The search for that truth has been conducted in courthouses, human rights reports and media investigations.
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Our annual human rights reports told the truth, but there was no question that the Bush administration (and the Obama administration that followed) felt limited by Gadhafi's adherence to the bargain.
So, if one were to take the human rights reports seriously, one would look there, in those countries, and say, okay, these are countries where we should not be sending detainees.
Several recent human rights reports criticised Paraguay's police force for routine human rights abuses, and any trust in politicians was erased by the news last year that the president's official BMW had been stolen from Brazil.
The country's Human Rights Association reports that the number of Turks who died in custody in 1997 as a result (it says) of torture fell by a third compared with the previous year.
Two leading human rights organisations published reports on Wednesday condemning President Putin's clampdown on democratic freedoms - a year into his third term.
Animal rights groups are now considering taking the issue to the European Court of Human Rights, our correspondent reports.
Kids, immigrants, people with mental illness -- all can be subjected, somewhat regularly, to solitary lockdown, according to human rights groups and news reports.
Former President JIMMY CARTER: The United States continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation as a champion of human rights because of constant reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo.
"Their release is very precarious, " said Elizardo Sanchez, who monitors and reports on human rights on the island.
The resolution comes amid grim reports of human rights violations in the north.
The debate was called by Labour peer Lord Ahmed, who referred to reports from human rights organisations about conditions in the country.
That places a big burden on human-rights groups that compile reports from confidential informants usually a necessity when dealing with violent and repressive regimes.
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The groups also said they are sending out pastors to investigate reports from human rights organizations that army barracks have been turned into torture camps.
The National Council for Human Rights said it sent 610 reports of violations to the commission, including early closure of polling stations, according to state-run Egynews.
On February 28th, when the State Department issued its latest country reports on human rights, it again pointed to the Japanese government's failure to protect sex-workers.
ACPRA, according to Al-Qahtani, actively reports on human rights violations and attempts to help relatives of political prisoners free their loved ones through lawsuits against the government.
Annual reports on human rights, America's Department of State.
The UK-based activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says its reports are impartial, says government jets carried out the most intense raids on the Marat al-Numan area since rebels took it over a few days ago.
The West has been particularly alarmed by the mounting reports of widescale human rights abuses by Russian security forces in the region.
Information available for each Member State includes the key documents related to its membership in the United Nations, statements made before the principal organs, draft resolutions sponsored, periodic reports submitted on human rights conventions, and more.
The attorney-general's human-rights office has received around 200 reports of beatings by security forces.
Five human rights organisations have also called for the reports to be published.
But human rights groups have also raised concerns about reports that Malian soldiers are themselves carrying out extrajudicial killings and abuses as they counterstrike.
The resolution urged the government of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to address "continuing reports of violations of human rights" in the country, including threats to judicial independence and media intimidation.
To the surprise of many, he recommended in a report leaked earlier this month that Zimbabwe be allowed to resume sales, despite reports of continuing human-rights abuse and the sale of uncertified diamonds on the black market, with proceeds going into the pockets of a group of ZANU-PF bigwigs and army officers.
Human rights activists created a media firestorm with completely fabricated reports about Guantanamo medical staff using "forced feedings" to "torture" detainees.
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