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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Human rights abuse
		Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else.
		Human experimentation Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, and verbal attacks and threats by police officers.
		Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the use of the death penalty, however, in some democracies such as the United States, particularly when the penalty is used against those who were minors when they committed the crime in question.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Human-rights-abuse (1331 words)

	Human Rights Abuse Rampant in Congo War (Human Rights Watch, 25-2-1999)
		Congolese rebels have committed serious human rights abuses and should be criticized together with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
		It also enumerates human rights abuses by the government, including ethnic persecution, restrictions on basic freedoms, and violations of the laws of war.
		Human Rights Watch, an international monitoring group based in New York, urges all parties to the conflict, including foreign forces, to abide by international humanitarian law and to protect civilians during the conflict.
	www.hrw.org /press/1999/feb/con2599.htm (604 words)

	Human rights abuse rife in Saudi Arabia, watchdog says - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Human Rights Watch released its report Saturday after being invited by Saudi authorities to conduct a four-week mission to the kingdom starting in December.
		A Saudi journalist and a human rights activist lauded what they described as long-overdue criticism of police and court authorities who, they allege, have evaded government attempts to curb their power and misuse Islam to subject women, children, prisoners and foreigners to abuses that have no basis in law.
		A Saudi human rights activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, also said the country remains plagued by extremists who dominate midlevel positions in the police and judiciary.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2007-02-18-saudi-report_x.htm (684 words)

	The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
		The UN human rights treaties are at the core of the international system for the promotion and protection of human rights.
		It is a universal human rights legal system which applies to virtually every child, woman or man in the world.
		The successful implementation of the human rights treaty standards, whether at the international or national level, depends on their accessibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
	www.bayefsky.com (137 words)

	Report Faults U.N. Council on Rights Abuse (washingtonpost.com)
		Human Rights Watch said that the council rarely holds governments to account for rights violations, citing its failure to challenge misleading reports by Uzbekistan and other rights abusers.
		Human Rights Watch also faulted some governments with strong human rights records, including Sweden, for violating their own principles in the fight against terrorism.
		He said that his office will maintain close contact with the U.N. human rights commissioner and that he is considering appointing one or two human rights experts.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A54949-2004Aug10.html (604 words)

	Burundi: Rape - the hidden human rights abuse - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abuses of the human rights of women in situations of armed conflict are contrary to the fundamental principles of international human rights and humanitarian law.
		The Protocol also guarantees the rights of widows, including the right to be free from inhuman, humiliating or degrading treatment, to automatically become the guardian of her children after the death of her husband, and to have an equitable share in the inheritance.
		The contemporary understanding of rape or other sexual abuse by or with the consent or acquiescence of the state or by organized armed groups is that such abuse constitutes a form of torture or ill-treatment.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR160062004 (8788 words)

	Human rights and the police - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The column pointed out that Patterson would have been a clear choice for the honour were it not for human rights abuses by agents of the state for which he, as head of the government, must be held accountable ultimately.
		Responding to the column that the government presided over the worst period of human rights abuses by agents of the state in 50 years, Sandra Graham, the prime minister's press secretary quoted statistics on fatal shootings in an attempt to show that human rights abuses related mainly to controversial police shootings.
		It would have been helpful for her to have given a breakdown of just how many cases of human rights abuse were related to controversial police shootings, because the abuses were not confined to police shootings.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20050124T190000-0500_73817_OBS_HUMAN_RIGHTS_AND_THE_POLICE.asp (927 words)

	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		A human rights violation is committed by the State through its agents (the police, the armed forces and anyone acting with the authority of the State) against the individual.
		Human rights are also protected in the Constitutions and national laws of many States around the world.
		In addition, human rights are further protected by the many Treaties, or Agreements, governments have signed which oblige them to ensure these rights and freedoms.
	www.hri.ca /doccentre/docs/handbook97/human-rights.shtml (807 words)

	Human rights abuse abounds in Zimbabwe - Lauren Segal
		Zimbabwe's failure to deal with large-scale human rights abuses of this kind has its roots in the negotiated settlement, known as the Lancaster House agreement, which ended the war in Rhodesia.
		According to Richard Carver of Human Rights Watch, the human rights abuses under the Mugabe government closely resembled those of the former Smith regime.
		Human Rights Watch argues that the government should investigate the "disappearance fully and bring to justice officials found responsible for prolonged unlawful detention, torture or killing of prisoners".
	www.csvr.org.za /articles/artrczim.htm (587 words)

	Human Rights Video Project
		To ensure that the rights identified in the international agreements are protected and promoted by all countries, an international human rights system has developed, offering a diverse array of procedures to human rights activists.
		Today there are seven core human rights treaties, each of which is monitored by a committee or "treaty monitoring body." Each treaty body is composed of independent experts of recognized competence in the field who are elected by states that are party to the particular treaty.
		The Poor People's Economic Rights Campaign is a national initiative led by poor and homeless women, men and children of all races to raise the issue of poverty as a human rights violation in the United States.
	www.humanrightsproject.org /content.php?sec=essay&sub=global (2879 words)

	Human Rights Abuse Continues in Vietnam (Richard S. Williamson)
		The human rights situation in Vietnam continues to be unacceptable.
		Human Rights Watch reports that a few months ago “in the weeks leading up to Christmas, (Vietnamese) police were busy rounding up and arresting dozens of Montagnard Christians and detaining them at district and provincial stations and prisons throughout the region.
		America must stand by the people of Vietnam in calling for a return of the basic human rights to which every human being is entitled and which will serve as the necessary building blocks to a free society.
	www.thienlybuutoa.org /Misc/HumanRightsAbuseContinuesInVietnam.htm (693 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN KENYA 1978-2001.
		Human rights lawyers, Gibson Kamau Kuria and Kiraitu Murungi, fled to the United States to avoid being jailed.
		According to human rights groups, the fact that the Provincial Administrators, the GSU, and the police were involved in the conflicts again implicated the state.
		Victims of human rights violations are thus left without judicial protection, the High Court having decided that it has no jurisdiction to enforce the human rights provisions of Chapter V of the Constitution, even though section 84 of the Constitution provides for redress before the High Court for violation of any of its provisions.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v5/v5i1a1.htm (8008 words)

	Workshop on Human Rights
		I will discuss the role of arms in violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, speak briefly about some methodological innovations in the human rights field prompted by the emphasis on arms, and suggest ways of deploying the arms issue to apply pressure on key actors to curb human rights abuses.
		To make an effective argument on the role of the arms trade in encouraging human rights abuse, the research objective must be to expose the role of states, i.e., entities that can be held accountable under international human rights and humanitarian law.
		But now we can also go to the suppliers (and transshippers) of the weaponry with which abuses are being committed, and can call on them directly to halt such supplies, using the threat of their stigmatization as an accessory to human rights crimes.
	www.aals.org /profdev/humanrights/hiltermann.html (764 words)

	ei: Human Rights
		EI's Human Rights section offers reports and news about human rights violations on the ground, bringing you feature articles, statements from international bodies, and reports from local and international human rights organisations, including the Weekly report on human rights violations from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza.
		The right to education is one of the most basic rights, and is an essential prerequisite for the plural democracy Israel claims to be.
		Education is especially important because in the long term it determines a population's ability to deal with the rest of society on a par.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/humanrightswire.shtml (702 words)

	Columbia Law : Human Rights
		The second and largest segment of the course is devoted to the international human rights movement and the international law of human rights, including its origin and theory, the basic international human rights instruments, and remedies under both international and domestic law.
		Human rights is now part of a proliferating number of ‘con-joined' movements: human rights and development, and business, and health, and more.
		The tactics and tools of human rights advocacy have also expanded: ‘naming and shaming' is still at the core of much activism, but public-private engagement to negotiate long term monitoring programs for private corporations, calls to rights-based programming and other tactics are now nearly routine.
	www.law.columbia.edu /llm_jsd/grad_studies/courses/Human_Rights (3162 words)

	Human Rights Abuse in South Africa
		On Monday evening, the 6th July, about 400 families of homeless people were evicted by the owner of the land where they were staying, and dumped on a rubbish tip by ANC councillors in the Maraisburg district of Roodepoort, next to Johannesburg in South Africa.
		The residents are questioning the reason for the delay, which led to the supposed emergency.
		We feel that the human rights of these people have been abused by the ANC, and we are looking for help from the international community to apply pressure on the ANC to take action to help these people.
	members.tripod.com /~andy_100/index.html (460 words)

	Scientology International — Human Rights Director
		Leisa Goodman, Human Rights Director, Church of Scientology International, was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, of a Scientologist family.
		Her chief interest was in the area of human rights and even then she undertook initiatives to teach human rights to children.
		In 1997, Leisa was appointed director for the Human Rights Department of the Church of Scientology International, the mother church of the Scientology religion, a position she has held since.
	www.theta.com /goodman (1301 words)

	Human Rights Abuse
		The human rights agencies should, at least, agree that when someone starts digging in on the foundations of a structure, the entire structure is bound to come crashing down.
		All the human rights stuff has high class political overtones and it is not intended to help the helpless people.
		No one dares protest to them for human rights violations only because they have the oil which is crucial for the economic lifeline of the human rights sentinels.
	alhafeez.org /rashid/humanrights/hrabuse.html (3548 words)

	Enron: History of Human Rights Abuse in India (Human Rights Watch, 23-1-2002)
		Enron was complicit in human rights abuse in India for several years.
		In 1999, Human Rights Watch charged in a 166-page report, "The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations," that Enron subsidiaries paid local law enforcement to suppress opposition to its power plant south of Bombay.
		A provision was introduced in the U.S. Congress during 2001 to strengthen the Export-Import Bank's human rights oversight.
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/01/enron_012302.htm (877 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Business and Human Rights
		Human Rights Watch's letter to FTSE Group asserts that the March 2007 decision to maintain Smithfield Foods, Inc., in the FTSE4Good Index of socially responsible companies was disappointing and raises serious questions about the interpretation and application of the index's social screening criteria.
		And large-scale government corruption and mismanagement undermine key economic, social and cultural rights, like the rights to health and education, because available resources that governments should be spending on services for their own people is squandered or stolen.
		Human Rights Watch is concerned, however, that ambiguities in the template could prevent it from reaching its full potential.
	www.hrw.org /doc/?t=corporations (1613 words)

	CorpWatch : USA: Burma Human Rights Abuse Case Against Oil Giant to Go Ahead
		The suit, originally filed in 1996, claims UNOCAL was partly responsible for human rights violations committed by Myanmar's military junta during the construction of the Yadana pipeline commissioned by UNOCAL and its joint venture partner, the Myanmar government.
		UNOCAL spokesman Barry Lane strongly denied the company was in any way responsible for the rights abuses he conceded were committed by the military of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
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	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=2750 (755 words)

	French police accused of human rights abuse - Independent Online Edition > Europe
		France will be accused this week of trampling the human rights of police detainees and asylum-seekers.
		A hard-hitting report by the Council of Europe's human rights chief, Alvaro Gil-Robles, calls for an "urgent" reform of the conditions of detention of criminal suspects in French police stations.
		In another section of the report, the Council of Europe's Spanish human rights commissioner criticises the harsh treatment of asylum-seekers.
	news.independent.co.uk /europe/article345083.ece (322 words)

	International Human Rights Instruments
		Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict *
		Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO)
		Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live
	www.unhchr.ch /html/intlinst.htm (1164 words)

	Human rights abuse and other criminal violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey of households. - September ...
		Human rights abuse and other criminal violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey of households.
		Reliable evidence of the frequency and severity of human rights abuses in Haiti after the departure of the elected president in 2004 was scarce.
		Information on demographic characteristics, crime, and human rights violations was obtained.
	www.haitiaction.com /News/LD/9_19_6/9_19_6.html (344 words)

	Analysis: Great Lakes, Burundi: Rape - the hidden human rights abuse
		The Human Rights Committee has specifically mentioned the risk posed to women in times of conflict and informed states that they must report to the Committee all the measures taken to protect women from rape, abduction and other gender-based forms of violence".
		- investigating allegations of abuses to determine responsibility for any such abuses and ensuring that those responsible are removed from any position in which they may commit human rights abuses against civilians and those who are hors de combat.
		Please see an appeal, Burundi: Commitment to human rights is essential (AI Index: AFR 16/001/2004, January 2004), for further information on recommendations on areas which Amnesty International believes are in vital need of assistance and support as part of international efforts to rebuild Burundi's infrastructure.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SKAR-648D68?OpenDocument (9083 words)

	Human Rights Program @ Harvard Law School
		The Henigson Human Rights Fellowships are for HLS students and recent graduates with a demonstrated commitment to international human rights and an interest in working in the field.
		They are intended to enable students to make a valuable contribution to human rights during the year of the fellowship, and to help students to build human rights into their careers.
		It works to educate students who will be among the leaders of the human rights movement, and foster progress within the movement through its scholarship, engagement, criticism and suggestions.
	www.law.harvard.edu /programs/HRP (448 words)

	human rights coca cola and human rights abuse against Columbia
		Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction, and likewise other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality.
		The existence, validity and the content of human rights continue to be the subject to debate in philosophy and political science.
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	www.a1-easybuys.com /human-rights/coca-cola-and-human-rights-abuse-against-Columbia.htm (425 words)

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