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I have written about Human Rights Watch and its relationship with Israel beforehand. The New York-based organization has repeatedly been easy toward Israel and its numerous war crimes. And it’s not a surprise why. HRW is after all an American...
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AP, Peshawar
A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
made popular May 4 2009
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AP, Monterrey
Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Mexican army is failing to hold soldiers to account for possible human rights abuses including killings, torture and rape.
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Colombo
Human Rights Watch called on the Sri Lankan government and ethnic Tamil rebels Thursday to allow thousands of families to flee the northern war zone. A local doctor...
made popular Mar 5 2009
AP, Colombo
Human Rights Watch called Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to allow tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the northern war zone to...
made popular Mar 5 2009
AP, Colombo
Civilian casualties in Sri Lanka’s civil war have skyrocketed in the past two months, Human Rights Watch said Friday, calling on the government to stop firing...
made popular Feb 20 2009
AP, Moscow
Human Rights Watch says both Russia and Georgia were responsible for violations, atrocities, extrajudicial killings and torture during and after last year’s war.
made popular Jan 23 2009
AP, Moscow
Human Rights Watch says Ossetian militias are attacking and harassing ethnic Georgians in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
made popular Nov 26 2008
AP, Kabul
The U.S. and NATO militaries must stop carrying out airstrikes in densely populated Afghan villages unless intelligence is highly reliable, Human Rights Watch said in a...
made popular Sep 8 2008
AP, United Nations
The United Nations chief told rights advocates Friday that his choice to be the next U.N. human rights commissioner is a South African judge who was the first black...
made popular Jul 18 2008
AP, Paris
A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday said France’s legal framework for prosecuting terror suspects is too broad, resulting in too many arrests based on...
made popular Jul 2 2008
AP, Amsterdam
A Dutch policy of forcing some would-be immigrants to pass a language and culture test before seeking a visa is discriminatory, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.The...
made popular May 15 2008
Numerous unnamed graves have been discovered scattered across 18 villages of Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The gravesites largely discovered by the Association of...
made popular Apr 10 2008
AP, Beijing
The armies of migrant workers building Beijing’s skyscrapers and Olympic venues are being bilked of wages and placed in dangerous conditions, Human Rights Watch...
made popular Mar 12 2008
Liberty is trampled under the feet of military regimes. Rights are abused in the name of economic development, political activism is choked to eliminate corruption. And...
made popular Feb 1 2008
The military junta ruled neighboring country of India, currently under crisis due to pro-democracy demonstrations is reportedly using all methods to recruit soldiers...
made popular Oct 31 2007
With 9 points into the new Premiership season, Manchester City is flying high. However, the wings could be clipped by a move that has been conceived miles away in Asia....
made popular Sep 11 2007
Respected international body, the New York based- Human Rights Watch has in its latest report, blamed the Sri Lanka government for gross atrocities against its...
made popular Aug 8 2007
Despite the fact that legal laws are imposed against child abuse, the tragic plight never ends. Recently, a report released by the Human Rights watch organisation in...
made popular Aug 3 2007
A news report by Human Rights Watch has concluded that a huge number of girl workers in Guinea are being abused as domestic workers, said BBC News. The report says that...
made popular Jun 16 2007
In a new dangerous development Colombo Police deported about 400 Tamil refugees staying in the city’s guesthouses to areas near the borders between government and...
made popular Jun 9 2007
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