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  • June 2008

    • US Slammed for Secret 'Floating Prisons'

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 2, 08 5:07 AM CDT

      US Slammed for Secret 'Floating Prisons'

      (Newser) - The US has detained terror suspects on some 17 naval ships that have been used as secret "floating prisons" around the world since 2001, according to a study by the human rights organization Reprieve. At least 50 prisoners were held on a single ship and delivered to unknown locations, reports the Guardian . More »

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      Guantanamo Bay  • War on Terror  • human rights  • Guantanamo prisoners  • US Navy  • rendition  • detainees  • human rights violations

  • May 2008
  • March 2008

    • South Korea to Back UN on North Korea

      Associated Press  |  Mar 26, 08 9:57 AM CDT

      South Korea to Back UN on North Korea

      (Newser) - South Korea is set to vote in favor of a United Nations resolution that criticizes the "systematic, widespread, and grave violations" of human rights in North Korea, the AP reports. The South's new president, Lee Myung-bak, is changing a decade of precedent: earlier administrations have either abstained or been absent when the UN considers issues relating to the North. More »

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      United Nations  • North Korea  • South Korea  • human rights  • Lee Myung-bak  • human rights violations

    • China Off US Rights Blacklist

      New York Times  |  Mar 12, 08 10:26 AM CDT

      China Off US Rights Blacklist

      (Newser) - The State Department has taken China off its list of the world's 10 worst human rights abusers, the New York Time s reports. China's human rights record "remained poor," the department's annual report said, with abuses including "extrajudicial killings, torture, and coerced confessions of prisoners." Officials declined to explain why the country was dropped from the list or whether it had anything to do with the Beijing Olympics. More »

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      China  • Russia  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Iran  • Zimbabwe  • Burma  • torture  • North Korea  • Cuba  • Syria  • Sudan  • State Department  • human rights  • Amnesty International  • human rights abuse  • Belarus  • human rights violations  • Eritrea

  • February 2008

    • 'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor in S. Africa

      Mail & Guardian (South Africa)  |  Feb 28, 08 1:19 PM CST

      'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor in S. Africa

      (Newser) - South Africans have reacted with outrage and violence to a homemade video showing white college students forcing black employees to eat dirty meat and soup mixed with urine. The four Afrikaners, who don't disguise their faces, made the video to protest racial integration at the formerly all-white University of the Free State, reports the Mail & Guardian . Classes were suspended yesterday as staff and students marched in protest, and police fired stun grenades at one crowd. More »

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      South Africa  • race relations  • apartheid  • human rights violations

  • July 2007

    • US Multinational Faces Human Rights Trial

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 9, 07 2:47 PM CDT

      US Multinational Faces Human Rights Trial

      (Newser) - A landmark trial addressing corporate culpability for human-rights violations committed on foreign soil gets under way this week, testing whether an 18th-century antipiracy law applies to modern business practices. At issue is the 2001 murder of three Colombian mining-union leaders, the Wall Street Journal reports, and under scrutiny is the alleged involvement of an American mining company. More »

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      Colombia  • Alabama  • federal courts  • human rights violations  • utility companies  • Birmingham

  • May 2007

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