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The Obama administration will introduce its first statement calling for the United Nations’ top human rights body to combat discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world, completing a U.S. reversal from years of ambiguity on the subject dur…Continue Reading

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This report documents the state’s failure to take effective measures against hate crimes. Prosecutions for racially-motivated violence are rare, with Italian officials downplaying the extent of the problem and failing consistently to condemn attacks….Continue Reading

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The Italian government is failing to take effective action to prevent and prosecute racist and xenophobic violence.

(Rome) – The Italian government is failing to take effective action to prevent…Continue Reading

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A Palestinian human rights group released new details Monday about a Gazan man who vanished on a Ukrainian train and resurfaced in an Israeli prison, saying that he was dragged out of his sleeper car, hooded and handcuffed by Israeli agents, forced ont…Continue Reading

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(Rabat) – Moroccan authorities allowed peaceful, pro-reform demonstrations to take place in cities across the country on March 20, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. The police restraint contrasted with their violent dispersal of demonstrators the pr…Continue Reading

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By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International crisis researcher
The situation has significantly deteriorated in Benghazi and elsewhere in eastern Libya in the past few days. Since yesterday, while Colonel al-Gaddafi’s spokespeople reiterate that their…Continue Reading

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President Hugo Chávez and his supporters have effectively neutralized the independence of Venezuela’s judiciary. In the absence of a judicial check on its actions, the Chávez government has systematically undermined freedom of expression …Continue Reading

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Donatella Rovera, investigadora de Amnistía Internacional para la situación de crisis.
Bengasi (Libia), 18 de marzo de 2011
Ayer conseguí hablar por teléfono con una familia a la que conocí la semana pasada, cuando estuve en Ajdabya, población si…Continue Reading

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(Brussels) – The adoption on March 21, 2011, of a revised Decision on the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the European Union’s 27 foreign affairs ministers is an important step, Human Rights Watch said today. The move reaffirms EU support for the…Continue Reading