ウクライナ支援称賛、他の紛争でも同様の対応を ＨＲＷ

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】国際人権団体のヒューマン・ライツ・ウオッチ（ＨＷＲ）は１２日、ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻に対する各国の対応を称賛するとともに、シリアなど他の紛争による難民にも同じように配慮するよう訴えた。（写真はヒューマン・ライツ・ウオッチのティラナ・ハッサン代表代行）
　ＨＷＲは世界の人権状況に関する報告書で、他の危機についてもウクライナに対する国際的な対応の最良な部分を再現し、政治的意思を強化すべきだと指摘している。
　ＨＲＷのティラナ・ハッサン代表代行は英ロンドンでＡＦＰの取材に応じ、各国のウクライナ侵攻に対する「対応と国際的な正義を追求するという決意」は明るい材料だと語った。
　さらにハッサン氏は「欧州諸国は実際に一致団結し、難民を歓迎した」と述べた。ただ、英国はウクライナ人に対するビザ（査証）取得制限を維持している。
　報告書は、ウクライナ危機での対応と、シリア、アフガニスタン、パレスチナ、ソマリアなどからの難民への対応を比べると、欧州の大半の国に「ダブルスタンダード（二重基準）」が存在することを浮き彫りにしたともしている。
　また、アフリカで２番目に大きい国であるエチオピアのティグレ州で２年にわたり続く紛争は、世界でほぼ注目されていないと指摘。
　ハッサン氏は、エチオピアでは現状２２００万人以上が紛争の影響を受けており「世界でも最悪レベルの人道危機」だとし、「国際社会がエチオピアのような場所での紛争についても、責任を果たし続けることが極めて重要だ」と強調した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/12-17:18）

Human Rights Watch on Thursday hailed the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts.
Amongst the fog of war and the darkness that we have seen in this war in Ukraine, there has been a shining light, the US-based NGO's acting executive director, Tirana Hassan, told AFP in London.
That has been the international response and the commitment to international justice, she said as HRW released its annual report on rights worldwide.
It actually is a moment of hope.
In the report, HRW urged governments to replicate the best of the international response in Ukraine and scale up the political will to address other crises.
Millions of Ukrainian civilians fled across the borders to take refuge in European countries after the war broke out in February last year.
By September, more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine -- approximately 90 percent of them women and children ? had moved to European Union countries, the report said.
- 'Double standards' -
The European states came together to actually welcome refugees, Hassan said. Britain, however, kept visa restrictions for Ukrainians.
The United Nations human rights office and the International Criminal Court at The Hague are both probing alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Never in the history of responding to conflicts have we seen a coordinated international response where we have all the arsenal of the international community to protect human rights and ensure accountability, HRW said.
Yet it also wrote that the response exposed the double standards of most EU countries in their ongoing treatment of countless Syrians, Afghans, Palestinians, Somalis and others seeking asylum.
The report also said that the brutal two-year conflict in Tigray in Ethiopia, Africa's second largest country, has received a tiny fraction of the global attention.
It's very important that the international community continues to push for accountability in places like Ethiopia, said Hassan, describing the situation there as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, affecting over 22 million people.
- 'War crimes' -
HRW warned that international support for Ukraine did not amount to a quick fix for the conflict.
It urged governments to reflect on what would have happened if they had made a concerted effort to call Russian President Vladimir Putin to account earlier over military intervention in Syria and Ukraine and his crackdown on human rights in Russia.
During the current hostilities, Russian forces committed a litany of violations of international humanitarian law, including indiscriminate and disproportionate bombing, the report said.
In occupied areas, Russian or Russian-affiliated forces committed apparent war crimes, including torture, summary executions, sexual violence, and enforced disappearances, it added.
The report said some violations were committed by both Ukrainian and Russian forces.
Both sides at times used schools for military purposes, leading to their coming under attack by the opposing force and used cluster munitions, HRW said.
Prisoners of war (POWs) on both sides have been ill-treated, tortured, and in some cases apparently summarily executed, the NGO added.
Both sides also broadcast images and details of captured prisoners of war, thereby exposing them to public curiosity, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, it said.