US 'erodes' global human rights
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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In a rare admission, the United States said on Tuesday its own human rights record was in question in an annual report that criticized Iraq for its death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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The United States has manifestly failed  to uphold obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman or  degrading behavior in the "war on terror" launched after Sept.  11, 2001, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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The first visit by an Amnesty International team to Darfur over the last several days showed that the US human rights record has weakened its case to intervene in a human rights crisis elsewhere.
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Powerful governments and armed groups are spreading fear to divert attention from human rights abuses, exacerbating polarization in an increasingly dangerous world, Amnesty International said yesterday in its annual assessment of rights worldwide.
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Amnesty&#39;s report -- &quot;Human dignity denied: Torture and accountability in the &#39;war on terror&quot;&#39; -- accused Washington of stepping onto a &quot;well-trodden path of violating basic rights in the name of national security or &#39;military necessity&#39;.
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.
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The United States has added its voice to a chorus of international concern over the continued detention of Myanmar&#39;s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The US, Russia and Sudan are accused of being the biggest violators of housing rights.
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The Bush administration has done little to follow up its landmark declaration that called human rights abuses in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region &quot;genocide,&quot; resulting in &quot;100 days of failure,&quot; said advocacy group Africa Action as the world marked Human Rights Day
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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 United States moved yesterday to formally add Burma to the agenda of the U.N. Security Council, potentially exposing the Southeast Asian nation, which is ruled by a military junta, to international condemnation for human rights violations and other abuses.
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The United States has "gravely undermined" relations with China by giving the Dalai Lama an award, the Chinese government said Thursday.
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The Bush administration has decided  that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in  Iraq are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva  Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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The United States has done too little to improve treatment of prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay naval base and risks doing more harm than good in the battle against terror, U.N. human rights investigators said Friday.
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Adel Hassan Hamad, who is suing the US government, claims that American values of freedom and democracy have been shaken.
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Belarus believes that the United States has big problems with the observation of human rights, including the meeting of commitments to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the republic's ...