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Colombia: Veto Could Undermine Accountability
Colombian President Iván Duque’s partial veto of a transitional justice bill could undermine and delay progress toward justice for wartime atrocities
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Colombia: New Army Commanders Linked to Killings
The Colombian government has appointed at least nine officers credibly implicated in extrajudicial executions and other abuses to key positions of the army
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“A Difficult Year in Turkey”? You’re tellin’ me…
International Observatory of Human Rights have added to the long list of the country’s human rights violations in their recent 2018 in Review: Human Rights Violations in Turkey
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North Korea: Sexual Violence Against Women by Officials
Impunity for Assault and Rape by Men in Power
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Iran’s Judiciary Threatens Executions for Economic ‘Crimes’
Following the execution of 3 Kurdish activists by Iran on Saturday 8th, here is Human Rights Watch’s August 10 look at the regime’s increasing dependence on the death penalty to address issues within Iranian society
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Burmese Military Murder Campaign INDICTED!
August 25, marked the first anniversary of the most recent assault by the Burmese military (the Tatmadaw), against the Rohingya people as well as other ethnic minorities in northern Myanmar
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China…29 years after Tiananmen. Who are China’s political prisoners?
A human rights assessment, 29 years after Tiananmen
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AFRIN: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH QUESTIONS TURKEY ON CIVILIAN DEATHS
Turkish Armed Forces appear to have failed to take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in three attacks in northwest Syria in late January 2018, Human Rights Watch said today
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PAIN MANAGEMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT – BUT NOT FOR ALL
56 years ago, in 1961, an international treaty, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs “obligated countries to work towards universal access to the narcotic drugs necessary to alleviate pain and suffering
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Saudi Arabia: Elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Post Views: 155 “Dozens of Saudi women have told Human Rights Watch that the male guardianship system is the most significant impediment to realizing women’s rights in the country, effectively leaving adult women legal minors who cannot make key decisions
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