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human rights stories: 117 news summaries

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Investors Clash With Yahoo CEO

Stockholders blast chief for $107M payday; nix change on company's China policy

Jun 13, 07 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investors railed yesterday against Yahoo Inc.'s management team in an unusually rowdy session of the search engine's annual shareholders' meeting. Angry investors interrogated CEO Terry Semel over his $107.5M paycheck and the company's slumping stock price, which fell 9% in the last year. A third of shareholders mutinied... More »

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China • Yahoo • stock market • Internet • human rights • executive compensation • censorship • shareholders • stocks • Terry Semel • search engine

China Curbs Executions as Olympics Loom

Executions down 40% in runup to 2008

Jun 9, 07 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Capital punishment is on the decline in China, a country responsible for more than half of the world's executions. Beijing doesn't release figures, but human rights watchers say death penalty cases are down as much as 40% over the last six years. Sinologists reckon much of that drop represents an... More »

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China • death penalty • human rights • execution • 2008 Beijing Olympics • capital punishment • Olympic Games

Rights Groups Pressure US

Report urges release of info on "disappeared" terror suspects

Jun 8, 07 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six prominent human rights groups want the US to disclose the whereabouts of 39 terrorism suspects, or "ghost prisoners," believed to have been in government custody. The organizations released a report today charging that children as young as 7 have been detained, invoking the loaded term "disappeared,... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • human rights • prison • children • Amnesty International • terrorist • ghost prisoners

Two More Arrested for Pearl Killing

Pakistani police say suspects were caught in a car with explosives

Jun 5, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Pakistan have nabbed two men suspected of involvement in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The two suspects —alleged members of a Al Qaeda affiliate—were picked up traveling in a car full of weapons and explosives, police said. One of... More »

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Pakistan • human rights • kidnapping • murder • Daniel Pearl • Karachi • Attaur Rehman • al-Qaeda

Bush Asks Congress to Double AIDS Effort

Calls for $30 billion over 5 years, after he's out of office

May 30, 07 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush wants to double the funding of a U.S. program that battles the global AIDS crisis. Bush will ask Congress today to commit $30 billion over the next five years after the current program expires in 2008. The extra cash could save the lives of 1.5 million... More »

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AIDS • human rights • international development • Sudan • PEPFAR • economic sanctions • funding • George W. Bush

Amnesty Faults Sudan for Arming Darfur

 Planes disguised as U.N. aircraft to foil arms embargo

May 8, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amnesty International accuses Sudan of violating the UN arms embargo with the help of  Security Council members Russia and China. The human rights group claims the Khartoum government is using planes disguised as all-white UN aircraft to move military equipment into the embattled region where 200,000 people have already... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • human rights • Sudan • Amnesty International • weapon

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

Democracy Depends on Kurdistan

Human-rights activist sees region as harbinger of Iraq's fate

May 1, 07 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - While the U.S. focuses on Baghdad, a potentially defining crisis is developing in Kurdistan, according to Mark Lattimer, director of Minority Rights Group International. He argues in the Guardian that bloodshed in the only relatively secure region of Iraq is increasing as Kurds forced out of Kirkuk by Saddam... More »

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Iraq • Middle East • human rights • democracy • Kurdistan • civil war • Iraq war

Taliban Video
Shows Young Boy Beheading Prisoner

Preteen appears to execute Pakistani militant; international outcry follows

Apr 25, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - International outrage is building over a Taliban video in which a preteen boy appears to behead a prisoner. The Guardian reports that the boy, who "appears no older than 12," denounces the man, a Pakistani militant, as an "American spy" in a high-pitched voice before apparently using... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • human rights • war crimes • beheading • militant

Google Earth Digitizes Genocide

Internet tool used to raise awareness of atrocities in Sudan

Apr 13, 07 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google Earth has teamed up with the Holocaust Museum to bring the realities of genocide to your MacBook. "Crisis in Darfur" employs Google Earth wizardry to help users visualize the scope of the atrocities currently unfolding in Sudan. Viewers can see over 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages up... More »

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technology • media • Google • Darfur • genocide • Internet • human rights • Google Earth • Sudan • Holocaust Museum • Crisis in Darfur • humanitarian

Gitmo Prisoners Go
On Hunger Strike

13 protest supermax conditions

Apr 9, 07 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thirteen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center are on hunger strike, protesting conditions at a maximum-security block known as Camp Six, where 160 inmates are locked in their 8-by-10-foot cells for at least 22 hours a day. It's the first major strike since early 2006, when Gitmo commanders started... More »

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human rights • prison • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • US Army • hunger strike

Beijing Ban Spurs Organ Shortage

China cleans up for Olympics—and Korean kidney patients feel the pinch

Mar 29, 07 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Korea has a kidney shortage, and the Beijing Olympics are to blame, Der Spiegel reports. China, attempting to clean up its human rights reputation in preparation the 2008 games, has banned organ trafficking and cut down on the state executions that used to create supply. Now countries that used... More »

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China • organ harvesting • South Korea • human rights • Olympic Games • waiting list

Court Orders Abortion Access in Poland

Even where abortion is severely restricted, it must be available to women legally entitled

Mar 21, 07 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even countries that severely restrict abortion must make them available to those who are entitled to them by law, the European court of human rights ruled yesterday. A Polish mother sued because her fourth pregnancy's damage to her failing eyesight made her legally eligible for an abortion to preserve her... More »

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reproductive rights • health care • abortion • pregnancy • health • women's health • human rights • Poland • Europe

SADDAM'S
VP HANGS

Taha Yassin Ramadan is executed, despite protests of lack of evidence

Mar 20, 07 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam’s loyal vice president was hanged today for the same crimes as his boss. Taha Yassin Ramadan became the fourth to be executed in Iraq for the 1982 massacre of Shias in the city of Dujail. Ramadan’s original sentence of life in prison was found on appeal to... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Shiite • human rights • trial • Taha Yassin Ramadan • Shia • Dujail • Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti

Afghan Women Choose Death by Fire

Mar 16, 07 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new human rights report suggests that self-immolation is on the rise among Afghan women, who believe setting themselves on fire is the only sure way to end their agonized lives. The study interviewed the family members of 800 such women, who reported that rape, domestic violence, and accusations against... More »

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Afghanistan • human rights • women • women's rights • domestic violence

Prisoner Sheds Harsh Light on "Black Sites"

Testimony undercuts Bush claims about CIA secret facilities for terror suspects

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Details about "black sites"--the network of secret internment facilities for terror suspects the CIA ran until last summer—are emerging as former prisoners tell their stories. The Washington Post interviews Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster who spent 28 months in two facilities—where he was drugged, burned,... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • human rights • terrorist • black sites • internment • Marwan Jabour • Geneva Convention

CIA Finds No Escape From Secret Prisons

New report places 'black sites' first exposed in 2005 in Poland, Romania

Jan 1, 07 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The secret CIA prisons are back. The US cashed in on military alliances with an eager Poland and Romania to skirt civilian regulations on torture and tk, says a report by Europe's central human rights council released today. The report sheds new light on the so-called 'black sites,' which... More »

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Bush administration • NATO • CIA • human rights • secret prisons

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