Advocacy After September 11

Human Rights Watch continued to spotlight threats to human rights in the wake of September 11. Over the past month in Pakistan, HRW researchers interviewed hundreds of Afghan refugees to gather information about the situation in the Pakistani refugee camps and the areas recently opened on the Afghan border. Human Rights Watch pressed for the humane treatment of captured foreign fighters and their families and urged the United States and Britain to provide logistical support for the safe surrender, disarming, and detention of captured fighters.