US: Slow Progress on Human Rights
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
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Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
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High-Level Pronouncements Marred by Systemic Racism, Abuse of Asylum Seekers (Washington, DC) – The administration of President Joe Biden...
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Turkey Defies International Human Rights Law
(Istanbul) – The government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has set back Turkey’s human rights record by decades and flagrantly defies...
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Between Belarus & Poland, Yazidi refugees find cold & hunger – then ‘came back to nothing’ in Iraq
Smugglers took their money to spirit them out of Iraq, but Belarus’s authoritarian regime pushed them to Europe’s frontier, where Polish...
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Djokovic Case Highlights Australia’s Cruel Immigration Policies
Inhumane Treatment of Refugees an Unacceptable Deterrence Measure While the world number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic, spent four...
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‘Remain in Mexico 2.0’: How did the Trump-era policy get revived?
The Biden administration reinstated the controversial ‘Remain in Mexico’ progamme under court order in early December. Washington, DC –...
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Doctors Without Borders leaves Poland-Belarus frontier after being blocked from assisting refugees
The medical NGO said it had been 'repeatedly blocked' by Polish authorities from accessing the border region, where groups of migrants...
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EU: Frontex asks court to reject human rights case, seeks legal costs from asylum seekers
EU border agency Frontex is demanding that judges reject a complaint against it at the European Court of Justice, while seeking to recoup...
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US has no good reason to stall on Rohingya genocide label
Perhaps the two most egregious human rights crises currently unfolding in the world are the situations of the Uighurs in China and the...
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Europe’s secretive system to keep out migrants
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the EU has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores,...
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In 2021, normalisation failed to mask the suffering in Syria
2021 marked a decade since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, with violence and economic hardship still rife. The year 2021 marked a...
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