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Video: Anti-LGBT Crackdown in Indonesia Fuels Health Crisis

Indonesian authorities are fueling an HIV epidemic through complicity in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The government’s failure to halt arbitrary and unlawful raids by police and militant Islamists on…
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Video: LGBT Indonesians Threatened by Government Officials

Indonesian government officials have made a series of anti-LGBT comments, resulting in proposals of laws which pose a serious threat to the rights and safety of LGBT Indonesians. Human Rights Watch conducted 70 interviews with Indonesian sexual…
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Indonesia: HRW and KontraS Press Conference

At a press conference in Jakarta on April 13, 2016, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth and KontraS Coordinator Haris Azhar discuss joint efforts to advocate for the Indonesian government to establish a meaningful truth and reconciliation…
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Sudan: Special Force Rampages and Rapes in Darfur Villages

(Nairobi, September 2, 2015) – A Sudanese government special force has gone on two sprees of killings and mass rape of civilians in dozens of Darfur villages and towns since October 2014, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government…
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Sudan: Satellite Images Confirm Villages Destroyed

ICC Suspect Involved In Attacks Remains At-Large

(Nairobi) – Satellite images confirm the wholesale destruction of villages in Central Darfur in an attack in April 2013 by a militia leader sought by the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch said today. The images show the town of Abu…
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From Campaigning to Action on Joseph Kony and the LRA

In the past week, a 30-minute video about Joseph Kony and his rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has received more than 90 million internet hits. Viewers of the video now know, if they didn’t before, that he is a wanted man with much blood on…
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How to Catch Joseph Kony

As more than 50 million viewers on YouTube of the Kony 2012 viral video now know, Joseph Kony, founder and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is a wanted man with the blood of many people on his hands. We’ve spent years investigating the horrors…
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US: Act to End Lord’s Resistance Army Violence in Central Africa

(Washington, DC) - President Barack Obama should move swiftly to implement landmark legislation he signed today committing the US to help civilians in central Africa threatened by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a coalition of 49 human rights,…
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Bashir Indictment: War Crimes in Darfur

Move to Seek Arrest of Sudanese President a Victory for Darfurs Victims The International Criminal Court's (ICC) issuance of an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan signals that even those at the top may be held to account for…
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Darfur Documents Confirm Government Policy of Militia Support

Numerous reports from Human Rights Watch and other sources have described the “hand-in-glove” manner in which the Government of Sudan and the nomadic ethnic militias known as the Janjaweed have operated together to combat a rebel insurgency in Darfur.…

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