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The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
by Ted Dagne, Specialist in African Affairs, April 29, 2011 for the US Congressional Research Service. Includes a chapter on Human Rights Conditions, covering ...
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Punished for being poor: Outdated offences in the DRC
by Dignité K. Bwiza, University of the Western Cape. This article discusses the status of out-dated offences in the DRC, and its interconnectedness with ...
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US Department of State Human Rights Report
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US Department of State Human Rights Report: Republic of Congo 2012
"Lengthy pretrial detention due to judicial backlogs was a problem. Pretrial detainees continued to constitute three-fourths of the prison population. On ...
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US Department of State Human Rights Report 2010
"The law requires arrest warrants and stipulates that the government may not detain a person beyond 48 hours without an examining magistrate's formal charge; ...
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US Department of State Human Rights Report: Djibouti 2012
2012 Human Rights Report
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Egypt and the Age of the Triumphant Prison: Legal Punishment in 19th Century Egypt
by Rudolph Peters, University of Amsterdam
Published in Annales Islamologiques, 36 (2002), pp. 253-285
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US Department of State Human Rights Report: Egypt 2012
2012 Human Rights Report
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Good intentions are not enough: the struggle to reform Liberia's prisons
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Religion, law and human rights in post-conflict Liberia
This article was published in AHRLJ Volume 8 No 2 2008.
Liberia has had a turbulent recent history, and today deals with extreme poverty, high crime, ethnic ...
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