"If the southern Sudan government wants a sustainable peace when it becomes fully independent in July, it should demonstrate its commitment now with a prompt and thorough investigation into human rights violations," said Daniel Bekele, Africa director for the organization.
That was when Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, surprised the people that follow this sort of thing by calling for a thorough investigation of human rights offenses in the country.
The United States should use its leverage and renewed relationship with Burmese leaders not only to plow forward on investment opportunities, but to pressure Burma to conduct thorough investigations of human rights violations, hold perpetrators accountable, and reform discriminatory laws that impact minority groups.
Our work is a part of the extensive and thorough documentation that has been done by human rights organizations showing how Member States are falling short in their human rights obligations because they aren't being held accountable.
He disappeared soon after, and after a thorough search of area hospitals, his family and human rights workers have concluded that he was taken by Egyptian security forces.
Then in recent weeks, after the assassination of a prominent human rights lawyer, the calls for a thorough investigation into the past seemed deafening.
President Nicolas Maduro has yet to comment on the incident, despite calls for a thorough investigation from Roman Catholic Church leaders and the UN's human rights agency.
These groups assert that the auditing firms often have a pro-corporate tilt, do not do thorough inspections and should work with nongovernmental organizations, like human rights groups, to gain a fuller picture of factory conditions overseas.
"Criminal liability for what has happened can only be a result of a thorough and objective investigation of this drama," said Vladimir P. Lukin, Russia's human rights commissioner.
In Mr Schröder's seven years in office he failed to criticise Russia's human rights record in Chechnya, praising Mr Putin as a "thorough democrat".
