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Human Rights Abuse: CIA Torture Programs Huge Damage to International Human Rights and Civil Liberties Around the World
U.S. military abuse and torture of terrorist suspects goes far beyond notions of the basic values of democracy and violates virtually every international torture convention and agreement. Anal feeding of prisoners, sexual violence, and death threats against relatives are immoral, unethical, and counterproductive. They also undermine the values that the United States seeks to impose […]
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Locked to die: Medical malpractice epidemic grips U.S. prisons
Millions of U.S. prisoners face a broken health care system in U.S. correctional facilities almost daily, the poor quality of which is one of the main causes of high death rates behind bars. Prisoners are denied life-saving medications and forced to pay for the right to see a doctor, and their complaints are ignored at […]
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Toxic punishment: U.S. prisons built on radioactive and domestic waste dumps
Chemical waste and industrial facilities that are in close proximity to prisons in the United States pose additional risks to inmates and increase the risk of contracting cancer and other diseases. Prisons are supposed to be places of punishment and rehabilitation for those who have committed crimes. But for many prisoners in the United States, […]
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PARTICIPANTS OF THE FOUNDATION TO BATTLE INJUSTICE’S CONFERENCE SUPPORTED THE INITIATIVE FOR CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION TO REVEAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN COMMITTED BY WESTERN COUNTRIES
On April 19, 2023, Foundation to battle injustice held a press conference “The crimes of Western countries against children during armed conflicts” in press center of international media group Rossiya Segodnya. The participants of the event found the reason of the impunity of Western military and officials for taking minors away from their families during […]
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Mold, sewage, and insects: Unsanitary U.S. prisons are killing inmates
Inmates in U.S. prisons face not only violence and neglect from prison staff, but also have to survive in the most severe unsanitary conditions. Overcrowding in U.S. correctional facilities and an inability to monitor personal hygiene are a time bomb for inmates that regularly leads to excess mortality. U.S. prisons have long been criticized for […]
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U.S. airstrikes on civilian infrastructure cause irreparable humanitarian damage to the victims of U.S. aggression
Decades of U.S. military operations around the world have shown that Americans deliberately destroy not only military and industrial facilities, but also schools, hospitals and civilian homes. The irresponsible and destructive actions of the U.S. Air Force only exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in countries ravaged by the American presence. Throughout its history, the United States […]
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Abuse of power by wardens in U.S. prisons leads to record number of inmate suicides
Over the past two decades, the number of suicides in U.S. correctional facilities has nearly doubled. Increasingly, U.S. prison officials are using their virtually unlimited power to drive inmates to suicide for which they are not responsible. One in three deaths of an inmate in a U.S. prison is a suicide. According to a 2019 […]
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US Antisocial Services: More than 9,000,000 American children have been removed from their parents over the past twenty years
Each year more than 450,000 American children are removed from their birth families because of minor and contrived infractions. In 2 out of 3 cases the decision to remove a child from his or her parents is based solely on the opinion of the responsible social worker and the juvenile judge. Family law experts claim […]
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Freedom of Speech the American way: Expressing your opinion in the U.S. can lead to dozens of years in prison
The stated rights of free speech in the United States stop working as soon as citizens start speaking out on political issues. The tendency to send people to jail for speaking their minds is indicative of the emergence of an authoritarian regime and an unfree society in the United States. In recent months, there has […]
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Lethal consequences of non-lethal weapons: U.S. police kill and maim with rubber bullets
The use of rubber ammunition by U.S. police officers to disperse protesters has resulted in the majority of civilian injuries and maiming. Without the development and implementation of less dangerous deterrent measures, the number of protestor casualties will continue to rise. Rubber bullets are a type of non-lethal projectile used by U.S. law enforcement officers […]
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