U.N. Presses Washington on Afghan, Iraqi Inmates
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A United Nations human rights body said  on Friday it had asked the United States to spell out the legal  status and treatment of people it is detaining in Afghanistan,  Guantanamo Bay and Iraq by the end of the year.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 8 -- The United Nations has delayed the release of a quarterly report on human rights in Iraq to avoid criticizing Washington and Baghdad while they are seeking to rally congressional and international support for the war effort, according to U.N. officials.
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The United States indicated Wednesday it will not free jailed militants to secure the release of three UN election workers in Afghanistan, even as the kidnappers claimed a deal was close.
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THE United Nations intends to open two offices outside of Baghdad following pressure from Washington and Iraqi authorities to provide more help before January 30 elections, officials said today.
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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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The U.N. Secretary-General urged Iraqis to take advantage of the recent decrease in violence and deaths to work across ethnic, sectarian and political lines for national reconciliation.
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Three UN employees held hostage in Afghanistan were shown on Sunday in a video aired by Al Jazeera television, which said they called for the release of prisoners from Afghan jails and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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U.S. lawmakers who met with Darfur rebels in western Sudan and visited camps for Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend said they will be ask Washington to push for U.N. sanctions against the Sudanese government.
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31 October 2004 -- The United Nations has again appealed for the kidnappers of three UN workers in Afghanistan to release them unharmed.
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Bosnia will ask the United States to hand over six men detained for the past three years at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba on suspicion of terrorism, a government spokesman said Monday.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped UN workers demanded yesterday the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostages' lives.
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The United States wants a U.N. Security Council resolution that would pressure Myanmar to stop jailing political opponents, persecuting minorities and flooding the region with refugees, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Friday.
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Amnesty International demanded the US on Wednesday to set up an independent probe of prisonersâ abuses in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq.
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Bosnia will ask the United States to  hand over six men detained for the past three years at the  Guantanamo prison in Cuba on suspicion of terrorism, a  government spokesman said Monday.
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The United States must set a better example for the world in areas ranging from its treatment of Latin American migrants to its handling of detainees in the war on terror, U.N. human rights experts said Monday.
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An international rights group said it  knows of more prisoners dying in U.S. military custody in  Afghanistan, and Washington's failure to hold anyone  accountable had created a culture of impunity.