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Human Rights - Child victims bring home cruel reality of cluster bombs
By Pierre-Henry Deshayes
Some 100 countries began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs in Oslo on Wednesday. According to Handicap International, about 100,000 people have been maimed or killed by cluster bombs around the world since 1965, 98 percent of them civilians....Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - HWR calls on officials to investigate the roots of several death of domestic workers in Lebanon Human Rights Watch calls on the official steering committee tasked with improving the situation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon to investigate the root causes of several deaths of domestic workers, and develop a concrete national strategy to...Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - A new HWR’s campaign to highlight the abuses of domestic workers On the eve of Labor Day, Human Rights Watch has launched a campaign to highlight the often invisible abuses that many domestic workers suffer in Lebanon. Of course, nobody talks about the Lebanese who treat their domestic workers with respect. And...Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - Lebanese demand knowledge of missing thought to be in Syria
By Joseph Badaoui
Lebanese families fighting to learn the fate of hundreds of their relatives thought to be held in Syria have been encouraged by the unexpected release of a prisoner after 16 years in Syrian detention. An organisation called Support of Lebanese in...Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - Iraqi Christians flee ancient roots in one-way exodus
By Haro Chakmakjian
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Human Rights - Slaughter in Sabra and Shatila keeps horror 25 years on Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - Sabra, Shatila massacres commemorated in Beirut Full Story>> |
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Human Rights - Domestic workers often face abuse in Lebanon
By Hiedeh Farmani
Locked up and cut off from her family for nine years, without even a penny for the endless scrubbing and washing up, Siriani knew it was time to flee or "die".Full Story>> |
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