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The Guardian:
• Victims of Philippines violence believed to include 22 journalists• Pressure grows on President Gloria Macapagal-ArroyoThe death toll from a massacre in the southern Philippines rose to 57 today after police found another 1 (Read More)
The Guardian:
Security force costing $1bn a year has not defeated Rwandan Hutu rebels or halted plunder of lucrative minerals, experts findThe world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission has been branded a failure by experts who say it is fuel (Read More)
The Guardian:
Nick Cohen's crude attempt to smear me by association is part of a movement that seeks to identify and hunt down 'Islamists'Oh dear, I appear to have upset Nick Cohen. What's the matter? Well, apparently:[John] Denham is ente (Read More)
The Guardian:
Flurry of activity could prove, as so often before, to be just window dressing, writes British ambassador Andrew HeynThis is a particularly interesting time for Burma watchers. A flurry of activity, both domestically and inte (Read More)
BBC:
Human Rights Watch urges Saudi Arabia to overturn a death sentence given to a man convicted of "witchcraft". (Read More)
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Women of Zimbabwe get Kennedy human rights award from US president.read more. (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Those waterboarded and beaten are torture's direct victims, but the faulty intelligence it provides makes the world less safeGiven all that has come before it, the report published this week by Human Rights Watch (HRW) detail (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The G20 protests were dealt with badly and HMIC proposes a sensible route forward. But is there the will to follow it?When the public start voicing anger at the behaviour of a public body, the authorities' usual response is t (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
More than 22,000 sign petition against parts of the digital economy bill, raising it to sixth place on the No 10 websiteThe Don't Disconnect Us petition, asking the government to drop its proposed measure allowing the disconn (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Senior inspector warns police risk losing public consent and calls for return to 19th-century style of minimal forceSenior police officers could lose the consent of the British public unless they abandon misguided approaches (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent, on Human Rights Watch report claiming British complicity in Pakistani tortureAfua Hirsch
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The Guardian:
A report by Human Rights Watch accuses Britain of complicity in torture of its own citizens in Pakistan. Afua Hirsch, our legal affairs correspondent, says the investigation backs up the Guardian's reports on UK involvement i (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The liberty-security balance is centuries old. On the DNA database, I think we're getting it rightAs Willie Whitelaw once noted, balancing the rights of the individual against the rights of society as a whole is one of the mo (Read More)
Reuters: International News:
CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition parties and the Jewish community criticized a visit by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Venezuela, citing worries over his denial of the Holocaust, human rights violations and Iran's nucl (Read More)
The Guardian:
Allegations about Britain's role in the torture of its own citizens in Pakistan are not new. They have been made persuasively by our own investigative reporting. What is new in the report published yesterday by Human Rights W (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The Commonwealth has developed a 21st-century role – as a haven for serial human rights abusersWhat's the point of the Commonwealth? Every two years the question comes around in the run-up to the Commonwealth heads of governm (Read More)
The Guardian:
It does not look good for British agents when the case law most applicable for allegations against them comes from an international war crimes tribunal. But the concept of complicity in torture, a crime under the UN conventio (Read More)
The Guardian:
'The British know well we do not garland or honour terror suspects', says Pakistan intelligence officerThe latest evidence that British government officials have been complicit in the torture of British citizens during the so (Read More)
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre:
The Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) is hailing the order of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to further investigate the alleged illegal demolition and dispersal operations related to the operation of the Didipio Copper-Gold Mini (Read More)
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A sound and healthy natural environment lends an enabling context for the enjoyment of other human rights. It is therefore clear that the right to a healthy environment is a fundamental part of the right to life and to human (Read More)
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