After the Storm
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Reports
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September 22, 2011
Ten Long Years
A Briefing on Eritrea’s Missing Political PrisonersIn September 2001, President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea ordered the detention of 21 senior government members and journalists who criticized him and his government. Since then, Isaias has closed all independent media outlets and turned Eritrea into a country where arbitrary arrest, torture, disappearance, and death are rife and where it is almost impossible to leave.
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September 22, 2011
Keeping the Momentum
One Year in the Life of the UN Human Rights CouncilThe 69-page report examines the Council's work from July 2010 through June 2011, and describes some notable progress by the Council in its fifth year.
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September 21, 2011
The EU’s Dirty Hands
Frontex Involvement in Ill-Treatment of Migrant Detainees in GreeceThis report assesses Frontex’s role in and responsibility for exposing migrants to inhuman and degrading detention conditions during four months beginning late in 2010 when its first rapid border intervention team (RABIT) was apprehending migrants and taking them to police stations and migrant detention centers in Greece’s Evros region.
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September 15, 2011
Unfinished Business
Closing Gaps in the Selection of ICC CasesThis 50-page report assesses the Office of the Prosecutor’s choice of cases in its first five investigations. Investigations in Central African Republic, Sudan’s Darfur region, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and northern Uganda have yielded 10 cases and three trials, making an important contribution to tackling impunity for some of the world’s worst crimes.
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September 13, 2011
Controlling Bodies, Denying Identities
Human Rights Violations against Trans People in the NetherlandsThis report documents the impact of a 1985 law, article 28 of the civil code, on the daily life of transgender people. The requirements violate transgender people’s rights to personal autonomy and physical integrity and deny them the ability to define their own gender identity.
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September 12, 2011
“Just Don’t Call It a Militia”
Impunity, Militias, and the “Afghan Local Police”This report documents serious abuses, such as killings, rape, arbitrary detention, abductions, forcible land grabs, and illegal raids by irregular armed groups in northern Kunduz province and the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force in Baghlan, Herat, and Uruzgan provinces.
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September 7, 2011
The Rehab Archipelago
Forced Labor and Other Abuses in Drug Detention Centers in Southern VietnamThe 121-page report documents the experiences of people confined to 14 detention centers under the authority of the Ho Chi Minh City government. Refusing to work, or violating center rules, results in punishment that in some cases is torture.
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August 25, 2011
Corruption on Trial?
The Record of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes CommissionThis 65-page report analyzes the record of the commission, Nigeria’s most important anti-corruption agency. Since the commission was established in December 2002, it has publicly challenged the longtime ironclad impunity of Nigeria’s political elite – an accomplishment without precedent in Nigeria.
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August 24, 2011
Futures Stolen
Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in NepalThis 76-page report documents the hurdles that children with disabilities face in obtaining a quality education in Nepal. Some children with disabilities experience abuse and neglect at home and in their communities, making it harder for them to gain access to schooling.
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August 23, 2011
Ripe with Abuse
Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine IndustriesThis report documents conditions that include on-site housing that is unfit for living, exposure to pesticides without proper safety equipment, lack of access to toilets or drinking water while working, and efforts to block workers from forming unions.
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August 19, 2011
“Nobody Remembers Us”
Failure to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Right to Health and Security in Post-Earthquake HaitiThis documents the lack of access to reproductive and maternal care in post-earthquake Haiti, even with unprecedented availability of free healthcare services. The report also describes how hunger has led women to trade sex for food and how poor camp conditions exacerbate the impact of sexual violence because of difficulties accessing post-rape care.
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August 14, 2011
“You Don’t Know Who to Blame”
War Crimes in SomaliaThis report documents numerous abuses during renewed fighting in the past year by parties to the 20-year-long conflict in Somalia. These include the Islamist armed group al-Shabaab, the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the African Union peacekeeping forces (AMISOM), and Kenya- and Ethiopia-backed Somali militias.
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August 8, 2011
“Stop Making Excuses”
Accountability for Maternal Health Care in South AfricaThis report documents maternity care failures that include abuse of maternity patients by health workers and substandard care in Eastern Cape Province, putting women and their newborns at high risk of death or injury. It examines shortcomings in the tools used by health authorities to identify and correct health system failures that contribute to poor maternal health.
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July 28, 2011
“We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years”
Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in BalochistanThe 132-page report documents dozens of enforced disappearances, in which the authorities take people into custody and then deny all responsibility or knowledge of their fate or whereabouts. The report details 45 alleged cases of enforced disappearances, the majority in 2009 and 2010.
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July 27, 2011
Righting Military Injustice
Addressing Uganda’s Unlawful Prosecutions of Civilians in Military CourtsThis report documents the pattern of trials of civilians before military courts, the ways in which such trials violate international legal principles, and the steps Uganda should take to address these fair-trial violations. Since 2002, military courts in Uganda have prosecuted over 1,000 civilians on charges under the criminal code, such as murder and armed robbery.
