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Anti-Terror Laws Prone to Abuse, Amnesty Says
By Haider Rizvi | (IPS) -Numerous governments around the world are using anti-terror laws to suppress political dissent and civil liberties, according to a new report released by one of the world’s most respected
Read More »Human Rights Watch: Indian forces, Maoist rebels use child fighters
New Delhi – Indian security forces and Maoist rebels should end the use of child fighters in their long conflict in the central state of Chhattisgarh, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. The New
Read More »Groups protest DNA collection law
By Laura Smitherman | The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s plan for implementing a new program for collecting DNA samples from crime suspects, accusing the administration of
Read More »France marches online to protest ‘security’ database
Personal privacy is, of course, a major issue these days, particularly when it comes to authorities gathering data in schemes such as the UK’s proposed identity card program or France’s Edvidge electronic database. Edvidge,
Read More »Lib Dems would scrap ID Cards to fund radical police reforms
The Liberal Democrats yesterday accused both Labour and the Conservatives of ducking the hard decisions on police reform in favour of a sentencing arms race, as they launched their proposals for fundamental reform of
Read More »Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
By Paul Mitchell | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted Florence Hartmann, the spokeswoman of the tribunal’s former Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from 1999 to 2006, on two
Read More »White House spied on Iraq leaders, says Bob Woodward book
By Haroon Siddique | The Bush administration has spied on the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and other senior figures in his government, the Washington Post reported today. The claim is one of many
Read More »10 Ways to Reduce Plastic Consumption
By Neil McLaughlin | By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the
Read More »Fake Soldiers Used In RNC Video
It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of
Read More »Police block anti-war march to GOP convention
Several people who refused to clear the area Thursday were arrested after a planned, anti-war march to the site of the Republican National Convention became a sit-in after police blocked the protest route. Hundreds
Read More »Soldiers’ Suicide Rate On Pace to Set Record
By Ann Scott Tyson | Suicides among active-duty soldiers this year are on pace to exceed both last year’s all-time record and, for the first time since the Vietnam War, the rate among the general
Read More »Stand Up for Independent Journalism
Amy Goodman and others were released, but the story is not over. We need you to cosign our public letter demanding that press intimidation cease immediately, and that all charges be dropped. It will
Read More »RFID leakage is hushed up – claim
MOST RFID products – like passports and Oyster cards – leak data like sieves says Brit firm, Peratech. By Tony Dennis | The scandal broke back in August but those affected – like government agencies
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