Topic - Human Rights

• World Scene

  The leaders of France and Germany next week plan to push for fundamental changes to the European treaty governing the embattled euro currency shared by 17 nations, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.

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  International criticism of Egypt's rulers mounts

  International criticism of Egypt's military rulers mounted Wednesday as police clashed for a fifth day with protesters demanding the generals relinquish power immediately. A rights group raised the death toll for the wave of violence to at least 38.

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  Activists: Syrian forces kill 7; deaths top 3,000

  Syrian security forces opened fire Friday on protesters calling for the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, killing at least seven, activists said.

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  U.N.: Death toll in Syria unrest at least 2,600

  At least 2,600 have died during the six months of unrest that has swept Syria, the top United Nations' human rights official said Monday.

• World Briefs

  At least 2,600 people have died in the unrest that has swept Syria, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Monday, as a panel was named to investigate abuses in the Arab country.

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  PIPES: Iraq - a province of Iran?

  After American forces leave Iraq at the end of 2011, Tehran will try to turn its neighbor into a satrapy, i.e., a satellite state, to the great detriment of Western, moderate Arab and Israeli interests. Intense Iranian efforts are under way already, with Tehran sponsoring militias in Iraq and sending its own forces into Iraqi border areas. Baghdad responds with weakness, its chief of staff proposing a regional pact with Iran and top politicians ordering attacks on the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MeK), an Iranian dissident organization with 3,400 members residing in Camp Ashraf, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. The MeK issue reveals Iraqi subservience to Iran with special clarity. Note some recent developments:

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Human rights report is self-flagellation

  The Obama administration is in deep admiration of the illiberal values that stir the radical left ("Obama administration indicts America," Comment & Analysis, Aug. 26). The administration's brazen attempt to reinvent the relationship between government and the governed will go down as one of the darkest moments in our republic's history.

• U.N. report on Congo genocide strengthened

  A draft U.N. report accusing the Rwandan army of massacring Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1990s is corroborated by findings of an international human rights group.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama administration indicts America

  Move over Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. The State Department has made it official: The United States violates human rights. In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights detailing the progress and problems in dealing with human rights issues in this country. The document is a strange combination of left-wing history and White House talking points.

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  Kyrgyz riots leave hundreds dead

  Rioting has killed several hundred people in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports bolstered suspicions that the ethnic violence was deliberately ignited to undermine the interim government.

• Letters to the editor

  The Islamist onslaught

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