RIGHTS:  U.S. Double Standard Prompts UN Tactical Twists
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22 (IPS) - The United States, which traditionally  castigates  human rights violators before the United Nations each year, has   rarely or ever been formally condemned by the world body for its  own  transgressions of civil liberties.
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he United States is treating the globe like one giant battlefield for its war on terror, eroding rights worldwide, a leading human rights group said Wednesday
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Comment is free: Karen Armstrong: Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides.
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The United States, accustomed to giving advice on democracy, is in the unfamiliar position of getting some from international election observers schooled in Tajikistan, Ethiopia and other emerging democracies.
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UNITED NATIONS The United States has now joined the rest of the world backing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. It&#39;s an abrupt turnaround from the US refusal to back him last week after a senator called for his resignation.
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WASHINGTON -- A new survey indicates that a majority of the American public is at odds with many of President's Bush's foreign policy priorities, with overwhelming majorities favoring treaties that the Bush administration opted out of and more than half saying that the United States has the right to go to war without United Nations approval only if there is ...
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On the eve of President Bush&#39;s address to the United Nations, domestic and foreign critics of his Iraq war policy focused on a radically different international agenda on Monday.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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SEOUL -- North Korea accused the United States of applying a double standard on the Korean peninsula and warned yesterday of a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia following the revelation that South Korean scientists enriched a tiny amount of uranium in 2000.
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LONDON : 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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Some laud moves with the two nations. Others are suspicious.
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The administration should bring its policies on prisoners in the war on terror into compliance with the Geneva Conventions. A prosecution before the first American military commission since World War II was
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The Jose Padilla trial is a test: Can the US avoid the legal tangles of its 'war on terror' tactics?
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The US stands by its claim of genocide in Darfur, in contrast to the findings of a United Nations report.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba- Prosecutors and defense attorneys tested microphones and arguments Monday ahead of the first arraignments of suspected terrorists at the US naval base here, while human rights groups criticized the US military for barring
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THERE ARE occasions when symbolic gestures in the realm of diplomacy are worth making, and the UN Security Council resolution that Washington and Paris sponsored Thursday to denounce Syria&#39;s flagrant manipulation of Lebanese politics was one of those
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Military&#39;s approach comes under fire from UN representative, who questions wisdom of the push for an early election. By Sameer N. Yacoub.