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class="field-content">This weekend, more than 140 governments agreed on the text for a new legally binding convention on mercury, a highly toxic metal. It has taken three years and many compromises to get here. What often seemed like a dry and bureaucratic process – delegates arguing over nuance during long night sessions – has very real implications for millions of people around the globe.</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/20130125221654/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/16/rights-group-china-may-not-be-ready-labor-camp-reforms">Rights group: China may not be ready for labor camp reforms</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">Did the Chinese government announce earlier this week that it would end its notorious detention system known as Re-Education Through Labor (RTL)?</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125221654im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-100w/media/images/photographs/2007_Ethiopia_SouthOmo2.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-100w imagecache-default imagecache-scale-100w_default"/></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125221654/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/11/discrimination-inequality-and-poverty-human-rights-perspective">Discrimination, Inequality, and Poverty—A Human Rights Perspective</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">Despite recognition in the Millennium Declaration of the importance of human rights, equality, and non-discrimination for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) largely bypassed these key principles. The fundamental human rights guarantees of equality and non-discrimination are legally binding obligations and do not need instrumental justifications. Discrimination can both cause poverty and be a hurdle in alleviating poverty. Even in countries where there have been significant gains toward achieving the MDGs, inequalities have grown. The MDGs have supported aggregate progress—often without acknowledging the importance of investing in the most marginalized and excluded, or giving due credit to governments and institutions which do ensure that development benefits these populations. Recognition of this shortcoming in the MDGs has brought an increasing awareness of the importance of working to reverse growing economic inequalities through the post-2015 framework, and a key element of this must be actively working to dismantle discrimination.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125221654im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-100w/media/images/photographs/2012_NorthKorea_richardson.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-100w imagecache-default imagecache-scale-100w_default"/></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125221654/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/11/united-nations-commission-needed-examine-human-rights-abuses-north-korea">A United Nations commission is needed to examine human rights abuses in North Korea</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">Earlier this week, Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt and United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson raised eyebrows with a private visit to Pyongyang, North Korea. The United States State Department called the trip “unhelpful.” Schmidt’s visit to Kim il-Song University, during which a student demonstrated how he uses Google to conduct internet searches, seemed like a theatric production in the Potemkin style.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125221654im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-100w/media/images/photographs/Jo_Becker_web.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-100w imagecache-default imagecache-scale-100w_default"/></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125221654/http://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. She had migrated from Sri Lanka only weeks earlier to be a domestic worker for a Saudi family.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125221654im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-100w/media/images/photographs/Aruna_Kashyap.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-100w imagecache-default imagecache-scale-100w_default"/></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125221654/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/10/fixing-india-s-rape-problem">Fixing India’s Rape Problem</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">The quick official response to the horrific gang rape and murder of a young Indian woman shouldn’t fool us. The country has a long way to go when it comes to justice for rape victims.</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/20130125221654/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/10/mr-karzai-goes-washington">Mr. Karzai Goes to Washington</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"><p> </p> <p>President Karzai is in Washington this week to meet with President Obama and military commanders at the Pentagon. A main subject of the meetings will be the fate of peace negotiations with insurgent forces and the size of US military forces after a planned military drawdown is completed in 2014. But while the two leaders meet they may want to consider why these topics are still relevant in 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"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125221654im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-100w/media/images/photographs/2012_India_rapeprotest_0.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-100w imagecache-default imagecache-scale-100w_default"/></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125221654/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/08/stigma-and-blame-attached-rape-survivors-india">The stigma and blame attached to rape survivors in India</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 8, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Suggesting that women and girls "invite" sexual assault through their clothing or conduct—and therefore blaming the victim— is not uncommon in India. There is talk of legal reform and fast trials but stigma and blaming of survivors of sexual assault will unfortunately live on without concerted efforts to end it.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125221654im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-100w/media/images/photographs/2012_US_obamaUN.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-scale-100w imagecache-default imagecache-scale-100w_default"/></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130125221654/http://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. 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