Human Rights Violations

Backgrounder: Major events in protecting rights, welfare of children

Xinhua News Agency and other leading world media will provide 24-hour global coverage of Universal Children's Day, which falls on Nov. 20. The following is a chronology of major events in protecting the rights and welfare of...

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Some prisoners were tortured: Afghan warden

By Matthew Fisher, Canwest News ServiceNovember 21, 2009 Photograph by: Graham Thomson, Edmonton Journal KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan — Prisoners were tortured at Sarpoza Prison in Afghanistan, but not in nearly the numbers...

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Trial over Hanford union infighting under way

| RICHLAND -- A federal judge has begun sorting out the apparent bad blood between the United Steelworkers local and related labor organizations in a double trial.At the heart of the two cases being heard are claims of...

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Town divided by housing dispute

Maine community hurt by racism charges, lawsuit Anais Tomezsko, the executive director of Mano en Mano, stands on the edge of the property where the organization intends to build a housing unit for local agricultural workers in...

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Spanish Court Indicts 5 Top Communist Party Officials for Torture, Genocide of Falun Gong

Falun Dafa Information Center, 18 Nov 2009 - NEW YORK – In an unprecedented decision, a Spanish judge has indicted five high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for their role in crimes of torture and genocide...

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Armenian-Americans honor genocide victims in Twin Falls

TWIN FALLS -- Saturday, members of the Armenian-American community gathered together to honor victims of the Armenian Genocide. The Twin Falls City Council voted September 28 to approve the donation of a memorial plaque and...

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ANKARA: The way to peace

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey Nov 20 2009 The way to peace Friday, November 20, 2009 HASAN CEMAL BOSTON ` The Sevan Bakery is located in Watertown, where the Armenian population is high. Zadik, Varujan, Armenians in Istanbul......

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Irishman falsely convicted for Birmingham pub bombings tells of torture at hands of police

The Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham, the day after it was bombed on 21 November 1974. getty images Johnny Walker: A terrible injustice Independent | Nov 22, 2009 Thirty five years ago, the IRA murdered 21 in the Birmingham pub...

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Book Review: New way to look at genocide an ungainly work

Winnipeg Free Press , Canada Nov 21 2009 New way to look at genocide an ungainly work Book Reviewed by: Lionel Steiman Worse Than War Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity PublicAffairs, 658 pages, $38...

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Independent Contractors Protected Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

9th Circuit Court of Appeals holds § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act applies to independent contractors and the entities that hire them. In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held on...

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