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Donor funding has flowed to create shelters and services for victims while a proliferation of anti-trafficking legislation has focused on arresting and prosecuting traffickers.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/24/australia-end-offshore-transfer-migrant-children">Australia: End Offshore Transfer of Migrant Children</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 24, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Australian government should immediately stop transfers of migrant children - including unaccompanied migrant children and child asylum seekers - to offshore processing sites in Manus Island of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/19/malta-mandate-reform">Malta: A mandate for reform</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Commentary</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 19, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Malta should be proud of its recent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a crucial tool for protecting the rights of more than one billion people with disabilities worldwide. As the Government begins to integrate the convention into its laws and policies, it should understand that the protections apply to the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who linger in immigration detention in Malta each year.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/16/uae-make-good-human-rights-commitments">UAE: Make Good on Human Rights Commitments</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 16, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The United Arab Emirates should swiftly end the arbitrary detention and harassment of its critics in line with its obligations as a recently elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/13/greece-strengthen-proposal-hate-crime-units">Greece: Strengthen Proposal for Hate Crime Units</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 13, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">New police units to address racist violence need a strong mandate, proper staff, and clear guidelines, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Greek minister for public order and citizen protection, Nikos Dendias.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/13/greece-letter-greek-minister-public-order-specialized-hate-crime-units">Greece: Letter to Greek Minister of Public Order on Specialized Hate Crime Units</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Letter</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 13, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">We write to provide our support for your initiative to create special police units to address racist violence. We take this opportunity to share our observations on the draft decree and to recommend the crucial steps we believe are necessary to ensure these units are effective in curbing the alarming phenomenon of xenophobic violence in Greece.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/01/greece-take-tougher-line-xenophobic-violence">Greece to Take Tougher Line on Xenophobic Violence</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Impact</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 1, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">After Human Rights Watch issued a report on violence against migrants in Greece, the country announced plans to establish a new police unit to deal with racial violence. The justice minister also promised stiffer sentences for hate crimes. Both were key recommendations from our report.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/17/eu-peacemaker-should-welcome-those-fleeing-war">EU, as peacemaker, should welcome those fleeing war</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Commentary</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Oct 16, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch gives its view of the award of the Nobel peace prize to the European Union.</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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/11/its-time-governments-finally-put-end-child-marriage">It's time for governments to finally put an end to child marriage</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Commentary</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Oct 11, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>The first UN International Day of the Girl, designed to promote education for young women everywhere, is the perfect opportunity to finally stamp out child marriage, writes Gauri van Gulik from Human Rights Watch.</p></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/20121211070326/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/10/lebanon-investigate-and-punish-army-attacks-migrants">Lebanon: Investigate and Punish Army Attacks on Migrants</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Oct 10, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Lebanon’s judiciary should investigate and prosecute any army and intelligence officials responsible for the beating and serious abuse of at least 72 male migrant workers on the evening of October 7 in the Beirut neighborhood of Geitawi, Human Rights Watch said today. 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