News and Views on Human Rights
In This Issue: No.1: July 2005 
•   Welcome to UUSC eWire!
•   Burmese partners nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
•   Act now to ensure defeat of CAFTA trade bill
•   General Assembly demands end to U.S.-sponsored torture
•   UUSC Hotwire offers thoughts on London bombings, and more
•   The medical ethics of interrogation
Welcome to UUSC eWire!
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Act now to ensure defeat of CAFTA trade bill
The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) may come up for a vote this week in the House of Representatives, and it is essential that we work to defeat this bill that would compound the devastating effects that we have seen from similar trade agreements.

Call or write your representative to make sure the House defeats this bill.

UUSC Hotwire offers thoughts on London bombings, and more
Our new human rights weblog, UUSC Hotwire, made its debut at General Assembly 2005 in Fort Worth, Texas, and most recently includes an analysis on the terrorist bombings in London.

Take a moment to visit our exciting new UUSC Hotwire.

Burmese partners nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
On June 30, 2005, it was announced in the Asia media that the leaders of two of our partner organizations in Burma, the Mae Tao Clinic and the Karen Women’s Organization, have been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

Read more about the nominations of Dr. Cynthia Maung and Naw Zipporah Sein.

General Assembly demands end to U.S.-sponsored torture
At the conclusion of the UUA General Assembly 2005, a UUSC resolution demanding an end to U.S.-sponsored torture was approved unanimously by a vote of the 1,400 delegates to the annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Learn more about the issue and other highlights from Fort Worth.

The medical ethics of interrogation
The role of military doctors in the interrogation of detainees, and whether their allegiance should be with their patients or their country, raises disturbing questions in the ongoing campaign to end U.S.-sponsored torture.

Read more about this controversial question in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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