DR Congo abuse claims upheld
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An inquiry confirms claims that UN peacekeepers working in DR Congo sexually abused young girls and women.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A military judge on Monday  rejected a motion to dismiss charges against the suspected  ringleader of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison after lawyers  questioned whether he could get a fair trial.
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The family of an Iraqi civilian alleged to have been beaten to death by UK troops win the right to an inquiry.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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Rwanda denied on Thursday it had pushed troops into Democratic Republic of Congo even as United Nations peacekeepers said they had found compelling evidence of an infiltration into the vast country.
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South Africa has rejected charges that it is allowing ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide to organize violence in the Caribbean country while he stays in South Africa.
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The United Nations is investigating around 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A tribunal on Monday upheld President Olusegun Obasanjo's victory last year in Nigeria's first-ever civilian-run election, saying some balloting fraud had occurred but that the graft did not change the outcome of the vote.
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JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa yesterday dismissed accusations that it was allowing Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to coordinate a violent uprising from exile in South Africa.
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The lawyer for former Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui argued Monday the International Criminal Court was not mandated to try his client as he already had stood trial for the crimes.
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The DR Congo government says its troops are battling Rwandan soldiers and not Congolese rebels, as earlier reported.
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The NZ Herald has the story.  More coverage can be found by performing a Google News search for "un congo sex abuse".    Details of the story include the fact that over 150 counts by at least 30 staff members are being investigated, and that this isn't the first time that the U.N. has been so accused.
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Latin America's top human rights court upholds the conviction of US citizen Lori Berenson in Peru.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libya's Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with HIV.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Rwanda denied yesterday it had sent troops into neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, despite repeated threats from Rwandan President Paul Kagame to attack ethnic Hutu militias that have harassed his nation from the area.
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The Court of Appeal overturns a ruling that four men who said they were tortured in jails in Saudi Arabia cannot pursue damages in the UK.
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DR Congo's Supreme Court rules that the second round of landmark elections can go ahead as planned.