U.S. Issues Annual Human Rights Report
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The State Department declared today that the genocide in Darfur is the worldâs gravest human rights abuse.
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The Bush administration, responding to negative reviews of an international conference on Middle East democracy last week in Morocco, said that the event provided a platform for human rights and other nongovernmental groups in the Arab world.
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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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A State Department report that said Russia's human rights record has deteriorated in the past year was criticized by the government as aimed at furthering American political interests
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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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The United States has moved to put the issue of political repression and human rights abuses in Myanmar formally on the agenda of the Security Council this month, its ambassador to the UN said.
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The United Nations new human rights  watchdog agreed on Monday rules for working that oblige all  states -- even members of the Security Council -- to submit to  periodic scrutiny of their records.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday it has given the Bush administration a confidential report critical of US treatment of terror suspects detained at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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China's human rights record is getting worse in some areas and Myanmar cements &quot;cruel&quot; misrule, with rape, torture and repression, the United States charged in its annual rights report Tuesday.
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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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China&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called United States-based Human Rights Watch ``wicked&#39;&#39; for issuing a critical report on rights in Hong Kong ahead of Sunday&#39;s Legislative Council election.
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The United States and European  Union are undermining human rights worldwide by allowing  countries with dubious elections like Pakistan and Kenya to  pretend they are genuine democracies, Human Rights Watch said  on Thursday.
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Human rights monitors have found a pattern of abuses by government security forces, who have received roughly $22 million in U.S. military aid over the last several years.
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U.S. laws that order the deportation of legal immigrants found guilty of a criminal offense are a violation of human rights and have resulted in thousands of families being separated, New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
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The United States, acknowledging its own record is in question, criticized Iraq on Tuesday in its annual report on human rights abuses, listing death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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WASHINGTON -- The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The United States would cut off funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council under a bill passed by the Senate, the latest action by Washington to target an agency it has harshly criticized since its creation last year.