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WORLD / NEWS Sun Feb 7, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- An international human rights organization on Sunday faulted Israel's investigation into alleged war crimes last year in Gaza... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 25, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A human rights group is calling on Iran to free protesters detained after the disputed June 12 presidential election, calling the government's crackdown on its critics a "human rights disaster.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jan 23, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Reports of at least 150 Muslims killed in recent religious clashes in Nigeria should be investigated, a human rights group urged Saturday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 17, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Rape has turned into a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the number of attacks on women having grown threefold over the past few years, human rights activists said Friday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 28, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- About 300 people have been killed in a spate of violence in northern Nigeria, the president of a human rights group said Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jul 25, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Human rights supporters in dozens of cities around the world plan to rally Saturday to show solidarity with Iranians seeking democracy and civil rights, one of the organizing groups said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jul 19, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Government agents used tear gas to disperse demonstrators, and beat and kidnapped a human rights lawyer, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said Saturday, citing witnesses... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 2, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 31, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 12, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." Yang Jiechi was responding to questions about a State Department report r.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 9:18am neoform

wor.ldne.ws -- Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got an unpleasant surprise during his visit to France today when human rights groups filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the “Court of First Instance” (Tribunal de Grande Instance) charging.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 10:38am neoform

Washington Times -- Europe's primary human rights body will vote on a proposal this week to defend the teaching of Darwinian evolution and keep creationist and intelligent design views out of science classes in state schools in its 47 member countries. The unusual move sh.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform

BBC News -- The Vatican has urged all Catholics to stop donating money to Amnesty International, accusing the human rights group of promoting abortion. The Vatican also said it was suspending all financial aid to Amnesty over what it said was the group's recent ch.. Read More

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 Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:10am neoform

BBC News -- France has signed an extradition treaty with China despite concerns expressed by human rights groups over Beijing's use of the death penalty. France's justice minister said a suspect would be extradited in cases punishable by death only if China guaran.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:10am neoform

BBC News -- The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a Polish woman 25,000 euros ($33,000; �16,000) in damages after she was refused an abortion. Alicja Tysiac's eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby and she fears she may go blind... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 12:45pm mrmdc

This Is London -- A Chief constable was accused of 'madness' last night after refusing to release pictures of two escaped murderers amid fears it might breach their human rights... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 4:47pm neoform

FOX News -- Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 8:23am neoform

MSNBC -- Message of H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President of the Islamic Republic of Iran To the American People.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 26, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Venezuela's top human rights official on Thursday disputed findings of a report issued by an Organization of American States commission, and accused the panel of unfairly distorting statistics to show a pattern of political repression and abuses by the government... Read More