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By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 26 June 2007 Nepal's Young Communist League has rejected a report from the United Nations accusing it of human rights violations. The group's leader says it is working to eliminate corruption and crime that the police hav
Washington Week: Focus on Obama's Executive Authority A top Republican lawmaker is blasting U.S. President Barack Obama as lawless in his use of executive orders to advance policy goals in the absence of congressional action. Additional clues are eme
By Mary Morningstar Washington 04 February 2008 At the start of 2007, many critics predicted Jason Michael Carroll could become the next big thing in Country music. As VOA's Mary Morningstar reports, the 28-year-old father of four is proving them rig
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 27 June 2007 The campaign period for East Timor's parliamentary elections has ended with relatively little violence, but tensions remain and security is tight in this volatile country. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins reports f
By Peter Fedynsky Washington 20 March 2007 U.S. legislators on Tuesday heard first hand the findings of an internal government report, which revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, abused its powers in obtaining personal informatio
Nations are staging special events to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force on November 20, 1989. Lisa Schlein | Geneva 20 November 2009 Photo: AP Palestinian girls release balloons with messag
Pope's Resignation Could be Turning Point for Church Hundreds of the faithful stood reverently in front of large television screens on St. Peter's Square on a chilly evening, to be close by as Pope Benedict led his final scheduled mass on Ash Wednesd
By Jeffrey Young Yasser Arafat has led movements and then an administration -- the Palestinian National Authority -- representing the Palestinian people. His powerful personality has affected relation
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NOEL KING, HOST: As scandals around clerical sex abuse hit the Catholic Church, a three-week-long assembly of bishops is underway in Rome. They're focused on how to make the church relevant to young people. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, the a
By Meredith Buel Washington 12 January 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended the military's response to allegations of prisoner abuse, saying those responsible for illegal conduct a
By Ron Corben Bangkok 12 February 2007 A new report details widespread human rights abuses against Burma's ethnic A young Karen refugee mother from Myanmar and her child wait for treatment at the Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand (File photo) Karen
BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. federal government officially announced that it denied the medical use of marijuana. Department of Health and Human Services concluded that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no accepted medical use in
By Tendai Maphosa London 06 March 2008 The human rights group Amnesty International issued a report ahead of the March 8 International Women's Day on the threats and abuse faced by school-age girls. Others, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleez
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Figures from China Law Society show about one-third of Chinese families have dealt with some form of domestic violence. More than 90-percent of the reported cases involve the abuse of women, children and the elderly. One-in-four Chinese women have su