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“You Can Die Any Time”: Death squad killings in Mindanao
The report "You Can Die Any Time: Death squad killings in Mindanao," by Human Rights Watch, details the involvement of police and local government officials in targeted killings of alleged drug dealers and petty criminals, street children, and others, and
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Taking the Next Step: Strengthening the Security Council’s response to sexual violence and attacks on education in armed conflict
Although the Security Council had identified six grave violations against children in armed conflict, as of 2009 it had focused primarily on the recruitment and use of child soldiers. Other violations affect much larger numbers of children, and result in
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Sabotaged Schooling: Naxalite attacks and police occupation of schools in India’s Bihar and Jharkhand states
This 103-page report details how the Maoists- known as Naxalites- a longstanding, pan-Indian armed militant movement, are targeting and blowing up state-run schools. At the same time, police and paramilitary forces are disrupting education for long period
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Workers in the Shadows: Abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers in Indonesia
This report documents how hundreds of thousands of girls in Indonesia, some as young as 11, are employed as domestic workers in other people’s households, performing tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child care. Most girls interviewed for the
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Uganda: Right to health, right to information, right to education, right to non-discrimination, recruitment and use of child soldiers
Supplementary report to Uganda's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, submitted by Human Rights Watch in May 2005. This submission is based on Human Rights Watch investigations in Uganda by the Childre
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The Effect of Communal Violence in Gujarat on Children Communalization of Education Bonded Child Labor
"The Effect of Communal Violence in Gujarat on Children Communalization of Education Bonded Child Labor" is an alternate report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child by Human Rights Watch. The Report focuses on the effect of communal
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Trapped by Inequality: Bhutanese refugee women in Nepal
Bhutanese refugee women who are living as refugees in Nepal, confront not only the hardship of life in refugee camps, but also the injustice of gender-based violence and and a systematic discrimination in access to aid.This 77-page report examines the une
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Stolen Children: Abduction and recruitment in northern Uganda
Supplementary report to Uganda's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child presented by Human Rights Watch. This report was published in March 2003 as Vol.15 No.7(A), and is based on field research conducted
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China: Right to education and the rights of children affected by AIDS
Supplementary report to China's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, submitted by Human Rights Watch to the UNCRC in June 2005, which concerns the right to education and the rights of children affected
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The Less They Know, the Better: Abstinence-only HIV/AIDS programs in Uganda
Supplementary report to Uganda's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on Uganda 's response to HIV and AIDS. Despite a reported dramatic drop in HIV prevalence in Uganda in the 1990s, from an estimated
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How to Fight, How to Kill: Child soldiers in Liberia
Supplementary report by Human Rights Watch to Libera's periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, on issues relating to child soldiers. The widespread use of child soldiers in Liberia has forced into battle thou
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Child Rape and Coercion of Girls into Sex Work
"Child Rape and Coercion of Girls into Sex Work" is a supplementary report to Bangladesh's country report, prepared by Human Rights Watch for the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which highlights two abuses against children’s right occurring in Bangl