Rights violations soar in south Russia: Amnesty
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Human rights violations in the Russian region of Ingushetia have soared and a repeat of the systematic abuses in neighboring Chechnya is unacceptable, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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HELSINKI, Jul 16 (IPS) - Human rights campaigners in Russia and Finland fear  that denial of rights will continue beyond the term of President  Vladimir Putin, who is expected to step down in March next year.
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Hundreds of protesters demanding that a local leader step down clashed with riot police Wednesday in an impoverished region of southern Russia, authorities said.
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The US, Russia and Sudan are accused of being the biggest violators of housing rights.
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Human rights violations in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have become widespread since fighting in June between the Palestinian factions saw Hamas seize control of Gaza, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING -- China's human rights record has deteriorated in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, with thousands of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty International said yesterday.
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Women and girls in war zones suffer rape and violent abuse while offenders escape punishment, Amnesty International said a report released Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 18 -- A leading international research group urged southern African leaders Tuesday to offer Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his closest allies amnesty from prosecution in exchange for political reforms that might end years of misrule.
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The "war on terror" has led to new patterns of disappearances in South Asia, rights group Amnesty says.
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A U.N. anti-torture panel said Friday it had credible reports of unofficial detention centers, abuse and disappearances in Russia's restive southern province of Chechnya.
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The European Court of Human Rights is due to begin hearings into alleged human rights abuses in Chechnya.
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Amnesty International accuses Azerbaijan over its treatment of displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Hundreds of people looted shops and  burned a restaurant belonging to Caucasus businessmen in an  outbreak of racial violence in northwestern Russia triggered by  the recent killing of two locals, Russian media said on Sunday.
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Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday that the relentless pursuit of security by the world&#039;s powerful nations had undermined human rights, draining energy and attention from crises afflicting the poor and underprivileged.
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Amnesty International is concerned about the deterioration of the human rights and humanitarian situation as a result of the Israeli army incursion in the Jabaliya refugee camp and surrounding areas in the northern Gaza Strip (including sectors in the
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Russian authorities often violate citizens' right to hold public protests, the country's human rights ombudsman said in a report published Thursday.
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GROZNY, Russia  - Major human rights groups snubbed a Moscow-sponsored rights conference in Chechnya on Thursday, criticizing it as a sham designed to cover up abuses in the troubled Caucasus republic.