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Human Rights Corner is not intended to be an exhaustive list of ALL human rights violations from all over the world. The issues featured in Human Rights Corner simply reflect our readership's contributions and interests. If there is an issue you'd like us to mention, please submit an article to ColorQ or send us a link to your content.

It is also not the purpose of Human Rights Corner to single out specific nations or governments for criticism. People have been raping and murdering other people en masse for thousands of years, and the same horrors are repeated in different times in vastly different places. The stories here do not imply that any specific country or government is more prone to abuse than others. They are merely examples of our common human condition.


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Afghanistan

Afghan Women No Better Off; US accused of not fulfilling promises

Afghanistan's Women after 'Liberation'

Taliban Era: Afghan women beaten or executed for minor "violations"

Systematic sexual violence during the Warlord Era

Soviet Era: Russian soldiers rape Afghani civilians

Algeria

Rape in Algeria's civil war

Military fails to stop terrorist massacres of civilians

Burundi

150,000 died in Hutu-Tutsi conflict since 1993

1972 Tutsi Genocide of Hutu in Burundi

Roots of genocide. Why Hutu and Tutsi cannot live in Peace

Genocides, Politicides, and Other Mass Murder Since 1945, With Stages in 2002

Chechnya

Rape and trafficking of women by Russian forces

China

Officially sanctioned rapes of Falun Gong practitioners

China detains AIDS activist

Electronic waste from the US wreaks environmental devastation in China (Basel Action Network and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Press Release - The High Tech Trashing of Asia)

Three Gorges Dam project forces relocation of more than 1 million people

Democratic Republic of Congo

World Vision News: Rape disturbingly common - Three brave women in the Democratic Republic of Congo share how rape has affected their lives in and around camps for those displaced by the ongoing conflict between rebels and government forces.

East Timor

A Report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Including its Causes and Consequences (1997)

East Timor - A Campaign of Terror in Indonesia (1999)

The 12th November Massacre - A Personal Testimony (1991)

Under Indonesian military control, East Timorese are subjected to forced contraception

Egypt

Bedouin camps demolished - The claims of Sinai's indigenous tribes are swept aside by the tidal wave of development (Cairo Times)

Bulldozers turn 'Bedouin Dream' into nightmare (Middle Eastern Times)

Green lines - the Tourism Development Authority uses environmental rhetoric to justify demolishing bedouin-owned camps in favor of big hotels (Cairo Times)

Egypt resettles Bedouin tourist camps in Sinai

Boom or Bust: Unmonitored Red Sea development is wiping out Sinai's pristine beauty

El Salvador

Secret U.S. Military Arms Dumping Ground Off the Coast of El Salvador

Government Responses to Hidden Dump

Ethiopia

Beyond The Fence - Double Agony

Sugar Shock - environmental damage and long term health problems in Wonji

India

HRW 1995 report - RAPE FOR PROFIT

Maiti Nepal - Maili Lama's Story

Sikh Genocide Project

Asia Observer - Child trafficking continues to threaten young women in India

Sanlaap - Speaking for the unspoken

Indonesia

Indonesia's Shame: Cruel insults for slain rape counselor

Vivian's Story

Indonesian public transport delivers Chinese commuters to waiting rapists

Chinese woman forced to watch gang rape and burning death of her sisters

US$6 reward for raping a Chinese Indonesian; Ethnic Chinese men forced to rape daughters and sisters

Ethnic Chinese teenager commits suicide after gang rape by Indonesian mob

Indonesian official denies rapes; Police chief threatens to sue activists

New Threats Reported as Rapes in Indonesia Are Investigated

Indonesian Religious and political leaders make public anti-Chinese statements.

3rd Grade High School Student raped, mutilated and murdered

Kenya

Electoral Violence: Kenya Red Cross Issues Appeal for Financial Support

Africa Action's Kenya Action Alert: Push the U.S. to lead a vigorous diplomatic response to defuse current tensions

Mass rape of Kikuyu women in post-election violence ('Kill two, get one free': Kenya's cry of hate, The Times, Jan 06 2008)

Kenyan police accused of killings, arson in ethnic violence over disputed elections (AP, Jan 06 2008)

20 years of rape by British soldiers say Kenyan women (2003 Khilafah.com article)

Kenya Human Rights links list on KenyaHQ.com

Malaysia

Malaysia investigates rape of Filipino migrant in police custody

Maluku Islands, Indonesia

Indonesian Military assists Muslims in religious conflict with Christians

Open letter to the Secretary General of the U.N. - Official Complaint from the Front SIWA-LIMA RMS

Thousands of Christian refugees flee heavy artillery and lethal gas attacks

Mauritania

Slavery, torture and murder in Mauritania

Human rights activists and anti-slavery supporters under attack by government

Myanmar

Email campaign to pressure Beijing to cease support for Myanmar regine (Oct 13, 2007)

Dictator Watch Press Release - Soldiers ordered to rape or face execution (June 10, 2004)

Burmese military's ongoing campaign of rape against ethnic minorities

Burmese Buddhist campaign against religious minorities

Nepal

IGLHRC Action Alert - POLICE VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN NEPAL

Nigeria

Massacres and rape in Ogoniland

Shell causes environmental damage in Ogoniland

Chevron/Texaco embroiled in Nigerian human rights scandal

Rwanda

2000 HRW report: 'Security' Used to Cover Abuses Against Tutsi and Hutu

Mass rape in Rwanda's 1994 civil war

Killings of Rwandans continue after 'end' of civil war

Singapore

Government bans political films

Sudan

Sudan E-activism and Advocacy Resources

Crisis in Darfur - Google Earth and USHMM collaborates to present high-resolution imagery over the region of Darfur and Eastern Chad using satellite imagery

Darfur: The Color of Genocide

Human Rights Watch - Sudan: Government Commits 'Ethnic Cleansing' in Darfur (May 7, 2004)

The Anti-Slavery Portal - Biography of slavery survivor Abuk Bak

Revue Politique - Former captives recount the crime of boy rape in Sudan

12 year old raped before her execution (the third report submitted by the Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights)

National Islamic Front capture and enslave Dinka civilians; captives repeatedly raped on the slave trail (An eight-part special report by Sun Columnist Linda Slobodian)

Human-induced famine. displacement and rape

Baltimore Sun Reporters buy slaves' freedom

USA

Vincent's Plea

Prison inmates denied proper medical care

Widespread Prison Rapes of Men, Women and Juveniles

The Wen Ho Lee case - Asian American arrested while European American merely dismissed for similar violations

Woodstock 99 turns into Rapestock

Trail of rape and murder against African Americans and Native Americans in NC

4.0 GPA Kenyan student lynched in Alabama

Sexual and Gender minorities targeted for rape and murder

International issues

Enough - the project to end genocide and crimes against humanity

Genocide Watch - The International Campaign to End Genocide

iAbolish - learn more about modern slavery around the world and take action

Amnesty International's Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women

Ending rape as a weapon of war (Christian Science Monitor)

Women in Conflict and Refugees (Human Rights Watch World Report 2001)

The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women)

HIGH-TECH TOXIC TRASH FROM USA FOUND TO BE FLOODING ASIA (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition)


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