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Recent Publications The Netherlands: Discrimination in the Name of Integration Migrants’ Rights under the Integration Abroad Act In the past years, the authorities in the Netherlands have introduced a series of measures with the stated aim of better integrating its migrant population. One of these measures is the integration test administered to would-be family migrants from some countries before they can join spouses or family members in the Netherlands. This report documents how the overseas integration test is discriminatory, in that citizens from certain countries are exempt altogether, and the test, coupled with increased financial requirements, targets primarily would-be family migrants from two of the three largest “non- western” migrant communities in the Netherlands – Moroccans and Turks. May 15, 2008 Background Briefing Executive Summary: The Rest of Their Lives Life without Parole for Youth Offenders in the United States in 2008 In this update to Human Rights Watch’s work on eliminating the sentence of life without parole for juvenile offenders, a number of findings are presented that illustrate the troublesome nature of the sentence and how it is applied to youthful offenders. Among those findings are that the United States is alone in the world in applying this harsh sentence to juveniles, that an estimated 59 percent of youth who receive the sentence had no prior adjudications or convictions, and that there are currently nearly 2,500 offenders who are serving life without parole for crimes committed while they were a juvenile. Additionally, data reveal that there are stark racial disparities in the imposition of the sentence, with black youth serving life without parole at a per capita rate that is 10 times the rate of white youth. May 13, 2008 Background Briefing “Saving its Secrets” Government Repression in Andijan
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HRW Index No.: 1-56432-315-3 May 5, 2008 Report Download PDF, 445 KB, 69 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Vote to Nowhere The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-314-5 May 1, 2008 Report Download PDF, 377 KB, 65 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release “Every Morning They Beat Me” Police Abuses in Burundi This 42-page report documents 21 cases of beatings and torture of civilians carried out in October 2007 by a special reserve unit known as Rapid Mobile Intervention Group (Groupement Mobile d’Intervention Rapide, GMIR) in Muramvya province. Various victims described to Human Rights Watch how they were arbitrarily arrested, beaten with clubs and batons, subjected to death threats and mock executions, and forced to pay large bribes in exchange for freedom. HRW Index No.: ISBN: 1-56432-309-9 April 30, 2008 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 446 KB, 41 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release “Walking on Thin Ice” Control, Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyers in China
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-311-0 April 29, 2008 Report Download PDF, 304 KB, 146 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Perpetual Minors Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia
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Download PDF, 357 KB, 52 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Coercion and Intimidation of Child Soldiers to Participate in Violence Child soldiers are often compelled by their commanders to engage in combat operations, participate in human rights abuses against civilians, and carry out punishments against fellow soldiers under threat of severe punishment or execution. In this backgrounder, Human Rights Watch describes methods of coercion and intimidation used against child soldiers serving in armed conflicts in Angola, Burma, Colombia, Liberia, Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. April 16, 2008 Background Briefing Olympic Corporate Sponsors: Rhetoric and Reality Excerpts from all 12 “TOP” Olympic sponsor companies’ policies on commitment to social responsibility and their comments on China, the Olympics, and human rights. April 16, 2008 Background Briefing Printer friendly version Denied Status, Denied Education Children of North Korean Women in China
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Download PDF, 195 KB, 39 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Benchmarks, Consultations and Transparency Making the EU Central Asia Strategy an Effective Tool for Human Rights Improvements This 15-page briefing paper proposes specific benchmarks for each Central Asian country, and urges the EU to clearly link progress on the goals with possible future benefits. A similar position was also taken by the European Parliament in its February 20 resolution, which called for the strategy to include a “definition of clear objectives and priorities for the EU’s relations with each of the five countries,” including in human rights. April 8, 2008 Background Briefing Also available in
Five Years On No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur
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Download PDF, 540 KB, 48 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Cluster Munitions and the Proportionality Test Memorandum to Delegates of the Convention on Conventional Weapons The calls for a new international legal instrument to ban or restrict cluster munitions derive in large part from the weapons’ significant and foreseeably grave aftereffects on civilians, which have been thoroughly documented by many, including Human Rights Watch. States parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) took a first step toward reducing the impact of unexploded submunitions with CCW Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW), but this instrument only provides post-conflict remedial measures. Because the severe and long-lasting aftereffects of cluster munitions on civilians are foreseeable, they can and must be prevented. This paper contends that to reduce civilian harm through preventive measures, the aftereffects of cluster munitions must be taken into account when applying the proportionality test. April 7, 2008 Background Briefing Off the Map Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel’s Unrecognized Bedouin Villages
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HRW Index No.: A2003 March 27, 2008 Report Download PDF, 219 KB, 55 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Precarious Justice Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials in the Deficient Criminal Justice System of Saudi Arabia
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