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EU-Africa Summit Fails To Downplay Human Rights: KUDOS To Merkel

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Ignoring Darfur crisis
· African and European MPs attack summit agenda
· British boycott criticised by EC president Barroso
A worker hoists Italy’s flag and others who are participating in the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon. Photograph: Armando Franca/AP
European and African leaders arriving for today’s summit in Lisbon were accused by parliamentarians and human [...]

Japanese Play Down Historical Indiscretions, Just Like We Do

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Darfur Refugees – Where Will They Go Now

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Border anarchy Jerusalem Post, Israel –
Among the more disconcerting anomalies in the judgmental pronouncements by purported human-rights advocates is their scathing criticism of Israel in recent …
‘Israel creating unnecessary drama’ Ynetnews, Israel -
Sudanese minister promises his country ‘will find the way to deal with refugees’. Israel to continue aiding those [...]

US Strike Still Too Sloppy – Let God Sort ‘Em Out …

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NEWS CENTRAL/S. ASIA

Many Afghans killed in air strike

 

 

 

Civilian deaths caused by US and Nato-led troops have infuriated Afghan people and the Afghan president

An air strike in southern Afghanistan has [...]

Fundamentalist Social Destruction Is Everywere

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Egypt forbids female circumcision   By Magdi Abdelhadi  [...]

Creating More Orphans – Leaving Them In Careless Hands

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Story from BBC NEWS: US finds neglected Iraqi orphans.
The orphans were found by chance by US soldiers on patrol
Iraqi orphans. Two dozen boys have been found starved and neglected at a government-run orphanage for special needs children in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The children were discovered last week by a [...]

Human Rights & Law – Bring Our Constitution Back!

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Bush suffers court setbacks in war on terrorism
By James Vicini of Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush’s broad assertions of power in his war on terrorism are under assault by U.S. judges who have rejected his indefinite imprisonment of enemy combatants and the domestic spying program.
A pair of recent rulings, one from military judges [...]

US History of Funding Human Rights Violations

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Rights Violators Are Largest US Military Aid Recipients
The United States still props up governments with the worst legacy of Human Rights violations in the world with Military funding and Arms deals.
Why should American citizens care what terrible things our country is doing to ordinary citizens of other countries?
Is America so de-sensitized that we cannot bother [...]

39 “Disappeared” In U.S. War On Terror

Posted by nytexan

You really have to scratch your head and wonder how Bush, his administration and branches of this government can continue to lie to the world about secret prisons; how can they live with themselves. World organizations who research, track, document abuse, disappearances and deaths of the world’s citizens continue to beat their heads against the wall [...]

Nations Must Spread Fear To Justify Human Rights Abuses

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Thank you for this informative article By Nora Boustany,   Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, May 24, 2007
 Powerful governments and armed groups are spreading fear to divert attention from human rights abuses, exacerbating polarization in an increasingly dangerous world, Amnesty International said yesterday in its annual assessment of rights worldwide.
That is a common sleight of [...]

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