Among other recent reports published by Human Rights Watch, now available on its website are a report the Gaza War and conditions of detention for HIV-positive prisoners in the United States. The first, entitled Turning a Blind Eye: Impunity for Laws-of-War Violations during the Gaza War, details the allegedly inadequate investigations on the part of the relevant authorities of violations of the laws of war and possible war crimes committed by both Hamas and Israel during the Gaza conflict in December 2008 and January 2009. The second, Sentenced to Stigma: Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisoners in Alabama and South Carolina, details the substandard conditions in which HIV-positive prisoners are held, away from the rest of the prison population, and asserts that the segregation and inferior conditions violate international law and stand in sharp contrast to the practices of all other U.S. states (just last month, Mississippi decided to discontinue its practice of segregating such prisoners – see the ACLU press release here).
For links to more reports on human rights topics, see the Human Rights Conditions page of this blog.