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Joe Heath, general counsel for the Onondaga Nation, walks into the Nation's Longhouse for a meeting, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, on the Onondaga Nation territory in central New York. (AP Photo/Lauren Petracca)

Rejected by U.S. courts, Onondaga Nation take centuries-old land rights case to international panel

By Michael Hill - Associated Press

State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden withdraws nomination of human rights candidate over Israel remarks

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Discontinued Venezuelan bank notes hang above a cigarette stand in the San Jose del Avila neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Working class neighborhoods in Venezuela's capital sifted through charred rubble and smoldering trash on Tuesday, following a day of isolated protests in response to the arrest of National Guardsmen who mounted an uprising against President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The Latest: Venezuelan lawyers seeking protection for Guaido

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Margarette May Macaulay, president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, listens to a question during a press conference, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. A delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visited Brazil from November 5 to 12 to monitor the enforcement of human rights in eight states. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rights commission expresses deep concern about Brazil

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OAS commission: ‘precautionary measures’ over separated kids

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Complaint targets separation of immigrant families at border

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego in June 2016. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, has said it will fight against President Trump's immigration plans. The group has accused him of fostering an “enormous human rights crisis."

Human Rights group says it will try to stop Donald Trump’s immigration plans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This Oct. 11, 2007 file photo shows Jake Edward of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs standing outside the federal courthouse in Albany, N.Y., after arguments were heard in the Onondaga Indian Nation's land claim case against New York state. A Native American nation is asking the international community to charge the United States with human rights violations in hopes of getting help with a land claim. The Onondaga Indian Nation says it plans to file a petition at the Organization of American States on Tuesday, seeking human rights violations against the United States government. They want the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to declare that the U.S. government’s decision not to hear their lawsuit asking for the return of 2.5 million acres in upstate New York to be violations of international human rights agreements. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Native Americans say US violated human rights

By JESSE J. HOLLAND - Associated Press

**FILE** Convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla (center) is escorted to a waiting police vehicle by federal marshals near downtown Miami on Jan. 5, 2006. (Associated Press)

ACLU seeks OAS probe of Padilla case

By Peter James Spielmann - Associated Press