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"We want you to hear us, Mr. President," Damu Smith, director of Black Voices for Peace, one of the coordinating groups, said as he stood with a midday crowd of several hundred in Washington.

Some of the cuts were being made in any case, the groups said, as companies focused on increasing profits by cutting wasteful use of energy and releases of chemicals.

Civil rights groups say as many as 45 black churches have been attacked since 1990.

Rights groups say as many as 500 women have been killed since 1993.

Family groups say as many as 100 people were kidnapped and taken to North Korea, largely for use as language teachers.

The government said 18 civilians and a policeman were killed in Lhasa; exiled Tibetan groups say as many as 100 Tibetans died.

Human rights groups say as many as half the women who report a rape are charged with breaking the laws of zina, which forbid any sexual contact outside marriage.

Tibetan groups say as many as 200 people died in a crackdown by Chinese security forces.

Humanitarian groups say as many as 1,500 wounded people may be trapped in Qusair by fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces, who are backed by fighters from Lebanon's militant Shi'ite group Hezbollah.

But these statements don't matter, rights groups say, as long as the U.S. continues to support the Saudis' military campaign and their resistance to an independent investigation into the conflict, which they demonstrated recently in a United Nations scuffle.

In a sobering new report, "Veracruz: Fixing Mexico's State of Terror," the International Crisis Group describes the crime- and corruption-plagued region as "emblematic of the challenges facing the country as a whole". Veracruz has at least 2,750 unresolved disappearance cases, but civil society groups say as many as 20,000 people could be missing.