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Côte d’Ivoire’s national commission of inquiry investigating the 2010-2011 post-election violence should extend its mandate by six months to August 2012.
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Yemen’s incoming president, Abd Rabu Mansur Hadi, should take immediate steps to ensure Yemen’s transition to the rights-respecting democracy that thousands of protesters hav…Continue Reading
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Human Rights Watch joined more than 30 other organizations today in calling on Syrian authorities to release Mazen Darwish, a prominent human rights defender and and director of the Syri…Continue Reading
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Authorities in and around Misrata are preventing thousands of people from returning to the villages of Tomina and Kararim and have failed to stop local militias from looting and burning …Continue Reading
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Somalia’s warring parties have all failed to protect Somali children from the fighting or serving in their forces, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Islamist insu…Continue Reading
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Morocco is prosecuting activists who campaigned peacefully for a boycott of elections held three months ago. These prosecutions contradict statements by Moroccan officials that authoriti…Continue Reading
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(Kathmandu) – The government of Nepal should take immediate steps, with the full cooperation of the Nepal Army, to ensure truth, reparation, and justice for human rights abuses dur…Continue Reading
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The European Union should maintain its travel restrictions and asset freezes on President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle until Zimbabwe carries out concrete human rights and institut…Continue Reading
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Azerbaijani authorities have begun the forcible eviction of residents to demolish the last standing building in the neighborhood of the capital, Baku, where the 2012 Eurovision song cont…Continue Reading
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has set arguments to begin on March 12, 2012, in a case between Belgium and Senegal over the fate of the former Chadian dictator Hissè…Continue Reading
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The Chinese government should immediately release Tibetans who have been detained by local police and are being forced to undergo political re-education after travelling to India to list…Continue Reading
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A Ugandan minister illegally shut down a leadership training workshop organized by activists advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The Febru…Continue Reading
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The shrinking space for media freedom in Hungary requires EU action.
(Brussels) – The shrinking space for media freedom in Hungary requires EU action, Human Righ…Continue Reading
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The Sri Lankan army’s announcement that it had appointed a five-member court of inquiry to investigate allegations that its forces committed serious violations of the laws of war a…Continue Reading
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Honduras should urgently overhaul its prison system to end overcrowding and improve prison conditions.
(Washington, DC) – Honduras should urgently overhaul its p…Continue Reading