Human rights report faults Latin America
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Corruption, detainee abuse and deplorable prison conditions were a problem throughout much of Latin America last year, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday, singling out Venezuela and Cuba for having the worst human rights records in the region.
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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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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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GENEVA -- A UN human rights team criticized the international community yesterday for failing to halt atrocities in Darfur, saying in a sharply worded report that the United Nations must act now to protect civilians from a campaign of violence orchestrated by Sudan's government.
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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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Human Rights Watch urged Mexican  lawmakers on Wednesday to overhaul a justice system that breeds  torture and feeds notorious rights scandals like the murders of  hundreds of women near the U.S. border.
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Human rights groups said the proposed compensation for those tortured under Chile&#39;s former military regime isn&#39;t enough, La Tercera reported Tuesday.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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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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PRAGUE- Weapons and military material from the Czech Republic are allegedly exported to the countries in which human rights are violated and where there is a risk of their abuse, representatives of human rights ...
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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While the annual report by Human Rights Watch focuses on the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur and U.S. prisoner interrogations in the war against terrorism (see Part 1 ), it also has plenty to say about ...
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Chile took a key step Wednesday toward confronting the grim legacy of abuses under the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, completing a lengthy report on torture and political imprisonment with testimonies from some 35,000 victims.
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Mexico's government plans sweeping  reforms to end rampant human rights violations, but experts  complain the plan lacks the teeth to stop police torture and  other abuses.
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The Chilean ruling on Peruâs former president, Alberto Fujimori, could set a precedent for human rights cases.
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The arrest of a Catholic priest drew criticism from human rights groups Thursday, who charged that the US-backed government was illegally trying to suppress support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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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.