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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing Human Rights NEWS articles 1 through 9 of 9.
- Two leading human rights organisations have accused the United States of in effect throwing away the lives of more than 2,000 juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole - a punishment out of step with international law but one increasingly popular with tough-on-crime US legislators.
- Thousands of African-Americans, young and old, have rallied in Washington, frustrated with lingering inequalities in the United States.
- Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. - Now, 50 years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that struck down "separate but equal" as inherently unfair, schoolchildren in the U.S. are again suffering the consequences of segregation -- an all the more odious reality because segregation has been outlawed on paper.
- The number of incarcerated women has been growing ... due in large part to sentencing policies in the war in drugs...
- According to the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in London, there are more people behind bars in the United States than in any other country. - One Person Makes a Difference...
- House Legislation to Renew USA Patriot Act Would Loosen Some Provisions for Execution
- Perhaps the most damaging myth about Rosa is that she acted alone. In fact, she worked for years with other social justice and civil rights activists prior to her famous action.
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