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Pentagon Moves To Block Release Of Detainee Abuse Photos

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked by the Pentagon to block the public release of photos showing alleged abuse of...

It's also time clean up our backyard: Obama chides China on human rights

Obama chides China on human rightsDuring a stop in Shanghai on his Asia visit, the president engages in a Q & A with...

The Unemployed Will Be Happy: Spain (hit by depression) won't disconnect illegal file sharers

Related: Spain tips into depressionSpain won't disconnect illegal file sharersSpain doesn't plan on unplugging internet...



•  President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority To Exempt Photos From Freedom Of Information Act

ACLU Renews Call For Secretary Gates Not To Block Release Of Torture PhotosWASHINGTON – President Obama today signed into law a Homeland Security appropriations bill that grants the Department...

•  United States is not yet a leader in press freedoms, falling behind Europe

According to a 2009 international ranking by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) the United States saw an improvement in press freedom in the last year and the country climbed up to Number 20 in the...

•  China Web Sites Seeking Users’ Names

News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet...

•  Iraqi Gays: They Want Us Exterminated

(Human Rights Watch) -- Iraqi militias are carrying out a spreading campaign of torture and murder against men suspected of homosexual conduct, or of not being "manly" enough, and Iraq authorities...

•  ‘White Flag' Shootings of Gaza Civilians: Israel killed unarmed Palestinians

Internal Israeli Military Investigations Inadequate(Human Rights Watch) -- During Israel's recent Gaza offensive, Israeli soldiers unlawfully shot and killed 11 Palestinian civilians, including five...

•  UK's national ID card unveiled

Comment: Privacy, who needs it? Home Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled the final design of the controversial national identity card. The card will be offered to members of the public in the Greater...

•  Raped in custody: Inquiry urged into Iran rape claims

One of the defeated reformist candidates in Iran's disputed presidential election is calling for an investigation into claims that anti-government protesters were raped while in custody.Mehdi...

•  350 Indonesian police dismissed per year for human rights violation

As many as 350 police personnel in Indonesia were dismissed for human rights violations per year, an Indonesian senior police officer said on Monday. "As of now we have dismissed a total of 5,000...

•  Britain: March of the state spies: One in 78 adults came under state-sanctioned surveillance last year

Britain's extraordinary march towards a surveillance state is revealed today by shock new figures. They show that one request is made every minute for officials to spy on someone's phone records or...

•  Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes

As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s...

•  UK: DNA database swells despite human rights ruling -- 5.6 million records and still growing

An average of 40,000 profiles per month have been added to the National DNA Database since judges ruled the retention of samples from innocent people was illegal under human rights laws. More than...

•  UK: Blacks bear brunt of rise in stop and search

Black people are almost eight times as likely as whites to be stopped and searched a decade after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry branded the police “institutionally racist”. Use of ordinary...

•  Cyberwar's first casualty: Your privacy

The first casualty of war, the Greek playwright Aeschylus said, is the truth. But when it comes to cyberwarfare, the first casualty will more likely be your privacy. And unlike in past wars, the...

•  U.S. immigrant detentions violate human rights: report

The detention of hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year in the United States represents a violation of human rights, Amnesty International USA said in a report on Wednesday. On an average...

 

 

   
   
   
   

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