US, Europe embrace false democrats: Human Rights Watch
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Europe and the United States increasingly tolerate autocrats posing as democrats out of pure self-interest, in countries such as Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria and Russia, as human right abuses go on, Human Rights Watch charged Thursday.
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The EU and the US are among those accepting flawed votes for political expediency, Human Rights Watch says.
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The arrest of a Catholic priest drew criticism from human rights groups Thursday, who charged that the US-backed government was illegally trying to suppress support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Thousands of European activists opened an annual gathering devoted to challenging what they charge is a system of US-led military and corporate power which fuels war, poverty and ecological disaster.
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European Socialists promised  on Thursday to work to rebuild Europe's strategic alliance with  the United States now that the Democrats control Congress after  last month's elections.
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The Bush administration, responding to negative reviews of an international conference on Middle East democracy last week in Morocco, said that the event provided a platform for human rights and other nongovernmental groups in the Arab world.
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BRUSSELS  - US Secretary of State Colin Powell called on European nations to look beyond their differences with the United States over Iraq and respond positively to US overtures to improve strained transatlantic ties.
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The resistance threatens to open a new rift between Europe and the United States over Iran.
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The European Union condemned on Friday  the detention of terrorism suspects by the United States in  secret overseas prisons, whose existence U.S. President George  Bush first acknowledged last week.
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The new U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to dedicate time during each future session to a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel &amp;#151; a move criticized by the United States as misguided and unfair.
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Democrats in Congress have increased their scrutiny of a trade pact and an aid package after claims of abuses.
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BERLIN, Feb. 21 -- European and U.S. officials on Wednesday sought to play down emerging differences over the new Palestinian unity government during a meeting of high-level group that monitors efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The US places key Middle East allies on its blacklist of countries that  fail to stop people trafficking.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 10 (IPS) - Two leading human rights groups have criticised the  U.N. Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee for  refusing to castigate governments that crack down on human rights  in the name of fighting terrorism.
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Human rights defenders face arrest and torture in China, and the European Union should raise the issue at a summit with Beijing's leaders this week, Amnesty International said in a new report Monday.
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In a scathing report, Human Rights Watch blamed the U.S. and Europe for undermining human rights around the world by allowing autocrats to pretend they are democratic simply by holding rigged elections.
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The human rights group Amnesty International has issued a new report blaming the US administration for fostering what the group calls a &quot;war mentality&quot; that led to the torture of prisoners as well as other violations of the Geneva Conventions.