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Article: Rwanda: End Bar on Human Rights Watch Staff Member
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- December 23, 2008
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The Rwandan government should reverse its decision barring Human Rights Watch's senior adviser on Africa, Dr. Alison Des Forges, from Rwanda, Human Rights Watch said today.
Rwanda has not previously excluded any Human Rights Watch staff member from the country since the organization began monitoring its human rights actions in 1991. Des Forges, who has been working to promote human rights in Rwanda for Human Rights Watch for 17 years, won the prestigious MacArthur Award for her reporting on the 1994 genocide.
"A nation like Rwanda, which has seen such deadly violations of human rights, should show the world that it welcomes review of its ...