Full Coverage: Civil rights

27.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 27 (OneWorld) - The fate of a U.S. Army medic who went AWOL rather than return for a second tour in Iraq is unclear today after he turned himself in to military authorities.

21.09.2006 Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez was pulled over as he was driving to his school in the rural Mixteca region. Police took him to Oaxaca de Juarez, the state capital, where he was held for days on false charges.

20.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 19 (OneWorld) - The White House and dissident Senate Republicans began a fresh round of talks Tuesday over how to treat and prosecute terrorism suspects. President George W. Bush is having difficulty gaining approval for his plan because it would legalize interrogation techniques many see as torture including mock-drowning, stripping, and hooding of detainees.

15.09.2006 LIMA, Peru, Sep 14 (OneWorld) - Diseases in Latin American prisons are so abundant that they are leaking out and threatening the health of the general population, said a host of international health experts and government officials meeting in Lima this week.

14.09.2006 Organizações da sociedade civil organizada no Estado do Ceará e cidadãos individualmente assinam um Manifesto de Repúdio ao Racismo. Este foi construído a partir da articulação de cerca de 30 organizações sociais anti-racistas, sejam dos movimentos negros ou não

05.09.2006 O fim do recesso parlamentar nos Estados Unidos está impulsionando os imigrantes a retomarem as manifestações, de maio deste ano, em favor de uma reforma migratória integral.