UN watchdog says Britain ignores anti-torture treaty in Iraq, Afghanistan
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GENEVA  - A United Nations human-rights panel expressed concern Britain limits its adherence to the global treaty against torture when it comes to its troops' actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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British opponents of the Iraq war arrested for breaking into military bases were denied justice because the conflict itself was illegal, a court case with potentially far-reaching implications was told.
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A UNITED Nations human rights panel has expressed concern that British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been breaking the global treaty against torture.
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The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog body on Friday rebuffed Western critics of a cooperation deal it has struck with Iran as "back-seat drivers" and urged them to give it time to work to help avoid war.
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The United Nations has rejected  a request from Iraqi leaders to train some 30 judges and  prosecutors who would be trying former President Saddam  Hussein, in part because Baghdad has the death penalty, a U.N.  spokesman said on Friday.
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The House of Lords on Wednesday rejected claims by families of five people killed in Iraq that European human rights law applied to the conduct of British troops in the country.
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LONDON -- The United States has not upheld obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading behavior in the war on terror launched after Sept. 11, 2001, Amnesty International said today.
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The United Nations has rejected a request from Iraqi leaders to train some 30 judges and prosecutors who would be trying former President Saddam Hussein, in part because Baghdad has the death penalty, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.
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EU officials fail to agree on a list of countries from where asylum applications will be presumed to be unfounded.
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Britain said it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
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The UN's anti-torture panel has urged Britain to publish the findings of investigations into alleged cases of torture by British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report obtained by AFP.
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US military doctors accused of ignoring abuse at Guantanamo bay, in a letter published in a British medical journal.
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Britain said Monday it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
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New U.S. rules for war crimes tribunals  at Guantanamo fail to correct fundamental flaws that are  undermining Western efforts to defeat global terrorism, the  British government's top lawyer said on Monday.
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Fifteen British troops under the age of 18 have been "inadvertently" sent to fight in Iraq, contravening a U.N. protocol on children's rights, the government said Sunday.
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The United States faced rare criticism over human rights from close ally Britain, with an official British government report taking Washington to task over concerns about Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay jail.
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Lebanon's parliament speaker said on Thursday the U.N. Security Council had ignored the country's constitution in voting to set up a tribunal for suspects in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.