Hassan.
“A significant change against such a powerful regime requires the mobilization of the international community, not only to express its solidarity, but to actually put pressure on the regime,” she added, evoking the risk that ‘International attention does not move away from Iran as the hard movement. > In its report, the NGO thus accuses the “two weights two measures” often at work in the face of human rights violations committed in the world.
Human Rights Watch quotes for example the American president, Joe Biden, who returned to Saudi Arabia in the midst of an energy crisis after promising a “pariah” state, or even Europe that opens his arms To Ukrainian refugees but where many countries leave doubt about the future of Afghan or Syrians refugees that they welcomed.