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The National Constituent Assembly made this draft public on December 14, 2012.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/22/libya-ensure-political-isolation-law-respects-rights">Libya: Ensure ‘Political Isolation Law’ Respects Rights</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 22, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">A draft law being prepared in Libya to bar Gaddafi-era officials from holding public office and senior posts should exclude only those who held carefully defined senior positions, or who are alleged to have committed specific acts. Anyone accused of past wrongdoing should be allowed a fair chance to rebut the charges</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/18/egypt-don-t-force-palestinians-back-syria">Egypt: Don’t Force Palestinians Back to Syria</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 18, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Two Palestinians being held at the Cairo airport, apparently refused entry to Egypt, are at risk of deportation to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123021510/http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/syria"><font color="#0000ff">Syria</font></a>. The man and his son would face indiscriminate violence and possible persecution if returned to Syria.</span></span></p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/16/gruesome-toll-deadly-cluster-bombs-syria">The gruesome toll of deadly cluster bombs in Syria</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 16, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>It was cloudy the afternoon of January 3 when residents say the cluster bombs fell on the Syrian town of Latamneh. Three rockets containing the cluster munitions fell in nearby fields, apparently doing no harm, but a fourth landed on the street between residential buildings. Its impact was devastating.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/15/syria-seeking-justice">Syria: Seeking Justice</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 15, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">In the absence of a reliable mechanism that Syrians know will bring them justice, revenge killing on a wide scale will be likely. And unless Syrian and international players move beyond promises for accountability and offer a concrete plan for justice, Syrian soldiers and armed militias would not be deterred by the possibility of standing trial for their atrocities.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/14/un-security-council-heed-call-justice-syria">UN Security Council: Heed Call for Justice in Syria</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 14, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>A letter sent to the United Nations Security Council on behalf of 57 states calling for a referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) gives momentum to international efforts to stop grave abuses committed there. More countries should join the call and impress on reluctant Council members the urgency of taking up the issue of accountability.<br/> <br/>  </p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/14/syria-army-using-new-type-cluster-munition">Syria: Army Using New Type of Cluster Munition</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 14, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Syrian forces are using notoriously indiscriminate rockets that contain explosive submunitions. Evidence indicates that Syrian forces used BM-21 Grad multi-barrel rocket launchers to deliver cluster munitions in attacks near the city of Idlib in December 2012 and in Latamneh, a town northwest of Hama, on January 3, 2013.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/13/letter-egyptian-foreign-minister-syria-and-icc">Letter to Egyptian Foreign Minister on Syria and the ICC</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 13, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>We write to request that your government support an initiative led by Switzerland calling on the United Nations (UN) Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The letter, set to be delivered by Switzerland on January 14, 2013, points to a record of severe human rights violations in Syria with no prospect of justice at the local level, and appeals to the Security Council to therefore take up the issue of accountability. It is time Egypt join the over 50 nations, including Tunisia and Libya, that have supported this call and signal to all sides in Syria that the days of absolute impunity for these severe human rights violations are at an end.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/11/uaefrance-hollande-should-convey-rights-concerns">UAE/France: Hollande Should Convey Rights Concerns</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 11, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">President François Hollande of France should publicly and privately convey concerns about deteriorating human rights conditions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on his visit there. Hollande is scheduled to arrive for his first official visit to the UAE on January 15, 2013.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123021510/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/10/why-global-labor-reforms-are-vital-protect-vulnerable-workers">Why global labor reforms are vital to protect vulnerable workers</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 10, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Rizana Nafeek was a child herself -- 17 years old according to her birth certificate -- when a four-month-old baby died in her care in Saudi Arabia. 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