Iraq, Afghanistan failing in human rights, US says
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WASHINGTON -- Fledgling US-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, the State Department said yesterday,
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Eight detainees have died in American military custody in Afghanistan, more than previously reported, the Pentagon said on Monday, while a human rights group assailed a US &quot;culture of impunity&quot; on prisoner abuse.
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Amnesty International demanded the US on Wednesday to set up an independent probe of prisonersâ abuses in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and at Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq.
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U.N. human rights investigators criticized the United States on Thursday for failing to take steps to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison for terror suspects, which they say facilitates torture and violates international law.
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WASHINGTON -- The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.
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A United Nations human rights body said  on Friday it had asked the United States to spell out the legal  status and treatment of people it is detaining in Afghanistan,  Guantanamo Bay and Iraq by the end of the year.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control of the violence.
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The United States is riding roughshod over human rights by outsourcing key anti-terror work in Iraq to private contractors, who operate beyond Iraqi law and outside the military chain of command, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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Non-Iraqi prisoners captured by US forces on the Iraq battlefield are not entitled to the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions, according to a recent legal opinion from the Justice Department.
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The US, Russia and Sudan are accused of being the biggest violators of housing rights.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Human Rights Watch said Monday it has discovered two more US detainee deaths in Afghanistan, including an apparent murder more than two years ago, and said slow-paced investigations had &quot;spawned a culture of impunity&quot; that may have
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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.
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A human rights group says the United States needs to need act faster and more transparently in its investigation into the abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Afghanistan.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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The United States is violating  international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror  incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch  said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end  to such practices.
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LONDON : The United States faced rare criticism over human rights from close ally Britain, with an official British government report taking Washington to task over concerns about Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay jail.
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Iraq's Sunni vice president said Monday the Baghdad security plan has so far failed to respect human rights and treat all groups equally, which he described as flaws that doomed the two major crackdowns in the capital last year.