TV torture scenes trouble human rights activists
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Desperate to get answers from a terrorism suspect who is refusing to talk, steely eyed U.S. intelligence agent Jack Bauer bursts into an interrogation room and shoots the prisoner in the leg.
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The vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is under strain, the UN's human rights chief warns.
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U.N. human rights experts Friday expressed concern about possible "irreversible psychiatric symptoms" developing among suspected terrorists entering a fourth year of virtual solitary confinement at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Zimbabweans who have fled to South Africa marked the International Day Against Torture on Tuesday by recounting their experiences at the hands of President Robert Mugabe&#39;s security services.
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Iraqi authorities routinely torture  prisoners, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday, citing  examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those  who suffered under Saddam Hussein.
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ATHENS, Oct 29 (IPS) - Serious indication of torture, widespread violation  of human rights, systematic abuse and complete neglect of human  life is what refugees and undocumented immigrants face on the  south-eastern border of the European Community.
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With the torture story all but vanished from television, Americans can look the other way rather than confront the evil committed in our name.
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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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Human rights abuses are growing in Asia as most countries in the region face a breakdown of the rule of law, a Hong Kong-based rights group said on Friday.
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Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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Rights group Amnesty International condemned Pakistan over abuse of terror suspects, claiming hundreds had been &quot;disappeared,&quot; while many were tortured before being sold on to US authorities.
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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.
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WASHINGTON -- Human rights violations and outright atrocities are growing more rampant by the day in Haiti as police, former soldiers, and rebel groups wreak havoc in a violent struggle that local authorities and United Nations peacekeepers appear unable to control, according to US officials, foreign diplomats, and local human rights monitors.
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Human rights violations and outright atrocities are growing more rampant by the day in Haiti as police, former soldiers, and rebel groups wreak
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Governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, Amnesty says.
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By MATTHEW LEE  WASHINGTON - Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award- winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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Human-rights activists are using high-resolution satellites to keep watch over imperiled villages in the Darfur region of Sudan and posting the images online to enlist help preventing violence.