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Libya: Report Sparks Investigation into Women’s Detention

Mar 1, 2006
Singapore: Government Begins to Address Domestic Worker Abuse

Mar 1, 2006
United States: U.N. Confirms Abuses at Guantánamo

Mar 1, 2006
Morocco: Government Vows to Stop Child Domestic Labor

Feb 1, 2006
African Union Summit Rejects Sudan Presidency

Feb 1, 2006
Egypt: Government Frees Detained Sudanese Refugees

Feb 1, 2006
Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo

Jul 31, 2002

Forces on all sides in the Congo conflict have committed war crimes against women and girls. HRW's report, "The War Within The War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo," documents the frequent and sometimes systematic use of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Rwandan-occupied areas of eastern Congo.
Milosevic Transferred to War Crimes Tribunal

Jul 1, 2001

On June 28, Serbian authorities transferred Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to The Hague to stand trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Human Rights Watch played a pivotal role in gathering evidence of atrocities committed in the Balkans during Milosevic's thirteen-year rule, and in bringing international pressure to indict, arrest and try those most culpable for these horrendous crimes.