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  • March 2008

    • Gitmo Prisoners Granted Phone Call to Family

      Reuters  |  Mar 13, 08 4:15 AM CDT

      Gitmo Prisoners Granted Phone Call to Family

      (Newser) - "Unlawful enemy combatants" detained at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will be allowed to phone their families one a year, Reuters reports. But the military task force in charge of managing the prison has yet to work out the details. As it stands, Gitmo inmates can send and receive letters—subject to military censorship—but otherwise are permitted no contact with the outside world. More »

    • 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

    • Tibetan Voices Grow Louder

      Independent (UK)  |  Mar 12, 08 8:25 AM CDT

      Tibetan Voices Grow Louder

      (Newser) - Nearly a half-century after China brutally crushed Tibetan opposition and sent the Dalai Lama into exile, calls for China to give Tibet more freedom are stronger than they have been in decades. While Beijing remains unwilling to budge, activists plan to use China's time in the Olympic spotlight to show that the world hasn't forgotten about Tibet. The Independent takes a look. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • human rights  • Dalai Lama  • Tibetans in exile

    • US Blocks UN From Prison Inspections in Iraq

      AFP  |  Mar 12, 08 6:06 AM CDT

      US Blocks UN From Prison Inspections in Iraq

      (Newser) - The US has denied a top UN official access to American prisons in Iraq, drawing condemnation from the torture expert, reports AFP. "I'm astonished that the US government is not willing to grant me access," said the official. Iraqi and British forces have permitted access to their prisons. The US maintains that Iraq is still a combat zone not subject to traditional human rights protections.  More »

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      Iraq  • United Nations  • prison  • human rights

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • US Backs Sham Democracies, Watchdog Says

      BBC  |  Jan 31, 08 6:25 PM CST

      US Backs Sham Democracies, Watchdog Says

      (Newser) - Human Rights Watch says Western powers accept too many sham democracies out of political convenience, the BBC reports. The group's annual report slams the tendency of the US and EU governments to allow autocrats to claim “the mantle of democracy" without granting authentic political freedom. It also said the US and others undermine the global commitment to human rights by committing their own violations while fighting terrorism. More »

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      Bush administration  • European Union  • human rights  • Human Rights Watch

    • China Shines Image for Olympics

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 30, 08 2:29 PM CST

      China Shines Image for Olympics

      (Newser) - With less than 200 days to go before the Summer Olympics, Der Spiegel takes an in-depth look at China’s feverish preparations and finds a sprawling bureaucracy working overtime to project the perfect image to the world. But while Beijing might clean the smog, and even prevent rain, making communist China look like an open and free society won’t be easy. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • human rights  • Olympic Games  • Communist Party  • Chinese athletes  • Olympians

  • December 2007

    • Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider

      New York Times  |  Dec 26, 07 4:33 PM CST

      Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton spent her 8 years in the White House informally advising her husband and jetting around the world mediating social crises, the New York Times says, but the first lady had little direct experience with war or terrorism. She didn’t do “the heavy lifting of foreign policy,” snipes an ex-Clinton State Department official who’s now supporting Barack Obama. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • China  • Bill Clinton  • human rights  • foreign policy  • Haiti  • national security  • first lady  • Somalia  • Rwanda  • diplomat  • Balkans

    • Nepal to Ax Monarchy, Install Republic

      BBC  |  Dec 23, 07 6:09 PM CST

      Nepal to Ax Monarchy, Install Republic

      (Newser) - After almost three months of deadlock, Nepal agreed today to end its 240-year-old monarchy and set up a republic, the BBC reports. Maoist rebels, who had walked out in October and staged violent protests, struck the deal with Nepal's leaders, which will go into effect after elections next spring. More »

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      insurgents  • human rights  • Nepal  • monarchy  • Maoists  • Gyanendra  • republic

    • Nepal Court Rules for Gay Rights

      BBC  |  Dec 22, 07 10:23 AM CST

      Nepal Court Rules for Gay Rights

      (Newser) - Conservative Nepal must stop its discrimination against homosexuals and make laws to protect their rights, the nation's highest court ruled yesterday. The decision is a major victory for gay rights advocates in the Himalayan country, where gay men and women have long complained of discrimination and attacks, BBC reports. "We all feel we are liberated today," said one activist. More »

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      gay rights  • human rights  • homosexuality  • Nepal  • court cases  • transgender

    • French Divided on Qaddafi Trip

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Dec 12, 07 4:38 PM CST

      French Divided on Qaddafi Trip

      (Newser) - Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s visit to Paris continues to raise questions as to whether the French president sold out by dealing with the dictator, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Activists and some government officials say President Nicolas Sarkozy ignored Libya’s dismal human-rights record in favor of business, but Sarkozy pointed to Qaddafi’s renouncing of terrorism in defending the decision. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • human rights  • Libya  • Muammar Qaddafi

  • November 2007

    • Russian Crackdown Draws Fire

      Washington Post  |  Nov 26, 07 9:40 AM CST

      Russian Crackdown Draws Fire

      (Newser) - Authorities detained Russian opposition leaders yesterday and broke up a St. Petersburg rally and march in the second day of aggressive crackdowns on dissent, the Washington Post reports. Several candidates in Sunday's parliamentary elections were among the 200 held. "They have forbidden us from discussing Putin," one candidate told demonstrators just before he was arrested. More »

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      Russia  • Vladimir Putin  • election  • human rights  • Russian elections  • police crackdown

    • 8,000 Kenyans Killed by Cops, Lawyers Say

      Associated Press  |  Nov 25, 07 8:30 PM CST

      8,000 Kenyans Killed by Cops, Lawyers Say

      (Newser) - Kenyan cops have killed or fatally tortured more than 8,000 youth since 2002, human rights lawyers charged today. The deaths, along with 4,000 cases of missing men, are allegedly part of a state crackdown on the Mungiki—an outlawed sect the government blames for gang violence. Police have dismissed the report as “fictitious” and “a document not worth responding to.” More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • human rights  • Mwai Kibaki  • gangs  • Kikuyu  • Nairobi  • tribes  • Mungiki

    • Khmer Rouge Jailer Has First Day in Court

      Reuters  |  Nov 20, 07 12:50 PM CST

      Khmer Rouge Jailer Has First Day in Court

      (Newser) - The Cambodian “Killing Fields” tribunal heard an application for bail today from Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the math teacher who became the chief jailer of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime. Of at least 14,000 who went into Duch’s prison, only 10 survived, Reuters reports. More »

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      human rights  • Cambodia  • Khmer Rouge  • Pol Pot  • crimes against humanity  • Duch

    • UN Inspector Vows to Tally Burma's Dead

      Associated Press  |  Nov 11, 07 6:19 PM CST

      UN Inspector Vows to Tally Burma's Dead

      (Newser) - A UN inspector landed in Burma today to tally the junta's detained and dead protesters, the AP reports. And he vowed to leave if officials don't give him "full cooperation." So far, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has met with officials and visited a town where the junta targeted monks in its September crackdown. He also plans to visit prisons and detention centers in his first visit to Burma in four years. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Myanmar  • human rights  • junta  • Ibrahim Gambari

  • October 2007

    • Burmese Monks Back in Streets

      BBC  |  Oct 31, 07 8:52 AM CDT

      Burmese Monks Back in Streets

      (Newser) - Picking up their quashed demands, more than 100 Burmese monks marched in defiance of the military junta today in the first marches since the government crackdown on pro-democracy protests late last month. "This is very significant... we are very encouraged to see the monks taking up action," one Burmese human rights watcher told the BBC. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • human rights  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • Buddhist monks

    • Athletes Urged to Tackle China

      New Republic  |  Oct 18, 07 1:15 PM CDT

      Athletes Urged to Tackle China

      (Newser) - US athletes have a moral imperative to take a stand at the Beijing Olympics, the New Republic ’s editors assert: The American delegation should follow Lee Bollinger’s example of “spectacular rudeness” next summer, condemning the Chinese for their brutal human rights record. It’s unethical to be hosted by a country that tortures political activists, they argue, and be silent. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • human rights  • athlete  • Black Power

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