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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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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Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.
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Impunity from prosecution for human rights violations is the most important problem in the region, and the most widespread.
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The Cambodian government doesn't seem to understand the sad irony of threatening critics of the prime minister on International Human Rights Day, but the rest of the world does. Cambodia seems to be traveling down the path to becoming an elected dictatorship. It is time for Cambodia's friends in the international community to reengage politically and make it clear to the government that it has to meet its human rights commitments.
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Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham.
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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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It's time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them. Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.
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The message is clear: If you criticize the government, you will be thrown in jail.
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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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Discrimination is forcing many people to live as outcasts, and the Chinese government tolerates it instead of combating it,
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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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This is sure to make the AIDS crisis worse.
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This brazen attack, carried out in broad daylight, ingrained impunity more than any other single act in recent Cambodian history. But that appears to have been one of its purposes.
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Democracies like the Philippines should be ashamed if they try to block discussion of Burma (Myanmar) at the Security Council. Burma has embarrassed ASEAN over and over again.