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class="view-footer"> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/by-issue/publications/111">More >></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-region-separator"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-views-panes pane-taxonomy-landing-page-panel-pane-4 pane-taxonomy-news-listing"> <h2 class="pane-title">Mali</h2> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="view view-taxonomy-landing-page view-id-taxonomy_landing_page view-display-id-panel_pane_4 view-taxonomy-news-listings view-dom-id-7"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/15/mali-islamists-should-free-child-soldiers">Mali: Islamists Should Free Child Soldiers</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">Islamist armed groups occupying northern Mali should immediately release all child soldiers within their ranks and end the military conscription and use of those under 18. With France carrying out aerial bombardment since January 11, 2013, to block the Islamists from advancing farther south, rebel groups should remove children immediately from training bases in or near Islamist military installations.</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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/10/last-chance-take-action-mercury-poisoning">Last chance to take action on Mercury poisoning</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">Aminata D. is a self-confident, energetic 11-year-old girl who lives in southern Mali. When I meet her at the Worognan gold mine, she tells me that she never goes to school. Instead, she works in gold mining, using toxic mercury on a daily basis. She describes her work to me: "Once the ore is panned, you put a bit of mercury in. You rub the ore and the mercury with your two hands. Then, when the mercury has attracted the gold, you put it on a metal box and burn it."</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/20130117080341/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. 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-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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/29/global-mercury-treaty-japan-s-chance-or-shame">The Global Mercury Treaty: Japan’s Chance or Shame</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 29, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Mercury is an ancient metal rich in history, cloaked with mystery and power. It is liquid at room temperature, with a beautiful silver hue. The metal is used in industrial production, in medical and cosmetic products, and in small-scale gold mining.</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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/20/mali-rising-ethnic-tensions-threaten-new-violence">Mali: Rising Ethnic Tensions Threaten New Violence</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 20, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Mali’s newly appointed prime minister, Diango Sissoko, should take urgent measures to end rights abuses by the security forces and address rising ethnic tensions linked to the occupied northern provinces, Human Rights Watch said today. Sissoko was appointed prime minister of the country’s transitional government on December 11, 2012, a day after the military forced Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra – in office since April – to resign.</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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/joint-letter-un-security-council-international-military-force-mali">Joint Letter to UN Security Council on an International Military Force for Mali</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"><p>As the UN Security Council considers the authorization of an international military force for Mali, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, FIDH, and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect share concerns about the possible human rights challenges such a force could encounter if it is not accompanied by the proper safeguards for civilian protection and human rights monitoring capability.  </p></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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/testimony-corinne-dufka-senate-foreign-relations-committee-subcommittee-african-affa">Testimony of Corinne Dufka before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on African Affairs</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 Tuareg rebellion, Islamist occupation of the north, and political upheaval generated by the March 2012 military coup have led to a drastic deterioration in respect for human rights in Mali. This insecurity led to the displacement of some 400,000 northern residents.</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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/13/end-child-labor-gold-mines">End Child Labor in Gold Mines</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 13, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">In Tanzania, I met "Julius", a boy of about 13, who works in an artisanal gold mine. He told me he digs ore in pits more than 15 metres deep and mixes toxic mercury with ground ore to retrieve the gold. Once a pit collapsed and almost killed another boy, his friend. The work had made him feel "pain in the whole body."</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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/25/mali-islamist-armed-groups-spread-fear-north">Mali: Islamist Armed Groups Spread Fear in North</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 24, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Three Islamist armed groups controlling northern Mali have committed serious abuses against the local population while enforcing their interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. Human Rights Watch in recent weeks has interviewed some one hundred witnesses who have fled the region or remain there.</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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/10/un-human-rights-council-statement-situation-rohingya-burma-and-situation-throughout-">UN Human Rights Council: Statement on the Situation of the Rohingya in Burma, and on the Situation Throughout Mali</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 9, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch shares the High Commissioner's concerns about serious ongoing abuses in Arakan and Kachin State in Burma. The Rohingya situation, as well as serious abuses arising out of the ethnic armed conflict in Kachin State, reinforce the need for the Government to invite the High Commissioner's office to set up an office in the country. Human Rights Watch is also concerned about the continuing deterioration of the human rights situation throughout Mali and urges the Human Rights Council to encourage OHCHR to set up a presence in the country and to continue to report on the situation in the country as a whole.</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news-all/111">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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/contact-us">Contact Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080341/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080341/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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080341/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://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/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/africa">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130117080341/http://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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