<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Amnesty International: News &amp; Videos about Amnesty International - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Amnesty_International</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Amnesty International from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:33:48 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Amnesty International: News &amp; Videos about Amnesty International - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Amnesty_International</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Amnesty International from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>More than 200 Paraguay villagers thought sprayed with pesticide</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/10/paraguay.pesticide.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/10/paraguay.pesticide.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than 200 indigenous people who refused to vacate their land in eastern Paraguay were sprayed late last week with what some believe was pesticide, sending seven to the hospital, a government cabinet member said this week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel keeping Gaza parched, Amnesty International says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/27/israel.water/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/27/israel.water/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Israel is denying Palestinians access to adequate water supplies by controlling shared water resources, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taser makers say don't aim at chest</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/taser.chest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/taser.chest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The maker of Taser stun guns has advised law enforcement agencies to avoid hitting suspects in the chest, partly "to minimize controversy."</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Use of mercenaries in Honduras on the rise, U.N. panel says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/09/honduras.mercenaries/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/09/honduras.mercenaries/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A group of independent U.N. experts expressed concern Friday over the increased use of mercenaries in Honduras, where a de facto president has been in power since a military-led coup in June.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Carter urges resolution to Honduran crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/24/honduras.carter/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/24/honduras.carter/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Former President Carter has contacted the de facto president of Honduras to urge a resolution to the crisis in the Central American country.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Micheletti defends response to Zelaya's return to Honduras</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/23/honduras.brazil.un/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/23/honduras.brazil.un/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The de facto president of Honduras denied Wednesday that his government turned off the power at the embassy where deposed President Jose Manual Zelaya surprisingly reappeared this week, and said that the people inside were free to come and go.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Evictions hit Cambodia's poor, group says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/cambodia.land.evictions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/cambodia.land.evictions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Villagers march more than 300 kilometers from northwest Cambodia to ask the prime minister to save their homes from developers. Some 400 families in the country's south learn their farmland had been given to developers only when bulldozers arrive.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rights groups calls on Iran to probe detainee abuse allegations</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/10/iran.detainee.abuse/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/10/iran.detainee.abuse/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran is spending more time investigating the victims of torture and rape behind bars than investigating those who committed such abuses, a human rights group claimed Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Death row inmates pushed to insanity in Japan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/japan.executions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/japan.executions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Death row inmates in Japan spend decades in isolation and face inhuman conditions that can lead to mental illness, Amnesty International said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Tight pants' woman jailed for not paying fine</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/07/sudan.journalist.pants.lashing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/07/sudan.journalist.pants.lashing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A woman put on trial for wearing clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities was jailed Monday for refusing to pay a court-ordered fine, her lawyer said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report criticizes Iraq's executions; official defends justice policy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.death.penalty/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.death.penalty/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 1,000 prisoners are on death row in Iraq, which now has one of the highest rates of execution in the world, the human rights group Amnesty International says in a report being released Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saudi Arabia announces al Qaeda arrests</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/19/saudi.alqaeda.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/19/saudi.alqaeda.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Over the past year, Saudi Arabia has arrested 44 al Qaeda suspects across the country, the Saudi interior ministry announced on Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police brutality rampant in Honduras, amnesty report says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/19/honduras.amnesty.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/19/honduras.amnesty.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In the seven weeks since the military-backed bloodless coup in Honduras, several hundred people protesting against the de facto government have been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by government forces, a new Amnesty International report says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Human rights group notes 'alarming spike' in Iran executions</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/07/iran.executions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/07/iran.executions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There was an "alarming spike" in the number of Iranian executions between the disputed June 12 presidential election and Wednesday's inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term, Amnesty International reported Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Probe sought in Nigerian hard-line Islamic leader's death</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/31/nigeria.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/31/nigeria.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Human rights groups pressed Friday for information on how a fundamentalist Islamist sect leader died and are seeking an investigation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Death toll reaches 12 in Iraqi refugee camp violence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/31/iraq.mosques.bombings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/31/iraq.mosques.bombings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 12 people have died in clashes between Iraqi police and members of an exiled Iranian opposition group at an Iraqi refugee camp, a group spokesman told CNN Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nicaragua abortion ban 'cruel and inhuman disgrace'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/nicaragua.abortion.ban/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/nicaragua.abortion.ban/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nicaragua's total ban on abortion is a "cruel, inhuman disgrace" that's led to the rise in maternal deaths, human rights organization Amnesty International has said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Alleged Saudi human rights abuses highlighted</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/22/saudi.amnesty.clampdown/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/22/saudi.amnesty.clampdown/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Saudi Arabia's campaign against the al Qaeda terrorist network has led to "massive human rights violations" by security forces, including torture and the arrests of non-violent reformists, the human rights group Amnesty International reported Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Group: Human rights lawyer detained as Iran unrest spirals</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/18/iran.demonstration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/18/iran.demonstration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Government agents used tear gas to disperse demonstrators, and beat and kidnapped a human rights lawyer, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said Saturday, citing witnesses.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Peru has high maternal mortality rate, rights group says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/09/peru.mothers.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/09/peru.mothers.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pregnant women in Peru are dying at scandalous rates, according to the author of an Amnesty International report into maternal mortality in the South American country.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hospital: Teen killed by Israeli tank fire</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/02/gaza.tank.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/02/gaza.tank.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 17-year-old girl was killed and another person was injured on Thursday by Israeli tank fire at the El Marej refugee camp east of Gaza City, hospital sources said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Israel killed hundreds of Gaza civilians</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/02/israel.gaza.deaths.amnesty/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/02/israel.gaza.deaths.amnesty/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Israeli troops killed hundreds of unarmed civilian adults and children, broke laws and committed war crimes during their winter offensive in Gaza, Amnesty International said in a scathing report released Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Newsweek reporter in Iran reportedly 'confesses'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.newsweek/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.newsweek/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A reporter for Newsweek magazine who was arrested in Tehran has confessed to doing the bidding of Western governments, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Hospitalized Iranians seized</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/27/iran.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/27/iran.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranians wounded during protests are being seized at hospitals by members of an Islamic militia, an Amnesty International official told CNN.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Uruguay compensates ex-political prisoners</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/22/uruguay.prisoners/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/22/uruguay.prisoners/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Uruguay has paid $42 million (973 million pesos) in compensation during the past three years to more than 3,000 former political prisoners and those who fled the country or hid from authorities, the state-run news agency said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN exposé on Thai refugee abuse wins award</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/thailand.refugees.documentary.cnn.award/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/thailand.refugees.documentary.cnn.award/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A CNN documentary that sparked worldwide condemnation of Thailand's alleged practice of pushing Myanmar's Rohingya boat people out to sea has won an Amnesty International Media Award.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Convicted killer beheaded, put on display in Saudi Arabia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/30/saudi.arabia.execution/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/30/saudi.arabia.execution/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Saudi Arabian officials beheaded and then publicly displayed the body of a convicted killer in Riyadh on Friday, an act that prompted a stiff denunciation by a leading human rights monitor.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 20:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Aid agencies scramble to help displaced in Sri Lanka</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/18/sri.lanka.refugees/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/18/sri.lanka.refugees/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Humanitarian aid agencies scrambled Monday to offer help to the tens of thousands of people in need after Tamil separatists declared an end to their quarter-century struggle in Sri Lanka.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>China: 5,335 students killed or missing after 2008 quake</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/china.quake.deaths/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/china.quake.deaths/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A magnitude-7.9 earthquake that struck southwestern China last year left 5,335 students dead or missing and disabled an additional 546 children, state media reported.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: China intimidated parents of quake victims</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/china.earthquake.schools/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/china.earthquake.schools/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Chinese government authorities have intimidated and unlawfully detained parents and relatives of children who died in last year's Sichuan earthquake and harassed their supporters, an Amnesty International report said this week.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban push Robin Hood image in Pakistan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/pakistan.taliban.message/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/pakistan.taliban.message/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In radio broadcasts and sermons, Taliban militants have been promoting themselves as Islamic Robin Hoods, defending Pakistan's rural poor from a ruling elite that they describe as corrupt and oppressive.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rights report cites abuses in Kurdish Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/14/kurdistan.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/14/kurdistan.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Kurdish region of Iraq has seen gains in human rights, but security forces "regularly abuse their authority" and women continue to be targets of violence, Amnesty International said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Almost 2,400 executed in 2008</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/24/execution.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/24/execution.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Almost 2,400 people worldwide were executed last year, but most countries moved a step closer toward abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Myanmar political prisoners released</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/24/myanmar.release/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/24/myanmar.release/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nineteen political prisoners were released by the government of Myanmar over the weekend, the human rights group Amnesty International reported Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hamas tortured, killed Palestinians, rights group charges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/10/gaza.reprisal.killings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/10/gaza.reprisal.killings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Amnesty International has accused Hamas militants in Gaza of kidnapping, killing and torturing fellow Palestinians they accuse of spying for Israel, the organization announced Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Japan executes four convicted killers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/japan.executions.killers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/japan.executions.killers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Japan executed four convicted killers on death row Thursday, the government said, marking the first set of executions in the country since October 2008.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Japan executes four death-row inmates</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/japan.executions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/japan.executions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Japan executed four convicted killers on death row on Thursday, the government said, marking the first set of executions in the country since October 2008.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sri Lankan forces take key rebel strong-hold</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/sril.lanka.rebels/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/sril.lanka.rebels/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sri Lankan soldiers seized a key rebel stronghold over the weekend, as humanitarian agencies feared for the safety of civilians.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sri Lanka army chief: Troops have taken key rebel stronghold</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/25/sril.lanka.tamil.tigers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/25/sril.lanka.tamil.tigers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sri Lankan soldiers have seized a key rebel stronghold after launching a surprise attack early Sunday morning, the head of Sri Lanka's army announced.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Men stoned to death for adultery, murder in Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/13/iran.stoning/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/13/iran.stoning/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Officials say two men in Iran have been stoned to death for adultery and murder, while another escaped death by digging his way out of the hole where he was buried to face a similar fate, according to media reports.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe activist abducted by 12 gunmen</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/03/zimbabwe.banks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/03/zimbabwe.banks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Amnesty International demanded Wednesday to know the whereabouts of human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, who it says was abducted at dawn by armed men in civilian clothes posing as police.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Iran frees American-born grad student</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/11/11/iran.student.released/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/11/11/iran.student.released/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranian authorities have released an American-born graduate student on bail after holding her in prison for nearly a month, an Amnesty International spokeswoman said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Maldives Rejects Leader in Election</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854644,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854644,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a historic election, the Maldives voted out their leader of three decades for a former political prisoner promising change</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>China falls short on Olympic promises, critics say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/china.promises/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/china.promises/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It's a historic event taking place on an international stage that's been seven years and $40 billion in the making.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Behind the scenes: Internet police out in force for the Olympics</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/07/olympics.press.freedom.florcruz/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/07/olympics.press.freedom.florcruz/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For many overseas reporters now in Beijing, covering the Summer Games has turned into an Olympian task.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>China rebuffs human rights report</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/china.humanrights/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/china.humanrights/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>China has rejected a new report which claims it has broken a promise to improve its human rights situation and "betrayed the core values of the Olympics."</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran to hang 30 convicts on Sunday</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/26/iran.hangings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/26/iran.hangings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thirty people convicted of drug and other criminal charges will be hanged on Sunday, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK MPs vote for extending terror detention time</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/11/britain.terrorism/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/11/britain.terrorism/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British lawmakers narrowly approved a counterterrorism bill Wednesday that allows authorities to hold terrorism suspects without charge for up to six weeks.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leading Somali journalist slain</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/07/somalia.journalist/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/07/somalia.journalist/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A leading Somali reporter was gunned down Saturday in a "targeted assassination," according to the national press union, making him the 10th journalist to be killed in the war-torn African country since last year.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Child Soldiers Decreasing</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808223,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808223,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of last year, according to a United Nations report</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe rival fears 'assassination' plot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/17/zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/17/zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's opposition leader has canceled his return to Harare from South Africa after receiving information from a "credible source" about what his party said was a planned assassination.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 14:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe run-off announced for end of June</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/16/zimbabwe.runoff/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/16/zimbabwe.runoff/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The run-off for Zimbabwe's presidential election will be held June 27, Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Somali civilians 'routinely targeted' for brutality</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/06/somalia.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/06/somalia.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Soldiers, insurgents and bandits routinely target civilians in Somalia for rape, robbery and murder, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Killings force medical charity's withdrawal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/01/somalia.msf/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/01/somalia.msf/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The medical aid charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, is pulling international staff out of Somalia after three of its members were killed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Friends, family mourn 'good kid' who died after Taser incident</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/19/taser.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/19/taser.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Friends and family identified the 20-year-old Frederick, Maryland, man who died after police used a Taser stun gun on him Sunday morning, according to a local television station. </description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Man dies after police jolt him with stun gun  </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/18/taser.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/18/taser.death/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 20-year-old man died Sunday after being shot with a Taser device during a scuffle with a sheriff's deputy in Maryland, a spokeswoman for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Funny woman's unbelievably busy day</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/10/30/o.busy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/10/30/o.busy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A friend once told me about the Buddhist concept of pain without suffering; it's a notion that fascinates me. I mean, is it really possible to say, "Yep, my stomach aches, all right, but I don't have to add insult to injury by letting that pain run amok: I can decide to skip the part where I moan, 'Now I can't meet my friends at the movie and I'll probably miss work tomorrow, which means I'll blow my deadline, lose my job and die penniless and alone, never having seen "Dreamgirls.'"</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Global apathy' to Iraqi refugees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/24/amnesty.refugees/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/24/amnesty.refugees/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Countries across the world are inadequately responding to the Iraqi refugee crisis, a human rights group said in a report Monday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Angelina Pays Tribute to Daniel Pearl Family</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20041689,00.html</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20041689,00.html</guid><description>Angelina Jolie made a surprise, emotional appearance at a screening of A Mighty Heart at the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance on Wednesday night.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Group demands info on 'African Guantanamo' detainees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/24/kenya.ethiopia.muslims.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/24/kenya.ethiopia.muslims.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a case some rights campaigners have dubbed an "African Guantanamo," a British-based group called on Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian authorities to come clean over the whereabouts and fates of some 66 Muslim detainees unaccounted for in Ethiopia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 16:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Today's Buzz stories</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/02/05/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/02/05/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>Who's bigger in Bollywood, icon Amitabh Bachchan or younger rival Shah Rukh Khan?</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Pakistan kidnaps terror suspects</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/29/amnesty.pakistan/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/29/amnesty.pakistan/index.html</guid><description>The road to the Guantanamo Bay detention center begins in Pakistan, according to a report by rights group Amnesty International.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Hezbollah guilty of war crimes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/14/amnesty.hezbollah/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/14/amnesty.hezbollah/index.html</guid><description>Amnesty International Thursday released a scathing report accusing Hezbollah of war crimes, during a month-long war with Israel.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to help: Refugee agencies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/16/refugeeday.agencies/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/16/refugeeday.agencies/index.html</guid><description>The sixth annual World Refugee Day is Tuesday. The United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution in 2000 to remember refugees on a special day each year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CIA flights: Amnesty accuses U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/04/05/amnesty.us/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/04/05/amnesty.us/index.html</guid><description>The CIA has used private aircraft operators and front companies -- sometimes using European airspace -- to detain terror suspects at secret locations or transfer them to countries that condone torture, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 07:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/12/02/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/12/02/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>ABC's "Lost" and CBS's "King of Queens" took top family-friendly honors Wednesday at the seventh annual Family Television Awards.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Asia's 'grim view on drug crime'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/01/execution/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/01/execution/index.html</guid><description>At dawn on Friday, a hangman at Changi Prison in Singapore placed a hood over the head of drug trafficker Van Nguyen, put a noose around his neck and opened a trap door in a "long-drop" procedure that killed the Australian citizen.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopia rejects killings inquiry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/10/ethiopia.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/10/ethiopia.arrests/index.html</guid><description>The Ethiopian government has rejected a call by human rights groups for an investigation into "police violence" during post-election unrest that left at least 27 people dead.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld rejects Amnesty's 'gulag' label</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/01/us.gitmo/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/01/us.gitmo/index.html</guid><description>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday dismissed as "reprehensible" Amnesty International's characterization of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as "the gulag of our times."</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cheney offended by Amnesty criticism</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.amnestyintl/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.amnestyintl/index.html</guid><description>Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he was offended by Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States for what it called "serious human rights violations" at Guantanamo Bay.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2005 19:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>America accused</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/america.accused/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/america.accused/index.html</guid><description>Amnesty International's criticism of the United States is scathing. It compares U.S. treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to the old Soviet prison system, calling it the "gulag of our times."</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2005 21:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taser says stun gun is safe</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/13/technology/taser/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/13/technology/taser/index.htm</guid><description>Stun-gun maker Taser International said Friday that an independent study of the effects of one of its new devices, the Taser X26, found no significant heart rhythm abnormalities in volunteers subjected to its shock.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2005 13:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: Record rise in executions</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/05/amnesty.death/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/05/amnesty.death/index.html</guid><description>Close to 4,000 people were executed worldwide in 2004, more than at nearly  any other time in the last 25 years, according to human rights organization Amnesty International.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty International founder dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/26/amnesty.founder/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/26/amnesty.founder/index.html</guid><description>Peter Benenson, the founder of the human rights group Amnesty International, has died, the group has announced.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Crackdown on 'honor killings'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/26/pakistan.honorkilling/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/26/pakistan.honorkilling/index.html</guid><description>The Pakistan National Assembly has passed a bill that would strengthen criminal laws against "honor killings," with offenders being sentenced to anywhere from 10 years to life in prison or death.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Indonesia journalists facing jail</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/01/indonesia.media/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/01/indonesia.media/index.html</guid><description>Three Indonesian journalists face imprisonment for writing and publishing an article that allegedly defamed a leading businessman.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Does Saudi Arabia have a double standard on beheadings? </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/24/double.standard/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/24/double.standard/index.html</guid><description>Should people be surprised when an ally of the United States is accused of carrying out beheadings as a matter of legal punishment?</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty: UK troops shot civilians</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/10/iraq.british.troops/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/10/iraq.british.troops/index.html</guid><description>As furor grows over the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees, a report from a human rights group has charged that British troops occupying southern Iraq killed a dozen civilians who posed no threat to them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2004 00:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pentagon official: No Muslim clerics for detainees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/06/gitmo/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/06/gitmo/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military no longer has a Muslim cleric at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ministering to the religious needs of the more than 600 detainees there, and has no plans to provide a new cleric of any faith, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Do Good When You Shop Online</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/11/01/268056/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/11/01/268056/index.htm</guid><description>As you do some damage with your credit cards this holiday shopping season, keep in mind that there's an easy way to do some good at the same time. Shop online at one of the growing number of giving...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>