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Amnesty International published a report in 2021 that shed light on the ongoing human rights violations at Guantánamo Bay. The report criticized the detainees' inadequate medical care and condemned their indefinite imprisonment without fair trials. It also highlighted the lack of responsibility for the crimes undertaken over the previous 19 years.
Pages in category "Human rights abuses in the United States" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Human rights in Ba'athist Syria were effectively non-existent. The government's human rights record was considered one of the worst in the world. As a result, Ba'athist Syria was globally condemned by prominent international organizations, including the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, [1] [2] [3] and the European Union. [4]
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 ...
According to one academic study, as a result of these considerations, the frequency of Amnesty's reports is influenced by a number of factors, besides the frequency and severity of human rights abuses. For example, Amnesty reports significantly more (than predicted by human rights abuses) on more economically powerful states; and on countries ...
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In the United States, human rights consists of a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly by the Bill of Rights), [1] [2] state constitutions, treaty and customary international law, legislation enacted by Congress and state legislatures, and state referendums and citizen's initiatives.
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 ...