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class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/07/hungary-abide-ruling-homelessness">Hungary: Abide by Ruling on Homelessness</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 7, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Hungarian government should carry out, without delay, the November 12, 2012 Constitutional Court decision that the law criminalizing homelessness is unconstitutional.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/06/back-soviet-future">Back to the (Soviet) Future</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 6, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">While today's Russia cannot be compared to the Soviet Union, it is certainly moving in that direction. In fact, during the first seven months of Vladimir Putin's new presidency, the echo of the old times has become alarmingly strong. So strong, in fact, that the most prominent human rights defender in the country is seriously contemplating the prospect of soon landing in jail.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/uzbekistan-free-political-prisoners-constitution-day">Uzbekistan: Free Political Prisoners on Constitution Day</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 5, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Uzbek government should unconditionally release all of its political prisoners on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the country’s constitution on December 8, 2012, human rights groups said today.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/03/russia-stop-efforts-ban-human-rights-book">Russia: Stop Efforts to Ban Human Rights Book</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 3, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Russian authorities should withdraw their petition to ban a human rights monograph as “extremist.” The case is part of the growing misuse of anti-extremism legislation against civil society activists.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/26/lessons-war-misuse-schools-militaries">Lessons of war - the misuse of schools by militaries</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 26, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The contrast was striking. Outside the laughter of boys playing echoed around the school courtyard while inside one classroom a nervous 14-year-old, Ashraf, described the day bullets and shells rained down on his school. "When they started shooting, the principal led us all to the basement," he told me.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/24/human-rights-cold-room-catherine-ashton-visit-central-asia">A human-rights cold room - Catherine Ashton to visit Central Asia</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">At the height of summer, when foreign ministers adopted the European Union's new human-rights strategy, Catherine Ashton, the high representative for foreign affairs, was eloquent in promising to make these issues a core ingredient in the EU's foreign relations.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/23/kazakhstan-eu-should-act-resolution">Kazakhstan: EU Should Act on Resolution</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 23, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">European Union institutions and member countries should act on the European Parliament’s resolution linking enhanced relations in Kazakhstan to human rights improvements.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/22/central-asia-ashton-should-urge-release-activists">Central Asia: Ashton Should Urge Release of Activists</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 22, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton should meet with human rights defenders and publicly call for the release of wrongfully imprisoned activists during her upcoming visit to Central Asia.</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/20121209115709/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/21/too-little-celebrate-dayton-continues-fail-bosnia-s-minorities">Too little to celebrate - Dayton Continues to Fail Bosnia’s Minorities</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 21, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">On November 21, 1995, the EU and US brokered the Dayton peace agreement, putting an end to the three-and-a-half-year bloody war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The agreement failed to tackle the division that the war had wrought, though, instead establishing a loose federation along ethnic lines. 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