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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with human rights

$1.4 Billion From U.S Taxpayers to South America for Their "Drug Wars"...Enter Blackwater
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: United States, Federal, Tax, Taxpayer, Money, Market, Trade, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Law, Government, Waste, Federal Contracts, Blackwater, DynCorp, Merida Initiative, human rights, Constitution of the United States, Prison Nation, Police State )

Town
- 120 days ago - bloomberg.com
Senator Leahy: "Congress supports Merida Initiative" Leahy: American People are the " primary market for illegal drugs & source of most of the guns" MERIDA INITIATIVE APPROVED WITHOUT HUMAN RIGHTS LANGUAGE
Justice for Sean Bell - Sign the Petition
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Civil Rights, civil rights movement, Police Brutality, Racial profiling, Human Rights )

Rosa
- 150 days ago - go.care2.com
23-year-old Sean Bell was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets on the day of his weeding in NY. He was unarmed. Speak out for victims of police brutality and racial profiling like Sean Bell, and demand change and rights for all.
CIA Has 7,000 Documents Relating to Rendition, Detention, Torture Programs, Filing Shows
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: human rights, CIA, torture, injustice, cover-up, lies )

Elisa
- 166 days ago - rawstory.com
The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged having 7,000 pages of documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's secret rendition and detention programs, according to three international
Torturers in the White House
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: human rights, injustice, torture )

Elisa
- 166 days ago - progressive.org
Why is this not bigger news? Remember when the nation was brought to a virtual standstill over Bill Clinton's affair with a White House intern?
Two Separate Societies: One in Prison, One Not
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: prison-industrial complex, human rights, usa )


- 172 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The leading presidential candidates have not identified mass imprisonment as a central issue, even though it is arguably the country's top civil rights concern. Many of today's crime control policies fundamentally impede the economic, political and social
Tomato Pickers Feeling Spied on | News-Press.Com | The News-Press
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: corporate rule, burger king, field workers, labor, human rights )


- 174 days ago - news-press.com
Who would spy on a couple of nonprofit human rights groups? Who would hire a professional infiltrator to sit in on the organizations' planning sessions? Who would attack them on the Web for their efforts to improve the lives of workers who pick produce fo
Bush: No U.S. Protests During Beijing Games
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bush, constitution, Human Rights, protests, Olympic Games )

Jakki
- 180 days ago - wnd.com
There won't be any U.S. protests at the Beijing Olympic Games over China's wide-ranging human rights violations, according to a spokesman for the White House.
Life With Big Brother: Driver's Licenses to Feature Radio Chips
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Big Bro, freedoms, Human Rights, corruption )

Elisa
- 180 days ago - globalresearch.ca
State introducing cards that encode personal information.
HILLARY CLINTON Calls Out BUSH to Boycott CHINA OLYMPICS!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: USA, Hillary Clinton, Bush administration, GW Bush, Olympics, China, human rights, boycott )

Kactus
- 182 days ago - politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
She pointed to the recent protests in Tibet and the Chinese government's failure to pressure the government of Sudan to end the violence in Darfur. "These events underscore why I believe Bush is wrong to downplay human rights in its policy towards China."
Detention Facility for Immigrant Kids Sued for Abuse
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: privatized detention, abused teens, human rights )


- 183 days ago - wacotrib.com
The teens from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Cuba were being held at the San Antonio facility run by Houston-based Cornell Companies Inc. under a contract with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Urge Your Representative to Pass H.R. 1077 in Support of Tibet
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, house resolution, human rights, congress, Nancy Pelosi )

Andrea
- 184 days ago - speaker.house.gov
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introduced House Resolution 1077, which which calls for China to stop its brutal crackdown of the Tibetan people, and for the government to engage in fair and constructive dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
There's Nothing Funny About Prison Rape
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: prisons, rape, human rights )


- 189 days ago - prospect.org
More than 60,000 prisoners are raped every year, and yet we treat them as punchlines not victims. It's time to abandon the idea that rape is a suitable punishment for anyone.
UN Scolds Washington for War on Migrants
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: immigrant rights, UN, USA, rule of law, human rights )


- 197 days ago - opednews.com
arbitrary detention, separation of families, substandard conditions of detention, procedural violations in criminal and administrative law proceedings, racial and ethnic discrimination, arbitrary and collective expulsions and violations of children's and
Human Rights Record of United States in 2007
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, china, human rights )


- 207 days ago - opednews.com
While the United States critiques human rights in China, the China Information Office of the State Council returns the favor with a critique of human rights violations in the United States.
Rights Group: Venezuela Is Basically Democratic
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: democracy, human rights, Venezuela, usa )


- 247 days ago - miamiherald.com
Human Rights Watch said Venezuela was actually more democratic than many nations, contrary to some popular U.S. perceptions.
 

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