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Nigeria: Prosecute Killings by Security Forces
26 Nov 2009, 9:00 am |
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ICC: Prosecutor Seeks OK on Kenya Inquiry
26 Nov 2009, 7:30 am |
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Syria: End Persecution of Kurds
26 Nov 2009, 3:42 am |
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Kazakhstan: Rights Deteriorating as OSCE Chairmanship Nears
25 Nov 2009, 1:37 pm |
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US: Obama Should Join Mine Ban Treaty
25 Nov 2009, 12:57 pm |
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Human Rights Watch The Stupak amendment directly contradicts the goal of health care reform. This amendment would limit women's rights and endanger their health.
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A tremendous human rights project is under way in the US Congress. The health care reform effort has the potential to expand access to critical services to uninsured Americans across the country.
Human Rights Watch World AIDS Day approaches … a good time to note that, for HIV to be effectively prevented, punitive laws targeting people vulnerable to HIV need to go.
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(New York) - HIV prevention efforts - and the promise of antiretroviral therapy as prevention - are being undermined by punitive laws targeting those infected with and at risk of HIV, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Human Rights Watch Witchcraft and sorcery cases are on the rise in Saudi Arabia – and those convicted could face death.
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(Kuwait City) - The cassation court in Mecca should overturn the death sentence imposed on Ali Sabat by a lower court in Medina on November 9 for practicing witchcraft, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the Saudi government to
Human Rights Watch British intelligence and law enforcement turned a blind eye to -- and even colluded with -- the use of torture on terrorism suspects in Pakistan.
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(London) - The UK government should immediately order an independent judicial inquiry into the role and complicity of British security services in the torture of terrorism suspects in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Human Rights Watch You can play a part in pressuring the US government to join the international treaty banning landmines. Click the link below and tell Obama you're for the Mine Ban Treaty.
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Landmines claim thousands of casualties every year and inhibit socio-economic development in countries recovering from conflict. As Commander in Chief, President Obama has an opportunity to get US landmine ...
Human Rights Watch The government cancelled a gay pride parade that had been scheduled for September 20, 2009, in Belgrade, saying it could not ensure the participants' safety.
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(New York) - Serbia's government should quickly take visible steps to end a spate of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Human Rights Watch said in a letter sent November 16, 2009, to President Boris Tadic. Human
Human Rights Watch Dodging bullets and bandits, Ahmed fled with his mother across Somalia's southern border to Hagadera, one of three refugee camps in the deserts of Dadaab, in northeast Kenya.
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(Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya) For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia. The one that finally drove him from Somalia tore though his family's house and
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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ...
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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.
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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.
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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
