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President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, among other officials, is anticipated to attend the Africa-South America Summit scheduled for February 20-23.</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/20130302012537/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/13/should-companies-take-responsibility-repression">Should Companies Take Responsibility for Repression?</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Feb 13, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Arab uprisings have been a poignant reminder of how the Internet can promote free expression and assembly, but also how governments can try abuse it. 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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-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/20130302012537/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/15/eritrea-mining-investors-risk-use-forced-labor">Eritrea: Mining Investors Risk Use of Forced Labor</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">International mining firms rushing to invest in Eritrea’s burgeoning minerals sector risk involvement in serious abuses unless they take strong preventive measures. The failure of the Vancouver-based company Nevsun Resources to ensure that forced labor would not be used during construction of its Eritrea mine, and its limited ability to deal with forced labor allegations when they arose, highlight the risk.</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/20130302012537/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-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/20130302012537/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/10/mercury-treaty-last-chance-address-health-effects">Mercury Treaty: Last Chance to Address Health Effects</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">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. 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