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The Colombian government says that all paramilitary groups in the country demobilized between 2003 and 2006, and that they no longer exist. But a two-year investigation by Human Rights Watch has found that successors to the paramilitaries continue their criminal activities and abuses.
Despite the serious and growing threat these groups pose to Colombian citizens, the government has yet to make a serious effort to take them apart and protect civilians. Only four prosecutors are assigned to investigate the groups, and in many regions civilians reported that public security forces appeared to tolerate the groups. Read more… Listen to the stories of a lawyer, doctor and journalist living under threat in Colombia Photo: A woman cries as she speaks of her fear that her ex-boyfriend will kill their children. © 2008 Stephen Ferry For more than a decade, Jordan has arbitrarily stripped its nationality from thousands of its citizens of Palestinian origins, rendering them stateless. No longer considered citizens, people have difficulty obtaining health care, finding work, owning property and sending their children to public schools and universities.
Jordan claims it’s acting to forestall supposed Israeli designs to colonize the West Bank and maintaining Palestinians’ right to live there. However, Jordan is playing politics with the lives and rights of its citizens. Read more eyewitness testimony… Photo: Palestinians wait at the Allenby bridge between Jordan and the West Bank. |
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Good News New York University has raised the bar for treatment of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates by announcing that it will contractually protect laborers on its Abu Dhabi campus on Saadiyat Island. The new provisions will bar employers from confiscating workers’ passports and require employers to reimburse workers’ employment-related fees. After documenting the wide-spread abuse of the island’s migrant laborers, Human Rights Watch worked for months with student groups, faculty, and alumni, applying pressure to the university and its president to stand up for their workers’ rights. While more needs to be done, the university’s commitment to fair labor practices should set a standard for other companies and institutions to follow. Read More Most Popular Headlines Hamas can spin the story and deny the evidence, but hundreds of rockets rained down on civilian areas in Israel where no military installations were located. Hamas leaders at the time indicated they were intending to harm civilians.
Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010.
On New Year’s Eve, a young British woman of Pakistani descent was allegedly raped by a hotel worker while vacationing with her fiancé. Instead of seriously investigating the rape, which carries a harsh sentence under local law, the police charged the woman and her fiancé with drinking alcohol and having illegal sex. They spent a night in jail and were then released on bail.
Women in need of abortion services should, as a matter of international law and – frankly – human decency, be able to count on support from their government as they face a difficult situation. But in Ireland they are actively stonewalled, stigmatized, and written out.
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The email came to Human Rights Watch anonymously, late one night.
“I am a gay, working in Saudi Arabia … last night me and my friends were in the shopping mall and suddenly the Saudi police attack us and arrested my friend Mu’ayyad and I managed to run away…” From our office in New York, we spent days trying to find a Saudi lawyer for this man. By Tiseke Kasambala, Published in: Independent World Report
Few outsiders have penetrated the closely guarded diamond fields in Marange. But, Human Rights Watch travelled regularly to the area in 2009 and interviewed more than hundred victims and witnesses of horrific human rights abuses.
President al-Bashir is a fugitive from justice who needs to appear in The Hague to answer to the allegations against him.
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