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| Pakistan ends five-year unofficial moratorium on executions
2013-08-19 11:54:45 -- Human Rights Watch: Don’t Resume Executions, Renew Death Penalty Moratorium, Then Abolish Capital Punishment
(New York) August 16, 2013 – Pakistan’s gove .... | |
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| Egypt: Non-peaceful assembly does not justify collective punishment
2013-08-16 12:54:44 -- Rights groups condemn lethal violence against those in sit-in and terrorist acts of the Muslim Brotherhood Joint Press Release 15th of August 2013
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| Sri Lanka: Fear for reprisals from the military
2013-08-16 12:51:32 -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-147-2013 August 16, 2013 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights CommissionOn August 15 (yesterday) people from Rathupaswela, Weli .... | |
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| UN panel set to begin hearings into human rights in North Korea
2013-08-16 10:16:27 -- SEOUL, August 16 -- A United Nations-mandated commission looking into the human rights situation in North Korea will begin a series of public hearings in Seoul next week aimed at gathering informat .... | |
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| UN human rights chief Navi Pillay to visit Sri Lanka from 25-31 August
2013-08-15 14:29:18 -- GENEVA (15 August 2013) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, will make an official visit to Sri Lanka from 25 to 31 August 2013, at the invitation of the Sri .... | |
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| Central Africa Republic: Forced displacement continuing amid lawlessness
2013-08-14 11:18:34 -- --> HREA offers a new certificate course Migration and Asylum (Founda .... | |
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| Bangladesh: Concerns for critic's safety, growing intolerance of criticism
2013-08-14 10:56:12 -- (New York) August 12, 2013 – Bangladeshi authorities should immediately release prominent rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan, who was arrested without warrant at his Dhaka home late on August .... | |
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| Human Rights Council Advisory Committee discusses human rights in post-disaster and post-conflict situations
2013-08-13 13:00:15 -- --> HREA offers a certificate course Gender and Humanitarian Action (25 September-5 Nov .... | |
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| Marking International Youth Day, UN officials spotlight rights and potential of young migrants
2013-08-12 17:48:20 -- 12 August 2013 – Marking International Youth Day, United Nations officials today highlighted the pli .... | |
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| Angola: Defamation laws silence journalists
2013-08-12 12:01:20 -- (Johannesburg) August 12, 2013 – Angola’s attorney-general should immediately drop all criminal defamation charges against an investigative journalist, Rafael Marques de Morais, because .... | |
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| Nigeria: Wave of devastating forced evictions in Badia East
2013-08-12 10:48:10 -- --> HREA offers a certificate course Forced Eviction and Housing Rights .... | |
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| HREA launches annual Advocacy Institute
2013-08-07 18:04:00 -- Four-day advanced training program for human rights workers starts today For immediate release 6 August 2013 Cambridge - Humanitarian workers working .... | |
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| Australia: Retrogressive and inhumane refugee policy
2013-08-06 15:14:26 -- --> HREA offers a new certificate course Migration and Asylum (Founda .... | |
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| Austria becomes the 13th European country to allow same-sex second-parent adoption
2013-08-01 12:19:30 -- FIDH Press release1 August 2013
On 1 August 2013, the legislation allowing same-sex second-parent adoption in Austria is entering into force. On 4 July, the Austrian Parliament passed .... | |
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| Ivorian refugee repatriation from Liberia this year tops 10,000 mark
2013-08-01 12:13:49 -- --> HREA offers a new certificate course Migration and Asylum (Founda .... | |
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| Bahrain: Parliament moves to curtail basic human rights
2013-08-01 11:59:16 -- Authorities Cracking Down in Advance of Planned Protests
(Beirut) August 1, 2013 – The Bahrain parliament’s call at an extraordinary meeting on July 28, 2013, t .... | |
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| Lebanon: A Code of Conduct to recruit migrant domestic workers
2013-07-31 15:24:35 -- --> HREA offers a new certificate course Migration and Asylum (Founda .... | |
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| Israel: Protect citizens' rights to protest peacefully against forced evictions, urges Amnesty
2013-07-31 15:21:02 -- Amnesty International Press release31 July 2013
The Israeli authorities must not use excessive force on demonstrators planning to protest against a plan to forcibly evict tens of thou .... | |
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| Haiti: IACHR condemns recent wave of violence against LGTBI persons
2013-07-31 15:16:13 -- Press release IACHRJuly 30, 2013
Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the recent wave of violence against lesbians, gays, trans, bi .... | |
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| New UN statistics show alarming rise in rapes in strife-torn eastern DR Congo
2013-07-30 20:13:52 -- 30 July 2013 – The recurrent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province has led to an alarming rise in rapes and violence against women and girls, the .... | |
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