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...answer that prevailed for all of these years is 'iron fist,'" said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for Human Rights Watch. "By 'iron fist' people mean increasing penalties, making it more difficult for prisoners to get out of prison...

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...of the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch, said Martelly had made clear...his decision.Groups such as Human Rights Watch, however, argue that the statute...were "severely tortured." Human Rights Watch documented that more than 100...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-02-10
Seize the deal

...continued positive change. That's why the U.S.-China agreement has been endorsed by such advocates for reform as Human Rights Watch, Hong Kong activist Martin Lee and Chinese dissident Ren Wanding. Congress should join those favoring reform by...

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Opinion
Victims, known and unknown

...When he objected to the looting, soldiers stabbed him, shot him, poured gasoline on him and set him on fire. Human Rights Watch has documented, also by interviewing survivors, similar looting and atrocities in other towns and villages. Measured...

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Opinion
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...According to a new study by Human Rights Watch, adult black males in Minnesota...nationwide disparity, which Human Rights Watch terms ''a national scandal...vows to examine the causes. Human Rights Watch attributes the disparities largely...

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Opinion
Seven nations labeled oppressors of faith

...administration doesn't want to offend the allies through excessive truth telling," said Tom Malinowski, an official at Human Rights Watch. "The ironic thing is that getting too close to countries that crush religious freedom may be more damaging than...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/110201/chu_1102010033.shtml
Church
Group: World leaders use fear of terrorism to spike dissent

...cracking down on opposition groups and silencing dissent, a human rights group said Wednesday. A report by the Human Rights Watch said some governments have "latched on to the United States' anti-terror campaign." It said the chief offenders...

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News
They died for lack of a head scarf

...terrorist network. Where are the international outcries over the mutawwai'in's treatment of women in Saudi Arabia? Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both demanded investigations into the mutawwai'in's reported hampering of rescue...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/031902/opi_0319020003.shtml
Opinion
OTHER OPINIONS

...standing ovation. No one was rude enough to mention the dissidents rotting away in China's labor camps, just as when Human Rights Watch tried recently to enlist American Internet companies to come to the aid of Huang Qi, not a single firm stepped forward...

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Opinion
To go public or guard privacy after a rape: A wrenching choice

...most powerful way to strip away the stigma of being raped," said Widney Brown, a women's rights expert with Human Rights Watch. Yet Brown also cautioned that women shouldn't have to make a quick choice about going public because "there...

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