Human Rights Watch

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• Group Accuses China of Abuses in Secret Jails

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Human Rights Watch says the Chinese government is tolerating of secret jails operated by local governments to prevent citizens from complaining to national officials.
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• NYT > World: Group Accuses China of Abuses in Secret Jails

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 467
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Human Rights Watch says the Chinese government is tolerating of secret jails operated by local governments to prevent citizens from complaining to national officials.
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• Chinas black jails still operating report says

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  China continues to operate a network of "black jails" to detain poor people who attempt to go to Beijing to complain about injustices at the hands of corrupt local officials according to Human Rights Watch.
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• Yemen: Where are Goldstone and Human Rights Watch?

  
  JG, Caesarea — Authority: 125
  According to the Tehran Times : "Since the beginning of November, Saudi forces have attacked residential areas and border villages in Yemen, killing and injuring many people. The Saudi Army has deployed one of its main brigades, which consists of at least 13,000 troops, to northern Yemen. . . . . Terrorism ...
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• Kurds Are Threat to Minority Groups, Rights Group Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Actions by Kurdish authorities are threatening minority groups in northern Iraq with “another full-blown human rights catastrophe,” according to a human rights group.
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• The gay underground railroad in Iraq

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  There’s been widespread anti-gay violence in Iraq this year, and we’ve not heard much about it. Police increased their harassment of homosexuals and bodies of openly gay men were found mutilated on Baghdad streets – the victims of armed militias. Human Rights Watch reports that thousands of gay men have been ...
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• Arrest of Sahwa leader, KBRs burn pits

  
  The Common Ills — Authority: 507
  A Sunni paramilitary leader and budding politician who had been trying to avoid arrest on murder charges since the summer has been jailed by Iraqi security forces, authorities said Monday. Brig. Gen. Mustafa Kamal Shibeeb was taken into custody last week in connection with the deaths of five known members of the ...
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• Mobile Phones in Human Rights: Reflections from Open Mobile Camp

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 130
  Mobile phones in human rights monitoring is still relatively rare and there are few examples where mobile shave been used successfully in this field. In this video from the recent Open Mobile Camp in New York, three experts are discussing their projects and thinking on the use of mobiles in human rights work.  Nathan ...
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• Zim: Blood diamonds and spineless Morgan

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  Last week it was announced that Mugabe’s Kimberley Process cronies have decided to give him until June to withdraw the soldiers in the Marange diamond fields. The army runs smuggling operations and use forced labour in mines whose profits benefit Zanu-PF.Human Rights Watch exposed the horrors of Marange in June. A ...
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• Deportations force families apart

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 600
  By Jamie Iglesias Daily Titan Staff Writer For many of us, the idea of separating from our family is devastating, but when there is a deportation notice at the door, familial separation becomes real. I have never personally been affected by deportation, but for 10 years of my life I was separated from my older ...
  3 days ago

• Origins of the Police State Bill before NZ Parliament

  
  Uncensored Magazine — Authority: 134
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• Human Rights Watch Review

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  Human Rights Angst Lingers in Afghanistan >> Published in National Public Radio "I did not vote. The warlords win whoever I vote for," said a young Afghan man who saw his entire family gunned down when he was 11, during the civil war of the early 1990s. One woman decried Karzais electoral pacts with warlords - ...
  4 days ago

• Group Documents Sexual Assaults in Iran Postelection Crackdown

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Human Rights Watch says one of the cases appeared in an official report, but was dropped by the government.
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• Human Rights Watch: Iran prepares to execute gay teens

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 134
  Image via Wikipedia Source: Human Rights Watch Iran: Revoke Death Sentences for Juvenile Offenders Three Men Await Execution for Alleged Homosexual Conduct When Children Iran should immediately halt the planned executions of three men under charges of male homosexual conduct allegedly committed when they ...
  6 days ago

• CIA Agents Convicted of Kidnapping; Italian Officials Walk Free: Corriere Della Sera,Italy

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 730
  Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro has done something no one else has: He has obtained the first convictions involving the CIA practice of ‘rendition.’ For those interested in reading the Italian coverage of yesterday’s first ever convictions for the U.S. government’s practice of ‘renditioning,’ this is ...
  6 days ago

• Tajik president announces amnesty for half his prison population

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Ten thousand prisoners are to be released posing questions about why they were incarcerated.
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• Who is the Honorable Morton Isaac Abramowitz?

  
  What Do You Believe? — Authority: 475
  MIA is a patriot, having served his homeland for decades, with distinction. MIA is a prominent human rights activist, and peace activist, having tirelessly worked for peace with numerous humanitarian organizations, such as: The Soros Open Society Institute (Board of Trustees; with George Soros, Stewart ...
  1 week ago

• Love of the Land: Analyzing Human Rights Watch’s Defensive Response to Robert Bernstein

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  Analyzing Human Rights Watch’s Defensive Response to Robert Bernstein NGO Monitor 04 November 09 Human Rights Watch founder Robert Bernstein’s highly critical op-ed in the New York Times ( Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast , October 19, 2009; see also Robert Bernstein’s rebuttal ...
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• India failing to check maternal deaths: NGO

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) India is falling drastically behind other countries in meeting international commitments to improve obstetric care as it has failed to adequately monitor deaths following childbirth, an NGO working on human rights said Wednesday.In the backdrop of a global meet of health experts that concluded ...
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• Israel Braces for Two-Front War

  
  JG, Caesarea — Authority: 125
  Hamas is smuggling Iranian missiles into Gaza, which are capable of hitting Tel Aviv. Appearing before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset (Israeli parliament), Major General Amos Yadlin, Head of Israeli Military Intelligence, stated that there had been at least one recent test firing by Hamas of ...
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