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Egypt: Drop Charges Against Human Rights Defenders

The Egyptian authorities should immediately drop the apparently politically motivated charges against two leading human rights defenders and a blogger, Human Rights Watch said today.
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DOW CANNOT RUN FROM THE LEGACY OF BHOPAL BY SPONSORING 'RUN FOR WATER' EVENTS

16 April 2010 The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) cannot run from its responsibility for the ongoing impacts of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak by sponsoring Live ...
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Iraq: Detainees Describe Torture in Secret Jail

(Baghdad) - Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights ...
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Yemen child bride 'bleeds to death'

A 13-year-old Yemeni girl has died of internal bleeding three days after being married, rights groups say....
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Egypt: Brutal Treatment of Peaceful Protesters

Security officials should immediately free the at least 91 peaceful protesters arrested today and investigate the violence used against them, Human Rights Watch said.  At the ...
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Saudi Arabia: Free Advocate for Shia Rights

(New York) - Saudi Arabia's domestic intelligence service should immediately release Munir Jassas, an advocate for Shia rights, who has been detained without charge for ...
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Hillary Clinton warns Israel faces 'difficult' choices

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Israel to make "difficult but necessary choices" if it wants a peace agreement with the Palestinians....
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Egypt: Open All Judicial Positions to Women

The Egyptian government should act to end discrimination against women in judicial positions in all courts, Human Rights Watch said today.  The Special Council, a governing ...
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EGYPT MUST HALT EXECUTION OF MAN ACCUSED OF MURDER

Amnesty International has made an urgent personal appeal to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to prevent the execution of a man who is believed to have ...
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TUNISIAN GOVERNMENT MUST END HARASSMENT OF FORMER POLITICAL PRISONERS

Amnesty International has called on the Tunisian President to end the daily harassment of former political prisoners ahead of the country's national independence day on ...
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