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World Report 2013 : Events of 2012

Human Rights Watch's twenty-third annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seven Stories Pr 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • WORLD REPORT; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Day After; Avoid Majoritarian Hubris; Defend Women's Rights; Protect Freedom of Speech; Respect Minority Rights: The Case of Burma; Bolster Weak States that Lack the Rule of Law: The Case of Libya; Address the Atrocities in Syria; Prescriptions for the International Community; Conclusion; The Trouble With Tradition; Rights Curtailed, Rights Ignored; A Tool of Repression; A Comforting Ideal; Transformation, Not Rejection; Without Rules; The Guiding Principles; Voluntary Initiatives and their Shortcomings.
  • Need for Extraterritorial Oversight and RegulationRed Herrings; First Steps and Useful Models; Lives in the Balance; The Right to Life and to Health; The Right to Know, Protest, and Seek Justice; Regulating Business; The Hardest Hit; Global Challenges and Opportunities; AFRICA; Angola; Elections; Freedom of Media; Freedom of Assembly; Human Rights Defenders; Mass Expulsions of Migrants; Public Finances and Economic and Social Rights; Key International Actors; Burundi; Political Killings; Transitional Justice; Pressure on Civil Society Activists and Journalists; Prisoner Releases.
  • Key International ActorsCôte d'Ivoire; Insecurity and Lack of Disarmament Progress; Security Force Abuses; National Accountability for Post-Election Crimes; International Criminal Court; Reestablishing Rule of Law; Key International Actors; Democratic Republic of Congo; Abuses during National Elections; War Crimes by M23 Rebels; Attacks on Civilians by Other Armed Groups; Abuses by the Lord's Resistance Army; Justice and Accountability; Key International Actors; Equatorial Guinea; Economic and Social Rights; Freedom of Expression and Association; Human Rights Defenders.
  • Political Parties and OppositionTorture, Arbitrary Detention, and Unfair Trials; Key International Actors; Eritrea; Forced Labor and Indefinite Military Service; Torture, Death, and Prolonged Incarceration without Trial; Restrictions on Freedoms of Expression and Association; Interference with Religious Beliefs and Practices; Retaliation against Family Members; Horn of Africa Relations; Key International Actors; Ethiopia; Freedom of Expression, Association, and Assembly; Forced Displacement; Extrajudicial Executions, Torture and other Abuses in Detention.
  • Treatment of Ethiopian Migrant Domestic WorkersKey International Actors; Guinea; Accountability for the September 28, 2009 Massacre and Other Crimes; Truth-Telling Mechanism and Independent Human Rights Institution; Judiciary and Detention Conditions; Conduct of the Security Forces; Parliamentary Elections and Governance; Key International Actors; Kenya; Election Campaigns, Ethnic Profiling, and Violence; Kenya's Incursion into Somalia; Extrajudicial Killings, Disappearances, and Police Reform; The ICC and Other Post-Election Violence Cases; Migrant Domestic Workers; Key International Actors.