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In an open letter to Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, lawyers, clergy and human rights activists voice alarm at mounting evidence of torture and human rights violations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080616/tortureletter



U.N. Experts Rap U.S. "Cruelty" to Child Prisoners

United Nations experts on child rights criticized the United States on Friday over detention of juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5014909



US distances itself from UN rights body

In an attempt to further distance itself from the UN Human Rights Council, the United States said on Friday it would only engage the body when there was an issue of "deep national interest."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3552775,00.html



America that never was

"This America is not the same country I grew up in," laments Colleen Thistle ("It's time for America to stand up and take back our country," Opinion, June 1). Unfortunately, the country she remembers never existed.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_9502080


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