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Editorial: State must grapple with aging prisoners
February 01, 2012

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

HRW denuncia impunidad de militares mexicanos
January 23, 2012 | El Diario

HRW urges support for democracies after Arab Spring
January 22, 2012 | Agence France-Presse

Human Rights Watch Wikipedia Information

Human Rights Watch is a United States-based international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters is in New York City.

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Human Rights Watch: Egypt Should Dismantle Tools of Repression
January 16, 2012
NEW YORK, NY, Jan. 16, 2012 - Egypt's newly elected parliament should urgently reform the arsenal of laws used by the Mubarak government to restrict freedoms,...

Human Rights Watch: Egypt Should Prosecute Sexual Assaults on Protesters
December 21, 2011
BEIRUT, Dec. 21, 2011 - There is an escalating pattern of physical attacks by Egyptian military and police officers against women and male protesters,...

Human Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Vaclav Havel
December 18, 2011
Dec. 18, 2011 - Human Rights Watch is deeply saddened by the death of Vaclav Havel, the playwright, political dissident and former Czech president who died on...

Human Rights Watch: President Should Veto Detainee Bill
December 02, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 1, 2011 - US President Barack Obama should hold firm on his promise to veto a bill passed by the Senate on December 1, 2011, which contains...

Human Rights Watch: Investigate Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture
July 12, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 11, 2011 - Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama ...

UN Human Rights Council: Weak Stance on Business Standards
June 17, 2011
GENEVA, June 16, 2011 - The UN Human Rights Council squandered an opportunity to take meaningful action to curtail business-related human rights abuses, Human...

From around the web

SocialFlow Increases Social Media Clicks By Up To 60% - at A Cost
February 07, 2012 | Read/WriteWeb
SocialFlow, a service currently being used by the Economist, the New York Public Library, Pepsi and Human Rights Watch to manage social media campaigns, exited its beta and...

Prison dilemma: surging numbers of older inmates
January 27, 2012 | indystar.com
Friday by Human Rights Watch ... '' Prisons were never designed to be geriatric facilities,'' said Jamie Fellner, a Human Rights Watch special adviser who wrote the report.'' Yet...

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...

Older Prisoners Mean Rising Health Costs, Study Finds
January 26, 2012 | New York Times
More Americans older than 55 are being imprisoned, and many prisons are unprepared to provide them with health care, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. ...

Yemen's Parliament Approves Immunity for President
January 21, 2012 | New York Times
The law granting Ali Abdullah Saleh, the departing president, freedom from prosecution was criticized by Human Rights Watch and antigovernment activists. ...

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...

Human Rights Watch on twitter

	Human Rights Watch: Iraq: 65 Executions in First 40 Days of 2012 http://t.co/Q6Msulfu #Iraq Twitter: @IraqMonitor
	Harper's new BFFs: World Report 2012: China \| Human Rights Watch http://t.co/FopLaLf9 #cdnpoli Twitter: @trapdinawrpool
	#CanadianQuestion Should Canada support Human Rights Watch and hunger striker, held without charge? http://t.co/BBfesw4r Twitter: @alicebmcgregor
	RT @davidtpegg: Convincing 97%-of-vote victory by ruler of country with not-at-all crummy Human Rights Watch rating http://t.co/RD5kcLOT Twitter: @missbeckywilkie
	Convincing 97%-of-vote victory by ruler of country with not-at-all crummy Human Rights Watch rating http://t.co/RD5kcLOT Twitter: @davidtpegg
	Children deported to Kabul will face 'horrible risks' \| Human Rights Watch http://t.co/lTC9ME7A #wewantfreedom Twitter: @J_illin

YouTube Videos

Debate on Human Rights Watch's Call For Bush Admin Officials Be Tried For Torture 1 of 2
July 12, 2011

Human Rights Watch interview
April 15, 2011

Lead poisoning:Human Rights Watch calls for FG's intervention
February 10, 2012

Human Rights Watch Books

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild, $5.73

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Robert J. C. Young, $5.99

The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East (Saban Center at the Brookings Institution Books)
Kenneth M. Pollack, $16.00

After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts
John R. Bradley, $10.95

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
Jasbir Puar, $17.16

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