(New York) - As it prepares to allow the 130,000 internally displaced persons detained in camps to decide whether to stay or leave, the Sri Lankan government should ensure that no additional persons are subject to arbitrary detentions, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Sri Lanka: Free All Unlawfully Detained
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Philippines: Massacre Shows Arroyo’s Failure to Address Impunity
(New York) - The massacre of at least 47 people in Maguindanao in the southern Philippines tragically shows the failure of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration to hold accountable perpetrators of extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said today.
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World AIDS Day: Punitive Laws Threaten HIV Progress
(New York) - HIV prevention efforts - and the promise of antiretroviral therapy as prevention - are being undermined by punitive laws targeting those infected with and at risk of HIV, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of World AIDS Day.
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Philippines: Let LGBT Party Contest Elections
(New York) - The Philippine elections commission should immediately reverse a decision denying a political party representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Filipinos from taking part in the 2010 elections, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the chair of the elections commission.
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US: Obama Should Join Mine Ban Treaty
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