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Recent Human Rights Articles:

Senators Say Bush Lags on Creating Terror Panel

Plenty of Harm, Lots of Fouls

Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News

Deportation Case Focuses on Definition of Torture

Abu Ghraib, Whitewashed Again

Torture by Proxy

Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails

The American Witness

Justice for Juveniles

U.S. Cites Array of Rights Abuses by the Iraqi Government in 2004

The Case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

It's Called Torture

The Secret Genocide Archive

Boston Students Rally for Divestment

Harvard Ups PetroChina Investment

A.C.L.U. Presents Accusations of Serious Abuse of Iraqi Civilians

Sudan and Southern Rebels Sign Deal Ending Civil War

We Are All Torturers Now

A Watchdog Muted

China Detains 3 Who Criticized Government

'Hated to Death' in Jamaica

Battle on Gay Pride Shirts Leads to Suit Against School

Enforcement of Civil Rights Law Declined Since '99, Study Find

U.S. Suggests AIDS Fund Delay Grants

Caution in Court for Gay Rights Groups

The Bush Record on Civil Rights

Iran Jails More Journalists and Blocks Web Sites

Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court

Health Textbooks in Texas to Change Wording About Marriage

Chile's Army Accepts Blame for Rights Abuses in the Pinochet Era

Race-Based Prison Policy Is Under Justices' Scrutiny

GOP's Heart of Darkness

U.S. Action Bars Right of Some Captured in Iraq

He Ain't Heavy...

How Did Darfur Happen?

Broad Use of Harsh Tactics Is Described at Cuba Base

HRP continues to fight the tough battles

The Dead Walk

Ex-Inmate's Suit Offers View Into Sexual Slavery in Prisons

As Humans Are Hunted

When Love Is a Crime

State Judge Rejects Gay Marriage Ban

Looking at Darfur, Seeing Rwanda

Not in America

In Defense of Civil Liberties

U.N. Envoy Urges More African Peacekeepers in Sudan

Judge Questions Pinochet About Killings Under His Rule

The Persecuted, in Chains

Reign of Terror

Women's Rights, Turkish Style

Mercenaries in Afghan Case Get 8 to 10 Years in Prison

Powell Says Rapes and Killings in Sudan Are Genocide

Leyla Zana, Turkish prisoner of conscience and Special Focus for Amnesty-USA's Northeast Region/HFAI, released!

Using the Courts to Wage a War on Gay Marriage

Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S.

Ashcroft Weighs Granting of Asylum to Abused Women

Amnesty Reports Sudan Fighting

Computer Student on Trial for Aid to Muslim Web Sites

America's Prisoners, American Rights

Cruel Choices

Scalia Apologizes for Seizure of Recordings

Justice Begrudged

Suit Contests Military Trials of Detainees at Cuba Base

China Approves Amendments to Constitution on Human Rights

$5 Million Settlement Ends Case of Tainted Texas Sting

Administration Proposes Same-Sex-School Option

International Justice

Putting Bias in the Constitution

Rights Groups Won't Get Seats at Guantánamo Base Tribunals

Cuba Detentions May Last Years

Congressman Says Bush Is Open to States' Bolstering Gay Rights

Inquiry Ordered Into Reports of Prisoner Abuse

Keeping Detentions Secret

Partnership Rights for Gays

The Pain of Good Intentions

Human Rights as Victim of Politics

Coffee, Tea or Freedom?

Egypt and Human Rights

Court Convicts 3 in 1994 Genocide Across Rwanda

Opening the Doors to Marriage

Faster Justice for the Balkans

'Enemy Combatant' Sham

Locked up in Limbo

Justices to Hear Case of Detainees at Guantánamo

Activist Decries Patriot Act’s Abuses at Student Meeting

The American Prison Camp

Five Protesters Die in Bolivia After President Calls in Troops

Muslims in European Schools

Silenced Again in Kabul

Chile Inches Toward a Law That Would Make Divorce Legal

U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling

Letter from Amnesty Internationa Regarding Amina Lawal

Saved From Stoning

The Tyranny of Robert Mugabe

W.H.O., Declaring Crisis, Plans a Big Push With AIDS Drugs

Human Rights and Colombia

Veiled and Worried in Baghdad

Burmese Defy U.S. Demands for Release of Activist

The Other September 11

Chile's Leader Presses Rights Issues Softly but Successfully

At 14, a Liberian War Veteran Dreams of Finding a Way Home

Injustice in Guantánamo

The Obscenely Easy Exile of Idi Amin

Amnesty International Newsletter: July - August 2003

Blacklisting Judges

Judge Criticizes Police Methods of Questioning War Protesters

An Important Human Rights Tool

Rights Group Sees No Improvement

The Court of Last Resort

Crimson Article: KSG Grad Charged With Spying

Vietnam's Cyberdissident

Article on AIDS in Botswana

Article from the Harvard Gazette: Chilling story of a reluctant (child) soldier

Death Penalty Articles:

Connecticut Carries Out Its First Execution in 45 Years

Switch by Former Supporter Shows Evolution of Death Law

Condemned Woman Given Reprieve in Texas

Where Execution Feels Like Relic, Death Looms

Supreme Court Rebukes Texas Again Over a Death Sentence

Justices Weigh Executions of Young Killers

Juveniles and the Death Penalty

An Inexplicable Vote for Death

Death Penalty Is Not Option in Slaying of 2 Detectives

On Death Row, a Battle Over the Fatal Cocktail

Top Illinois Court Upholds Total Amnesty of Death Row

Getting Away With . . .

Higher Threshold for Death Penalty Is Sought

Penalty for Young Sniper Could Spur Change in Law

Brooklyn Jury Rejects Death Penalty in 2 Killings

America's eager executioners

State of Emergency: Federal Death Penalty in Massachusetts

Returned to Life

Legal Abuses in the Sniper Case

Continuing the Search for Kinder Executions

Towards Death Penalty Reform

Ruling Allows Forcible Drugging of an Inmate Before Execution

Critics Say Execution Drug May Hide Suffering

Prosecutors Seek Fewer Executions, Signaling New Wariness

In Same Case, DNA Clears Convict and Finds Suspect

US Supreme Court Wiggins Decision Could Impact Hundreds of Death Row Appeals

Signs Grow of Innocent People Being Executed, Judge Says

Exonerated, but Locked in Shadow

 
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