Human Rights Watch: Syrian government practiced torture
Visits to abandoned prisons have turned up torture devices and other evidence of detainee abuse
Friday, May 17, 2013 3:30 PM UTCPolitics Associated Press, Syria
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4,300 Syrians killed in airstrikes, says Human Rights Watch
The rights group accused the Syrian government of indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate assaults on civilians
Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 11:28 AM UTCNews Associated Press, Syria
Saudi, Yemen under fire for child executions
Human rights groups condemn the death penalty for juvenile offenders, only abolished in the U.S. in 2005
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Report: Unpaid rent can lead to arrest in Arkansas
Human Rights Watch finds hundreds of tenants face criminal charges when they fail to vacate
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Human Rights Watch decries U.S. prison system
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Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 3:25 PM UTCNews Human Rights
Report: DC police treatment of sexual assault victims “traumatizing”
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Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 3:00 PM UTCNews Video, Sexual assault
Egyptians see flashes of Mubarak in Morsi
The protests that have seized Tahrir Square in Cairo are eerily reminiscent of those from just a year ago
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Marijuana arrestees do not become violent felons
A Human Rights Watch report calls links between pot possession and violent crime a "red herring"
Monday, Nov 26, 2012 9:42 PM UTCNews Crime, NYPD, marijuana
America’s nation-building hypocrisy
For all the talk of starting at home, the US is still pouring billions into the Middle East. When will it stop?
Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 3:16 PM UTCPolitics Human Rights Watch
Rights groups: Ban solitary confinement of youths
The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the government should ban solitary for offenders under 18
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 7:55 PM UTCNews ACLU, From the Wires, Prisons
US record on child soldiers mixed
President Obama again exerted pressure on Congo to end use of child soldiers, but Yemen gets a free pass
Monday, Oct 1, 2012 7:39 PM UTCNews Child Soldiers
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