European governments should provide humanitarian protection to those Guantanamo detainees who will not be charged with a crime but cannot be returned to their countries of origin for fear of torture or other serious human rights violations.

Georgian cluster munitions fired in the conflict with Russia in August 2008 caused more damage and hit more locations than previously commonly reported, Human Rights Watch said today in a presentation to the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva.

The European Union should ensure that measures aimed at integrating migrants also respect their human rights. EU integration ministers will meet in Vichy, France, on November 3 and 4, 2008 to discuss common approaches to integration in Europe. 

The German government should not have permitted the head of Uzbekistan’s secret police to visit Germany immediately after the European Union lifted sanctions stemming from a 2005 massacre in Uzbekistan.

Uzbek authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Akzam Turgunov, a human rights defender and opposition activist who was sentenced on October 23 to 10 years in prison on politically motivated charges.

The British government should immediately halt plans to deport foreign terrorism suspects to countries that offer unreliable promises not to torture them.