Read more human rights stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/643/human-rights.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:57:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74669/race-speech-obama-is-mia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe moral clarity that Barack Obama revealed in his groundbreaking Philadelphia speech on race has been nowhere to be seen recently, writes Richard Cohen. The Obama who made that speech wouldn't have let the Chinese stage-manage his appearances, or allowed the civilian trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed go forward without...http://www.newser.com/story/74669/race-speech-obama-is-mia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Nov 2009 2:13:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74331/watchdog-raul-just-as-bad-as-fidel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe perception that Cuba is less repressive under Raúl Castro than Fidel is false, Human Rights Watch says. Dissidents are still harassed by the state, subject to arbitrary detention—532 such cases in the first half of 2009 alone—fired. or denied work. The government also continues to pressure friends...http://www.newser.com/story/74331/watchdog-raul-just-as-bad-as-fidel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 14:45:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74210/obama-hu-begin-bridging-divide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from intense talks today determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security, and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. "The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond any...http://www.newser.com/story/74210/obama-hu-begin-bridging-divide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 6:08:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72064/obama-coming-up-short-on-human-rights.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama's decision to skip the celebrations of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights the gap between his rhetoric on the campaign trail and the realities of his presidency, writes Bret Stephens. Obama hailed the "dream of freedom" in his big speech in Berlin last year...http://www.newser.com/story/72064/obama-coming-up-short-on-human-rights.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 1:19:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71029/two-pilots-face-extradition-in-dirty-war-death-flights.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain, are accused of flying the flights from which more than 1,000 drugged and blindfolded students, intellectuals, and trade unionists were hurled...http://www.newser.com/story/71029/two-pilots-face-extradition-in-dirty-war-death-flights.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 5:23:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70374/poland-oks-chemical-castration-for-pedophiles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA new law in Poland will require convicted pedophiles or those who rape family members to undergo chemical castration when their prison term is up. Human rights groups immediately raised objections, but Poland's prime minister isn't budging—he says the criminals in these cases don't qualify as "human," notes Reuters....http://www.newser.com/story/70374/poland-oks-chemical-castration-for-pedophiles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 26 Sep 2009 14:54:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70154/us-to-engage-burmese-junta.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US will directly engage with Burma's military leadership in addition to its current sanctions, Hillary Clinton said yesterday. The secretary of State acknowledged that sanctions alone had failed to change "the lack of democracy in Burma and the authorities’ abysmal record on human rights," and it was time for...http://www.newser.com/story/70154/us-to-engage-burmese-junta.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 6:09:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70121/spain-nabs-alleged-pilot-in-dirty-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSpanish police have arrested a commercial pilot they say flew "death flights" that dumped political malcontents into the sea for Argentina's junta during the Dirty War, the BBC reports. Julio Alberto Poch was nabbed in Valencia as he was preparing to fly a Transavia passenger plane to Amsterdam.http://www.newser.com/story/70121/spain-nabs-alleged-pilot-in-dirty-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Sep 2009 12:35:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69603/yemen-right-wingers-blocked-push-to-end-child-marriages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagConservative lawmakers in Yemen, where a 12-year-old girl died giving birth to her husband's child last week, shot down an attempt to set the minimum marriage age at 17 earlier this year, CNN reports. The lawmakers kept the bill from reaching the country's president by arguing that it violated Islamic...http://www.newser.com/story/69603/yemen-right-wingers-blocked-push-to-end-child-marriages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 3:17:03 CDT