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Turkmenistan: Environmental Advocate Freed
7 Nov 2009, 6:43 pm
Cuba: Prominent Blogger Abducted, Beaten
7 Nov 2009, 4:20 pm
Kimberley Process: Zimbabwe Action Mars Credibility
6 Nov 2009, 6:31 pm
Uganda: Bill Threatens Progress on HIV/AIDS
6 Nov 2009, 4:57 pm
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Human Rights Watch The government needs to explain why so many women who came to Lebanon to work end up leaving the country in coffins.

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(Beirut) - The Lebanese government should investigate the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers during October 2009, as well as the reasons for the disproportionately high death rate among this group of workers, Human Rights Watch said today. An
Teresa Peacock
Teresa Peacock
This is so disturbing! The fact that so many of these domestic workers allegedly jumped to their deaths seems very suspicious to me. The report from August 2008 of more than one death per day of these foreign domestic workers in Lebanon cannot be ignored or condoned!
4 hours ago
Brahim Cherrate
Brahim Cherrate
That's right, it's worth a criminal investigation because something is definitely wrong. The scary thing is that it's noticed in other countries and I'm afraid this is some kind of trend concealing hideous facts.
2 hours ago
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch On Oct. 18, an Australian naval vessel rescued a boatload of Sri Lankans in international waters (though Indonesia's search and rescue area) and transferred them to a customs boat, which is now trying to set them ashore in Indonesia.

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In January, Australians saw shocking photos of young, emaciated men washing up on the shores of Sumatra. Australian television showed these Rohingyas, members of a Muslim ethnic minority systematically mistreated by Burma's military regime, describing
Noealaminsl SriLanka
Noealaminsl SriLanka
Sri Lanka has come to nomalcy. No asylum grant is necessary. These are Human smuglers, The leader or the representative Alex is a criminal.
Yesterday at 11:09am
Priyaksha
Priyaksha
Sri Lanka is not "normal" - unless you think 300,000 Tamils stuck in barbed-wire government concentration camps getting killed, tortured, raped, starved, butchered for body parts – pretty much deprived basic human rights, is "normal".

These are genuine refugees who are running from a country that has treated them brutality for 60 years. If they get sent back to SL, they WILL be killed by the SL govt.

The only reason the SL govt wants them back is because these refugees are witnesses to war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan Army.They are desperate to live a life of freedom, so we have to do everything in our will to safe them from the nazi-paradise of Sri Lanka. ... Read More

Brad Adams the Asia director at Human Rights Watch describes the camps perfectly :
“Vague promises about the future release of the people illegally locked up in detention camps are no justification for keeping them there. Every day in the camp is another day that the government is violating their rights.”

"Keeping several hundred thousand civilians who had been caught in the middle of a war penned in these camps is outrageous,haven’t they been through enough? They deserve their freedom, like all other Sri Lankans.”
3 hours ago
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch The Israeli government is depriving Palestinians of the right to live in their own homes, in neighborhoods where many have lived for generations.

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(Jerusalem) - Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem should immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. Also available in:Hebrew العربية
Ellen Lesse Gershenbaum
Ellen Lesse Gershenbaum
never forget that israel is not the only guilty party. the palestinians have missed so many chances for peace. if they would sit down at the bargaining table with no preconditions, their lot would improve. remember that israel must fight for its own existence. they are not the true terrorists.
3 hours ago
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Human Rights Watch Al Franken Bill - The evidence in thousands and thousands of cases sits untested in police storage facilities while victims wait in vain for justice. This bill will go a long way toward moving their cases forward.

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(New York) - The introduction in the Senate today of the Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009 is a significant step toward eliminating the backlog of evidence in rape cases, Human Rights Watch said today. Also available in:Español
Brenda Uy Alindogan
Brenda Uy Alindogan
Finally! It's been long over due and victims often wonder if and when their cases would be given attention at all. Thanks for the info, HRW!
Yesterday at 7:24am
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Human Rights Watch Cuba is the only country in the region that continues to repress virtually all forms of political dissent.

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(Washington, DC) – Cuban authorities should cease all attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community should condemn attacks on those who peacefully exercise their
Faryad
Faryad
To Cuba, I would add Iran!
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Human Rights Watch The group that monitors blood diamonds essentially ignored the blood being shed in Zimbabwe's diamond fields. That decision puts diamond consumers at risk of buying blood diamonds.

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(Johannesburg) - The credibility of the world's "blood diamond" monitoring group has been damaged after its failure this week to suspend Zimbabwe despite overwhelming evidence of serious human rights abuses and smuggling in the Marange
Nossa Possa
Nossa Possa
human and their rights are on the bottom of the list, animals has been treated much better through out history
Sun at 8:19am
Mark Gilbert
Mark Gilbert
Artificial diamonds.
Sun at 3:23pm
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Human Rights Watch As President Obama prepares for his first trip to China later this month, he needs to rethink his approach.

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"Don't they know they need us?" So wrote a Chinese human-rights activist friend of mine, expressing frustration at the Obama administration. Since taking office, President Obama and Secretary ...
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch The proposed law criminalizes the willful transmission of HIV - Women who transmit HIV to their infants after birth via breast milk would also be subject to criminal prosecution, the report says.

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(Kampala) - A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organizations and individuals said in a report released
Juliette Le Doré
Juliette Le Doré
yes of course. Is there a pb with some neurone connections? I mean this is stupid, really, in all ways.
November 6 at 9:20pm
Matthew Cheyne
Matthew Cheyne
The proposed bill is like using a blunt spear in an operating theatre instead of a surgeon's knife. There are much more effective, progressive routes the Ugandan goverment could take than what they've proposed. Unlike the situation in Afghanistan re: women's rights; hopefully governments and NGOs can unite and bring about some desperately much needed change here. Peoples lives depend on it.
November 6 at 10:02pm
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Human Rights Watch An Italian court's conviction of 23 CIA agents for kidnapping is a historic repudiation of the practice of "extraordinary rendition," used by the Bush administration against alleged terrorism suspects.

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(Milan) - An Italian court's conviction of 23 agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for kidnapping is an historic repudiation of the CIA's crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The Milan court also found that two Italian officials illegally
Giacomo Rock
Giacomo Rock
Finally a Judge with guts....
November 6 at 11:18am
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Human Rights Watch Another way to catch our latest Rights Watch podcast, with courageous Russian journalist Elena Milashina:
http://www.hrw.org/en/multimedia-podcast

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Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is honoring Russian journalist Elena Milashina in New York tonight, along with Ethiopian lawyer Daniel Bekele. You can hear Elena's story in our latest podcast. Look out for an interview with Daniel next week.

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With Hamid Karzai secured in office once more, President Obama and the international community need to stop reviewing and start acting. A legitimate government must be restored to Afghanistan — one that prioritizes women's rights.
Robert Aleksov
November 5 at 12:10pm
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Human Rights Watch
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices seeks youth-produced film, video and animated works on human rights issues made by youth ages 19 and under for its third annual YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program.

Armed with digital cameras, computers and their own boundless creativit...y, young people across the globe are bravely exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities. YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE provides a platform for youth to share their perspectives with audiences worldwide.

Click here for more information and to submit your film: http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/youth-producing-change/call-for-submissions
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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch India should be a leader in protecting and monitoring women’s sexual and reproductive health. Yet women continue to die entirely preventable deaths, and health authorities do not track down the reasons or do what is needed to rectify the health system.

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(New York) - India is falling behind other countries in meeting international commitments to improve obstetric care because it does not adequately monitor deaths and injuries in the critical period following childbirth and fix gaps in its health system
Teresa Peacock
Teresa Peacock
It seems to me that HRW has been shedding a lot of light on the failures of the health-care system in India lately. I'm so glad that they are keeping me informed on this; because hitherto, I had no knowledge at all about India's health-care situation. This article and the one from last week on the dearth of palliative care for Indian patients who are experiencing severe, chronic pain were so poignant! Thank you, HRW! Keep up all your fine work!
November 4 at 10:21am
Sherrill
Sherrill
As an adoptee from India, I've been aware of it my whole life. I agree it's terrific that HRW is making the global community aware of the atrocities that exist in the health system there.
November 4 at 10:44am
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Human Rights Watch Some Congolese army soldiers are committing war crimes by viciously targeting the very people they should be protecting.

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(New York) - Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have brutally killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch said
Juliette Le Doré
Juliette Le Doré
When will people and political elites care about the women of Congo and seriously ask Kabila to prosecute the warlords responsible for making sexual violence a weapon every soldat should use?
November 4 at 3:10am
Syed M Ali
Syed M Ali
Le dore i agree...
Congolese are entitled to respectable and safe living as per their wishes
November 4 at 5:12am