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RCMP charge alleged Rwandan war criminal
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Man was living in Windsor THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA ââ?¬â? The Mounties have arrested a 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide. Investigators picked
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Ed Roberts Campus leads way for human rights
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Dmitri Belser is a busy man these days. As president of the Ed Roberts Campus, a headquarters for disability rights groups under construction in Berkeley, Belser spends his days on change orders, design
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Commins awarded humanitarian award
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Sharon Commins and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki have been awarded this year's Hugh O'Flaherty Humanitarian Award. The two aid workers were captured by an armed gang in Darfur in July and spent over
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US House backs China quake activists
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WASHINGTON DC, United States-The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths
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Commins given humanitarian award
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Aid worker Sharon Commins and her colleague Hilda Kawuki, who were kidnapped and held for more than 100 days in Darfur, have been given a humanitarian award for their 'brave and selfless' work. Ms Commins,
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UN steps up assistance to displaced Pakistanis
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The United Nations refugee agency said today it is stepping up aid to people uprooted by military operations in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan, while highlighting the ongoing needs of around
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AFRICOM Funds Humanitarian Assistance Projects
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in the North and Far North regions. On September 14, members of the Defense Attaché Office of the U.S. Embassy in Cameroon traveled to Maroua and Garoua in the Far North and North regions of Cameroon
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Karadzic war crimes trial postponed
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BOSNIAN Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic won a small victory in a battle of wills with UN court judges when they adjourned his genocide trial to March next year, legal analysts have said. While the
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Munyaneza gets life in jail for Rwandan war crimes
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Désiré Munyaneza, shown in a court sketch, stands to hear the Federal Court decision in May that he is guilty on seven charges. (Mike Mclaughlin/Canadian Press) A Rwandan man found guilty under Canadian
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Italy Convicts CIA Agents over Extraordinary Renditions
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An Italian judge has convicted 23 Central Intelligence Agency officers of participating in the kidnapping and rendition of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The trial marked the first time the controversial
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Progressive politics and decline in human rights
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Invited to the London School of Economics and Political Science last week to address the question of human rights in the 21st century, Noam Chomsky began with a simple answer - easy, there aren�t
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Attempts to transport arms a war crime says Israel
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's efforts to smuggle arms to Hezbollah on a cargo ship are a war crime. The Israeli Navy intercepted the ship, the Antiguan vessel Fracop, and seized
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Israel Rejects UN War Crimes Resolution
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Israel has responded angrily to a United Nations resolution that accuses the Jewish state of war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel says the United Nations General Assembly is 'completely
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Israel: Stop East Jerusalem Home Demolitions
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(Jerusalem) - Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem should immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. In the week beginning October
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France seeks end to Sri Lanka's emergency laws
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A top human rights envoy from France Saturday asked Sri Lanka to end a state of emergency that was originally declared earlier this year to deal with defeated Tamil separatists.
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Sudan: Reform National Security Law
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by the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan reveals continuing human rights violations in Darfur and underscores the urgent need to reform Sudan's repressive national security law, Human Rights Watch
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Three Decades Defending Human Rights
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Human Rights Watch was recently criticized by Robert Bernstein, its founding Board Chair, for its reporting on â??openâ? democratic countries, as well as â??closedâ? countries ruled by repressive regimes.
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Turkey: Bar Entry or Arrest Sudan President
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(New York) â?? Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch
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Kimberley Process: Zimbabwe Action Mars Credibility
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(Johannesburg) - The credibility of the world's 'blood diamond' monitoring group has been damaged after its failure this week to suspend Zimbabwe despite overwhelming evidence of serious human rights
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