U.S. rights group slams Bangladesh security forces
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Bangladesh's elite security force has killed nearly 370 people in custody and could be used by the former ruling party during campaigning for next month's election, a U.S.-based human rights group said on Thursday.
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Gay rights groups in the US complain as the country's top military commander calls homosexual acts "immoral".
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The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld demanding accountability in Washington for crimes allegedly committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
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A U.S. human rights group urged German  prosecutors Tuesday to investigate accusations that Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and senior U.S. officers are guilty  of war crimes over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.
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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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The United States strongly criticized Pakistan's government Monday, saying it was "extremely disturbed" by a roundup of opposition leaders ahead of key court rulings on the reelection bid by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf
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A U.N. human rights expert criticized the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan for violating international law by allegedly beating Afghans to death and forcing some to remove their clothes or wear hoods.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board member who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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Organization refuses to comply with probe  launched last year after the group's chairman criticized the Bush administration in a speech.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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A human rights group on Tuesday sharply  criticized the U.S. meat industry and the government for  hazardous working conditions at meat plants and accused  companies of using illegal tactics to suppress employee efforts  to report abuses.
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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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American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
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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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Georgia is accused by a rights group of "excessive force" in its crackdown on November's opposition protests.
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An influential UN-appointed panel challenged the Bush administration&#39;s right to use military force against an enemy that does not pose an imminent military threat.