Visiting media urged to expose Laos rights abuses
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Foreign media in Laos for next week&#39;s ASEAN summit should expose rights abuses in the country, an international watchdog says.
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Families of victims of China's 1989  Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests have urged  the government to allow open debate on the subject at next  week's annual meeting of parliament and "reveal the truth."
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Lack of press freedom is worst in Asia, Cuba and the Middle East, says a media watchdog report.
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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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The State Department is advising Americans traveling or living in Laos to take precautions and avoid areas likely to be hit by continuing violence.
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Morocco is confronting the stains of past human rights abuses with public testimony about tortures and disappearances in the kingdom.
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International press freedom watchdogs have condemned the media restrictions imposed by Thailand's military coup leaders, and called for them to be lifted immediately.
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A Paris-based rights group Monday called on visiting French President Jacques Chirac to help seek the release of a jailed Chinese journalist and cyber dissident during his visit to the city of Shanghai.
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With several reporters facing possible jail sentences and fines, there are signs mounting legal pressure on journalists to reveal confidential sources is having a chilling effect on newsgathering.
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The United States said Tuesday it was investigating claims by lawmakers that Hmong people living in the jungles of Laos were being persecuted and the need for granting access to them.
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Text of report by Azerbaijani TV station ANS on 8 September  [Presenter] The Media Council wants the president to hear the problems of the press from the horse's mouth. Aflatun Amasov, chairman of the Media Council, has said he will talk to the president about this.
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The country's Ministry of Tourism is campaigning to boost the country's image. Unfortunately, the news hasn't helped
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China's state-controlled media have warned citizens to raise their awareness and prevent leakage of state secrets, charging that illegal surveys by foreigners in the country were on the rise and threatening national security.
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Families of victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests have urged the government to allow open debate on the subject at next week's annual meeting of parliament and "reveal the truth".
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Paris, Oct. 27 (NNN) : A report from media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has put Press freedom under most under threat in Asia and the Middle East.
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Kofi Annan calls for probe into civil rights abuses as machete gangs and arsonists settle old scores
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The group "Human Rights Watch" has issued a detailed report outlining allegations of torture, abuse and violence against prisoners. Prisoners who have been made to "vanish" by unaccountable agencies.