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The opening of the trial of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime military commander, is a salient reminder that justice catches up with those accused of atrocity crimes. Mladic’s…Continue Reading
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The Thai government has not arrested or charged a single soldier or official for any of the scores of deaths and hundreds of injuries during the political violence in Bangkok two years a…Continue Reading
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The Kuwaiti parliament passed a law on May 10, 2012, that would provide an important expansion of due process protections in Kuwait. The law would eliminate unlimited renewals of pretria…Continue Reading
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United Nations member states should make ending caste-based discrimination a priority when they review India’s human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council in late May 2012. …Continue Reading
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Indian officials need to immediately open transparent and impartial criminal investigations into recent cases where police have assaulted women. Human Rights Watch called on the governme…Continue Reading
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011 Libya campaign, and has not investigated possible u…Continue Reading
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Syrian security forces are arbitrarily arresting and holding peaceful activists incommunicado, despite the government’s commitment under Kofi Annan’s six point plan to releas…Continue Reading
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The sentencing of a rapper on May 11, 2012 to one year in prison for “insulting the police” shows the gap between the strong free-expression language in Morocco’s 2011 constitution…Continue Reading
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The European Union and the United States should re-examine their relationships with the Uzbek government in light of its atrocious rights record.
(Berlin) – The E…Continue Reading
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The Uganda parliament should significantly revise the draft Public Order Management bill, which would drastically restrict freedom of assembly and expression. Despite pressure from the e…Continue Reading
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Indian authorities should drop sedition cases against peaceful protesters opposed to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu state.
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Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) should immediately amend a new law that protects from prosecution people who committed crimes if their actions were aimed at “promoting or…Continue Reading
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A proposed United Arab Emirates (UAE) law on domestic workers holds promise for significant improvements in addressing worker abuse. While a newspaper has reported about the law, its con…Continue Reading
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The government of Nepal should take immediate action to stop forcible evictions in Kathmandu.
(New York) – The government of Nepal should take immediate act…Continue Reading
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have expanded their crackdown on peaceful political activists with the recent arrests of two more members of a non-violent political association ad…Continue Reading