Rights Group Chides Mexico's Congress on Torture
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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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Federal legislators from Mexico's ruling party have introduced a bill to eliminate jail terms for illegal migration into Mexico, saying they want to send a message that migrants should not be treated like criminals.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1 -- In a historic rebuke, opposition lawmakers seized control of Mexico's congressional chamber Friday and blocked President Vicente Fox from delivering his final State of the Nation address.
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The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday.
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A human rights group on Tuesday sharply  criticized the U.S. meat industry and the government for  hazardous working conditions at meat plants and accused  companies of using illegal tactics to suppress employee efforts  to report abuses.
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Mexico's government on Tuesday called a series of gas pipeline explosions a threat to the nation's democratic institutions and vowed to step up security after a guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the blasts.
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An American civil rights group filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Tuesday alleging that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials condoned torture and human rights violations at Abu ...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US military of using tactics &quot;tantamount to torture&quot; on prisoners at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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A recently declassified cable from the U.S. embassy in Colombia in 1979 indicates that Colombia's military created a paramilitary group linked to human rights abuses.
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A human rights group claimed Tuesday at least 11 al-Qaida suspects have vanished while in US custody and some were exposed to torture.
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Iraqi authorities routinely torture prisoners, a leading human rights group said Tuesday, citing examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those who suffered under Saddam Hussein.
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Mexico's rivals in the July 2 presidential election quibbled over a few thousand votes recounted by election officials, as followers of the losing candidate claimed police brutality outside Congress.
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GENEVA  - A United Nations human rights panel said Tuesday that Canada should not deport a Mexican man who claims he was tortured by the military in his homeland.
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Saudi Arabia is using a form of torture - flogging - to silence dissent in the kingdom, a human rights group says.
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A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, quoted Tuesday by the New York Times, accuses the US military of using interrogation tactics that amount to torture against prisoners
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STRASBOURG, France  - Rights groups have urged European Union lawmakers not to dilute on Wednesday a report that accuses their governments of colluding with the CIA on alleged secret flights of terrorism suspects in the bloc.
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.