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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">A proposed international treaty to address the damaging effects of mercury should include specific provisions to protect the health of children and other vulnerable populations, Human Rights Watch said today. Governments are to meet in Geneva beginning January 13, 2013, for a fifth and final round of talks for the treaty. Mercury is a toxic metal that attacks the central nervous system and is particularly harmful to children.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/09/brazil-sao-paulo-acts-curb-police-cover-ups">Brazil: São Paulo Acts to Curb Police Cover-ups</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 9, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">A resolution by the São Paulo government on the handling of shooting victims is an important step to safeguard against unlawful killings by state police, Human Rights Watch said today.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/02/barack-obama-dump-these-8-unsavory-allies">Barack Obama: Dump These 8 Unsavory Allies</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 2, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">If Obama wants to bolster his legacy in his second term, he can and should get tough on some of the United States' most unsavory friends and allies. Here are eight leaders to start with.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/17/canada-investigate-missing-murdered-indigenous-women">Canada: Investigate Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 17, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Canada’s federal government should establish a national commission of inquiry into the country’s hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. This recommendation follows today’s release by the British Columbian government of the final report from the provincial Missing Women’s Commission of Inquiry.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/12/brazil-rousseff-should-condemn-russian-crackdown">Brazil: Rousseff Should Condemn Russian Crackdown</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 12, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil should express concern about the crackdown on civil society in Russia when she meets with President Vladimir V. Putin.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/11/mexico-letter-president-pena-nieto">Mexico: Letter to President Peña Nieto</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 11, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I wish to congratulate you on your inauguration as president. You have assumed leadership of a country whose recent human rights record is appalling. Addressing the abuses committed during the tenure of your predecessor and preventing them in the future will require immediate attention at the highest levels of your administration. I write to urge you to rapidly set out a concrete, detailed plan to address these serious problems.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/01/disabled-often-are-denied-information-about-sex-and-hiv">The disabled often are denied information about sex and HIV</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 1, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Over a billion people — 15 percent of the world’s population — live with a disability. These numbers should confer power and authority in decision making about all aspects of their lives, including to HIV and AIDS. Yet people with disabilities have been largely ignored in the global response to HIV.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/29/brazil-states-should-act-killings-police">Brazil: States Should Act on Killings by Police</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 29, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">A resolution by Brazil’s Human Rights Defense Council outlines crucial steps needed to reduce unlawful killings by police, Human Rights Watch said today. The resolution calls on law enforcement officials at the state level to ensure that all killings by their police forces are properly investigated.</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/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/24/year-progress-eliminating-violence-against-women">A year of progress in eliminating violence against women</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 24, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">On November 25 every year, a grim accounting takes place: the world takes stock of violence against women, the toll it takes, and progress toward eliminating it. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women has been commemorated on November 25 for more than three decades. It’s a day each year when my colleagues and I focus on the courageous women we have met, the injustices they’ve suffered, and the hope they inspire.</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news-all/8">more documents on this topic »</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/contact-us">Contact Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123031211/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123031211/https://secure.hrw.org/site/c.nlIWIgN2JwE/b.8370149/k.2592/Donate__Help_Defend_Human_Rights/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?msource=n">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-views-hrw_footer-block_1" class="clear-block block block-views"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="view view-hrw-footer view-id-hrw_footer view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-9"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch<br/> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor<br/> New York, NY 10118-3299<br/> USA<br/> Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700<br/> <br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123031211/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs">Employment</a></strong></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/africa">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123031211/https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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