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FILTER RESULTS ►Human Rights Watch: Syrian Government Practiced Torture
Interrogation rooms with wooden boards used to immobilize detainees, are among the evidence of torture Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered in Syria. Proof of torture -- that's what Human Rights Watch says they've uncovered in Syria. Show More Summary
Queer Talk: Homophobia, Transphobia and the “Hall of Shame”
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and also the day Human Rights Watch released their annual LGBT Rights: The 2013 ‘Hall of Shame’ list. The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia is recognized in over 100 nations. About the first, from Joe My God: First recognized in 2004, IDAHO commemorates the May [...]Show More Summary
Human Rights Watch: Syria: Visit Reveals Torture Chambers
(New York) – Government security branches in Raqqa city hold documents and potential physical evidence indicating that detainees were arbitrarily detained and tortured there while...
Human Rights Watch Names 2013 "Hall Of Shame" Anti-Gay Villains
To mark today's International Day Against Homophobia, Human Rights Watch has posted its top four global villains in the battle for LGBT rights. Among those named is Pat Robertson's ACLJ, which has been exporting anti-gay hate across the globe. Show More Summary
Report: Torture Evidence Found in Syrian Prisons
(BEIRUT) — Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under the control of the opposition, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. Show More Summary
Human Rights Watch advocate Cynthia Brown dead at 60
(Reuters) - Cynthia Brown, who played a key role for Human Rights Watch for almost two decades, has died after a battle with cancer, the global advocacy group said. She was 60 years old.
WATCH: United Nations Poses a Riddle to End Homophobia
The U.N.'s Office of Human Rights has a message for LGBT people around the world. read more
Human Rights Watch: Burma: Cyclone Threatens Displaced Muslims
(Bangkok) - Burma’s government should take immediate action to evacuate to higher ground tens of thousands of Muslims displaced last year by ethnic cleansing in Arakan...
Syria 'rebel heart-eating video' condemned...But our government's stay silent!
Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it."International news agencies and social...Show More Summary
Accused Sex Workers Beaten by Police in China, Report Says
Human Rights Watch says China's crackdown on prostitution has led to police abuse of accused sex workers.
Syria video ‘appears to show rebel mutilating corpse’, says Human Rights Watch
• Syrian National Coalition condemns act 'if true'• Assad government sceptical about peace conference• US working with UK to strengthen opposition – Obama Paul Owen
IRGC Mandated Grieving Families to Watch Forced Confessions
The Kurdistan Province IRGC Intelligence Unit has twice summoned the family members of slain members of Kurdish political parties in the past few months, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. During the meetings, the families have had to watch videotapes of confessions of Kurdish political prisoners.
Watch The Humans To Mars Summit Live Stream Right Here
This week Explore Mars, Inc. has been hosting the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington D.C. and you can watch the final day of the event live right here. Agencies from around the world have come together to discuss what it would takeShow More Summary
Iraq pressured to step up raid probe
Human Rights Watch calls for greater financial and political backing in government investigation into Hawija raid.
HRW: Tit-for-Tat Lebanon Border Kidnappings
The Lebanese government has failed to take adequate measures to protect against, deter, and punish retaliatory kidnappings along sectarian lines in border regions. Human Rights Watch interviewed both victims and family members who carried...Show More Summary
Sex-offender Registries: Should Kids Be Listed?
(NEW YORK) — Government authorities should end the practice of placing juveniles’ names on publicly accessible sex-offender registries, Human Rights Watch says in a report warning of lasting and unwarranted harm to some youths. SomeShow More Summary
Human Rights Organizations Honor Avowed Anti-Semite
The anti-Semitism from “Human Rights” organizations continues unabated. Ten of them, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have nominated Egyptian activist Mona Seif for this year’s Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. Show More Summary
News in Asia
This edition of News in Asia concentrates on Afghanistan, but includes news from other countries, too. Human Rights Watch has called on the Afghani government to force provincial police departments to build separate, lockable toilets...Show More Summary
Impartial Justice Wanted in Côte d'Ivoire
Human Rights Watch reports that there is still work to do to achieve impartial justice in the post-2010-11 elections crisis in Côte d'Ivoire: The ICC’s one-sided approach has legitimized the same approach by Ivorian judicial authorities and undermined perceptions of the ICC’s impartiality. Written by Rakotomalala · comments (0)...
A Human Rights and LGBT Equality Music Festival for Montana? - VIDEO
Tate Chamberlin is hoping to create a place of pride for Montana's LGBT community with a human rights, equality, and music festival called Interchange, which he's trying to fund through an Indiegogo campaign. Watch his video, AFTER THE JUMP... He...
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