US rights reports name North Korea, Burma, Iran among worst violators
The US State Department on Wednesday named North Korea, Burma and Iran among the world's biggest human rights offenders in its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices , saying that "countries...
Leaders of the both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have sharply criticized the US prison at Guantanamo Bay as international pressure builds to close down the controversial facility that currently contains almost 500 individuals the...
Reports decry UK anti-terror policies on rights, torture, Guantanamo
Two separate reports issued in Britain Thursday strongly criticized the anti-terror strategy of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, documenting domestic deprivations of human rights, condemning UK policy on torture, and urging the government to press the US to shut...
In comments after a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flatly rejected the United Nation's call for the US to shut down its military detention...
Five United Nations rights experts have concluded that detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to physical and mental abuse amounting to torture in some cases, according...
Bolton pledges renewed effort in negotiations on new UN rights panel
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has promised to push for major changes in the United Nations in an interview published Monday in the Washington Post, including reforms to the international body's human rights panel. Bolton...
Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 and agreed to by the US House and Senate and signed by President Bush, December 30, 2005 [incorporating the McCain Amendment and the Graham-Levin Amendment...
The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has extended an invitation to special representative Anne-Marie Lizin of the 55-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to visit the...
Australian human rights chief wants bill of rights to counter anti-terror laws
Australian Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski , whose statutory appointment to the post ends Wednesday, has urged his successor to push for an Australian bill of rights to counter the tough anti-terror laws that the Australian...
The Australian Senate on Tuesday voted to approve new counter-terrorism laws that broaden the offense of sedition and allow for the detention of suspected terrorists for up to seven days. The legislation passed the lower house [JURIST...
