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Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges

Genocide in Rwanda

"Leave None to Tell the Story"

Methodology -- Background -- Legal standards governing UPDF operations in Karamoja -- Government response to alleged Human Rights Violations -- Detailed recommendations.

Human Rights Violations by Uganda's National Army in Law Enforcement Operations in Karamoja Region

"Get the Gun"

Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations

The Enron Corporation

A Return to the New Order? : Political Prisoners in Megawati's Indonesia

Indonesia

Forced Evictions and the Tenants' Rights Movement in China

Demolished

Samer Muscati

" ... calls on the government to protect the rights of vulnerable groups and to amend its penal code and all other laws that discriminate against women and violate freedom of speech. The report also urges Baghdad to open independent and impartial investigations into all allegations of abuse against detainees, minorities, and journalists."--HRW website.

Human Rights in Iraq Eight Years After the US-led Invasion

At a Crossroads

Joanna Weschler

Describes five theories of substance abuse treatment and details how to translate each theory into actual practice. Material on 12-step, psychodynamic, behavioral, marital/family, and motivational approaches incorporates case examples, discussion of advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and treatment techniques. Includes a chapter on emerging pharmacological approaches. For advanced students in psychology, social work, and medicine, and for substance abuse counselors in training. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Prison Conditions in Japan

Alexander De Waal

For the past thirty years-under both Emperor Haile Selassie and President Mengistu Haile Mariam-Ethiopia suffered continuous war and intermittent famine until every single province has been affected by war to some degree. Evil Days, documents the wide range of violations of basic human rights committed by all sides in the conflict, especially the Mengistu government's direct responsibility for the deaths of at least half a million Ethiopian civilians.

Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia

Evil Days

Scott Long

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The Assault on Justice in Egypt's Crackdown on Homosexual Conduct

In a Time of Torture

Peter Rosenblum

Prison Conditions in Zaire

Joseph Saunders

Dismantling Soeharto-era Barriers

Academic Freedom in Indonesia

The Consequences of Insurgent Attacks in Afghanistan

The Human Cost

Jonathan Cohen

Tony Tate

Recommendations: To the government of Uganda -- To the government of the United States: To the U.S. Congress -- To the Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) country team in Uganda -- To all other donors to Ugandan AIDS programs, including the Global Fund and U.N. agencies. -- Methods. -- Background: Young people and HIV/AIDS in Uganda -- The human right to HIV/AIDS information -- Uganda and the U.S. Global AIDS initiative. -- Findings on Abstinence education in Uganda: Uganda's official "AB" policy -- Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth (PIASCY) -- PIASCY in primary schools -- PIASCY in secondary schools -- Abstinence programs out of school (including after-school programs) -- Faith-based organizations promoting abstinence : Uganda Youth Forum -- Makerere Community Church -- Family Life Network. -- Especially vulnerable persons : sexually active young people -- Orphans and children affected by AIDS -- Refugees, internally displaced persons, and children affected by conflict -- Discrimination based on sexual orientation. -- Restrictions on condoms. -- Arguments for and against Abstinence-Only Programs : distortion of Uganda's HIV prevention efforts -- Studies discrediting abstinence-only approaches in the U.S. -- Government response. -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgments.

Abstinence-only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda

The Less They Know, the Better

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

Events of 2012

World Report 2013

" ... report was written by Scott Long ..." --Page 104

Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania

Public Scandals

Peter Bouckaert

Observatoire pour la protection des défenseurs des droits de l'homme

The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda

Hostile to Democracy

Diederik Lohman

With support from the Open Society Institute International Palliative Care Initiative, Human Rights Watch released a groundbreaking report on the lack of access to pain relief medicines for millions of patients worldwide. The report, "Please Don't Make Us Suffer Anymore": Access to Pain Treatment as a Human Right, finds that countries can significantly improve access to pain medications by addressing the causes of their poor availability, which include the following: *Failure to put in place functioning supply and distribution systems *Absence of government policies to ensure medicine availability *Insufficient instruction for health care workers *Excessively strict drug-control regulations *Fear of legal sanctions among healthcare workers. "Please Don't Make Us Suffer Anymore" notes that international law requires states to make narcotic drugs available for the treatment of pain while preventing abuse, but that the strong international focus on preventing abuse of such drugs has led many countries to neglect that obligation. The full report is available in PDF format. French, Russian, and Spanish versions are available on the HRW website.

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