A flawed algorithm that determines the social security benefits received by people in the UK is causing hunger, debt, and psychological distress, Human Rights Watch has warned. The model calculates the benefits people are entitled to each month...
Related topics: Algorithms, United Kingdom, Social Security
Amitai Etzioni
Security, Asia
The fact that the United States is keen to avoid annoying the Myanmar military, in the hope of getting this nation to join the Indo-Pacific anti-China coalition, should not have stopped the United States and its...
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Imagine the international outcry if a Muslim had been beheaded after refusing to convert to any other religion, which would never happen and should never happen. But no one among the great defenders of human rights in the West will take any...
Related topics: India, Religion
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
Security, Asia
The major chunk of Khan's speech was focused on outlining Pakistan’s foreign policy intentions in relation to Jammu and Kashmir, the Afghan imbroglio, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Last week, Pakistan’s...
Related topics: Pakistan, Israel, Palestine
At the University of Toronto, acting on their own without consulting the Dean, several faculty members of a search committee did not only recommend a candidate for the job of director of the school’s International Human Rights Program – which...
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Human rights groups in Cameroon have condemned the de facto house arrest of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who has spent a week at his residence surrounded by riot police. Authorities say Kamto's Cameroon Renaissance Movement party is being...
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Masih Alinejad
Security, Americas
Promoting the cause of democracy and human rights in Iran should be a pillar of any U.S. national security strategy.
Outside of the United States, few peoples in the world are more impacted by the results of the...
Related topics: Joe Biden, Iran
The work of UN-appointed independent rights experts is at risk from a critical lack of funding, they warned on Monday.
At the University of Toronto Law School, a faculty committee recommended that Valentina Azarova be hired as the director of the school’s International Human Rights Program. The Dean of the Law School, Edward Iacobucci, disagreed with the...
Related topics: Israel, Canada, Toronto
An independent UN human rights expert has voiced concern over an Indian Supreme Court order to evict up to 250,000 people living in shacks along railway tracks in the capital, Delhi, warning that such a move could violate the country’s obligations...
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Independent UN human rights experts have called on the Government of Nigeria to immediately release a singer sentenced to death over an allegedly blasphemous song he performed and shared on social media.
Related topics: Nigeria, Social Media
YEREVAN (Sputnik) - Armenia has lodged a request to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to force Azerbaijan to halt military operations against civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh, the country’s representative at the court said on Sunday.
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A human rights organization is for the next four weeks leading up to November’s election erecting billboards across the nation loudly demanding the release of asylum-seeking children and their parents from U.S. immigration prisons. "We came here...
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall Despite admitting China added a whopping 58GW of coal capacity this year, and admitting a few human rights abuses in Hong Kong, Foreign Policy is hailing President Xi as a world saviour because he promised to do something...
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An Indonesian human rights group is monitoring what it describes as “degrading” punishments handed out to people who fail to comply with mandated anti-coronavirus social restrictions and mask wearing.The punishments are unusual, such as forcing...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is calling on Venezuela to release all political prisoners and end the repression of political and civil rights. In November, Penal Forum, a Venezuelan network of criminal defense...
Related topics: Venezuela
The European Union has been at the forefront of international cooperation to defeat “the same common enemy”, COVID-19, the President of the European Council, told the UN General Assembly on Friday.
Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL) speaks at the Human Rights Campaign hosted Equality Wins reception at The Mayflower Hotel on January 03, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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First-term Rep. Donna Shalala will face Republican Maria Elvira...
Independent human rights experts from the United Nations on Friday urged the Belarusian government to free leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova, saying she faces a five-year prison term after being charged with undermining national...
Related topics: Belarus
Biden said he would fight for transgender Americans if he becomes president. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, promised to fight for transgender Americans if he occupies the White House next year.
At a virtual event for the Human...
Related topics: Joe Biden, White House