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BEIJING -- It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government. Full Article at Miami Herald
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NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should put pressure on Kazakhstan to improve its human rights record, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Full Article at United Press International
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Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch speaks during a news conference in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, On Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. View Photo »
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Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders ( MSF ), the UNHCR, Amnesty International and others have appealed to the Royal Thai Government to stop the forced repatriation of the Lao Hmong refugees at Huay Nam Khao and Nong Khai and allow them instead to be resettled in Canada, Australia, France, New Ze...
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Mines Minister Obert Mpofu says security troops are being withdrawn from diamond fields they have occupied after the beleaguered government was threatened with expulsion from the global diamond market. Full Article at United Press International
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Human Rights Watch accuses Britain of complicity in torture of 5 UK citizens in Pakistan
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Quoting unidentified Pakistani sources, the report said officials described being under great pressure from Britain and the United States. Full Article at Macleans.ca
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BEIJING — It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central... Full Article at Centre Daily Times
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In this undated photo provided by Human Rights Watch, Daniel Bekele is seen. Bekele, an Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for two and a half years, says his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election. View Photo »
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It looks great, Jean! With such a new attraction for Abu Dhabi, nobody will remember our appalling human rights record, nor the fact that Human Rights Watch has accused our nation of trafficking men, women, and children from South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for sexual and...
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"They have categorically denied there are even black jails. This is the first time an official, high-level magazine acknowledges that they exist. Full Article at The Bellingham Herald
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WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (OneWorld.net) - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would not be joining a treaty signed by 158 other countries to ban landmines. Full Article at OneWorld.net
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Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders ( MSF ), the UNHCR, Amnesty International and others have appealed to the Royal Thai Government to stop the forced repatriation of the Lao Hmong refugees at Huay Nam Khao and Nong Khai and allow them instead to be resettled in Canada, Australia, France, New Ze...
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It looks great, Jean! With such a new attraction for Abu Dhabi, nobody will remember our appalling human rights record, nor the fact that Human Rights Watch has accused our nation of trafficking men, women, and children from South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for sexual and...
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Human Rights Watch provided the international community with evidence of Israel using white phosphorus and launching systematic destructive attacks on civilian targets. Pro-Israel pressure groups in the US, the European Union and the United Nations have strongly resisted the report and tried to discredi...
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Mr. Habineza as someone who, unlike Human Rights Watch, lives in Rwanda can you pretend you do not know the challenges our judicial system faces, challenges mainly to do with lack of enough trained judges and other personnel? Can you honestly claim that you or anyone else would solve problems like that ...
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According to Human Rights Watch, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the only countries that consider eye-gouging to be a legitimate judicial punishment.
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NGOs [non-governmental organisations] and reporting organisations know even if they are right they may still be sued and the cost of defending themselves will be huge. We have threats against just about every reputable organisation you can think of, from Human Rights Watch to Greenpeace.
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The position taken by Human Rights Watch on the scrapping of the transit zone is unwarranted and, in many respects, dangerous
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being ignored as Human Rights Watch's Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel.
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Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again.
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The plight of their citizens who would most benefit from the kind of attention a large and well-financed international human rights organization can provide is being ignored as Human Rights Watch’s Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel.
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There is a very, very intense campaign dedicated to making sure the conversation becomes about Human Rights Watch rather than the Israeli government’s actions
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Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields
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Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region.
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It’s certainly news that Human Rights Watch’s critics were able to get a former HRW chairman to slam the organization for having the temerity to hold Israel to the same standards of international humanitarian law to which it holds every other country.
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I’ve met one senior Human Rights Watch officer at several symposia in New York over the past few months, and I was genuinely taken aback at her visceral hatred not only for George Bush (that’s to be taken for granted in these circles) but for the US more generally.
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Only by returning to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it can Human Rights Watch resurrect itself as a moral force in the Middle East and throughout the world. If it fails to do that, its credibility will be seriously undermined and its important role in the world significant...
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Human Rights Watch stands fully behind the work we have done on Israel and around the world
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Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hizbullah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields ... They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this mil...
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The work on Israel is a tiny fraction of Human Rights Watch's work as a whole
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Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East ... The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in ...
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There's mounting concern over Israel's tactics. Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of causing civilian casualties by using these phosphorus shells in built-up areas. That's against international law. Israel denies it.
SOURCE: Newsbusters
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