Israel, Hizbollah broke human rights law: U.N. envoys
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Israel and Hizbollah committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during the month-long Lebanon war, four U.N. human rights envoys said on Tuesday.
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Members of the U.N.'s new human rights watchdog formally agreed Tuesday to continue their scrutiny of Israel while halting investigations into Cuba and Belarus &#151; a move that immediately drew fire from the United States.
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Fighting between Hamas and Fatah is fuelling human rights abuses, Amnesty International says in a report.
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The United Nations said on Monday it was  worried about the possibility of rising tensions on the  Lebanese-Israeli border after Hizbollah sent a surveillance  drone over Israel, and urged Beirut to control its side.
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Israel said it sent letters to the U.N. secretary-general and the president of the General Assembly urging the international community to speak out against human rights abuses in Iran.
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The new U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session this week in a move initiated by Muslim countries to condemn Israel for its military offensive in Lebanon, officials said Tuesday.
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BEIRUT: The leader of the militant Hizbollah group on Saturday rejected a UN resolution calling for his militia to be dismantled, saying the world bodyâs call served Israeli interests.
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Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations Security Council to take substantive action against what it claims are ongoing rights violations in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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Israel and Hizbollah exchanged missile   strikes and fought gun battles on Saturday as the U.N. Security   Council considered a resolution to end the conflict that has   killed at least 800 people and ravaged south Lebanon.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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LONDON - A British parliamentary committee accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to do more to prosecute suspects ...Comment
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A coalition of Israeli human rights groups condemned the government's decision this week to cut back fuel and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, saying it violated international law.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined Western nations on Wednesday in criticizing the world body's own Human Rights Council for picking on Israel as part of an agreement on its working rules.
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SDEROT, Israel  - Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets into an Israeli town on Tuesday during a visit by the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, critically wounding one person, witnesses and ambulance workers said.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has violated international law by systematically destroying Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah in a bid to create a buffer zone along the border with Egypt, according to a human rights report released yesterday.
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The detention of foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK's highest court rules.
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United Nations human rights   investigators said on Thursday that legislation proposed by   President Bush for tough interrogations of foreign terrorism   suspects would breach the Geneva Conventions.