‘The Stuff of Life’ exposes the reality of the ‘waterboarding’ torture technique. The CIA uses waterboarding to try to extract information from detainees in the ‘war on terror’. President George Bush thinks it is a ‘necessary tool’. We think it’s torture and as such an abuse of human rights.

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Security Forces Raid Opposition Headquarters
President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and state security forces have sharply intensified a campaign of organized terror and torture against opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed riot police raided the Harare headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on April 25, 2008 and arbitrarily [...]

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All shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk that it may lead to increased human rights violations in Zimbabwe, said Amnesty International.
“The international community must not supply small arms to Zimbabwe until state sponsored violence has ceased and [...]

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Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on a Mogadishu mosque on Saturday. Twenty-one people were killed in the attack, which Amnesty International has said may constitute a war crime.
Eleven of the twenty-one dead were killed inside the mosque, including the [...]

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Government Should Automatically Stop Deportation Proceedings on Appeal
The European Court of Human Rights decision to order France to suspend the deportation of an Algerian is a reminder that France’s expulsion policy may put people in harms way, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 23, 2008, the court ordered France to halt Kamel Daoudi’s deportation [...]

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Maintain Leverage Provided by Sanctions
The European Union should maintain its sanctions regime on Uzbekistan until Tashkent delivers on key human rights demands, Human Rights Watch said today.
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President Lee Should Press Beijing to Stop Deporting North Korean Refugees
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak should use the occasion of the Olympic torch’s passage in Seoul on April 27 to urge Beijing to stop arresting and repatriating North Korean refugees in China, Human Rights Watch said today. The torch relay, which up to now has [...]

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Sudan Should Arrest War Crimes Suspects Now
One year after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two war crimes suspects in Darfur, human rights organizations around the world are launching a Justice for Darfur campaign, calling for the two to be arrested.
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Three Writers Awarded Hellman/Hammett Grants
Three Azerbaijani writers have been recognized for persevering in their work despite political persecution and imprisonment, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Government Should Protect Ahmadis, not Persecute Them
The Indonesian government should reject proposals to ban the minority Ahmadiyah faith and not align itself with the extremists who have fomented violence against them, Human Rights Watch said today.
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