Human Rights

Bahrain: Abuse of Migrant Workers Despite Reforms

Urgent Need to Enforce Labor Laws, Provide Redress

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These twelve men share a one room labor camp, with no beds and no air conditioner.

California: New Hope for Youth Offenders

Governor Signs Bill on Life-Without-Parole Youth Sentences

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These photos are of youth who were sentenced to life in prison without parole. Each photo was taken within one year of the time of the crime. In the majority of the United States and under federal law, people are serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed before their eighteenth birthday.

Canada: Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Ex-Child Soldier

Assist Former Guantanamo Detainee Omar Khadr’s Return to Society

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Philippines: New ‘Cybercrime’ Law Will Harm Free Speech

Supreme Court to Rule on Act That Worsens Criminal Defamation

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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe media freedom representative deplores Italian criminal defamation ruling, urges law reform

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero.

OSCE media freedom representative deplores Italian criminal defamation ruling, urges law reform

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, yesterday called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero.

OSCE Chairmanship representative, in Skopje, stresses need to continue reform, address causes of inter-ethnic tensions

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R-l: The Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Teuta Arifi and the Representative of the Irish OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, addressing journalists, Skopje

Competition limited in Belarus elections as many democratic rights not respected, international observers say

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A voter casting her ballot at a polling station in Lagoisk, 23 September 2012.

No security without respect for human rights and democracy, say speakers at OSCE conference

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(L-r) Adam Rotfeld, the former Foreign Minister of Poland, addresses the Opening Plenary of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, as Douglas Wake, the First Deputy Director of OSCE/ODIHR, and Frank Cogan, the Head of the Irish OSCE Chairmanship Taskforce, listen. Warsaw, 24 September 2012.

Thailand: Act to Bring Justice for 2010 Violence

Independent Commission Finds Both Sides Responsible, Urges Accountability

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