MOSCOW, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The head of the international rights group Human Rights Watch has been denied a Russian visa, silencing his critical report.

JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch says indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes caused most of the 900 civilian deaths during the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. objections to proposed reform of the U.N. Human Rights Commission could deny the new panel credibility without improving it, the New York Times reports.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A new human rights council will be a top priority for the United Nations in 2006 as it juggles other avenues of reform, the New York Times reported Sunday.

HONG KONG, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Chinese citizens are being attacked, beaten and intimidated for attempting to petition Beijing authorities over grievances, a human rights group said Thursday.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A new report says maids in Singapore suffer "grave abuses," including physical and sexual violence, food deprivation and confinement in the workplace. Human Rights Watch says the approximately 150,000 women -- mainly from Indonesia, the Philippines and Sr

MOSCOW, June 7 (UPI) -- Uzbek government troops who fired on unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan last month committed a massacre, Human Rights Watch claimed Tuesday.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A human rights group criticized the Bush administration Tuesday for insisting no laws ban inhumane treatment in CIA interrogations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch says the Darfur crisis and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal significantly weakened worldwide system for protecting human rights in 2004.