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India: All Sides Using Children in Chhattisgarh Conflict
Rehabilitate Children in Armed Groups
Indian security forces and Naxalite rebels should immediately end the use of children in the conflict in Chhattisgarh state in central India, Human Rights Watch said today. Using children under age 18 in armed operations places them at risk of injury and death and violates international law.
September 5, 2008    Press Release
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China: As Paralympics Launch, Disabled Face Discrimination
Hiring Bias, Harassment of Disabled Organizations Undermine Laws
Despite recent positive steps, discrimination against persons with disabilities continues in China and organizations for the disabled face government pressure and harassment, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of the September 6 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
September 4, 2008    Press Release
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India: World Leaders Urged to Condemn Violence in Orissa
In a letter, Human Rights Watch, Christian Solidarity Worldwide and the Dalit Freedom Network appealed to world leaders to immediately call for an end to the sectarian violence in Orissa state, in eastern India. The letter has been sent to the European Commissioner for External Relations, the French Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, the UK Foreign Secretary, and the US Secretary of State.
August 28, 2008    Letter
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Afghanistan: Free Aafia Siddiqui’s 11-Year-Old Son
Child Is Too Young to Be Treated as Criminal Suspect
The Afghan government should immediately relinquish 11-year-old Ahmed Siddiqui to the custody of his family, Human Rights Watch said today. Siddiqui, a US citizen, is believed to be the son of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman held on US federal charges in New York.
August 27, 2008    Press Release
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Lebanon: Migrant Domestic Workers Dying Every Week
Most Deaths From Suicides or in Botched Escapes
The high death toll of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, from unnatural causes, shows the urgent need to improve their working conditions, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the official steering committee tasked with improving the situation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon to investigate the root causes of these deaths and develop a concrete national strategy to reduce them.
August 25, 2008    Press Release
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China: Hosting Olympics a Catalyst for Human Rights Abuses
IOC and World Leaders Fail to Challenge Great Leap Backward for Rights in China
The hosting of the 2008 Beijing Olympics has set back the clock for the respect of human rights in the People’s Republic of China, Human Rights Watch said ahead of the Games’ closing ceremony in Beijing on Sunday, August 24. Over the past year Human Rights Watch has monitored and documented extensive human rights violations directly linked to the preparation and the hosting of the Games.
August 22, 2008    Press Release
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Mongolia: Protect Rights of North Korean Migrant Workers
The Mongolian government should protect the human and labor rights of North Koreans coming to Mongolia to work, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Mongolia’s minister of social welfare and labor.
August 20, 2008    Press Release
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Letter to Mongolian Ministers to Protect Labor Rights of North Koreans
North Korea’s economy has been in shambles for years, and it continues to suffer from serious and widespread food shortages. An opportunity to work overseas is hugely attractive to many North Korean workers. We are not advocating for Mongolia to reject North Korean workers, but to ensure that human rights and labor rights of North Koreans are protected while working in Mongolia.
August 20, 2008    Letter
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American credibility on trial
Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?
By Jo Becker, children's rights advocacy director
Published in Salon.com
One of the youngest detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a 23-year-old Afghan named Mohammed Jawad, spent two days in a courtroom here last week as his defense lawyer argued that his case should never go to trial. The attorney, Maj. David Frakt, claimed that his client was repeatedly tortured and abused in U.S. custody, charges that were supported by the testimony of a senior U.S. Army criminal investigator.
August 20, 2008    Commentary
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The Kashmir tinderbox
By Meenakshi Ganguly, senior researcher on South Asia for Human Rights Watch
Published in New Statesman
Recent unrest in Kashmir has undermined peace prospects between nuclear powers. Meenakshi Ganguly looks at the suffering of Kashmiris caught in a cycle of violence
August 19, 2008    Commentary
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Getting Away With Murder
50 Years of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
This 16-page report describes how the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, or AFSPA, has become a tool of state abuse, oppression, and discrimination in India. The law grants the military wide powers to arrest without warrant, shoot-to-kill, and destroy property in so-called “disturbed areas.” It also protects military personnel responsible for serious crimes from prosecution, creating a pervasive culture of impunity.
August 18, 2008    Background Briefing

India: Repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act
50th Anniversary of Law Allowing Shoot-to-Kill, Other Serious Abuses
India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act has been used to violate fundamental freedoms for 50 years and should be repealed, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
August 18, 2008    Press Release
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China: Olympic Sponsors Ignore Human Rights Abuses
TOP Sponsors Should Back Introduction of a Permanent Olympic Rights Monitor
The major corporate sponsors of the Beijing Olympics have failed to uphold their own principles of corporate social responsibility, Human Rights Watch said today. Sponsors have failed to speak out – either individually or collectively – about human rights abuses linked to the Beijing Games, and should be prepared to support the establishment of a permanent body inside the International Olympic Committee to monitor rights abuses at future Olympics.
August 18, 2008    Press Release
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China: End Abuses of Media Freedom
IOC Should Investigate and Publicize Abuses
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should turn words into action and immediately establish a reporting mechanism for violations of media freedoms in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch and other groups have documented many violations of China’s promise to allow press freedom in exchange for hosting the Olympic Games.
August 14, 2008    Press Release
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India: Order Kashmir Forces to Use Restraint
Violent Protests Escalate in Jammu and Kashmir
The Indian government should order troops and police to refrain from using lethal force against violent protesters in Jammu and Kashmir unless absolutely necessary to protect life, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on political parties and groups leading the protests to end their dispute peacefully and do all they can to prevent acts of violence.
August 13, 2008    Press Release
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China: Police Detain Would-Be Olympic Protesters
Increasing Repression of Activists, Media Sources; No Protests Approved Yet
The Chinese government is detaining a rights activist who applied to demonstrate legally in designated “protest zones” established for the Beijing Olympics, Human Rights Watch said today.
August 12, 2008    Press Release
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Bangladesh: End Wave of Killings by Elite Forces
Donors Should Not Fund Rapid Action Battalion
The military-backed interim government should take prompt action to end a wave of unlawful killings by Bangladesh’s elite crime-fighting force, Human Rights Watch said today. Since June 1, 2008, officials from the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the police have killed at least 50 individuals under suspect circumstances.
August 11, 2008    Press Release
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Malaysia: Drop Political Charges Against Opposition Leader
Police Investigation of Anwar Ibrahim Lacks Credibility
The Malaysian government should immediately withdraw politically motivated charges against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, Human Rights Watch said today. Police served Anwar, who is running for office, with an order to appear in Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on August 7, 2008, under a colonial-era law that criminalizes homosexual conduct.
August 7, 2008    Press Release
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Sponsoring the Olympics Is Bad for Business
By Sophie Richardson
Published in The Huffington Post
Olympic sponsors have not only an opportunity but a duty to speak out about human rights abuses in China, since these abuses violate the Olympic Charter, the human rights pledges made by Beijing when bidding for the Games, and, most important, the principles upon which their own corporate social responsibility policies are built.
August 7, 2008    Commentary
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Burma: No Rights Reform 20 Years After Massacre
Olympics Open on Bloody Anniversary
Twenty years after the uprising in Burma, the military government continues to sharply restrict fundamental rights and violently suppress dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. The anniversary falls as the Olympic Games open in Beijing, while the Chinese government gives crucial support to Burma’s repressive regime.
August 7, 2008    Press Release
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