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• Religious Right got it terribly wrong in recommending Bush

  Published: August 3, 2007, 4:11 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Usa

  How could Christians have voted for Bush? Why is it that we do not have religious leaders speaking out against Bush?

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• Religion, Culture Behind Texas Execution Tally

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:20 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Death Penalty, Usa

  Texas will almost certainly hit the grim total of 400 executions this month, far ahead of any other state, testament to the influence of the state's conservative evangelical Christians and its cultural mix of Old South and Wild West.

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• Misgivings raised as U.S. prepares to speed death penalty appeals

  Published: September 3, 2007, 5:13 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Death Penalty, Ethics, Usa

  Since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States three decades ago, 124 people awaiting execution have been exonerated. For some prisoners, the appeals process provided time to prove their innocence. Now a move by the government to speed up appeals has alarmed death penalty opponents, and even some supporters, who worry that innocent

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• Former Guantanamo detainees accuse U.S. of faith-based humiliation

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:43 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Usa

  Among the reports of abuses by government officials at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, perhaps few inflamed Muslims worldwide as much as allegations that copies of the Quran were dumped into filthy prison toilets. Now four former detainees are suing those U.S. officials over those very allegations - and employing a novel argument to do it.

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• Eyewitness accounts of human rights abuses in Burma

  Published: September 29, 2007, 3:55 am

  Tags: Society, Burma, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Violations

  A new analysis of high-resolution satellite images -- completed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -- pinpoints evidence consistent with village destruction, forced relocations, and a growing military presence at 25 sites across eastern Burma where eye-witnesses have reported human rights violations.

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• Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

  Published: October 4, 2007, 7:24 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  When it comes to human rights violations, America wants to police the world while officially following a "do as I say, not as I do" policy.

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• Carter: U.S. has tortured detainees and Bush approved it

  Published: October 11, 2007, 3:36 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  In an interview with CNN, former President Jimmy Carter said he believes that the United States has tortured detainee and that President Bush has authorized the abuse, which he said violates international laws.

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• American Bar Association calls for a nationwide freeze on executions

  Published: October 30, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.

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• DNA could clear Satanic' triple murder teenagers

  Published: November 4, 2007, 3:03 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Satanism, Usa

  The case against the West Memphis Three appears to have been more about rushed police work and hyped-up paranoia over non-existent Satanism than evidence. The suspects were just unfortunate to be social outcasts and to like rock music.

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• New Jersey Moves to End Its Death Penalty

  Published: December 16, 2007, 11:55 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Death Penalty, Ethics, Usa

  New Jersey joins the civilized world: The New Jersey General Assembly approved a bill eliminating capital punishment on Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Jon S. Corzine to sign the measure as early as Monday.

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• More proactive media needed for human rights reporting

  Published: January 22, 2008, 4:41 am

  Tags: Human Rights, Media Issues, Human Rights Violations, Journalism, Philippines

  of the basics of human rights even on the part of some reporters is abetting the continuing occurrence of summary executions, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, harassment and disappearances. This was the assessment of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and various journalists' groups as

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• George Bush Will Veto Ban On Torture

  Published: February 15, 2008, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  Further evidence that George Bush is a liar. He has claimed over and over again that America does not torture. But he won't give us the practice.

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• America adds a shameful chapter to the history of torture

  Published: March 8, 2008, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  "Torture. A word that in my lifetime I would never have guessed would be associated with the United States of America. Torture is wrong. Always."

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• George This country does not Torture' Bush vetoes torture-ban law

  Published: March 8, 2008, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  George Bush, who claims to be a Christian, lied when he said America does not torture.

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• US State Department releases annual report on human rights

  Published: March 12, 2008, 3:43 am

  Tags: Human Rights Violations, Ethics, Usa

  Ignoring America's own plethora of human rights violations, the US State Department published its annual report grading other countries on their human rights records.

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