Brad Adams
Brad Adams
Brad Adams is the executive director of the Asian division of Human Rights Watch and has been in the position since 2002. Adams worked in Cambodia for five years prior to his work at Human Rights Watch, he was the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He also worked as the legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament's human rights committee. Adams is a member of the State Bar of California...
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I've been with some pretty decent teams here, ... but the difference is we have leadership across the board at all positions, something we lacked in the past.
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These are welcome moves in the right direction, but not sufficient and do not evidence a change of heart.
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Discrimination is forcing many people to live as outcasts, and the Chinese government tolerates it instead of combating it,
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It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner.
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Freedom of expression is extremely limited. Freedom of assembly is extremely limited. What's missing from the government's position is an end-date for all of this. It was always implicitly the argument that Singapore could grow into a developed society where people could be trusted.
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Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.
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China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power. But continuing to offer unconditional support to one of the world's most odious regimes makes it impossible to take such claims seriously. Now is the time for China to set a new course for itself in its foreign policy.
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China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power,
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This report should serve as a wake-up call to the government and donors. This young country can avoid emulating its former colonial master, but only if concerted action is taken now.
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The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.
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We were shocked to find so many credible accounts of torture and severe ill-treatment by police officers.
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Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society .
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New laws cannot hide the fact that the constitution has been peremptorily put aside. There is no way out of this crisis but a return to constitutional and representative rule.
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That local officials continue to deny this incident even took place is typical of efforts to cover up human rights abuses in the region. It is thus vital that the authorities clarify the legal status of the detainees and allow immediate access to them.