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It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2008 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the country in question.

This report documents a dramatic rise in unchecked violence against civilians since June 2007, when the Ethiopian army launched a counterinsurgency campaign against rebels who attacked a Chinese-run oil installation.

This report draws on more than 50 interviews of survivors of sexual violence in Darfur, and dozens of interviews with government officials, law enforcement personnel, lawyers, rebels, international and local humanitarian aid workers, and UN officials working in Sudan. The report synthesizes information Human Rights Watch obtained from various credible sources from November 2007 to February 2008. Among published documents, the report draws heavily from the final report of the UN Human Rights Council-appointed Group of Experts and other UN agency publications.

Advocates will find this report helpful for its succinct and well-cited chapters on the right to adequate housing, "One Strike" federal policy development, local housing exclusions, and screening procedures. The report also covers the many difficulties people face in legal challenges to their exclusion from public housing. Human Rights Watch offers recommendations to Congress, HUD, PHAs, publicly funded legal services organizations and the United Nations.

The paper claims that historically, "Iraqi women and girls have enjoyed relatively more rights than many of their counterparts in the Middle East." (1) The paper discusses how pre-war Iraqi women's rights were directly connected to, and motivated by, the government's political and economic development policies.

This report discusses the context of male rape in prison and the roles of consent, coercion, manipulation, threat of violence, violence and sexual slavery.

This Human Rights Watch report takes an in-depth look into the current sex offender laws in the US and offers a critique of such laws as well as recommendations and model programs. Issues related to juvenile offenders, residency restriction, offender registration, community notification, and internet registries are also discussed.