human rights

Cynthia McKinneyMcKinney and Me
by Saab Lofton

"In 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Commission noted its concern that while African Americans constitute just 12% of the population, they represent 50% of homeless people ... Myriad reports and studies that have been done all come up with the same basic conclusion: In order to resolve deep and persisting racial disparities in this country, a public policy initiative is urgently needed."
--Cynthia McKinney, A Discussion of Race Worth Having, March 18th, 2008

UN on the Offensive Against Iraq Mercenaries
who are the mercenaries?

Daniela Estrada and Gustavo González
IPS News

SANTIAGO, Jul 13 (IPS) - Mercenary recruitment agencies that send former soldiers to Iraq have been accused in Chile of human right abuses, illegal association, possession of explosives and unauthorised use of army weaponry, and are the target of a special United Nations mission.

Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
"United States does not torture and we value human rights" Bush June 25 2997, at the Presidential Scholars Program

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNetJune 21, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/54647/

Not long before Lynndie England ever stepped foot in Iraq, long before she became the poster-child for torture, she was a whistleblower at Pilgrim's Pride chicken factory in Moorefield, W.Va. -- a notion that doesn't quite fit with her current image.

What?, "the United States does not torture and we value human rights"

Scholars Urge Bush to Ban Use of Torture

June 25, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to ``violations of the human rights'' of terror suspects held by the United States.

The White House said Bush had not expected the letter but took a moment to read it and talk with a young woman who handed it to him.