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Britain's Complicity In Torture

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  3 days ago

Human Rights Watch releases a new report: The damning report, which the UN body says is based on interviews with the suspects, their families and lawyers, warned the UK government that it was on the verge of losing its moral.
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Human Rights Watch urges gay protection in Serbia

Google Gay Pride News / eTaiwan News  3 days ago

Human Rights Watch urges gay protection in SerbiaeTaiwan NewsSerbia's first gay pride march in years was canceled in September after government said it cannot guarantee security from extremist groups.
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The Assault On Human Rights Watch

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Oct 21 09

That was quite an op-ed by its former head yesterday in the NYT. Robert Bernstein argued that violations of human rights were worse in closed than in open societies and that it was therefore important to focus on abuses in.
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Garlasco's Hobby

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Sep 15 09

This is a truly weird story. One of the top honchos at Human Rights Watch, which has, of course, been critical of some Israeli policies and actions, collects Nazi war memorabilia in his spare time.
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Iraqis tortured and killed for 'being gay or not manly enough'

Pink Paper  Aug 26 09

Iraqi militias are torturing and murdering men suspected of engaging in gay sex or of not being manly enough, and the authorities have done nothing to stop the killings, Human Rights Watch has confirmed.
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CNN Reports on Torture and Executions of Gay Iraqis

Towleroad  Aug 22 09

In response to the report from Human Rights Watch that came out earlier this week, CNN talks to gay Iraqis about the atrocities being committed by militias in that country, and the hundreds of executions that have happened since 2004.
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Human Rights Watch Founder Adrian W. DeWind Dies at 95

Queerty  Aug 19 09

Adrian W. DeWind, the tax policy expert and founder of Human Rights Watch — which these days is raising awareness about the violence aimed at Iraq's gays — died at home in New York City.
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Human Rights Watch Report Documents Violence Against Gay Men in Iraq

Fannies Room  Aug 19 09

The Human Rights Watch has issued a report on the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq. Within this report are graphic descriptions of horrific violence.
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Please Pray for Gay Iraqi Men Who Are Being Tortured and Killed

Straight Not Narrow  Aug 19 09

Gay men in Iraq could be an endangered species. Please hold them up in your prayers. Here is an excerpt from an NPR report:Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several other cities, a prominent human rights group said in a report.
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Iraq's gays face rising persecution

Google Gay News / Los Angeles Times  Aug 18 09

BBC News Iraq's gays face rising persecutionLos Angeles TimesAnd in a report released Monday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch says the number of Iraqis killed in the last few years because they were gay or .
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Iraq ‘killing campaign’ targets gay men

Qnews  Aug 17 09

  Graffiti in a Najaf neighborhood says, “Death to the People of Lot”, using a derogatory term in Arabic for men who engage in homosexual conduct, derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Report: Gay Iraqis Being Slaughtered

Yahoo Gay News / The Advocate via Yahoo! News  Aug 17 09

The group Human Rights Watch has confirmed what has been whispered about for months: Gay men in Iraq are being routinely tortured and killed.
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Gay men attacked, executed in Iraq, rights group says

Yahoo Gay News / CNN  Aug 17 09

Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation's security forces, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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IRAQI GAYS FACE MURDER AND TORTURE

GCN.ie  Aug 17 09

Iraqi militias are conducting a campaign of torture and murder against men suspected of homosexual activity, Human Rights Watch said this week, adding that government security forces may be involved.
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Gay Men Targeted In Iraq, Report Says

Google Gay News / Washington Post  Aug 17 09

Gay Men Targeted In Iraq, Report SaysWashington Post16 -- Human Rights Watch will urge in a report to be released Monday that the Iraqi government do more to protect gay men, saying militiamen have killed and .
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Gay Men Targeted In Iraq, Report Says

Yahoo Gay News / Washington Post  Aug 16 09

BAGHDAD, Aug. 16 -- Human Rights Watch will urge in a report to be released Monday that the Iraqi government do more to protect gay men, saying militiamen have killed and tortured scores in recent months as part of a social cleansing campaign.
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Group appeals to Burundi to drop law banning homosexuality

365 Gay News  Aug 04 09

(Burundi) Human Rights Watch has appealed to Burundi to repeal a law passed in April that makes homosexuality illegal and punishable by up to two years in prison reports CNN.
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A Gross Unfairness

Topix Gay News  Jul 30 09

A report issued in 2006 by two nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality, describes the written response made in 1975 by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to an American citizen's petition to sponsor a foreign same-sex partner for legal residency in the United States.
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Cambodia Criticized for "AIDS Colony"

HIVPlusMag.com  Jul 29 09

Human Rights Watch and other groups call on government to halt evictions of HIV-affected families.
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Report: Mugabe takes over diamond fields

America Blog  Jun 28 09

Never underestimate Robert Mugabe. He will never give up power so naturally he grabbed one of the last money-making ventures to fund his police state efforts.
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