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NEWS ABOUT: human rights violations

human rights violations stories: 11 news summaries

Chinese Complainers Kidnapped

People routinely held
in 'black jails,' journalists beaten

Nov 12, 09 4:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Chinese citizens en route to Beijing to lodge complaints with China's central government are routinely nabbed by thugs and tossed into makeshift "black jails" where they are illegally detained for days or months, deprived of food and water, beaten and threatened—then sent back home without filing their complaints.... More »

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China • Beijing • corruption • freedom of press • Human Rights Watch • human rights violations

Obama Puts Human Rights on Back Burner, Activists Say

Sometimes confrontation isn't best tactic, administration suggests

May 5, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Human-rights workers had high hopes for the Obama administration after President Bush’s inconsistent, too-hot-too-cold policies—but so far, the Washington Post reports, activists think President Obama has let rights take a back seat to more pressing concerns. For example, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said pushing China on human... More »

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China • Hillary Clinton • Darfur • Venezuela • human rights • human rights violations • human rights activists • Obama administration

Mexico Protests Chinese Quarantine of 70 Travelers

Quarantines in China of Mexicans prompt speech by Calderon

May 4, 09 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico is sending a charter plane to China today to rescue more than 70 Mexican travelers who have been quarantined by the Chinese government regardless of whether they had symptoms of the swine flu. President Felipe Calderon protested what he called "repressive and discriminatory measures," AP reports. Other... More »

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China • Mexico • epidemic • quarantine • human rights violations • Felipe Calderón • swine flu

Zimbabwe Activist Kidnapped in Mugabe Crackdown

Human rights activist was gathering abuse testimonials

Dec 14, 08 5:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A prominent Zimbabwe activist collecting evidence of human rights violations by President Robert Mugabe's regime has been kidnapped from her home by 15 armed men claiming to be police officers, reports the Guardian. Jestina Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was the best-known of 20 activists and dissidents... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Cholera • human rights violations • human rights activists • Jestina Mukoko

 US Slammed for Secret
 'Floating Prisons' 

Prisoners held far from courts and scrutiny, human rights group charges

Jun 2, 08 5:07 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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

 Amnesty Again Demands
 Gitmo Closure 

'World leaders are in a state of denial' on human-rights abuses, group charges

May 28, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US has “distinguished itself in recent years through defiance of international law,”  says human-rights advocate Amnesty International in its annual reports, released today. The group called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and other secret detention centers , the New York Times reports, and the prosecution of... More »

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Darfur • human rights • Amnesty International • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Guantanamo Bay • Chechnya • human rights violations • human rights activists

South Korea
to Back UN on North Korea

Seoul shifts gears to join in criticism of
human rights record

Mar 26, 08 9:57 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 China Off US Rights Blacklist 

State Dept. report drops China from top 10 worst abusers despite poor record

Mar 12, 08 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The State Department has taken China off its list of the world's 10 worst human rights abusers, the New York Times 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... More »

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

'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor
in S. Africa

Anti-integration students force-fed
black workers vile soup

Feb 28, 08 1:19 PM CST
(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... More »

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South Africa • race relations • apartheid • University of the Free State • Afrikaners • human rights violations

US Multinational Faces Human Rights Trial

Mining company accused of playing role in Colombian murders

Jul 9, 07 2:47 PM CDT
(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... More »

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utility companies • federal courts • Colombia • Drummond Co. • Alabama • Birmingham • human rights violations

Afghan Prison Is as Bad as Gitmo

May 3, 07 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The U.S. prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan is as bad as Guantanamo, reports Eliza Griswold in the New Republic. Prisoners are kept in barbed-wire cages, beaten, tortured, raped, and held without promise of trial. But unlike Gitmo, Bagram has no visiting congressional delegations. More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • human rights • prison • Bagram Air Force Base • Guantanamo Bay • human rights violations

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