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While such measures may be popular politically and may even appear to be effective in the short-run , Human Rights Watch / Helsinki is concerned that over the long run such measures are not only not effective to counter bigotry , but they may even be counterproductive . Human Rights Watch called on Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to grant clemency for Sean Sellers , who was sentenced to death for murders committed when he was sixteen years old . Work continued on the forthcoming Human Rights Watch / Yale University Press book on human rights in Mexico , and articles on human rights conditions in Mexico and the human rights implications of the Alvarez Machain case are scheduled for publication in upcoming volumes of Current History and the World Policy Journal . The administration replied in writing last week to a letter from Human Rights Watch calling on President Bush to investigate and condemn allegations of torture and other cruel and inhuman treatment that emerged in press reports last December . Human Rights Watch called for a new international initiative to press for justice for East Timor .