A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers
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Whether gazing at a computer or into the eyes of a former dictator, numbers cruncher Patrick Ball is on the front lines of justice.
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The report by the Human Rights Watch paints a distorted picture of the situation in Hong Kong, said a spokesman of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Thursday.
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Video diary: Life under house arrest â and round-the-clock surveillance â for  civil rights activists, Hu Jia, and his wife, Zeng Jinyan
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As Pythagoras might say, Catherine McNeil is a real number.
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A delegation from the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has arrived in Saudi Arabia on the first extensive fact-finding mission by such a group in the conservative Muslim country.
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Authorities' targeting of people because of their racial background or religious affiliation is a deep-rooted problem in the United States, with nearly 32 million people reporting they've been racially profiled, a human rights group said Monday.
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Better data is needed to determine the magnitude of human trafficking so it can be targeted effectively, and some countries are not taking the problem as seriously as they should, the top U.N. anti-crime official said Tuesday.
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The study confirms recent estimates, which put the number at roughly one in 160 children â higher than the one-in-200 estimate made in the 1980s.
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You can tell a lot about a company from the way it reports its numbers.
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In the statistics-driven industry of politics, no population segment is too miniscule
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Forced labor in the US, background checks for guns, and Turkey's human rights record.
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OXFORD, England A year ago Thursday, I was visiting the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad with my good friend, Arthur Helton, a human rights lawyer, to investigate the human costs of the war and its aftermath. We were sitting with Sergio Vieira de ...
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Using helicopters to count endangered orang-utans gives very accurate estimates of the great apes' numbers, researchers report in Plos Biology.
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A researcher is counting parking spaces to determine if America has a surplus.
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MEXICO CITY  - Human rights groups and relativesof women murdered near the Mexico-U.S. border want aworld-renowned Argentine forensic team to study more than 300killings over the past decade, many of which are stillunsolved.
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Â· Figures of foreign nationals revisedÂ· Private polls worrying ministers
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The government's terrorist screening database, the master watch list used to scrutinize 270 million people each month, continues to be marred by errors and inconsistencies that can result in the detention of innocent people and increase the chances a terrorist could slip through, according to a...