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Tag: HRW
HRW Urges Algeria to Halt Summary Deportations of Sub-Saharans
International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all ... Read More
Human Rights Watch Lauds Morocco’s New Law on Domestic Workers
Human Rights Watch, welcomed Morocco’s new law regulating work for domestic workers saying that such a legislation is “ground breaking” in as far as it ... Read More
HRW Urges UN S-G to Intervene for Release of Women Detained by Polisario
Human Rights Watch has urged the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is currently touring the Maghreb region to intervene in favor of Sahrawi women ... Read More
Egypt: Right Groups pan Cairo for human right violations
Human Rights Watch Tuesday criticised Cairo for smashing people’s rights in its campaign against IS fighters in North Sinai and said it may produce more ... Read More
HRW Denounces Algeria’s Detention of Pro-Autonomy Activists
Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities "to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his ... Read More
Libya: Clashes between I.S fighters and Tripoli Government Troops in Sirte
libya-extremists-fighters Armed groups loyal to the Tripoli government have clashed with fighters that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the first known confrontation ... Read More
Congolese Gynecologist Adds Sakharov Prize to his Collection of Awards
Congolese Gynecologist, Denis Mukwege, has won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2014 awarded by the European Parliament for his standing up for women´s ... Read More
Algeria Should Acknowledge Responsibility Regarding Rights Respect in Tindouf Camps (HRW)
Algeria which is hosting on its territory thousands of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps should acknowledge its responsibility regarding the respect for human rights ... Read More
Rounding Up Migrants: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Abusive’ Labor System Condemned
Saudi Arabia rounded up thousands of newcomer workers following the expiration of an amnesty introducing new employment rules. It is estimated that about a million ... Read More
Could Human Rights Promotion Have Spared the Arab World all that Turmoil?
Long before the advent of the Arab Spring, the region was boiling as people in most of the countries of the region were denied basic ... Read More