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PARIS (Reuters) - At least 63 journalists were killed worldwide in 2005, the highest number in a decade, a media watchdog said on Tuesday, but it also noted media had become freer in India and some Central American countries. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its latest annual report that more than 1,300 media workers were attacked or threatened last year and more than 100 were in jail. For the third year running, Iraq was the most dangerous country. Seventy-four...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday sealed the fate of its discredited Human Rights Commission, ordering it to be shut down in three months and replaced by a new U.N. Human Rights Council. A resolution approved without a formal vote by the 54-nation U.N. Economic and Social Council abolished the Geneva-based rights commission as of June 16. The commission was first created in February 1946. The replacement rights council was established by the 191-nation U.N....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eleven Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, have joined with a labor group in urging full recognition of worker's rights in the lead-up to International Human Rights Day on Saturday. December 10 marks the anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which urges basic rights for workers including the right to organize. "We call upon every nation on this International Human Rights Day to abide by...