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United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should guarantee the safety of 94 defendants facing trial on state security charges. They should also establish an independent investigation into the defendants’ allegations of ill-treatment in detention. The next session of their trial begins on March 11, 2013.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should retain its current level of scrutiny of Burma’s still poor human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today.

In Ethiopia, 81% of women think there are plenty of reasons why a husband can beat his wife.

Half of the one million refugees who have now fled the war in Syria are children, Save the Children said.

National army soldiers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on parade.

Saudi authorities should immediately disclose the whereabouts and condition of the Jordanian activist Khaled al-Natour, and free him or charge him with a recognizable criminal offense.

‘Stop Disappearances and Abductions’ ~ ~ in Vavuniya – 2012 August 30, Organized by-Committee for Investigation of the Disappeared

US Secretary of State John Kerry should publicly express concern about Uzbekistan’s deteriorating human rights situation during his meeting with the Uzbek foreign minister on March 12, 2013, and press for concrete improvements, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

State of Palestine, 2011. A. (centre) was arrested for throwing stones and released. Children under 12 are usually not prosecuted by Israeli military courts. A. says his interrogators fed him, but also shouted at him.