Bahrain: Investigate Deaths Linked to Crackdown
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Bangladesh: Government Should Support Anti-Torture Bill
(New York) – The Bangladeshi government should offer its full and public support to a bill before parliament that would criminalize torture, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The Violence in Bahrain was no “Accident”
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Robert Cooper, a hand-picked senior adviser to Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, must not have gotten the memo.read moreContinue Reading
China dismisses UN calls to release rights lawyer
Beijing on Tuesday dismissed calls by a United Nations human rights agency to free prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, saying the body should respect China’s judicial sovereignty.Continue Reading
SADC: Press Mugabe to End Crackdown
(Johannesburg) – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) should publicly press President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his party to end their harassment and arbitrary arrests of civil society activists and political opponents, Human Rights Wat…Continue Reading
Pakistani media does not report on the brutal realities of Balochistan
The News on Sunday (TNS): How does HRW view the current state of human rights in Balochistan?
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Burma: Disastrous
Burma’s political isolation doesn’t make it immune from nature. Thursday’s major earthquake, of 6.8 magnitude, struck the northeast of the country, in Shan State.
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Universal Periodic Review of Uganda
Human Rights Abuses by Security Forces
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Nepal: Rampant Child Kidnappings
(New York) – Criminal gangs and other armed groups are abducting children in Nepal’s southern plains region known as the Terai for ransom, sometimes killing the children, Human Rights Watch said today. The Nepali government should ensure prompt and tho…Continue Reading
Universal Periodic Review of Zimbabwe
Over the past decade, Zimbabwe’s political development has been stymied by the government’s closure of political space to avoid public scrutiny and competition from the political opposition.
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Syria: Security Forces Fire on Protesters
(London) – Syria’s security forces used live ammunition against protesters in Daraa and the surrounding villages of Sanmein and Tafas on March 25 and 26, 2011, killing at least 26 and bringing the death toll in the Daraa governorate reported by Syrian …Continue Reading
Jordan: Set Independent Inquiry in Attacks on Protesters
(New York) – Civil prosecutors should open an independent investigation into serious allegations of excessive use of force by security forces during protests on March 25, 2011, in Amman, Human Rights Watch said today. The investigation should include t…Continue Reading
Libya: Immediately Release Woman Who Alleged Rape
(New York) – The Libyan government should immediately release Eman al-‘Obeidy, the Libyan woman who accused government forces of raping her last week in Tripoli, and allow her family and international media to confirm independently that she is free a…Continue Reading
USF Hosts 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
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Coalition Letter of support for the Student Non-Discrimination Act
Dear Senator/Representative:
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