Report Reveals Human Rights Abuses in Mexico
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TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb. 13 -- A leading U.S. human rights group said Wednesday that Mexico's national human rights commission routinely avoids investigating alleged abuses committed by the military and "has helped create an atmosphere of distrust that hinders human rights progress."
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Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published Tuesday.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Wednesday that many of the illegal migrants from Central and South America who pass through Mexico on their way to the United States are abused by criminals and by authorities.
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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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Iraqi security forces are arbitrarily arresting people and systematically torturing and abusing detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.
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Women and girls in war zones suffer rape and violent abuse while offenders escape punishment, Amnesty International said a report released Wednesday.
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Israel is guilty of severe human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including âwanton destructionâ of houses and infrastructure, according to a new United Nations report.
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Thousands of girls in Guinea face abuse as domestic workers, a human rights report concludes.
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World News, KINSHASA - The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Mexico has some of the highest and the lowest standards of living in the world, such is the extent of the gap between rich and poor, a UN report says.
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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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An Amnesty International report criticises the US over its treatment of prisoners during the war on terror.
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Human rights violations in the Russian region of Ingushetia have increased with a surge in abductions and beatings, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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President Vicente Fox presented a plan Friday to improve Mexico's checkered human rights record, pledging to eradicate torture and to hold corrupt and abusive authorities accountable for wrongful arrests and shoddy police work.
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It's been nearly a decade since pro-government villagers armed with guns and machetes slaughtered 45 men, women and children in the neighboring hamlet of Acteal Â a massacre that remains emblematic of Mexico's human rights failures.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross released a report that called the handling of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, &#39;tantamount to torture&#39; and accused the US of using both psychological and physical coercion on prisoners there.
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MEXICO CITY -- A special prosecutor is accusing Luis Echeverria, Mexico's former president, of "harming humanity" by allegedly ordering government thugs to kill protesters during a 1971 demonstration, according to case files released to a Mexican freedom of information group.