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Members of the Mexican police stand before a corpse in the La Progreso neighborhood of Acapulco, Guerrero State, on March 22, 2012. The fight against drug trafficking in Mexico has caused a 'dramatic increase' in murder, torture and abuses by security forces, reported to Human Rights Watch, while the federal courts only investigated 997 of the 45,000 homicides attributed to that struggle.
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Local activists provided Human Rights Watch with a list of 62 dead members from the Abdel Razzak family
Forcing Human Rights Watch to cancel a news conference cannot obscure the gravity of political violence in Burundi ... Instead of trying to silence the messenger, the government should take the report's content and recommendations to heart and take concrete steps to prevent political killings.
Human Rights Watch issued on Monday a compelling report that details testimony about abductions and rapes of girls and women by armed groups in northern Mali and the recruitment and use of children by armed groupsMore quotes »
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China's city code enforcers chided for violence
with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.The report by New York-based Human Rights Watch catalogs alleged abuses by officers with the urban management bureaus: beatings -- sometimes fatal, forceful seizing of Read more »
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Report: Kenyan forces abused Somalis near border
are abhorrent, but they can never justify this kind of indiscriminate abuse," said Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Kenyan police and soldiers ought to be protecting civilians, not assaulting them."The group said that the abuses Read more »
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Syria forces accused of using civilians as shields
-- Human Rights Watch accused Syrian forces Sunday of using civilians as human shields during recent military operations, as diplomatic pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime intensified.In a new report, the New York-based international watchdog said Read more »
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Human Rights Watch 'Fundraising' to Malign Country
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has said Rwanda is aware of a new fundraising effort by Human Rights Watch to 'release another batch of recycled rumours designed to implicate Rwanda'. In a statement posted on the government website, the minister hastened 59 m ago from AllAfrica.com Read more »
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HRW urges Sudan to ban death by stoning
(Nairobi, May 31, 2012) – The sentencing of a young Sudanese woman to death by stoning for adultery presents numerous grave violations of domestic and international law, Human Rights Watch said today. The sentence also underscores the urgent need for Sud 4:16 AM from Sudan Tribute Read more »
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Egypt’s State Of Emergency Law Expires
Egypt’s state of emergency law, which has existed for the past 31 years, is expected to officially end Friday. Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division, said the government has often used the law as a tyr 5/31/12 from Voice of America Read more »
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Colombia: Amend “Legal Framework for Peace” Bill
(Washington, DC) - On Friday, June 1, 2012, Colombian Senator Roy Barreras will meet in Washington D.C. with José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. Sen. Barreras requested the meeting in order to discuss the “Legal Framework for Pe 5/31/12 from Human Rights Watch Read more »
