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U.N. Urges U.S. to Shut Guantanamo Prison
The United States should close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and avoid using secret detention facilities in the war on terror, the U.N. panel that monitors compliance with the world's anti-torture treaty said Friday.
5/19/06
- Associated Press
U.N. Urges U.S. to Shut Guantanamo Prison
The United States should close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and avoid using secret detention facilities in the war on terror, the U.N. panel that monitors compliance with the world's anti-torture treaty said Friday.
5/19/06
- Associated Press
U.S. No Longer Promoting Landmine Ban
In 1994, the United States was the first nation to call for the elimination of landmines that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent people around the world. But that was then. Today, Washington not only stands in opposition to an international treaty that bans the use and production of antipersonnel landmines, but intends to make new ones too.
12/28/05
- OneWorld US
U.S. Opposes Litany of Global Treaties in 2005
Twenty-six years ago, the United Nations adopted a treaty that is often described by human rights experts as the international "Bill of Rights" for women. Today that treaty has been endorsed by more than 170 nations. However, while the entire industrial world fully supports the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States is the only developed nation that continues to oppose it.
12/24/05
- OneWorld US
U.S. Opposes Litany of Global Treaties in 2005
Twenty-six years ago, the United Nations adopted a treaty that is often described by human rights experts as the international "Bill of Rights" for women. Today that treaty has been endorsed by more than 170 nations. However, while the entire industrial world fully supports the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States is the only developed nation that continues to oppose it.
12/24/05
- OneWorld US
U.S. Resurfaces Opposition to International Court
While senior United Nations officials and diplomats from other countries would like to see the International Criminal Court (ICC) playing an important role in the world community's efforts to deter attacks against innocent civilians during armed conflicts, the United States says no way.
12/22/05
- OneWorld US
Religious Profiling Sparks U.S. Federal Lawsuit
Three influential civil rights groups charged Wednesday that border control tactics used by the Department of Homeland Security discriminate against U.S. citizens solely on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
4/20/05
- Inter Press Service
U.S., Canada, Others Faulted for Sending Suspects to Countries That Torture
Western governments are complicit in abuses that result from their increasing practice of deporting suspected terrorists, and in some cases would-be refugees, to countries known to torture detainees, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
4/15/05
- OneWorld US
Pressure Mounts on U.S. as Darfur (Sudan) Vote Looms
A French proposal to refer war crimes in Sudan to The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has left two options for the United States, which adamantly opposes the ICC's legitimacy: either abstain from voting, or use its veto as a permanent member of the Security Council.
3/25/05
- Inter Press Service
UK Lawmakers Accuse U.S. of Grave Human Rights Violations
The United States has committed "grave violations of human rights" against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain's parliament said in a report on Friday.
3/25/05
- Reuters
Wolfowitz nomination throws harsh spotlight on World Bank
The World Bank sees itself as standing on the frontlines of the war on global poverty. But to its detractors, the IMF's sister institution is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
3/23/05
- Agence France Presse
Bush Taps Wolfowitz to Head World Bank
President Bush chose Paul Wolfowitz on Wednesday to head the World Bank, selecting an architect of the Iraq war whose hard-line foreign policy stance as deputy defense secretary has made him a target of critics at home and abroad.
3/23/05
- Associated Press
U.S. Activists Rally for Greater Commitments to Fight Disease Worldwide
Health and humanitarian activists and medical students, concerned about three epidemics that kill about six million people a year, are pressing some of the world's wealthiest countries to increase their support of international efforts to fight AIDS (news - web sites), malaria, and tuberculosis (TB).
3/23/05
- OneWorld US
Bush Nominates Arch-Hawk to Lead World Bank
U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a chief architect of one of the most unpopular wars in U.S. history, is President George W. Bush's choice to head the World Bank, the world's largest development agency.
3/23/05
- Inter Press Service
France Puts U.S. in Tight Spot on Sudan
France on Wednesday presented a U.N. resolution allowing for the prosecution of Sudanese war crimes suspects at the International Criminal Court, forcing the United States to choose between accepting a body it opposes or casting a politically damaging veto.
3/23/05
- Associated Press
Harsh words for US anti-terror strategy at Madrid conference
The US anti-terrorism strategy has come in for sharp criticism at an international conference that opened here, as Spain prepared to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the deadly train bombings in the capital.
3/8/05
- Agence France Presse
Many Overseas Worried by Bush's U.N. Pick
President Bush's nomination of a tough-talking conservative as ambassador to the United Nations set off ripples of worry in some of America's allies Tuesday.
3/8/05
- Associated Press
US 'could end world poverty by 2025'
Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
3/7/05
- The Guardian (UK)
Brazil Triumphs Over U.S. in WTO Subsidies Dispute
International development groups are calling on the United States to swiftly comply with a World Trade Organization (WTO) final ruling issued Thursday declaring the bulk of U.S. government subsidies to its cotton industry illegal.
3/4/05
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Troops Deaths in Iraq Top 1,500
The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has topped 1,500, an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans, while car bombs targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least three people in separate attacks.
3/3/05
- Associated Press
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