Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch

• Rights group: Eritrea forced workers to build mine

  The Eritrean government used forced labor to construct a gold mine it jointly owns with a Canadian company worth billions of dollars, an international ... 

• Somali journalist arrested after story on rape

  Police in Somalia have arrested a journalist who wrote a story about a woman who said she was raped by government security forces, prompting an outcry ... 

• Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali

  Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic extremist fighters have been burrowing into ... 

• Rights groups condemn crackdown on Venezuela TV

  Rights groups are condemning an order by Venezuela's broadcast agency for a television channel to stop showing clips that question the legality of ... 

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  Pakistani Shiites protest after attack kills 86

  Shiite Muslims hit by a twin bombing that killed 86 people refused to bury their dead Friday, demanding the Pakistani government do more to protect ... 

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  Bombings kill 115 people in Pakistan

  A series of bombings killed 115 people across Pakistan on Thursday, including 81 who died in twin blasts on a bustling billiards hall in a Shiite area ... 

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  Iranians freed in major prisoner swap in Syria

  Rebels freed 48 Iranians on Wednesday in exchange for more than 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, held by Syrian authorities — a deal ... 

• Rwanda gets new UN seat, but world standing falls

  Rwanda has been hailed for years as a beacon of peace and economic growth in its post-genocide period, and on Jan. 1 it took a prestigious seat on the ... 

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  AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali

  Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, ... 

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  Myanmar Muslims recall Buddhist assault

  Stranded beside their decrepit flotilla of wooden boats, on a muddy beach far from home, the Muslim refugees tell story after terrifying story of ... 

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  Group says Gaza Palestinians violated laws of war

  Gaza militants violated laws of war by launching hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians during last month's fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a ... 

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  Wounded presage health crisis for postwar Syria

  A baby boy joined the ranks of Syria's tens of thousands of war wounded when a missile fired by Bashar Assad's air force slammed into his family home ... 

• Group: Israel broke law by targeting media in Gaza

  Israeli army attacks on journalists and media facilities in the Gaza Strip during last month's military operation violated the laws of war, Human ...