Human Rights Abuses

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Terrorist Or Activist? A Young Colombian, Gabriel Gonzalez, Fights For His Country, His Reputation (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Venezuela, Colombia FARC, Human Rights First, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Democratic Security, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Abuses, Diane Tucker, Foreign Policy, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Human Rights Violations, Hillary Clinton Colombia, Human Rights, Tom Brokaw, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade, Alvaro Uribe, Gabriel Gonzales, Farc, Mexico's Drug War, Alvaro Uribe Government, Video, World News

Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.

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Human Rights Watch Should Not Be Criticized for Doing Its Job

Aryeh Neier | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Aclu, Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Aryeh Neier, Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Abuses, Abu Graib, Israel, Helsinki Watch, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World News

Human Rights Watch has an immense amount of experience in all parts of the world in fact-gathering and getting the story right. That is why its reporting matters.

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Famine and the Noisome Beast in Ethiopia

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Ethiopian Famine, Human Rights Abuses, Ethiopia, World News

After two decades, all we see is the specter of an entrenched dictatorship that has clung to power like barnacles to a sunken ship, or more appropriately, the sunken Ethiopia ship of state.

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Benjamin Netanyahu On Iranian Threat: "The Issue Is Not The Security Of Israel But Of The World"

Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Holocaust, Gaza, Palestinian, Fatah, Iran, Obama, Human Rights Abuses, Hamas, Nukes, War Crimes, West Bank, Jerusalem, Nuclear Weapons, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Geneva, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas Fatah, Goldstone Report, Red Cross, Israel, Un, Gilad Shalit, War Crime, World News

NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...

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Why Refugees Need to Make a Living

Dale Buscher | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Gender-Based-Violence, Displaced People, Female Exploitation, Civil War, Sexploitation, Pakistan, Displaced Persons Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Human Rights Abuses, Sri Lanka Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Prostitution, Sri Lanka Civil War, Sri Lanka Rebels, Thailand Burmese Refugees, Human Rights, Exploitation, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Pakistan Crisis, Humanitarian Crisis, Sri Lanka Civilian Deaths, International Aid, Refugees, World News

It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.

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Should Goldman Sachs be Prosecuted for Human Rights Abuses? (VIDEO)

Max Keiser | Posted 08.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Human Rights Abuses, Goldman Sachs, Paulson, Henry Paulson, Human Rights, Goldman Sachs Profits, Business News

The law will eventually catch up with Goldman Sachs, but only if the prosecution venue is moved outside of the U.S.

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Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen Leader, To Sue Rights Group Memorial For Natalya Estemirova Accusations

AP | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, Natalya Estemirova, Natalya Estemirova Murder, Natalya Estemirova Huffington, Human Rights, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Groups, World News

MOSCOW — The spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's strongman leader, says his boss will sue a top human rights organization for claiming he w...

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In the Shadows of "Our" Torture

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Shadow, Carol Smaldino, Holocaust, Carol-Smaldino, Genocide, Psychologists, CIA Torture, Psychology, Human Rights Abuses, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Carl-Jung, Torture, Abu Ghraib, World News

With a kind of paranoia, we deny and project parts of ourselves: in the meantime over the course of history we have felt justified in blaming, hating, fearing, conquering and even torturing.

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Callixte Kalimanzira Sentenced To 30 Years For Rwandan Genocide

Reuters | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Rwanda Genocide, Rwanda, Rwandan Militias, The Hague, Human Rights, Africa, Callixte Kalimanzira, Foreign Affairs, Rwandan Genocide, Human Rights Abuses, Advocacy, World News

A U.N. court trying masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide Monday gave a 30-year jail sentence to a former interior minister accused of tricking thousa...

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Shell Human Rights Abuses Case Delayed (VIDEO)

VOA News | Carolyn Weaver | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights, Environment, Human Rights Abuses, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell Case, Shell, Green News

The Shell human rights abuses case has been delayed in New York due to court order. No explanation has been given. For a video primer on the case, scr...

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President Obama Repeats Bush Folly on UN Racism Conference

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Ethnic Cleansing, Geneva, Bush, United Nations, Genocide, President Obama, Durban, Global Racism, Un Racism Conference, Human Rights Abuses, Zionism, Israel, World News

The Obama administration's decision to skip Geneva is more than disappointing. It's yet another opportunity the US blew to struggle against global racism.

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The Fujimori Verdict and the Justice Cascade: Ending Impunity

Scott Gilmore | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Peru, Human Rights, Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori-Convicted, Human Rights Abuses, Fujimori-Human-Rights-Crimes, Human Rights Peru, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, World News

Today's sentence against Fujimori is a victory against impunity, and a repudiation of the notion that government leaders are bound by no limits when it comes to national security.

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Peru's Fujimori Convicted In Murder, Kidnapping Trial

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Fujimori, Peru, Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori Human Rights Crimes, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Crimes, Advocacy, Latin America, Fujimori Conviction, Alberto Fujimoro, Lima-Peru, Trials on Genocide 2009 in Peru, Gilmore Fujimori, World News

LIMA, Peru — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday for death squad killings and k...

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Israel Committed Human Rights Violations In Gaza: UN Investigators

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Investigators reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday enumerated a number of human rights violations committed by Israel during it...

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We Are All Guilty

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women in the Workplace, US Ratification of CEDAW, Women, Human Rights, Pay Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Women's Interests, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Human Rights Abuses, Politics News

Why do women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and abuse? There is no easy answer.

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Obama's Latest Preacher Problem

Wayne Besen | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uganda, TD Jakes, Human-Rights-Abuses, Bbc, Jim Wallis, Rick Warren, Donnie McClurkin, Ex-Gay, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Politics News

Will spending time in the biblical backwater influence Obama's views and lead him to sell us down the river?

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The First Hundred Days

William Fisher | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Human Rights Abuses, Guantanamo Detainees, Obama Transition, First 100 Days, Obama First 100 Days, Politics News

On Change.gov, the top-rated publicly-submitted question asked the incoming president whether he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate "the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration."

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The Evil of It All...

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, US-Middle East Policy, Human Rights Abuses, Israel, Judaism, Israel-Gaza Airstrikes, World News

As a Jew I am ashamed of what Israel is doing under the banner of my heritage. As a journalist, I am alarmed at the media censorship. As a human rights advocate, I demand that Israel stop.

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What Ms. Roosevelt Might Have Said About Gay Rights

Pia Sawhney | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Politics News, Politics, California Gay Marriage, Human Rights, Gay Rights, Religion and Politics, Breaking Politics News, Human Rights Abuses, Homosexual Rights, Gay Marriage, Eleanor Roosevelt, 60th Anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, World, Politics News

If Ms. Roosevelt was around today... would she have used the 60th anniversary of the UDHR the way gay activists have; and would she have endorsed a national boycott in solidarity with them?

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Time For Regime Change in Zimbabwe

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

In Zimbabwe, the lack of medicine, equipment, services, and staff in public hospitals is resulting in preventable deaths. There is no access to care for those who cannot afford private clinics.

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Zimbabwe Health Crisis a Regional Problem

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Politics News, Zimbabwe, Human Rights Abuses, News, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Politics, United Nations, Jimmy Carter, Health, Kofi Annan, The Elder Group, Public Health, Cholera Outbreak, World News

A complete collapse of Zimbabwe's health system and sanitation infrastructure has given way to a major cholera epidemic spreading throughout the country. Raw sewage is running in the streets, and medicine is unavailable.

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Zimbabwe Health Crisis "A Disaster of Unimaginable Proportions"

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, The Elder Group, Zimbabwe, Politics, News, Human Rights, Health, Cholera Outbreak, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Human Rights Abuses, Public Health, Politics News

This weekend, a group including... Kofi Annan and former U.S. President Carter had to cancel a humanitarian assessment visit to Zimbabwe when the Mugabe government refused them visas.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo: "We're on the Run Again"

Bukeni Waruzi | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drc, Congolese Militia, United Nations, Goma, South Kivu, Internally Displaced Persons, Human Rights Abuses, General Laurent Nkunda, Central Africa, Naitonal Congress for the Defense of People, North Kivu, Alliance of Democratic Forces for the LIberation of Congo-Zaire, Congo Kabila, Icc, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC Violence, Genocide, Laurent Kabila, African Union, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Refugees, Rape in Wartime, Uvira, Fizi, Afdl, Zaire, Cndp, Pareco, Politics News

The people in eastern Congo are tired; we have been running for more than a decade now. We need to sit down, live in peace and raise our children.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Al Sharpton For Human Rights in Cuba?

Roger Hernandez | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Prisoners, Human Rights Abuses, Cuba, Reverend Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton, Politics News

Activist in black causes, Sharpton asked the Cuban gov. to allow him into the country to learn about the situation of political prisoners. But is he also concerned about imprisoned dissidents who are not black?

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