After the Storm
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Reports
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October 31, 2009
Greece: Unsafe and Unwelcoming Shores
Between August and September 2009, Human Rights Watch interviewed 16 migrants who had been arrested on Samos, Symi, and Chios Islands, and the port towns of Patras and Igoumenitsa. The Greek authorities transferred them to detention centers close to the land border with Turkey and held them in the border police stations of Soufli, Tichero, and Feres, as well as in the Venna and Fylakio-Kyprinou (Fylakio) detention facilities. Two detained migrants described to us how Greek police forcibly pushed them across the river into Turkey from where Turkish authorities sent them back to Afghanistan.
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October 29, 2009
Lost in Transit
Insufficient Protection for Unaccompanied Migrant Children at Roissy Charles de Gaulle AirportIn this 60-page report, Human Rights Watch concludes that France's system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children who arrive in Paris by air puts them at serious risk.
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October 28, 2009
Unbearable Pain
India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative CareThis 102-page report found that many major cancer hospitals in India do not provide patients with morphine, despite the fact that more than 70 percent of their patients are incurable and likely to require pain treatment and palliative care. Health centers offering services to people living with HIV similarly do not have morphine or doctors trained to prescribe it.
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October 20, 2009
"We Are Afraid to Even Look for Them"
Enforced Disappearances in the Wake of Xinjiang’s ProtestsThis 44-page report documents the enforced disappearances of 43 Uighur men and teenage boys who were detained by Chinese security forces in the wake of the protests.
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October 16, 2009
Still Waiting for Justice
No End to Impunity in NepalThis 47-page report calls for the government to investigate and prosecute those responsible for crimes committed during Nepal's armed conflict.
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October 7, 2009
Freedom to Create Associations
A Declarative Regime in Name OnlyThis 45-page report says that local representatives of the Interior Ministry often refuse to accept registration papers when a group's objectives or membership displeases the authorities. Moroccan law permits new associations to come into being simply by registering with local authorities, rather than by requiring prior authorization. The law obliges officials to accept the registration papers.
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October 7, 2009
No Tally of the Anguish
Accountability in Maternal Health Care in IndiaThis 150-page report documents repeated failures both in providing health care to pregnant women in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India and in taking steps to identify and address gaps in care.
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October 6, 2009
The Way Forward
Ending Human Rights Abuses and Repression across SudanThis 25-page report documents human rights violations and repression in Khartoum and northern states, ongoing violence in Darfur, and the fighting that threatens civilians in Southern Sudan. It is based on field research in eastern Chad and Southern Sudan in July and August.
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September 27, 2009
"Who Will Tell Me What Happened to My Son?"
Russia’s Implementation of European Court of Human Rights Judgments on ChechnyaThis 38-page report examines Russia's response to European Court judgments on cases from Chechnya. In almost all of the 115 rulings, the court concluded that Russia was responsible for extrajudicial executions, torture, and enforced disappearances, and that it had failed to investigate these crimes.
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September 23, 2009
Returned to Risk
Deportation of HIV-Positive MigrantsThis 27-page report was prepared by Human Rights Watch, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, the European AIDS Treatment Group, and the African HIV Policy Network.
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September 22, 2009
The Resistance of the Monks
Buddhism and Activism in BurmaThis 99-page report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained.
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September 21, 2009
Pushed Back, Pushed Around
Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Libya's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum SeekersThis 92-page report examines the treatment of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Libya through the eyes of those who have managed to leave and are now in Italy and Malta. It also documents Italy's practice of interdicting boats full of migrants on the high seas and pushing them back to Libya without the required screening.
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September 16, 2009
Burma's Forgotten Prisoners
The 35-page report showcases dozens of prominent political activists, Buddhist monks, labor activists, journalists, and artists arrested since peaceful political protests in 2007 and sentenced to draconian prison terms after unfair trials. The report was released on September 16, 2009 at a Capitol Hill news conference hosted by Senator Barbara Boxer.
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September 15, 2009
Burma's Forgotten Prisoners
Burma remains one of the most repressive and closed societies in the world. A shadowy clique of generals, who call themselves the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), have ruled the country in one incarnation or another since 1962.