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• Report Cites Vast Civilian Killings in East Congo

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  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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• Scott Long on the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill

  
  Blabbeando — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Human Rights Watch calls Morocco’s expulsion of Haidar illegal, calls on Council of Europe to intervene

  
  asvdh — Authority: 135
  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: 656
        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 ...
  4 days ago

• Where schooling is sabotaged

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 494
  - 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 ...
  5 days ago

• NYT > World: Group Says Police Killings Go Unpunished in Brazil

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 173
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . A report released by Human Rights Watch raises questions about the number of police killings in Brazil, suggesting that many could be extrajudicial.
  6 days ago

• Protest outside Ugandan High Commission this Thursday opposing the Anti-Homsexuality Bill

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 124
  Harrys Place reminds me of a demonstration in London this Thursday opposing the Anti-Homsexuality Bill (PDF). The even is from 12pm until 2pm and takes place at the Ugandan High Commission,58-59 Trafalger Square, Charing Cross,London, WC2N 5DX. Nearest tubes are Charing Cross and Picadilly Circus. If you ...
  6 days ago

• Group Says Police Killings Go Unpunished in Brazil

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  A report released by Human Rights Watch raises questions about the number of police killings in Brazil, suggesting that many could be extrajudicial.
  6 days ago

• Rights Group Report Faults Mexican Army’s Conduct in Drug War

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Amnesty International is scheduled to release a report raising allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary detentions.
  1 week ago

• Life Still Grim for Vast Numbers of Afghan Women

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 791
  After the fall of the Taliban everyone wanted to come and work for women’s rights, they were proud to say they were here to help Afghan women. Slowly, slowly this disappeared. Maybe the international community saw that we had two or three women in the cabinet, and thought, it’s ok, now they have their rights. But ...
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• Government report verifies claims of lack of fairness for immigration detainees

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 117
  In August 2008, 33 year old Alexandro Sibaja was picked up in Houston on a bad check warrant and turned over to immigration officials. Having moved to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 12, Sibaja was put into removal proceedings by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Over the next 15 months, he was transferred ...
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• Saving us from noise that kills: NGOs as news coordinators in a networked public sphere

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 643
  [Journalists concerned about the future of the news business tend to worry about important issues receiving a decreasing amount of coverage. But what if the problem is less the amount of coverage but the assembling, filtering, and sorting of that coverage? Is there a role for a new class of news coordinators? Our ...
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• Home educating parents bullied by authorities

  
  Aspie Home-Education — Authority: 129
  Miscarriage of justice in Australia
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• Israel: End Arbitrary Detention of Rights Activist

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Mohammed Othamn held without charge for 72 days Human Rights Watch , December 4, 2009 “The only reasonable conclusion is that Othman is being punished for his peaceful advocacy…The authorities interrogated him for months, then ordered him held some more, but they won’t say why they are ...
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• Israel: End Arbitrary Detention of Rights Activist

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 437
  Mohammed Othamn held without charge for 72 days Human Rights Watch , December 4, 2009 “The only reasonable conclusion is that Othman is being punished for his peaceful advocacy…The authorities interrogated him for months, then ordered him held some more, but they won’t say why they are holding him ...
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• Plight of Afghan women risks getting worse: HRW (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AFP - The Afghan government is failing to protect women from endemic violence such as rape and murder and from rampant discrimination, and their plight risks getting worse, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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• Guinea: on the verge of a civil war

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  According to BBC breaking news, ‘Guinea’s vice-president has returned from business abroad to take charge of the country after an attempted assassination on the president. President Moussa Dadis Camara was flown to Morocco, where a spokesman said he underwent a “minor operation” after being shot on Thursday. ...
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• Refugees in America are given a terrible deal

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 444
  A terrible reality about America’s immigration policy is how little the general public actually sees: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s increasing practice of transferring immigrants facing deportation to detention centers far away from their homes severely curtails their ability to challenge ...
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• Human Rights Watch Review

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 142
  US Immigration Detention Practices Hinder Justice >>"The transfers are devastating, absolutely devastating. [Detainees] are loaded onto a plane in the middle of the night. They have no idea where they are … I cannot overemphasize the psychological trauma to these people,” said Rebecca Schreve, an immigration ...
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• The LA Times calls for carrots for Cuba

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  Cracking Cuba U.S. sanctions have failed to bring down the Castro brothers. It’s time for carrots instead of a stick. Political and civil rights abuses committed by the Cuban government have continued unabated in the three years since Raul Castro took over from his older brother, Fidel. U.S. travel and trade ...
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