Three states are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws and lawmakers in 10 other states introduced similar bills in 2011-2012.
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Amnesty International says it has evidence of civilian executions and indiscriminate shelling of nomadic Tuaregs’ camp
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The UN refugee agency says it has received reports of horrific abuses being committed in Mali and it anticipates up to 700,000 more people will be forced to flee their homes in the next few months.
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Britain is spending millions of pounds from its foreign aid budget on training Ethiopian paramilitaries that have been accused of human rights abuses including summary killings, rape and torture.
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Millions of pounds of Britain’s foreign aid budget are to be spent on training an Ethiopian paramilitary security force that stands accused of numerous human rights abuses and summary executions.
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This Amnesty report gives a good idea of what is happening in northern Nigeria. The rights group says in a report that abuses include extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance and torture. (Link to the Amnesty report in the article)
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The abduction appears further evidence that 10 months after taking over, Libya’s new interim government has failed to curb human rights abuses, and is seemingly incapable of controlling either the militias or its own security force.
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Even as Syria’s security forces have tortured and massacred civilians and anti-government activists, armed members of the Syrian opposition have carried out “serious human rights abuses” against Syrian soldiers and some civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
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The panel recommended that countries help Libya’s interim government strengthen efforts to stop and punish killing, civilian attacks and other abuses.
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Congressional opposition to the sale forced Obama to delay the weapons transfer. Now, sources have leaked, the Obama administration is quietly moving forward with the arms sales to the Bahraini monarchy – despite their on-going human rights abuses.
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