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In the Spotlight: Obama succumbs to Washington's ways, hires lobbyist
March 11, 2012

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February 01, 2012

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Acoso sexual en agricultura.
May 17, 2012 | KCEC Denver, CO

Civilians bear brunt of Sudan border conflict
April 23, 2012 | Agence France-Presse

Human Rights Watch. Derechos humanos en noventa países.
January 24, 2012 | WVEN Orlando, FL

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Sexual Violence, Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers
May 16, 2012
NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 - Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual...

Iraq: Mass Arrests, Incommunicado Detentions
May 15, 2012
BEIRUT, May 15, 2012 - Iraq's government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in...

NATO: Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya
May 14, 2012
BRUSSELS, May 14, 2012 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011...

Kuwait: Court Victory for Women’s Rights
May 07, 2012
BEIRUT, May 6, 2012 - A court decision on April 22, 2012, cancelling a ministerial order barring women from entry-level jobs at the Justice Ministry is an...

Azerbaijan: Media Freedoms in Grave Danger
May 04, 2012
BERLIN, May 3, 2012 - The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) should speak out about Azerbaijan's appalling record on freedom of expression in the lead-up to the...

France: Candidates Pledge to Address Human Rights Issues
May 01, 2012
PARIS, May 1, 2012 - A survey of candidates for the upcoming French presidential election, which both candidates still in the race completed, reveals differences...

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Human Rights Watch director to speak March 5
February 29, 2012 | UC Davis News
Division of Human Rights Watch ... Whitson's talk'' At last, an Arab Spring: Black Swans of the Middle East; Human Rights Watch Reports from the Ground,'' will address the role...

From around the web

Rights group: Syria troops executed civilians
April 09, 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area News -- -- SFGate
Monday's report by Human Rights Watch says... ...

Shocker: Chechnya's'' Islamic revival'' becoming'' less voluntary''
March 22, 2012 | Jihad Watch
Actually, that has been the case for quite some time, as documented by Human Rights Watch and others. It is another example of the pattern in which wherever Sharia experiences...

Human Rights Watch warns of cover- up of Egyptian massacre of Christians
October 25, 2011 | Jihad Watch
The cover-up of the October 9 massacre is well underway. It was reported on October 13 that the Egyptian military was taking over the investigation of its own massacre of Coptic...

Nigeria: Over 5000 children out of school after Boko Haram attacks
March 11, 2012 | Jihad Watch
'' Nigeria: Over 5,000 Children out of School,'' by Kimei Hilton Ndukong for AllAfrica, March 8 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Human Rights Watch says their schools...

Human Rights Watch: Violence against religious minorities in Indonesia'' surges''
January 25, 2012 | Jihad Watch
Wherever there arises a renewed interest in Sharia, the observable effect is that tolerance decreases and harassment increases, and violent persecution often results with the aim...

Human Rights Watch: Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges...
July 11, 2011 | reddit.com: what's new online

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