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News headlines for “Iraq Crisis”, page 16
MIDEAST: : Obama Has Real Chance to Change Arab Opinion Survey
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama has a major opportunity to improve the mostly negative views about the United States in the Arab world, but is likely to have only a short period of time to do so, according to a major new survey of public opinion in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
POLITICS-US: Rights Groups Slam Bid to Suppress Abuse Pics
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama’s decision Wednesday to object to the planned release of photos showing abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan has drawn quiet praise from the military and some in Congress and outspoken scorn from human rights advocates, a number of legal scholars and religious leaders, and many on the left of his Democratic Party.
RIGHTS-US: Senate Panel Probes Legality of Torture Memos
- Inter Press Service
'An ethical train wreck' was the phrase used by one witness to describe the legal reasoning behind the Justice Department’s recently released memos justifying the use of waterboarding and other forms of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'.
U.S.-IRAQ: Massacre Puts War Trauma Under the Spotlight
- Inter Press Service
A U.S. soldier shot five of his colleagues dead at a base in Baghdad, Iraq Monday. The Pentagon says at least two other people were hurt in the shootings and the gunman is in custody.
RIGHTS-US: Lawmakers Try to Block New Abuse Photos
- Inter Press Service
Civil libertarians are condemning a call by two influential U.S. senators for the White House to block the impending release of photographs showing detainees being abused by U.S. military personnel at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at other U.S. detention facilities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
RIGHTS-IRAQ: U.N. Report Paints Grim Picture
- Inter Press Service
Iraqi prisons are torturing detainees, locking people up for months without charges and, in most cases, allowing the perpetrators of these human rights to escape justice, according to a new United Nations report.
RIGHTS: Recruiters of Child Soldiers Defy U.N. Pressure
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations remains virtually helpless as an increasing number of armed groups - described as 'non-state actors' - continue to exploit, abuse and deliberately harm children in battle zones in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
RIGHTS-US: Bracing for New Prisoner Abuse Photos
- Inter Press Service
This Tuesday, Apr. 28, will mark five years since the world got its first look at the sickening photographs from Abu Ghraib on the U.S. television programme '60 Minutes.'
RIGHTS-US: Senate Report Casts Grim Light on Bush Era
- Inter Press Service
Pentagon interrogators continuously ramped up their abusive techniques against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan in a vain attempt to establish a link between the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the al Qaeda attacks on the U.S. on Sep. 11, 2001.
IRAQ: More Than Two Million Refugees Waiting to Come Home
- Inter Press Service
The government of Iraq and the international community must establish safe conditions for the return of 2.6 million displaced Iraqis, says a new field report by the non-profit group Refugees International.
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