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• Saudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentence – BBC News

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  BBC NewsSaudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentenceBBC NewsThe New York-based group Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to overturn a death sentence given to a man convicted of practising witchcraft. …Rights group rejects Saudi witchcraft chargesThe Associated PressSAUDI ARABIA: Kingdom steps up ...
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• Nation reporter unmasks extraordinary rendition-like subfields run by ICE

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 118
  A couple months ago, Jacqueline Stevens, a reporter for the Nation, went on a road trip with Mark Lyttle, a U.S. citizen, born in North Carolina, who had been kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stripped of his rightful identity documents, rendered stateless, and deported to Mexico, to re-locate ...
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• Screws tightened over Marange diamonds

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 142
  A valuer counts diamonds at the government diamond export office in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Associated Press) By Junior Ncube JOHANNESBURG – The World Diamond Council and the Kimberley Process have come under fire from an international network of companies providing added value services that support the ...
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• Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw criticised for Sri Lanka Christmas holiday

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 683
  The Independent on Sunday reports that human rights campaigners have questioned whether openly gay Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw should have decided to hold his Christmas holiday on the island of Shrilanka.
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• Human Right Watch Review

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 140
  Atrocities Continue in DR Congo >> “They killed my husband with a machete and two of them raped me,” said a woman who was abducted by a Rwandan militia operating in eastern Congo. “They also killed my father and raped my mother and sister before killing them as well, all ...
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• Middle East Inside Line: The Story Behind CIA Support of Palestinian “Torture”

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 596
  Last Thursday Ian Cobain of The Guardian of London posted the dramatic article , “CIA working with Palestinian security agents: US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank”. The sensational headline both illuminates and distorts the wider story. ...
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• Migrant Workers: Exploited Heroes

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 593
  Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, says, “Governments seem to forget that when men, women, and children migrate, they don’t leave their rights at home. Instead of protecting people who already are at special risk of abuse, many governments further marginalize ...
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• Egyptian Christian women forced to marry, convert to Islam

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Coptic Christian women in Egypt are being forced to marry and convert to Islam and that oppression is part of a larger pattern of persecution against Christians facilitated by the Egyptian government, according to two recent reports, writes Baptist Press."Cases of abduction, forced conversion and marriage are usually ...
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• [Guinean news] Sept. 28 massacre, rapes premeditated, likely crimes against humanity: HRW

  
  News from Guinea and Friends of Guinea — Authority: 116
  The non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch has issued a report described the Sept. 28 killings in Conakrys main sports stadium as premeditated and likely crimes against humanity. HRW came to this conclusion after interviewing 240 victims, witnesses, military personnel, medical staff, humanitarian ...
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• Saudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentence – BBC News

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  BBC NewsSaudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentenceBBC NewsThe New York-based group Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to overturn a death sentence given to a man convicted of practising witchcraft. …Rights group rejects Saudi witchcraft chargesThe Associated PressSAUDI ARABIA: Kingdom steps up ...
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• Memorial, International Human Rights Groups Return to Chechnya

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 109
  Human Rights Watch (HRW) – Five months ago the human rights community in Russia and beyond lost a friend and colleague, Natalya Estemirova, Memorial’s lead researcher in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation. After her murder on July 15, 2009, Memorial suspended its work in the republic See the original ...
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• HRW Report on Congo: Fetuses Ripped From Wombs and Children Burned

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
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• Human Rights Watch Urges United Nations to End Support to DR Congo Army

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The international human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch has urged the United Nations to end support to the Congolese army in its military campaign against Rwandan rebels because of alleged human rights violations. According to a statement issued Monday, Human Rights Watch wants the UN to make sure that the DRC ...
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• Rights organizations criticise closure of pro-Kurdish DTP in Turkey

  
  Alliance for Kurdish Rights — Authority: 501
  Pro-Kurdish DTP Closed down by Constitutional Court Ankara, Istanbul – BİA News Center – The Constitutional Court ruled for the closure of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party and imposed a political ban on 37 of its members. Co-chairs Türk and Tuğluk are deposed from their duties as MPs. Human Rights ...
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• Report Cites Vast Civilian Killings in East Congo

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The report, which said more than 1,400 were killed during two military operations, paints a bleak picture of a country that has been ravaged by civil war for more than a decade.
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• Uganda continues to defy the world with proposed law to execute homosexuals; Worldwide outrage continues

  
  United We Stand (Official blog of Kentucky Equality Federation) — Authority: 115
  Republic of Uganda proposes law to executive homosexuals. The worldwide outrage continues. In a groundbreaking move, a representative of the Pope in the audience read a statement strongly condemning the criminalization of homosexual conduct. A powerful U.S. Representative urged the Republic of Ugandan to come to ...
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• Scott Long on the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill

  
  Blabbeando — Authority: 561
  Yesterday I highlighted a couple of interviews that journalist Rex Wockner did during his stay in New York in October. Id helped to transcribe those interviews from the original recordings and noted that there was a third interview that might or might not see the light of day - and that Id make note of it if and ...
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• Human Rights Watch calls Morocco’s expulsion of Haidar illegal, calls on Council of Europe to intervene

  
  asvdh — Authority: 432
  Letter to the Council of Europe’s Commissioner of Human Rights concerning Aminatou Haidar, expelled by Morocco to Spain December 10, 2009 Dear Mr Hammarberg: We are writing you about the alarming situation of Ms. Aminatou Haidar, president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) in Western ...
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• Human Rights Day: Freedom to Form Unions Being Denied

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 635
        Dec. 10 is International Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Although much progress has been made to ensure human rights in the past 61 years, Sheldon Friedman, research coordinator for the AFL-CIO’s Voice@Work campaign, reminds us ...
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• Where schooling is sabotaged

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 470
  - Kennji Kizuka was a consultant to the children’s rights division of Human Rights Watch and conducted research for their new report, Sabotaged Schooling: Naxalite Attacks and Police Occupation of Schools in India’s Bihar and Jharkhand States. The opinions expressed are his own. - Late in the evening of ...
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