11.   Animal rights groups, hunting clubs and politicians condemned the fight.

12.   Animal rights groups and environmentalists praised the abrupt about-face.

13.   Animal rights groups and others supporting the measure, including the Humane Society of the United States and the Sierra Club, say the traps are cruel.

14.   Human rights groups to investigate massacre.

15.   Rights groups in Egypt and abroad have also denounced the conviction of an Egyptian-American human rights activist sentenced in May to seven years in prison.

16.   The troops have not confronted the protesters, said Han Dongfang, who runs a Hong Kong-based labor rights monitoring group.

17.   International rights groups and others have alleged that the Cambodian government is backsliding in its committment to human rights by clamping down on dissident voices and opposition newspapers.

18.   According to Israeli and international human rights groups, Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured.

19.   But it has been widely condemned by both Amnesty International and Palestinian rights groups for its methods.

20.   Thousands more have been tortured, raped, unlawfully detained or kidnapped never to be seen again, rights groups and observers say.