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Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees
20 Nov 2009, 6:42 pm |
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Uzbekistan: Ensure Fair Appeal for Human Rights Defender
20 Nov 2009, 2:32 pm |
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France: Inadequate Plan for Migrant Children at Airport
20 Nov 2009, 4:52 am |
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Morocco: Reverse Expulsion of Sahrawi Activist
19 Nov 2009, 12:54 pm |
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US Senate: Reject Abortion Coverage Restrictions
19 Nov 2009, 12:03 pm |
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- Will Bush Pardon Himself? 7:59am Jan 20|1 Comment
- Ken Roth on Obama's opportunity 1:21pm Jan 15
Human Rights Watch The United States has long held Morocco, a pro-Western ally, as a model for other countries in North Africa and the Middle East. More recently Morocco's advances have been eroded or reversed.
Source: www.hrw.org
How should the United States relate to a solid ally whose human rights record is better than the norm in its region and better than its own record of 20 years ago - but is now heading in the wrong direction?
Human Rights Watch A guard came into his cell and told him to eat the book. When the prisoner refused, he was beaten and later sentenced to six more years in prison.
Human Rights Watch What we wish Obama had said in China...
Source: www.npr.org
Cuban leader Raul Castro has maintained an abusive system that his brother put in place to repress dissent, according to Human Rights Watch. The report also calls for a change in U.S. policy, lifting the longtime trade embargo in favor of more targeted sanctions.
Source: www.theworld.org
Download MP3 Cuban president Raul Castro has talked a lot about reform since taking over from his brother Fidel Castro in 2006. But a new report from Human Rights Watch has found that things are not improving as much as originally thought. ...
Source: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
In what seems like one step forward for freedom of expression on the island of Cuba, on Wednesday a blogger in Havana named Yoani Sánchez published President Barack Obama's replies to seven questions she put to him on relations between the two countries.
Source: www.hrw.org
Cambodia is considered one of the few success stories in the global fight against AIDS.HIV is on the decline: More than 2 percent of adults were affected in 1997; a decade later, HIV prevalence is 0.8 percent. According to UNAIDS, "Cambodia
Human Rights Watch Mohammad Kamin is charged with "material support for terrorism." Yet the Department of Defense has stated that this charge is not an offense under the laws of war, and therefore should not be prosecuted by military commission.
Source: www.hrw.org
Prosecutors, defense counsel, a military judge, several journalists and a handful of non-governmental organization observers like myself convened at Guantanamo Bay this week for what was to be the first hearing for a Guantanamo defendant under the Obama
Human Rights Watch The Stupak amendment will put access to safe abortion out of financial reach of millions of women. Our research shows that this kind of restriction does not prevent abortion – it just drives women toward cheaper underground services that may endanger their heath.
Source: www.hrw.org
The Stupak amendment will put access to safe abortion out of financial reach of millions of women. Our research shows that this kind of restriction does not prevent abortion – it just drives women toward cheaper underground services that may endanger their heath.
Human Rights Watch Foreign supporters should also end their short-term thinking and dubious deals.
Source: www.hrw.org
(New York) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other foreign ministers attending the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on November 19, 2009, should press for concrete action to sideline warlords, criminals and human rights
Human Rights Watch Don't forget - Public Protests Worldwide Today on Uganda Anti-Gay Measure. Details for New York, D.C.
Source: www.healthgap.org
WHAT: A global public protest against a proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda will take place this week in New York City and Washington DC, aligned with global human rights protests in other cities around the world.
Human Rights Watch The United States and Somalia are the only countries that have failed to ratify the Convention.
Source: www.hrw.org
(New York) - The United States should ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is supported by nearly every other nation in the world, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States and Somalia are the only countries that have failed to
Human Rights Watch In his three years in power, Raúl Castro has been just as brutal as his brother. Cubans who dare to criticize the government live in perpetual fear.
Source: www.hrw.org
(Washington, DC) - Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a
Human Rights Watch
Impact: San Antonio, the seventh largest city in the United States,
will now test all rape kits in stranger cases and will also go back and
test all untested stranger rape kits in storage.
Source: www.cbsnews.com
Dept. Will Now Test All Rape Kits in Stranger Cases
Human Rights Watch Public Protests Worldwide on Uganda Anti-Gay Measure. Details for New York, D.C.
Source: www.healthgap.org
WHAT: A global public protest against a proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda will take place this week in New York City and Washington DC, aligned with global human rights protests in other cities around the world.
