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Clandestine torture houses scattered throughout Caracas, orders issued from the very top of the Nicolás Maduro regime; mock executions, rapes and other horrifying practices.
The NGO Human Rights Watch has stated that there are human rights issues created by the current sex offender registration laws, and that they believe that the burden of being publicly listed as a sex offender, combined with the restrictions placed on former offenders and their family members, are human rights violations.
Throughout its history, the United States has been accused of either directly committing or being complicit in violations of international criminal law known as atrocity crime which includes acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, both within the modern borders of its territory and abroad, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Some notions of righteousness present in ancient law and religion are sometimes retrospectively included under the term "human rights". While Enlightenment philosophers suggest a secular social contract between the rulers and the ruled, ancient traditions derived similar conclusions from notions of divine law, and, in Hellenistic philosophy, natural law.
In December Alston and 27 other U.N. human rights officials wrote World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to complain that the bank’s proposed revisions to its “social safeguards” policies for protecting people in the path of development “avoid any meaningful references to human rights.”