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Saturday January 3, 2009 4:00 pm

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As Israel’s attack on Gaza intensifies, we are left with few ways to get direct information since Israel continues to refuse reporters permission to enter.

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Israel was last night accused of downplaying the humanitarian suffering in Gaza in order to justify continuing its military assault.
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
Last Updated: 5:51PM GMT 01 Jan 2009
The director of the World Food Programme operation said she was “furious” when she learned Israel was claiming warehouses were full of supplies.
Christine van Nieuwenhuyse [...]

Reported Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Way Up…A new government report showing huge increases in the incidences of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault over a two-year period in the United States deserves immediate attention from lawmakers and the incoming administration, Human Rights Watch said today. The statistics show a 42-percent increase in reported domestic [...]

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Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has been prevented from leaving the country after she planned to give a speech in Damascus Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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David Hambling
President-elect Obama has re-affirmed his intention to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This will come as a relief to many who have been concerned about some of the ethical issues involved and exactly what has been going on there. While much has been made of so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques (especially [...]

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Posted by Bill Conroy - November 22, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hillary Clinton’s lack of a positive track record on human rights, particularly as it relates to Latin America, might not be her only problem if she gets the Secretary of State appointment.
President-elect Barack Obama, by going that route, as mainstream media reports seem to indicate [...]

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Soldiers and officers convicted or implicated in the deaths of six priests in 1989 are free under a controversial amnesty law. Victims’ relatives and rights groups turn to Spain’s courts.
By Tracy Wilkinson and Alex Renderos
November 13, 2008
Reporting from Mexico City and San Salvador — The murder 19 years ago of six Jesuit priests by a [...]

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By ALAN COWELL
PARIS — Sixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report that again urged the United States to close down the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

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AFP
Published: Tuesday March 11, 2008
The US dropped China from its list of the world’s worst human rights violaters, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to the alleged offenders in an annual report released Tuesday.
The State Department’s 2007 Human Rights Report showed China, which has raised hopes it will improve human rights by hosting the [...]