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May 6, 2013

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It's been 10 years since detainees first arrived at Guantanamo. Since then, we’ve seen shocking human rights abuses there and around the world.

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February 20, 2013

There are increased concerns for the well-being of prominent Syrian human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq after the state denied holding him.

November 28, 2012

Since October at least four teachers have been killed and two injured in attacks by suspected insurgents in southern Thailand. On 22 November a headmistress was killed in Pattani Province.

October 26, 2012

On 24 October, a protest camp of communal landowners and striking miners was destroyed and burnt outside La Platosa silver mine in La Sierrita, northwest Mexico.

September 17, 2012

Members of the Colombian group Association for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (ASFADDES) are being threatened by paramilitary groups, including branch coordinator Luz Elsia Almanza Suárez....