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2013/06/19 18:50
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone's capital city, according to United Nations...
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2013/06/19 18:21
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United Nations experts say a notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone's capital city. A Sierra Leone police...
2013/06/19 17:49
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SAO PAULO (AP) — About 50,000 protesters energetically returned to the streets of Brazil's biggest city Tuesday night, a demonstration of anger toward what they call a corrupt and inefficient...
2013/06/19 16:26
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As the LGBT rights movement moved to the clear forefront of the mainstream civil rights discussion in the United States, numerous media organizations were quick to reduce it to a loaded question: "Is...
2013/06/19 10:38
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Sri Lankan media code threatens free speech New York, June 19 : A new media code proposed by the Sri Lankan government contains overbroad and vague language that could have a severe and chilling...
2013/06/19 10:20
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Anew law in Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years. The law, which was “guaranteed” to save lives, was not the work...
2013/06/19 10:08
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - An international rights group says a media code proposed by Sri Lanka's government could have a severe and chilling effect on free speech in the country. The New York-based...
2013/06/19 09:30
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Kampala — Sexual minorities, sex workers and people who use drugs who are at a higher risk of HIV than the general population, but in Tanzania, they face widespread police abuse and discrimination in...
2013/06/19 08:40
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An alliance to defend activists in Southern Tagalog who presently face political persecution was launched November 22. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Human Rights Watch Dana, a petite 12-year-old girl,...
2013/06/19 08:29
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Nairobi — Satellite images confirm the wholesale destruction of villages in Central Darfur in an attack in April 2013 by a militia leader sought by the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch...
2013/06/19 08:29
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Thank you Chairman Coons, Ranking Member Flake, and other members of the committee for providing Human Rights Watch the opportunity to testify at this hearing on Zimbabwe. I would like to request that...
2013/06/19 06:47
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In eight months in Tucson, I have learned much about the humanitarian crisis at our border. There are stories told in Utah, but distance is a balm. Utahns hear of deaths in the desert, detentions...
2013/06/19 06:44
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KUWAIT CITY, June 18, (AFP): Authorities in Kuwait on Tuesday hanged a 33-year-old Egyptian man dubbed a “monster” for the abduction and rape of 17 children under the age of 10, the public prosecution...
2013/06/19 06:03
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The attack, in a region that is a stronghold of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, happened on Monday in the Jajeri suburb of the city, they said. Mohammed Saleh, a relative of one of the deceased...
2013/06/19 04:40
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Victims of human rights abuses decried Malacanang’s pronouncement that it is considering appointing retired Army General Jovito Palparan Jr. to sit in the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB). HUMAN RIGHTS...
2013/06/19 02:53
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Western arms for Syrian rebels could end up in Europe: Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to reporters at the end of the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 18, 2013. Russian...
2013/06/19 01:40
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Since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed power in January 2001, 196 Filipinos have become victims of enforced disappearances or politically-motivated abductions. Human Rights Watch Vol. VII,...
2013/06/18 21:12
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The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled...
2013/06/18 20:59
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (KALB News Channel 5) ACLU of Louisiana and Southern Poverty Law Center will sponsor free screening of "Herman's House". The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana and...
2013/06/18 20:44
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, June 17, 2013. A day earlier, riot police cordoned off streets, set up roadblocks and fired tear gas and...