Human Rights
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Wednesday November 4, 2009
Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • Islam • USA:
MILAN — An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition, AP reports.
The American suspects — all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents — are being tried in absentia and are considered fugitives.
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Sunday July 6, 2008
Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Legal experts from 95 countries have devised a way of measuring how well leaders, officials and judges are meeting the basic principles of law and human rights. That means the USA no longer has to pretend that it is the standard by which all other countries should be judged.
Also: not coincidentally, Robert Jay Lifton comments on America’s use of torture.
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Also: not coincidentally, Robert Jay Lifton comments on America’s use of torture.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
Catholic Church • Human Rights:
Amnesty’s policy that rape and incest victims should be entitled to abortions has led to calls from senior members of the Catholic church in Britain and Rome for a withdrawal of support from the organisation.
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Monday August 13, 2007
Catholic Church • Human Rights:
Amnesty International is set to defy the Vatican and risk the wrath of Catholics around the world over its decision to back abortion for rape victims.
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Friday August 10, 2007
Catholic Church • Human Rights:
The debate over whether rape and incest victims should be entitled to abortions has led to calls from senior members of the Catholic church in Britain and Rome for a withdrawal of support from the organisation.
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Thursday March 29, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights:
States that commit acts of torture should be forced to pay for victims’ rehabilitation, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak has said.
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Friday January 19, 2007
Egypt • Human Rights • Islam:
An Egyptian blogger went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife with his Internet writings. Egypt’s first prosecution of a blogger came as Washington has backed away from pressuring its Mideast ally to improve its human rights record and bring democratic reform.
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Tuesday October 31, 2006
Human Rights:
The lord chancellor is to defend the Human Rights Act and call such rights as British as a pint of bitter.
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Tuesday July 25, 2006
Human Rights:
ATHENS, Greece — Famed for its human rights work, Amnesty International is under siege from religious groups outraged by a proposal that would expand Amnesty's mandate to include supporting access to abortion in cases such as sexual violence.
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Thursday April 21, 2005
Human Rights:
Governments are building a "global registration and surveillance infrastructure" in the US-led "war on terror", civil liberty groups warned yesterday.
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Friday October 8, 2004
Human Rights:
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has signed a co-operation agreement with the new International Criminal Court, despite objections to the tribunal from the United States.
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Wednesday October 6, 2004
Human Rights:
Research Reveals Obvious Anti-America, Anti-Israel Bias in Denominations' View of Human-Rights Abuses
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Tuesday September 14, 2004
Human Rights:
Nearly 8,000 mullahs in western region to receive sensitisation on range of children’s issues
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Tuesday June 1, 2004
Human Rights:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - From jungle warlords and cult leaders to bankers and presidents, prosecutors are lining up their targets for the first cases by the new permanent war crimes court.
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Tuesday January 27, 2004
Human Rights:
Congolese human rights minister: New criminal court deters tribal warfare
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Wednesday January 14, 2004
Human Rights:
The EU must improve human rights in its member states as it expands to the former communist countries of eastern Europe, Amnesty International warned yesterday.
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Tuesday November 4, 2003
Human Rights:
15 October – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said a symposium on international law meeting today in Beijing would help spread understanding of the work of the much-misunderstood International Criminal Court (ICC), the first permanent tribunal to try war crimes.
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Human Rights:
Washington has renewed its criticism of European Union efforts to block immunity agreements that would prevent US citizens from being subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Monday November 3, 2003
Human Rights:
AP, Nov. 2, 2003
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Wednesday September 10, 2003
Human Rights:
UNITED NATIONS: The chief prosecutor for the new global criminal court says he intended to make reported massacres and other crimes in the eastern Congo region of Ituri his first subject of investigation.
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Saturday September 6, 2003
Human Rights:
VANCOUVER (CP) - The International Criminal Court, which could hear its first case next year, can demonstrate its worth despite being opposed by the powerful United States by being effective, the court's Canadian president said Wednesday.
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Wednesday July 16, 2003
Human Rights:
The Daily Telegraph (Australia), July 16, 2003
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Human Rights:
Arab News, July 15, 2003 (Opinion)
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Thursday June 19, 2003
Human Rights:
Christian organizations should be fighting the death penalty
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Wednesday June 18, 2003
Human Rights:
Radio Netherlands, June 17, 2003
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