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Malawi, 12, 13, 33, 74, 75 Malaysia, 60 Maldives, The, 13, 15, 42, 74, 75 Malloch-Brown, Lord, 21, 36, 59 Malta conference, 51 Manjo, Rashida, 24 Markelov, Stanislav, 137 marriage child marriage, 28 civil partnerships overseas, 53 same-sex marriage, 26, 53 in Yemen, 28 see also forced marriage Mauritania, 32 Mauritius, 24, 62 Mbeki, Thabo, 155 McChrystal, General Stanley, 82 McConnell, Rt Hon Jack, 40 McDougall, Gay, 22 McManus, Sergeant Isabella, 85 Médecins Sans Frontières, 157, 160 media intimidation see freedom of the press and media Medvedev, President, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141 Memorial, 138 Mercy Corps, 37 Mettyear, Judge Michael, 97 Mexico, 15, 26 Middle East, 16, 21, 28, 31, 46 Middle East Peace Process, 124 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 29, 107 Ministry of Defence (MOD), 31, 37, 85 and tri-Departmental Stabilisation Unit, 41 minorities, 22, 69 in Abkhazia, 136 in Burma, 90, 91, 93, 94 in Iran, 117 in Iraq, 123–124 in Jordon, 72 in Pakistan, 132–133 in Russia, 136 in Saudi Arabia, 144 in Serbia, 70, 71, 72 in Somalia, 147 in South Ossetia, 136 in Sri Lanka, 61 in Turkey, 71 in Turkmenistan, 161 see also indigenous people; Roma; Sinti Mladic, Radko, 66 Mohamed, Binyam, 43, 44 Moldova, 13, 32, 72, 73 Montazeri, Grand Ayatollah, 115 Montenegro, 13, 70 Montserrat, 55 Morocco, 17, 69, 72, 73 Moussavi, Mir Hossein, 113, 115 Moussavi, Seyed Ali, 115 Mozambique, 10, 12, 13, 60
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Mugabe, President Robert, 168, 171 multinational companies, 39 murders, 65, 66 of homosexuals, 123 of human rights activists, 76, 101, 137 of indigenous people, 103 of journalists, 76, 113, 138, 147 see also extrajudicial killings Musharraf, former President, 131 Muslims, 45, 93, 132 in Afghanistan, 46 in Bosnia, 66 in India, 24 in Israel, 125 Projecting British Muslims programme, 46 see also Islam Myanmar see Burma
N NATO, 31, 147 Allied Rapid Reaction Force, 37 Nepal, 14, 33 Netherlands, 19 New Zealand, 19 Nguyen Xuan Nghia, 165, 166 Nicaragua, 14, 15 Niger, 32 Nigeria, 17, 22, 26, 33 children as witches, 28 Royal Dutch-Shell, 39 Nizeyimana, Idelphonse, 68 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Afghanistan, 80, 81 and anti-Semitism, 19 Article 19, 15, 140 Association for the Prevention of Torture, 17 in Bangladesh, 51 in Belarus, 87 in Burma, 90, 92 in Darfur, 155 in DPRK, 107 in DRC, 113 in East Sudan, 157 in Gaza, 62 in Iran, 118 in Iraq, 119, 121 in Israel and the OPTs, 126, 129 National Association of (in Zimbabwe), 171 in North Caucasus, 138, 139 in Pakistan, 132, 134 in Palestine, 34, 127 in Poland, 27 in Russia, 136, 137, 138, 140 in Somalia, 147 in Syria, 157 in Turkmenistan, 160 in Vietnam, 164 in Zimbabwe, 172 North Caucasus see under Russia
North Korea see Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) North Ossetia see under Russia Nowak, Manfred, 106 Ntaganda, Bosco, 111 Nursi, Said, 162
O Obama, President, 44 Occupied Palestinian Territories, 34, 62, 124–131 the Barrier, 125, 126–127, 129 Israeli settlers, 125 Middle East Peace Process, 124 Operation Cast Lead, 61, 62, 129 Palestinian Authority, 34, 126, 127 torture by Palestinian Authority, 127 see also East Jerusalem; Gaza; Israel; West Bank 1GOAL campaign, 29 Optional Protocols to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT), 16–17, 18, 70, 72, 73 to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 142 to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 26, 70 to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 39 Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), 13, 15, 20, 22, 49, 58, 75–76, 163, 164 Freedom of Media Representative, 15 Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), 70, 75, 87, 164 Organisation of American States, 11 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), 64 Overseas Territories, UK, 54–57 constitutional review process, 55 Consultative Council, 56 Oxfam, 101
P Pakistan, 44, 45, 51, 78, 131–136 blasphemy, 132, 133 border areas, 33, 34, 134 child abduction, 51 children’s rights, 132, 134 Christians in, 131, 132 conflict prevention, 132 death penalty, 134–135 detention, 135, 136 disappearances, 132 domestic violence, 133 drugs, 134 education in, 134, 135 EU–Pakistan Summit, 131