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  • US Re-Examines Afghan Attack That Killed Civilians 8 Sep 2008 02:17 GMT
    ... "new information" about an American attack that Afghanistan says killed 90 civilians and it is ... Ahmad Nader Nadery, spokesman for Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, has said a villager named Reza, ...

  • US re-examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack 8 Sep 2008 01:49 GMT
    ... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military said Sunday ... Ahmad Nader Nadery, spokesman for Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, has said a villager named Reza, ...

  • Evaluating the Democratic Party Platform 8 Sep 2008 00:51 GMT
    ... platform proposes to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending "at least two additional combat ... civil society that is necessary to uphold human rights and build respect for the rule of ...

  • Russia must change course 8 Sep 2008 00:37 GMT
    ... Kosovo followed dramatic and systematic abuse of human rights, culminating in ethnic cleansing on a scale ... nuclear proliferation, addressing climate change, or stabilizing Afghanistan. But the international community is not impotent. ...

  • Afghan civilians: Caught in the crossfire 8 Sep 2008 00:31 GMT
    ... Civilians in Afghanistan are paying a deadly price in the ... may well lose the war. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 540 Afghan civilians died ...

  • Afghan civilian deaths triple in a year 8 Sep 2008 00:29 GMT
    ... An injured Afghan boy is put on a stretcher at ... and fuelling a public backlash, a leading human rights group says today. The report by Human ...

  • US air power triples deaths of Afghan civilians, says report 8 Sep 2008 00:29 GMT
    ... An injured Afghan boy is put on a stretcher at ... and fuelling a public backlash, a leading human rights group says today. The report by Human ...

  • US has new information on attack that raised tensions with Afghanistan over civilian deaths 8 Sep 2008 00:27 GMT
    ... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ The U.S. military said Sunday ... Ahmad Nader Nadery, spokesman for Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, has said a villager named Reza, ...

  • US re-examines Afghan attack that killed civilians 8 Sep 2008 00:07 GMT
    ... this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of ... Ahmad Nader Nadery, spokesman for Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, has said a villager named Reza, ...

  • Asif Ali Zardari is Pakistan's new president 6 Sep 2008 22:32 GMT
    ... Taliban on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the requests from the army, which is ... a memorandum from the leader of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan emphasized Zardari's "inadequacy" to ...

  • Bush's Middle East foreign policy creates moral tragedies 6 Sep 2008 20:36 GMT
    ... wars, fix the mess in Iraq and Afghanistan and don't start yet another war in ... policy toward Gaza "one of the greatest human rights crimes on earth." Political scientist Ilan Pappe ...

  • Iraq plans museum at Abu Ghraib 6 Sep 2008 18:37 GMT
    ... would send a small Marine contingent to Afghanistan in November. Those Marines would replace one ... on rule of law and respect for human rights on the wreckage of dictatorship. In all, ...

  • Alleged terrrorism: How Ijaw leader, Chief Oboko was handcuffed and detained in toilet in America 6 Sep 2008 18:37 GMT
    ... FEHN. As alleged in reports of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), the military men were aided ... and religion, relating to wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria’s Niger Delta and religion. The questions ...

  • Afghans grow bitter over America 6 Sep 2008 18:34 GMT
    ... GHANI KHIEL, Afghanistan - The bearded, turbaned men gather beneath ... Inside the walled compound of the Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, workers are knee-deep in ...

  • Afghans lose faith in government, U.S. 6 Sep 2008 17:31 GMT
    ... is a contradiction between wanting to minimize Afghan civilian casualties and minimizing U.S. military casualties," ... Inside the walled compound of the Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, workers are knee-deep in ...

  • Afghans fed up with government, U.S. 6 Sep 2008 15:08 GMT
    ... GHANI KHIEL, Afghanistan -- The bearded, turbaned men gather beneath ... Inside the walled compound of the Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, workers are knee-deep in ...

  • Pak-American 'terror suspect' Dr Aafia Siddiqui's two kids removed from Bagram prison 6 Sep 2008 14:36 GMT
    ... Lahore, Sept 6: The Afghanistan authorities have removed two of the three ... Siddiqui from Bagram prison, claimed the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in a statement issued last ...

  • Afghans becoming fed up with government, U.S. 6 Sep 2008 14:35 GMT
    ... GHANI KHIEL, Afghanistan — The bearded, turbaned men gather beneath ... Inside the walled compound of the Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, workers are knee-deep in ...

  • Ex-detainee Salim suffers memory loss 6 Sep 2008 14:30 GMT
    ... me at the Bagram detention camp in Afghanistan by American soldiers,`` Salim said in an ... assistance. The Dar es Salaam-based Legal and Human Rights Centre has said through one of its ...

  • Caught in the Cross-Fire 6 Sep 2008 13:32 GMT
    ... Civilians in Afghanistan are paying a deadly price in the ... items by Times editorial writers. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 540 Afghan civilians died ...


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