NEW YORK, Dec. 23 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: (Washington, DC) - US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row. These individuals will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole. Human Rights Watch on November 1, 2024 sent a letter (https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/09/human-rights-watch-urges-president-biden-commute-federal-death-row) to President Bi  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: * * * Famine Review Committee Finds Famine ongoing in North Darfur, Nuba Mountains * * * By Belkis Wille, Associate Director, Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division The world's leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found that famine has spread in Sudan. In August it had already identified famine in North Darfur's largest displacement camp, Zamzam. Today it ann  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: * * * Effective Investigations, Accountability Urgently Needed * * * (Berlin, December 24, 2024) - Police and other security forces have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, Human Rights Watch said today. In widespread and apparently punitive acts, security forces have chased down, violently detained, and beat protesters. Police also tortured and otherwise ill-treated them in  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: * * * Lack of Legal Certainty, Clear Protocols Denied Woman Essential Medical Care * * * By Cristina Quijano Carrasco, Researcher for Women's Rights On Friday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found El Salvador responsible for obstetric violence in the case of Beatriz, a woman who suffered from lupus and faced a high-risk pregnancy in which the fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a condition incompatible with extra  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: * * * Urgent Need to Document Assad Government's Abuses * * * (Beirut) - The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities committed under the government of former President Bashar al-Assad, including key government and intelligence documents as well as the sites of atrocities and mass graves, the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison (ADMSP), Amn  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary to The Atlantic on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * New York City Has Lost Control of Crime By Charles Fain Lehman * * * A gruesome murder on the subway shows just how far things have spiraled. * * * It was like something out of the horrors of New York City's past. At 7:30 yesterday morning, a man approached a woman sleeping on a Coney Island F train. The man proceeded to light the woman on fire, according to p  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary to the New York Post on Dec. 22, 2024: * * * 'September 5' Film on 1972 Munich Olympics Captures the Truth About Terrorism By Nicole Gelinas It's not cozy Christmas fare, but if you want to see a movie that gets the past half-century of Palestinian terror right, go to a movie theater and see "September 5." This compact Paramount release, covering the 1972 Summer Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes i  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary to RealClearEnergy on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Securing the U.S. Electricity Grid Requires Major Reform By Eric Olson As artificial intelligence, data centers, and electric vehicles drive unprecedented electricity demand, our aging transmission infrastructure struggles to keep pace. At the center of this crisis lies an obscure but powerful legal provision: the Right of First Refusal, or ROFR. These laws gr  more