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The United Nations Security Council should impose an arms embargo and other targeted sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on the Syrian leadership in response to widesprea…Continue Reading
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Bahraini authorities should immediately release the human rights activist Nabeel Rajab and drop all charges based on his public discussion of political issues. Authorities have repeatedl…Continue Reading
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Verdicts are expected next week in the trial of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his security chiefs, the first concerning the killing of protesters during Tunisia’s uprisi…Continue Reading
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The Israeli parliament should immediately repeal or amend a newly revised law that punishes asylum seekers for irregularly crossing into Israel, in violation of their basic rights. Until…Continue Reading
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Russia should immediately ensure an end to police harassment of a human rights lawyer in Kabardino-Balkaria and guarantee his safety.
(Moscow) – Russia should imm…Continue Reading
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France should reconsider allowing Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-owned arms trading company, to participate in Eurosatory, a major international arms show being held outside Paris…Continue Reading
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The Malawi government showed strong support for victims of international crimes by deciding not to be the host of the African Union (AU) summit if President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan is al…Continue Reading
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President Putin signed into law the new restrictive amendments to the law on public rallies and the administrative code, which had been adopted by the lower chamber of the Russian Parlia…Continue Reading
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Russia should ensure the safety of human rights defenders after public threats by Chechnya’s Kremlin-appointed leader.
(Moscow) – Russia should ensure the safe…Continue Reading
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US President Barack Obama should press Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to bring to justice security forces implicated in serious human rights abuses.
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A 10-year prison sentence for criticizing the kings of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and allegedly “insulting” the Prophet Mohammed on the social media site Twitter violates human rights …Continue Reading
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The Russian government should halt the planned demolition of a family home in Sochi, which is slated for destruction to make way for construction of infrastructure in advance of the 2014…Continue Reading
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Human Rights Watch will present a photography exhibition, “Unreported Stories,” with the award-winning photographer Brent Stirton of Reportage by Getty Images. The exhibition will be…Continue Reading
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The pardon by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea of Dr. Wenceslao Mansogo Alo, the prominent political opponent and human rights defender, is a positive step. T…Continue Reading
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Armed militants hostile to the Ivorian government have recruited Liberian children and carried out deadly cross-border raids on Ivorian villages in recent months, Human Rights Watch said…Continue Reading