Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the Sudanese security forces’ crackdown following the incursion into Khartoum, by an armed group. The crackdown has been characterized by serious human rights violations including hundreds of arbitrary arrests, cases of ill-treatment, as well as extra-judicial executions. These violations have mostly been targeted at Darfuris.
On Saturday 10 May 2008, [...]

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Government Should Protect Victims to Ensure Justice
The government should ensure that victims of xenophobic violence remain in South Africa to participate in bringing their attackers to justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Failure to Punish Those Responsible for Attacks and Killings Fuels Impunity
The government’s failure to bring to justice armed groups and security forces responsible for a string of recent violent acts in Nepal does nothing to prevent further bloodshed, Human Rights Watch said today. After a decade of armed conflict in which both Maoists and [...]

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Suspension Undercuts Credibility of ASEAN Initiative on Burma Cyclone. The Cambodian government should stop protecting Burma’s junta from foreign press scrutiny by lifting the ban on copies of the , a new English-language insert in the newspaper, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Government Seeks to Avoid Scrutiny Before Elections. As a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Angola should reconsider its March 2008 order that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Angola cease activities by the end of May 2008, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momesori, a Protestant pastor and member of an ethnic group native to Bioko Island, has been detained since October 2003 without charge or trial. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience, arrested solely for his peaceful political opinions and because of his ethnic origin.
Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momesori, in his mid-50s, married [...]

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A Latvian organization for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, called Mozaika, is planning to hold a Gay Pride event in the centre of Latvia’s capital, Riga on 31 May.
When similar events were organized in 2005 and 2006, they were either banned or inadequately protected against attacks from homophobic counter-protestors.
In 2007, [...]

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Threat to US Humanitarian Aid Overblown
The US government is trying to win dangerous loopholes in a new treaty on cluster munitions even though it is not participating in the international conference to hammer out a final text, Human Rights Watch said today.
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EU Should Insist on Reforms to Counter Persisting Inequality and Abuses
Turkey should urgently change law and policy to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from extensive harassment and brutality on the streets, in homes, and in state-run institutions, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Human Rights Watch also called [...]

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Investigate Whether Mikael Danielian Was Targeted for His Human Rights Work
As part of their investigation into yesterday’s assault of a leading human rights defender, the Armenian authorities should investigate the extent to which the victim’s human rights work was a motive for the attack, Human Rights Watch said today. Mikael Danielian, the Chairman of the [...]

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