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WashPost: Rights group: China used force at Tibetan protests …

jedwan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:19:18 +0000

BEIJING — The New York-based group Human Rights Watch, in a report released Wednesday, said Chinese security forces used “disproportionate force” against peaceful, unarmed protesters and “acted with deliberate brutality” in suppressing …

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Navajo Group Looks To Preserve Sacred Sites – Phoenix News Story …

jedwan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:29:46 +0000

ST. MICHAELS, Ariz.

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US gay rights group gets UN accreditation (AP) | www.bullfax.com

jedwan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:40:44 +0000

Fourteen countries were expected to be elected unanimously Thursday to the UN Human Rights Council, to the dismay of non-governmental groups that argue five of them — including Libya — have records that should keep them out. …

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Macedonia: Group Wins HIV and Rights Award | Human Rights Watch

jedwan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:40:33 +0000

(Vienna) – Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS) is the recipient of the 2010 international Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch announced today.

Israel Matzav: Leftist group trying to sabotage Netanyahu visit to …

jedwan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:10:54 +0000

I saw an email asking that it be held until 6:00 am Israel time on Tuesday. B’Tselem’s goal seems to be the destruction of the State of Israel.

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Law Professor Named to U.N. Group on Enforced or Involuntary …

jedwan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:34:28 +0000

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council has endorsed the nomination of Ariel Dulitzky, a clinical law professor at the University of Texas School of Law,

Egyptian "human rights group" speaks up for genocidal jihad …

jedwan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:15:53 +0000

Note that AFP uncritically refers to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information as a “human rights group ,” although it would never do the same for an anti-jihad human rights group like SIOA.

CIA Medics Honed Torture Techniques on Detainees, Group Charges by …

jedwan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:38:24 +0000

The group , Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), claims “the apparent experimentation and research appear to have been performed to provide legal cover for torture, as well as to help justify and shape future procedures and policies …

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