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Mexico: Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua
The Governor of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico said recently that international attention on the situation in Ciudad...
March 26, 2011
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Sudan: Darfur: Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences
This report finds that rape and other forms of sexual violence in Darfur are being used as a weapon of war in order to...
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: Breaking the circle: Protecting human rights in the northern war zone
The war in northern Uganda is in its thirteenth year. The districts of Gulu and Kitgum, home of the Acholi ethnic group,...
March 26, 2011
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USA: “Not part of my sentence”: Violations of the human rights of women in custody
This document, produced as part of the USA campaign, gives details of the human rights abuses suffered by women in custody...
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: “Breaking God’s commands”: The destruction of childhood by the Lord’s Resistance Army
The organization has chosen to issue this report about abuses against children (mainly by the LRA) because thousands of...
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: Human rights violations by the National Resistance Army
Amnesty International has received persistent reports of human rights violations in 1991 in the northern Ugandan districts...
March 26, 2011
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Senegal: Torture: the Casamance case
Between 1982 and 1989 several hundred people in Casamance region were arrested for political reasons connected with a...
March 26, 2011
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Indonesia: Briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Women and girl domestic workers
This briefing to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women focuses on the lack of protection of women...
March 26, 2011
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Nicaragua: Listen to their voices and act. Stop the rape and sexual abuse of girls in Nicaragua
Rape and sexual abuse are widespread in Nicaragua, and the majority of victims are young. More than two thirds of all rapes...
March 26, 2011