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<title>Human Rights Today: Afghanistan Human Rights News</title>
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<title>UN Security Council on fact-seeking mission in Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199569095</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 02:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to go on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan to evaluate the ongoing situation &amp;hellip; on  ...  of security, governance, rule of law and human rights, economic and social development, as well as  ...
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<title>Withdraw the troops from Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199568478</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 02:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Seven years after the supposed liberation of Afghanistan, there is now conclusive evidence that the  ...  Families Against the War , Louise Christian human rights lawyer, Jeremy Corbyn MP, George Galloway MP,  ...
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<title>Torture: End practice forever</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199566331</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 02:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  fear that has fostered abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan and still-unknown places of secret-detention horrors. On  ...  U.S. practices into line with the universal human rights principles. National Religious Coalition Against Torture urged  ...
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<title>No change to stance on freeing Khadr, says Ottawa</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199555475</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 00:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  slammed by Mr. Khadr&#39;s U.S. military lawyer, human rights groups and political opponents of Prime Minister  ...  U.S. army medic in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15. His  ...
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<title>Journalists honored for risks taken while reporting on regimes</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199549316</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 23:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  regimes. The six, who work in Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Cuba, are recipients of  ...  he said. Mtetwa, a prominent media and human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe who was cited for  ...
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<title>No change in Canada&#39;s stance on Khadr: Cannon</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199538107</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 22:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  was slammed by Khadr&#39;s U.S. military lawyer, human rights groups and political opponents of Prime Minister  ...  U.S. army medic in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15. His  ...
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<title>Baby, you can drive my car...</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199532098</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  news coverage, reporting regularly from Iraq and Afghanistan, doing 20-minute packages on unsexy but important  ...  note on a potential investigation into the human rights violations of the Bush administration is right  ...
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<title>Five Guantanamo detainees ruled illegally detained</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199530419</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the five had planned to go to Afghanistan to take up arms against US forces,  ...  has tarnished the US reputation overseas, and human rights groups have long called for it to  ...
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<title>Let Aafia Siddiqui Go Home</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199527979</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  tactics applied on her in detention in Afghanistan and US. But will she be able  ...  case is a grim reminder of appalling human rights abuse going on in the name of  ...
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<title>Journalists honored for dedication to reporting</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199527548</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  pictures.&quot; Karokhel, the managing editor of Pajhwok Afghan News, said the risks to journalists in  ...  he said. Mtetwa, a prominent media and human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe who was cited for  ...
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<title>How Bush can smooth the Gitmo transition</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199526213</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of the UCLA School of Law&#39;s international human rights program. Obama shouldn&#39;t abandon the lessons of  ...  commissions process at Gitmo with alacrity. Bagram, Afghanistan : Bush needs to inform the Obama  ...
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<title>Journalists cited for risks</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199526133</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  regimes. The six, who work in Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Cuba, are recipients of  ...  he said. Mtetwa, a prominent media and human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe who was cited for  ...
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<title>Freed Guantanamo Bay Detainee Seeks Greater Freedoms</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199523606</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 21:23 GMT</pubDate>
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...  US military commission. He was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001. At his trial, he  ...  need to be reviewed because they compromise human rights for security. ...
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<title>Peace Voters Face New Challenges</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199521624</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 20:58 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  When Robert Dreyfuss attacks Obama&#39;s policies on Afghanistan, it&#39;s not helpful to the progressive cause.  ...  and organizations representing civil rights, womens&#39; rights, human rights, gay/lesbian rights, labor&#39;s agenda and environmentalists seem  ...
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<title>The Problem Is Empire</title>
<link>http://humanrights.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199521619</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 20:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  When Robert Dreyfuss attacks Obama&#39;s policies on Afghanistan, it&#39;s not helpful to the progressive cause.  ...  that can achieve enforceable new norms on human rights, a global living wage and corporate accountability,  ...
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