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HRW urges B'desh Govt. to end disappearances, secret detentions
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], July 6 (ANI): The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Bangladesh Government to immediately stop widespread practice of enforced disappearances and secret detentions.
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Hekmatyar should be held accountable for war crimes: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 6 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, infamous as the 'butcher of Kabul', should be held accountable for his crimes during the Afghan civil war.
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HRW urges Saudi Arabia to probe Pakistani transgender woman's death
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], Apr 13 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia to investigate the death of a Pakistani transgender woman at a Riyadh police station following a raid on an event space in February.
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Israel blocking rights workers access to Gaza: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Israel [Jerusalem], April 3 (ANI): The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Israeli military authorities are blocking access to and from the Gaza Strip for human rights workers, who document abuses and advocate to end them.
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Attacks on schools have devastated education in Pakistan: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Mar. 27 (ANI): Attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups are having a devastating impact on education in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released a day before the Second International Conference on Safe Schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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HRW asks Nepal to investigate allegations of indiscriminate use of force b
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], March. 10 (ANI): New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked authorities in Nepal to immediately investigate allegations of indiscriminate and excessive use of force by security forces that has led to four deaths in the country.
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Dozens of garment workers, labor leaders facing unfair criminal cases in B
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Feb 15 (ANI): New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report released on Wednesday that dozens of garment workers and labor leaders are facing unfair or apparently fabricated criminal cases in Bangladesh after wage strikes in December 2016.
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HRW accuses Pakistan of mass forced returns of afghan refugees
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Feb 13 (ANI): New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday that Pakistani authorities have carried out a campaign of abuses and threats to drive out nearly 600,000 Afghans since July 2016.
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HRW urges Bangladesh to reject Rohingya relocation plan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Feb. 9 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Bangladesh to immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees from the Cox's Bazar area to Thengar Char, an uninhabited coastal island, saying the move would deprive them of their rights to freedom of movement,
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UN, donors need to back accountability from Nepal on civil war crimes, say
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Feb.4 (ANI): The mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons (COID) should be extended indefinitely to ensure that justice, accountability, and reparations are achieved for the thousands of vic
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HRW urges B'desh govt. to disband RAB
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 21 (ANI): Following the Narayanganj seven-murder verdict in which several members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were convicted, New York-based rights body the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Bangladeshi government to take immediate steps to disband the e
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Pak Govt. should urgently investigate abductions of four activists: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Jan. 10 (ANI): New York-based Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that the Pakistan government should urgently investigate the apparent abductions of four social activists who campaign for human rights and religious freedom.
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