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RCMP charge Rwandan with war crimes
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The Mounties have arrested a 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide in his home country. Investigators on Friday picked up Jacques Mungwarere, who's
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Israeli prime minister says arms shipment a war crime
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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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RFK Center To Honor Bono, Jean
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The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights in New York says it plans to present Bono and Wyclef Jean with its 2009 Ripple of Hope Award. The prize is to be presented at the center's annual
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Human Rights Watch: Iran covered up rape of detainees
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An international human rights group said Friday it has d three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's post-election turmoil, including one that was supported by an official report
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UN to pass on alleged war crimes report
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that he would soon transmit to the Security Council a report alleging that Israel and the Palestinians committed war crimes.
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France asks Sri Lanka to end emergency laws
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COLOMBO (AFP) - A top French envoy on Saturday asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war crimes ahead of a key European Union ruling on trade concessions to the troubled island. Ambassador
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Israel rejects UN's endorsement of Gaza war report
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Tel Aviv Friday deplored a UN resolution backing the Goldstone report that investigated human rights violations during the brief war between Israeli forces and Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip early
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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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UN guards eject Canadian commentator
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UNITED NATIONS ' Guards at the United Nations whisked away a UN-accredited Canadian commentator this week after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.
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UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Somalia
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A senior World Food Programme official has appealed for urgent humanitarian aid to Somalia following increase in the number of displaced people as well as severe drought in the country. The official said
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CIA rendition agent: We broke the law
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One of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they 'broke the law' and complained she was given
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Rwanda 'genocide financier' likely not in Kenya: PM
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NAIROBI (AFP) - The Rwanda tribunal's most wanted man, Felicien Kabuga, who allegedly bankrolled the 1994 genocide, is most likely not in Kenya, that country's prime minister Raila Odinga said on Saturday.
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ESRI GIS humanitarian award goes to MapAction
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- California, US: MapAction was awarded The first ESRI GIS Humanitarian Award during the 2009 ESRI International User Conference held in San Diego, California. The company is an NGO based in UK, and it
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Bosnia: Muslim ex-commander arrested for war crimes
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(AKI) A former Bosnian Muslim army deputy commander, Nihad Bojadzic, was arrested in Sarajevo on Wednesday on suspicion of having killed over 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the 1993 Muslim-Croat
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'Tranny Granny' stays on human rights panel
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'Tranny Granny' Jacquie Grant has been reappointed for another two-year stint on the Human Rights Review Tribunal. 'Tranny Granny' Jacquie Grant Grant, 65, has been on the Tribunal since 2004, and tells
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