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Africa
6/6/2023 3:10:10 PM
The Ethiopian government on Tuesday rejected a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that accused local authorities and regional forces of pursuing a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in western Tigray despite last year's peace deal.
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World
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Africa
6/1/2023 3:32:29 PM
Local authorities and regional forces continued a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in western Tigray despite a peace deal ending the war in northern Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
1/12/2023 10:01:43 PM
Harvard University rescinded a fellowship that it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he said Monday was his group's criticism of Israel.
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World
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Region
11/7/2022 5:11:07 PM
Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Turkey of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast.
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World
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Africa
10/27/2022 5:44:07 PM
Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday, adding the state was not doing enough to protect civilians.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/14/2022 4:04:00 AM
The spokesperson of the Egyptian foreign ministry has stressed that Egypt is following the rules of the UNFCCC on accreditation of local and regional groups for the COP27 thoroughly, describing a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which claimed that Cairo is "stifling economic environmentalism" as "misleading, deplorable and counterproductive."
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World
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Africa
7/14/2022 7:04:54 PM
Mali said Thursday it was suspending rotations of the UN's peacekeeping mission for "national security" reasons, in the latest complication in ties between the ruling junta and international partners.
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World
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Africa
7/4/2022 7:41:00 PM
The Tigray conflict in Ethiopia's north is overshadowing a "persistent cycle of violence" against civilians by security forces and armed groups in the Oromia region, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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World
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Region
1/26/2022 11:40:00 AM
Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/15/2022 5:12:37 PM
Tarek Radwan, head of Egyptian parliament's Human Rights Committee, launched a scathing attack against the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), accusing it of repeatedly publishing false reports about the situation of human rights in Egypt.
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World
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Africa
12/16/2021 4:47:56 PM
New witness accounts allege that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been forcibly expelled, detained or killed in one of the most inaccessible areas of Ethiopia's yearlong war in the latest wave of abuses carried out with machetes, guns and knives.
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World
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Region
12/14/2021 3:51:56 PM
Human Rights Watch accused Israeli police on Tuesday of using "excessive force" against Arab protesters in the mixed city of Lod during May unrest, while treating Jewish rioters more favorably.
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World
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Africa
12/7/2021 12:47:32 PM
Islamist militants waging a brutal insurgency in northern Mozambique have abducted more than 600 women and children over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said in report Tuesday.
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World
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International
9/16/2021 9:26:23 AM
Before fighting broke out Tigray was home to 92,000 Eritrean refugees, including 19,200 in the Hitsats and Shimelba camps, according to Ethiopia's Agency for Refugees and Returnees Affairs
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/14/2021 9:54:13 PM
Human Rights Watch’s latest report on Egypt is politicised and reflects the views of the Muslim Brotherhood
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World
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Region
7/27/2021 10:55:49 AM
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that 'apparently amount to war crimes' during an 11-day war against the Gaza in May
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World
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Region
4/27/2021 1:06:37 PM
Israel's foreign ministry rejected the claims as 'both preposterous and false' and accused HRW of harbouring an 'anti-Israeli agenda,' saying the group had sought 'for years to promote boycotts against Israel'
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World
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Region
3/29/2021 10:05:51 AM
HRW said that after taking initiatives on women's rights, including on education and social protection, Qatar was now falling behind Gulf neighbours, after Saudi Arabia in 2019 allowed adult women to travel without permission
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World
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Africa
3/24/2021 2:38:59 PM
The findings by the government-affiliated but independent body corroborate separate investigations by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) into bloodshed in the historic town of Axum
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World
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Region
3/16/2021 2:20:00 PM
Scores of migrants burned to death in Yemen on March 7, after Houthi security forces launched unidentified projectiles into an immigration detention centre in Sanaa, causing a fire, HRW said
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