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Charity, a Liberian refugee whom I met just after her release from an immigration detention center in Arizona, told me how the United States had rescued her from a refugee camp in Ghana and then, a year later, threw her in jail.

Human Rights Watch I travelled to Libya last month for a press conference marking the publication of our latest report about the country. It was an unprecedented occasion.

Human Rights Watch The United States is not the only outside actor contemplating intervention in Yemen. Since early November, Saudi warplanes have bombed Yemeni villages in areas controlled by Huthi rebels.
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The news that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly trained to blow up a US airliner at al Qaeda camps in Yemen has drawn sudden attention to a country that is not well known in Washington. The prospect of deeper US involvement in an Arab nation already

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Take Action: Tell your senators that women should not have to wait any longer for ratification of the global women's rights treaty.
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Thirty years ago, the world took a landmark step towards securing equality for women. The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), a treaty that identifies the steps countries should take to ensure equal opportunity for women.

Human Rights Watch Facebook, urge your Members of Congress to support the bipartisan Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009.
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Every year, more than 200,000 individuals report their rape to the police. Almost all are asked to submit to the collection of DNA evidence from their bodies, which is then stored in a small package called a rape kit. ...

Human Rights Watch A force of 5,000 Thai army and police personnel forcibly expelled more than 4,500 men, women and children to one of Southeast Asia's most repressive states Monday.
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Bordered by authoritarian regimes, Thailand has long struggled to deal with waves of asylum seekers. But Bangkok's decision to repatriate ethnic Hmong to Laos this week stands as a blot on the nation's reputation as a humane port of refuge.

Human Rights Watch Contrary to Netanyahu’s claim, what needs rewriting is not the Geneva Conventions but Israel’s abusive and illegal war strategy.
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Published in: Foreign Policy in FocusThe Geneva Conventions—the bedrock of the laws of war and one of the world’s most widely ratified treaties— turned 60 this month. But one government was not celebrating. In fact, Israel had already launched a

Human Rights Watch The Moroccan court hearing the appeal of 35 people convicted of being terrorists should address claims that the confessions were falsified or gotten through torture.
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(New York) - The Moroccan court currently hearing the appeal of 35 people convicted on terrorism-related charges should address allegations that confessions were falsified or obtained through torture and other violations of their right to a fair trial,

Human Rights Watch One year after the start of major hostilities in Gaza, both Israel and Hamas have failed to punish members of their own forces for laws-of-war violations during the fighting.
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(Jerusalem) - One year after the start of major hostilities in Gaza, both Israel and Hamas have failed to punish members of their own forces for laws-of-war violations during the fighting, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel's ongoing blockade of Gaza

Human Rights Watch The US government brings over persecuted refugees, and then a year later jails them because they haven't completed the often-confusing green card application.
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(Washington, DC) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arbitrarily detains refugees and holds them indefinitely for failing to meet paperwork requirements, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. People who have already been accepted as

Human Rights Watch Take Action: Tell Congress to Eliminate the Rape Kit Backlog
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Every year, more than 200,000 individuals report their rape to the police. Almost all are asked to submit to the collection of DNA evidence from their bodies, which is then stored in a small package called a rape kit. ...

Human Rights Watch Thank you facebook for your commitment to the human rights cause.
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Impact 2009 As 2009 draws to a close, I want to share with you some of our successes – successes we could not have achieved without your support.

Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch has received many reports of torture during interrogations by Department 17.
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(New York) - The Afghan government should conduct an independent investigation into the suspicious death in custody of a suspect held by its intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch Our work reached from the battlefields of eastern Congo to the crime labs of Los Angeles. Read more >>
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Impact 2009 As 2009 draws to a close, I want to share with you some of our successes – successes we could not have achieved without your support.

Human Rights Watch he European Court has made it clear that race-based exclusion from political office, such as that suffered by Jews and Roma in Bosnia, has no place in Europe.
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(London) - The ruling today by the European Court of Human Rights, that the exclusion of Jews and Roma from Bosnia's highest state offices is unlawful discrimination, is a major step toward ending racial and religious exclusion in Europe, the Benjamin N.













