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Recent by-elections and other progress in Burma should be matched by some positive steps from the European Union, but not the wholesale withdrawal of sanctions.
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Roma, Jews, and other national minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina remain excluded from participation in national politics 20 years after war began.
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The United States should act on its recent condemnation of Syria’s use of antipersonnel landmines by joining the international ban on these weapons.
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The trial of the two surviving leaders of the September 12, 1980 military coup in Turkey should focus not only on the illegality of the coup but also on the evidence of gross human right…Continue Reading
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Police beat close to 30 demonstrators at a police station this week, two of whom fainted from the ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today after interviewing six witnesses to the Mar…Continue Reading
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) should not criminally prosecute Yusuf al-Shayeb, a journalist detained without charge on March 26, 2012, and released on April 2.
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The new government in Senegal of President Macky Sall should promptly address longstanding human rights concerns. Sall was inaugurated on April 2, 2012, after defeating the incumbent pre…Continue Reading
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The Angolan government should immediately end its use of unnecessary force against peaceful anti-government protesters, human rights activists, journalists, and opposition politicians. E…Continue Reading
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The government of Sierra Leone should urgently pass the pending Freedom of Information Bill (FOI). The legislation would allow members of the public to obtain access to information held …Continue Reading
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The leadership of the Armed Forces of the Philippines should take concrete steps to hold accountable soldiers responsible for human rights abuses.
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Senegal’s new government should make it a priority to protect the estimated 50,000 children forced to beg each day on the country’s streets. Macky Sall will be inaugurated as preside…Continue Reading
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The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately allow two television journalists facing criminal charges access to their lawyer and family, and transfer them to a regular detention facili…Continue Reading
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Serbia should immediately release two Kosovo Albanians arbitrarily arrested on March 28, 2012 in “retaliation” for the arrest of four Serbs on March 27.
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The Turkmen government should urgently heed the calls by the UN Human Rights Committee to improve its abysmal rights record.
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Burma’s April 1, 2012 by-elections are a step forward, but are not a real test of the government’s commitment to democratic reform.
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