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	The Enron Corporation:Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Summary and Recommendations (January 1999)
		Human Rights Watch considers that the financiers of Phase I of the project’s construction (1992-99) and U.S. government agencies that financed and lobbied for the project are complicit in the human rights violations.
		Human Rights Watch also considers that those institutions which have agreed to finance Phase II (set to begin in 1999) will be complicit in human rights violations unless they implement adequate safeguards to ensure respect for human rights.
		Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of witnesses and victims of human rights violations; Indian government officials; lawyers knowledgeable about the events; current and former U.S. government officials; and representatives of nongovernmental organizations.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/enron (1605 words)

	Human rights violation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human rights violation is a term used when a government violates national or international law related to the protection of human rights.
		Human rights violations and abuses most often thought of under the term human rights violations include those documented by organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_violation (474 words)

	Human Rights Violations
		Human rights are the articulation of the need for justice, tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity in all of our activity.[1] Speaking of rights allows us to express the idea that all individuals are part of the scope of morality and justice.
		Unresolved human rights issues can serve as obstacles to peace negotiations.[22] This is because it is difficult for parties to move toward conflict transformation and forgiveness when memories of severe violence and atrocity are still primary in their minds.
		The Legacy of Human Right Violation in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
	www.beyondintractability.org /m/human_rights_violations.jsp (4611 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Urges U.S. Accountability for Human Rights Violations
		An ACLU delegation arrives this week in Geneva to brief the 18 human rights experts of the U.N. Human Rights Committee (HRC) and to monitor the committee's examination of U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a major international human rights treaty ratified by the U.S. in 1992.
		ACLU affiliates across the country have recognized that human rights begin at home and have embarked on a campaign to educate Americans about their human rights under the ICCPR, to demand U.S. accountability for human rights violations, and to call for the protection and realization of human rights on the local, state and federal level.
		To illustrate the impact of many of the U.S. policies, the ACLU and the U.S. Human Rights Network are hosting a panel of victims of U.S. human rights violations in Geneva on Friday July 14, from 12:30 p.m.
	www.aclu.org /intlhumanrights/gen/26100prs20060710.html (764 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The human rights organization is also calling on the international community to translate its expressions of concern at escalating human rights violations in Turkey into appropriate action by organizations such as the OSCE and the United Nations.
		Given its poor human rights record in its war on the Kurds, not even Inonu's recent diplomatic drive in the West is expected to produce the necessary understanding for Ankara to continue to dwel in northern Iraq.
		Human rights activists say that at least 150 prominent writers, politicians, academics, journalists and lawyers are in jail for speaking out on such issues as Turkey's Kurdish problems, state-sponsored torture and corruption.
	theory.rockefeller.edu /~giannak/turkey.html (20145 words)

	Chile: Transition at the crossroads: human rights violations under Pinochet rule remain the crux - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The organization believes that details of individual cases of human rights violations during the military period have yet to be fully established, and therefore strongly opposes any further restriction on the investigation of these violations or on the prosecution of those found responsible.
		Human rights defenders in Chile and some judges held the view that the 1978 Amnesty Law should not be applied until the investigation was completed and the full criminal responsibility of any suspect was clearly established.
		Cases of human rights violations committed in the twelve years of the Pinochet government since 1978 are not covered by the 1978 Amnesty Law, and prosecutions in such cases have proceeded.
	www.web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/index/AMR220011996 (10888 words)

	Endless Brutality: Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Chechnya
		Physicians for Human Rights documents that, as of December 2000, Russia's forces continued to engage in arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, torture, murder, attempted murder, disappearances, bribery, and shelling of population centers.
		The violations of international humanitarian law — indiscriminate attacks on civilians, disproportionate use of force in civilian-populated areas, destruction of homes, hospitals and clinics — combined with the atmosphere of insecurity stemming from human rights violations - have created a humanitarian crisis affecting almost a million people and lasting more than a year.
		At the next UN Commission on Human Rights Meeting in March 2001, call for and establish an international commission of inquiry to conduct a sustained, independent and international investigation of human rights violations in Chechnya since the commencement of hostilities in September 1999.
	www.phrusa.org /research/chechnya/chech_rep.html (16473 words)

	WOMEN "INVISIBLE" VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
		Launching a major worldwide campaign to put the human rights of women on the public and government agenda in the run up to a United Nations Conference on Women in September, the organization said that governments which pay little more than lip service to these rights must be pushed into action.
		Those recommendations rise out of a 135-page report released at the start of its campaign, in which Amnesty International highlights the three key areas where women's human rights are most at risk: during wars and conflicts, when repressed because of their activism, and stemming from discrimination against women.
		Increasingly, women are standing up for their rights as political opponents, trade unionists, human rights activists, lawyers, and community activists.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/women/womeneng.htm (700 words)

	News
		Its human resources were diverted to the war, while other Arabs and foreign nationals had to be imported to carry on the country's business.
		Human rights abuses by the state are practiced daily in Iraq, against all sectors of the population indiscriminately.
		The prisons are overflowing, and the regime periodically conducts "prison-cleaning": mass executions to reduce the population of inmates.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /hr.html (1196 words)

	Human Rights Violations in Iran
		The systemic and state sponsored nature of many of these abuses has generated the flight of thousands of Iranians who have been forced to leave their homes to seek refuge in a safer country, one in which they are not subject to persecution or the threat thereof.
		The human rights situation is so dire that the regime has prohibited any UN special representatives from even entering the country to make assessments of their own.
		The UN Refugee Convention and Protocol and universal civil rights norms and standards require that those who are fleeing the Islamic Republic of Iran for reasons of race, religion, political opinion, membership in a particular social group, and rights violations and discrimination be granted protection and asylum.
	www.hambastegi.org /newsrelease/press136.htm (1591 words)

	Neve Gordon: Outsourcing Human Rights Violations
		Human rights groups disclosed that Nike employed children in substandard working conditions that endangered their health; they also revealed that Nike's Southeast Asian employees receive a salary of two dollars per day, which cannot sustain them, let alone provide for health insurance and pension funds.
		States are responsible for violations of economic, social and cultural rights that result from their failure to exercise due diligence in controlling the behavior of such non-state actors (article 8).
		The underlying assumption informing this suggestion is that the objective of human rights organizations isn't only to struggle against specific violations, but also to create a space and a discourse that empowers oppressed populations and enables them to struggle for their basic rights.
	www.counterpunch.org /gordon09062003.html (3309 words)

	Human Rights First \| International Justice - ATCA and TVPA
		The ATCA thus has provided a means of holding officials accountable for their gross violations of human rights – while also offering the potential to deter future abuses, and to keep the United States from becoming a safe harbor for those responsible for such abuses.
		Human Rights First played a leading role in the 102nd Congress’ passage of the Torture Victim Protection Act, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in March 1992, as a complement to the ATCA.
		Being present in a zone of human rights abuses is simply not sufficient to meet the high threshold.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /international_justice/w_context/w_cont_12.htm (1431 words)

	Church of Scientology International Human Rights Office: France
		Founded by Academy Award nominated actress and human rights advocate, Anne Archer, Artists for Human Rights invites artists from all disciplines to use their creative genius to support and affirm the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
		The event is co-sponsored by Youth for Human Rights, Artists for Human Rights, The International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance and the Church of Scientology International.
		Organized by the Church of Scientology International in coordination with Youth for Human Rights International and the International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance, the event also featured the presentation of International Human Rights Hero awards at a ceremony MC'd by Anne Archer.
	www.humanrights-france.org (675 words)

	Human Rights Violations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		OTTAWA - Canada's human rights watchdog is on the brink of a crisis in the face of an unprecedented exodus of workers who complain that a controlling, disinterested and even abusive senior management is breaching the rights of its own staff.
		The workplace survey, done by human resources specialist Watson Wyatt, paints a grim picture of a remote, disengaged, and even abusive senior management that workers felt show little respect for them and their concerns.
		But the Alberta Human Rights Commission ruled the replacements also discriminated against men because they suggested male violence is different than female violence and that women deserve more help.
	www.fathers.ca /human_rights_violations.htm (1617 words)

	Human Rights Violations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These human rights violations are violations according to the comparison to the UDHR (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
		One problem is the situation evolving the condition and treatment of political prisoners and the other is because of the lack of freedom of press, speech and the freedom of expression.
		The situations evolving political prisoners violate an abundant number of granted human rights, granted by the UDHR.
	www.beaconschool.org /~bmartine/humanrights.html (292 words)

	Amnesty International - Colombia: Breaking down the wall of silence
		The frustration of Colombian society at the failure of the peace negotiations and at the worsening of the conflict is understandable, as are its repeated calls for protection in the face of the violent action of armed groups - which have never been heeded.
		The measures that Amnesty International is particularly concerned at include attempts to undermine the human rights guarantees contained in the 1991 Constitution.
		These include the weakening of the Ombudsman’s Office and local State human rights structures (Personerías), the limitation of writs of protection (tutelas), as well as the restriction of human rights which have been imposed within the framework of the state of internal commotion.
	web.amnesty.org /web/content.nsf/pages/gbr_colombia (338 words)

	Human Rights Publications - Church of Scientology Human Rights Department
		Teaches basic human rights and how they can be used to bring peace.
		Describes the human rights covenants and agreements protecting freedom of conscience and explains how to apply them.
		An account of how churches of Scientology and their members have turned commitment into accomplishment through half a century of dedicated efforts to remedy many different kinds of human rights violations and to raise public understanding of the importance of human rights.
	www.scientology.org /humanrights/publications.htm (151 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DOCUMENTED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The report, titled "Human Rights and Mental Health: Mexico," is a result of three visits to Mexican psychiatric hospitals in 1996, 1998, and 1999 by a team of attorneys and psychiatrists, including Robert L. Okin, MD, UCSF chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and professor of clinical psychiatry at UCSF.
		Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) is an advocacy organization dedicated to the international recognition and enforcement of the rights of people with mental disabilities and has published similar reports for Hungary, Uruguay, and Russia.
		"In addition to the way in which these conditions violate patients' human rights, the most tragic part of this entire situation is that it doesn't have to be this way," said Okin.
	www.ucsf.edu /pressrel/2000/02/022802.html (572 words)

	Human Rights Campaigns, Campaigns Against Human Rights Violations
		Each campaign is geared toward one government who distorts, denies, and deludes its own history to disguise past and present genocides, massacres, and human rights violations.
		The government of Turkey not only has one of the worst human rights violations records in the world today, but also works hard to deny its acts of genocide toward the Armenian people between 1914-1923.
		The UHRC will work to educate the people worldwide of the human rights violations this government commits and, through boycotts and grassroots mobilization; will encourage businesses and consumers to stop buying and selling products made in Turkey.
	www.unitedhumanrights.org /campaigns.htm (223 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.
		Israeli, Palestinian and European human rights organizations today issued a joint declaration calling on Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the European Union, and Egypt, to immediately open Gaza's borders to passenger traffic, irrespective of their political agenda concerning Hamas.
		The organizations jointly stated that residents of the Strip must not be used as pawns in the struggle for control in Gaza.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/humanrightswire.shtml (957 words)

	Tongan authorities accused of human rights violations. 13/12/2006. ABC News Online
		However a report by Tonga's National Centre for Women and Children accuses the same authorities of a systematic campaign of human rights violations.
		Australian legal aid worker Gus McLean, who has been working in Nuku'alofa for the past three years, helped prepare the report, which alleges systematic torture and abuse of prisoners by the Tongan military in the wake of the riots.
		Four weeks after the rioting in Tonga, reports are emerging of widespread human rights violations - including the systematic torture and abuse of prisoners.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200612/s1811010.htm (326 words)

	Congressional Letters about Aceh
		Indonesia Human Rights Network (IHRN) is a U.S.-based grassroots organization working to educate and activate the American public and influence U.S. foreign policy and international economic interests to support democracy, demilitarization, and justice through accountability and rule of law in Indonesia.
		We are writing to express deep concern about the offensive launched by the Indonesian military on May 19, 2003 against separatist rebels in the northern province of Aceh and reports of human rights abuses against civilians and non-governmental organizations.
		We urge you to convey to Indonesian authorities in the strongest possible terms that the military must respect human rights and cease attacks and intimidation against civilians, peaceful human rights and political activists, journalists and others now under threat.
	www.etan.org /action/action2/06acehltr.htm (1362 words)

	TIME.com: Inside the Battle of Jenin
		Human Rights Watch, which in a published report last week also concluded that no massacre took place, nonetheless documented 22 civilian deaths and said the Israelis used excessive and indiscriminate force during the operation.
		Charles Kapes, the deputy chief of the U.N. office in the camp, says 54 dead have been pulled from the wreckage and 49 Palestinians are missing, of whom 18 are residents of the camp.
		Human Rights Watch says 52 were killed, of whom only 27 were thought to be armed Palestinians.
	www.time.com /time/2002/jenin/story.html (3555 words)

	Human Rights Violations in Drug Law Enforcement in Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Under both federal and Georgia constitutional law, racially disparate drug law enforcement violates the equal protection guarantee only if it is undertaken with discriminatory intent or purpose.
		According to Human Rights Watch, greater justification of the criminal enforcement of Georgia's anti-drug laws than that of simply following the path of least resistance in drug arrests is required, because the fundamental human right of equal protection is at stake.
		HRW recommended that the means used to enforce drug laws which have led to a disparity in arrests, and particularly in life sentences, should be modified in light of the state's anti-drug objectives.
	www.ndsn.org /SEPT96/HRW.html (1587 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This report documents human rights issues of concern to AI worldwide during 1999.
		It also reflects the activities AI has undertaken during the year to promote human rights and to campaign against specific human rights abuses.
		The absence of an entry on a particular country or territory does not imply that no human rights abuses of concern to AI took place there during the year.
	www.web.amnesty.org /web/ar2000web.nsf (273 words)

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