Algeria

The human rights situation in Algeria is terrible. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed, many massacred in their own homes, both by security forces and the government-backed militias or by extremist Islamic groups. Thousands more were arrested and imprisoned, many without charges or trials, and hundreds have been sentenced to prison after unfair trials. Torture by the security forces is widespread, both at secret detention centers and in prison. The security forces continue to "disappear" people, and the fate of thousands of the disappeared remains unknown.

Actions | NGOs | Reports | UN | News | Government & Law | Links

Actions

• Actions from the World Organization Against Torture on Algeria

NGOs

• Algeria Watch International
• Algeria Watch - non affiliated with above, german & french
• Hijra International
• World Algerian Action Coalition

Reports & Articles

• US State Department Human Rights Reports
  1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996
• US State Department Reports on Religious Freedom in Algeria
  2000 - 1999
• Amnesty International Reports
• Human Rights Watch Reports
• Lawyer Mohammed Nasser Hani Disappeared After His Arrest in Anaba
  ACIJLP - May 4, 1998

  Articles by Algeria Watch

  Articles & Reports by World Algerian Action Coalition

  Dossier: Halte aux massacres en Algérie
  Hijra International, 1997

  List of massacres since August 18, 1995 up to November 08, 1997.

  Testimonies & Revelations
  Hijra International

  International Crisis Group Reports

  The Rising Threat of Revolutionary Islam in Algeria
  1995 Article

  The Story of Democracy in Algeria
  1993 Article by Liberty

UN

• On the Record: UN Human Rights Activities
  2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997
  
  
• Documents from the UN Human Rights System Algeria
  Treaty Body Documents | Charter Body Documents
  
  

News

• Africa News Online: Algeria
• La Tribune
• News on Algeria - by One World Online
• News on Algeria - Yahoo
• News on Algeria - Washington Post

Government & Law

• Algeria Government - by Arab Net
• Front Islamique du Salut

Links

• Algeria: A Bibliography of Events Since 1991 - Cornell
• CIA World Factbook: Algeria
• The Disappeared in Algeria
• Djazair Online - portal
• Le Maghreb de droits de l'Homme

Español

• Acciones de la Organización Mundial Contra la Tortura
• Campaña sobre Algeria
  AI España
• Desaparecidos en Algeria
• Derechos de la Mujer en Argelia
  Por Mujeres en la Red
• "Desapariciones": El muro de silencio se resquebraja
  Informe AI, Marzo 1999
• ¿Quiénes son los «desaparecidos»?
  Informe AI, Marzo 1999
• Informes de Amnistía Internacional sobre Argelia

Human Rights in the Middle East