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WORLD / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:43am neoform

BBC News -- Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty International says. The group's annual report on human rights says policies like those linked to the "war on terror" are cr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 9:53am neoform

MSNBC -- Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 25, 2006 @ 8:13am neoform

Boston Globe -- Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 13, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to all Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 5, 2007 @ 5:51pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Governments are running out of time to address climate change and to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday. Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon di.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:41pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Governments are running out of time to address climate change and to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday. Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon di.. Read More