Word: humanism
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...while the danger has receded, the Russian military has clamped down on coverage of the conflict by American reporters and photographers, making it impossible to verify reports from the organization Human Rights Watch that ethnic Georgian villages just outside of Tskhinvali were being systematically burned and looted...
...Russian army has refused responsibility for any attacks or other actions carried out by South Ossetian irregulars on Georgian property and populace, which Human Rights Watch said could be characterized as war crimes...
...continued membership in the G-8 and future entry into the WTO will turn on its peaceful resolution of regional disputes. The upside of Russia's preoccupation with lost status is that its exclusion from such élite organizations would sting. Russia has flexed its resurgent muscles at great human cost. Now it must be convinced that aggression does not restore honor; it soils...
...past the guards. They hauled her out of the arena as some members of the crowd jeered and chanted for her to leave - her dissident act cut short before it even started. Another man wearing an anti-Olympics t-shirt was barred from even entering the venue, while a human rights protester briefly held up a sign he had smuggled through in his underpants...
...days before, Mugabe had emerged as sole candidate in the election for president, meant as a second-round run-off between him and Tsvangirai, after the opposition leader pulled out in the face of violence unleashed by Mugabe's security forces and their allied militias. On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch reported the regime and its supporters had killed 163 M.D.C. activists and tortured or beaten 5,000 more since Tsvangirai came out ahead in a first round of polling on March 29. But Mugabe has apparently been shaken by the rejection of his legitimacy by three separate African poll monitoring...