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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...
On April 7, 1976, university students throughout Libya protested against human rights violations and authoritarian military control over all aspects of civilian lives. Protesters called for free and fair elections to take place and a more democratic system to be implemented in Libya.
In June 2003, Amnesty International published reports of human rights abuses by the U.S. military and its coalition partners at detention centers and prisons in Iraq. [31] These included reports of brutal treatment at Abu Ghraib prison , which had once been used by the government of Saddam Hussein , and had been taken over by the United States ...
The incident has been called "the greatest cause of human rights violation" in democratic South Africa, [3] and stimulated discussion about the care of psychiatric and other state patients. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As of 2021, no criminal charges had been laid against any individuals involved, but a judicial inquest into the deaths was ongoing.
Human Rights Day — Dec. 10 — is an opportunity to honor the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed in 1948. This historic document laid out the most basic ...
A spokesman for the ISAF commander said: "This was a deliberate plan by the Taliban to create a civilian casualty crisis. These were not human shields; these were human sacrifices. We have intelligence that points to this." [11] According to the US State Department, the Taliban committed human rights violations against women in Afghanistan. [12]
Out of these, 965 cases were investigated in which 940 were found to be untrue, accounting for 95.2%, leaving only 25 genuine allegations.' [37] However, according to Human Rights Watch, the military courts in India, in general, were proved to be incompetent to deal with cases of serious human rights abuses and were responsible in covering up ...
Apart from Human Right Organisations, Baloch separatists themselves have accused each other of being involved in human rights violations. [35] Separatists accuse each other of being involved in extortion, kidnapping, and even raping local Baloch.