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The National Press Club Welcomes ... Jeff Gannon? Editor & Publisher NEW YORK Jeff Gannon is back -- at the National Press Club? Yes, ...

Center for Constitutional Rights Files Lawsuit Challenging City’s Policy of Prohibiting Political Marches Along Fifth Avenue Center For Cons...

One Big Prison: New Report Warns Against Continued Strangulation of Gaza Strip after Disengagement B'Tselem Israel has cut off the Gaza...

Not Legal Settlements B'Tselem Since 1967, Israel has established in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip 152 se...

Ecuador: Threats and violence against government critics increases Amnesty International It has become commonplace in Ecuador for journalis...

ACLU Demands that Florida Police Turn Over ‘Spy Files’ on Local Protesters American Civil Liberties Union MELBOURNE, FL - The American Civ...

Army’s Own Documents Acknowledge Evidence That Soldiers Used Torture American Civil Liberities Union NEW YORK - The American Civil Libertie...

The Cavernous Divide Alternet It was a good year for the global billionaires' club. Their ranks grew to 691, up 17 percent from the pre...

Democratizing Public Services: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions and Implications for Health Care Reform in BC Canadian Centre for Policy Alt...

New Report Outlines Great Lakes Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture Union of Concerned Scientists Urbana— Agriculture in Illinois and the...

Supreme Court of Canada refuses to hear dump appeals Canadian Environmental Law Association The Supreme Court of Canada announced today that...

The multi-billion dollar trade that puts women in the firing line Oxfam International Women are paying an increasingly heavy price for the ...

New Guatemalan Law and Intellectual Property Provisions in DR-CAFTA Threaten Access to Affordable Medicines Doctors Without Borders/Médecin...

Rape and Sexual Violence Ongoing in Darfur Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Amsterdam, 7 March 2005 – Women and girls in wa...

No Evidence of a Malpractice Crisis Association of Trial Lawyers of America New study finds that despite huge rate increases from insurance...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "Study" of State Liability Systems Association of Trial Lawyers of America Earth Shattering Study? ...

U.S. Strips Detainees of Key Protections Human Rights Watch (New York, March 11, 2005) — The U.S. government’s decision to withdraw from a ...

No Legal Settlements B'Tselem Since 1967, Israel has established in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip 152 sett...

ACLU Says New Detainee Report Does Not Absolve Senior Officials of Responsibility for Abuses American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON -- ...

Report Card for America's Infrastructure American Society of Civil Engineers Drinking Water: America faces a shortfall of $11 billion a...

“Wal-Mart amendment” would increase trucker hours, endanger motorists Public Citizen Public safety advocates called on Congress today to de...

Fool Me Twice? Chamber of Commerce Distorts NAFTA Record, Hides Cafta Costs Public Citizen In early 2005, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce relea...

Top earners get Social Security windfall, others get the bill Economic Policy Institute Under the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)...

Finding the Way Forward—A Negotiated Settlement in Iraq Foreign Policy In Focus It is now time for the United States to pursue the one poli...

Global Security Challenges: Seeing the United States as Others Do By Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.), Foreign Policy in Focus Current leaders in W...

Intelligence, Inc. CorpWatch While military contracting for construction or weapons manufacturing is nothing new, the privatization of intel...

New Water Bill in Senate Correctly Identifies Problem, But Offers Wrong Solution Public Citizen A bill introduced Wednesday in the U.S. Sena...

The Money Behind Social Security Privatization Push Institute For Public Accuracy Economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and P...

Payout for Pinochet Victims Shines in Dark Times for Human Rights Foreign Policy in Focus On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 millio...

UN asked to investigate US shooting of Italian journalist and military intelligence officer Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Bord...

UN women's rights text adopted after US withdraws proposed amendment on abortion UN News Centre 5 March 2005 – A United Nations women...

UK: Terrorism Bill Undermines Human Rights Human Rights Watch The fundamental human rights concerns raised by the Prevention of Terrorism Bi...

Human Rights in Algeria Human Rights Watch Testimony by Tom Malinowski To the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations,...

Azerbaijan: Editor of Independent Weekly Shot Dead Human Rights Watch (New York, March 4, 2005) — The Azerbaijani government must fully inv...

Center for Constitutional Rights Takes Case Of U.S. Torture And Detention Before O.A.S. Inter-American Commission for Human Rights Center Fo...

Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua Amnesty International The Governor of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico said recentl...

USA: Supreme Court outlaws execution of child offenders Amnesty International Today’s decision [March 1st, 2005] by the US Supreme Court o...

Newly Released Army Documents Detail Ongoing Abuse of Detainees by U.S. Forces American Civil Liberties Union NEW YORK - The latest round o...

ACLU and Human Rights First Sue Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON -- Defense ...

Haitian Police Open Fire on Nonviolent March for Democracy by Bill Quigley, Common Dreams One year ago today, the elected government of Ha...

Tel Aviv blast kills Israeli civilians B'Tselem B'Tselem strongly condemns yesterday's attack in the Tel Aviv promenade, in wh...

Another Brazilian Environmentalist Shot Dead Democracy Now! A Brazilian environmentalist has been shot dead, days after gunmen killed US nun...