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Rape: Not Just A “Girl Thing”
John Dwyer discusses why rape is not a gender issue and how society should not accept male rape.Here is what’s happening in our government:In 2001, the Human Rights Watch brought the prison rape...
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International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers
Let’s pause for a moment to think about the plight of the world’s 300,000 child soldiersToday is an important day if you care about the welfare of children. Advocates have named February 12...
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Somali Journalist Freed But Still Facing Charges
Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said that “due process must be observed in the administration of justice.”Daud Abdi Daud, a Somali journalist who was jailed without charges last week for...
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Human Rights Watch Report Blames Mexican Security Forces for almost 150...
Human Rights Watch claims the disappearances are, “The most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades.”In a new report published by Human Rights Watch yesterday the group...
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China Says It’s Ready to “Reform” Re-Education Camps
China’s re-education through labor camps have become the very thing they were originally designed to punish.The Chinese government announced last month that it was preparing to “reform” the country’s...
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NEWSER: ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ Charged in Cairo
Charged with “insulting Islam and President Morsi,” Bassem Youssef, also known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart, turned himself in to authorities for questioning this weekend. Youssef is just one of 5 activists...
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Saudi Web Activist Sentenced to 600 Lashes and 7 Years in Prison for Posting...
Raif Badawi was originally charged with apostasy, or abandonment of religion, which is a crime in Saudi Arabia that is punishable by the death penalty.Raif Badawi, of Saudi Arabia, has been in jail...
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Russia Cracks Down On Journalists and Activists Exposing Corruption Ahead Of...
A Human Rights Watch report details multiple Sochi-based journalists and news organizations who have faced intimidation or have been discouraged from covering corruption and spending issues around the...
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Why Do We Lock Our Children Away in Solitary Confinement?
Law Professor Tamar Birckhead on the cruel punishment we inflict on our incarcerated youth.“Being in isolation to me felt like I was on an island all alone[,] dying a slow death from the inside...
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Chinese Muslims Freed From Guantanamo Ten Years After Being Found Innocent
10 years after the US military realized they weren’t terrorists, these men are finally being granted their freedom.This post originally appeared at ThinkProgressBy Zack BeauchampThe last of 22...
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Human Rights Watch: Gay Men Beaten on Camera in Russia
More than once I’ve overheard someone say with annoyance, “Gay people are so loud about their rights.” This is why we all need to be. True equality never came quietly.—Associated with the video below...
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How Private Companies are Profiting from Threats to Jail the Poor
Human Rights Watch finds that these firms are subject to scant monitoring by local governments and courts, free to impose fees and fines in amounts that are not regulated by any government...
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While U.S. Expands Marriage Equality, Russia Hunts LGBT
Love wins when marriage equality is achieved in Washington DC, 2010Equal rights are human rights.We all suffer if some of us are discriminated against and denied equality, and we all win if all have...
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Negotiating for Cessation of Persecution of LGBT People in Iran
It’s no secret, the LGBT community faces adversity world-wide.___Now that the repressive regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has finally left the scene since he was ineligible to run again...
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Souls in a Cage: The Slow Decay of the Mentally Ill in Prison
Erin Kelly examines the recent treatment of prisoners with mental illness by the US police force.–––Human ability is a boundless marvel of life. It creates the possibility of opportunity, perhaps more...
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Powerful Historic and Present Attempts to Obliterate Reproductive Rights
Embed from Getty Images—Paul Krassner published The Realist (1958-2001), but when People magazine labeled him “father of the underground press,” he immediately demanded a paternity test. And when Life...
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Congo: The Most Dangerous Place in the World for Women
— On 21 May 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on a new round of mass killings and gross human rights abuses perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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