The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned that the country is suffering a human rights crisis of epic proportions, enmeshing its population in a cycle of violence, abuse and poverty. The report was submitted to the U.N. Human Rights...
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German Green Party MEP Reinhard Bütikofer claims the party will be the “strongest ever” after the country’s elections, adding the group is ready to stand up for human rights and foreign policy.
Progressives balked at sending military aid to a country they accuse of human rights abuses, angering centrists and Jewish lawmakers who said the United States must support a crucial ally.
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Urgent action is needed to prevent the situation in Myanmar from escalating into a “full-blown conflict”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned on Thursday.
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South Sudan continues to be “plagued” by violence and corruption, the Human Rights Council heard on Thursday, jeopardizing the young nation’s efforts to establish lasting peace and put it on the road towards sustainable development.
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In the early 90s, US Coast Guard cutters transported thousands of Haitians fleeing the coup-hit country to refugee camps based at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. At one point, the detention facility came under human rights scrutiny, and was branded...
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The announcement comes as the European court of human rights implicated Russia in another political assassination.
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Addressing the 76th United Nations General Assembly session on Tuesday, Biden said that the world stands at an "inflection point in history" and must move quickly on issues including the pandemic, climate change, and human rights abuses.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has criticized the United States for intensifying its embargo at a time when Cuba is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. “The Biden administration policy toward Cuba today has been the Trump...
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Amnesty International is accusing the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies of creating an “unprecedented human rights crisis” by failing to provide enough COVID-19 vaccines for the world’s poorest nations.
In a report issued...
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Campaign Slams Vaccine Makers for Fueling 'Unprecedented' Human Rights Crisis
Brett Wilkins
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Sep 21, 2021
"Covid-19 vaccines must be readily available and accessible for all. It is up to...
"Bombs and bullets cannot defend against COVID-19 or its future variants."
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Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan last month, they have made some commitments to uphold human rights. However, their subsequent actions have “sadly contradicted” those promises, the UN rights chief told a side event of the General...
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On Tuesday, UK police announced that a third suspect had been charged in the 2018 poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Separately, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for the 2006 death of...
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The European Court of Human Rights found on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonizing death in 2006 after being poisoned in London with a rare radioactive...
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UN Warns Artificial Intelligence May Pose "Negative, Even Catastrophic" Threat To Human Rights
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The United Nations has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may pose a...
A new report released Monday warned that the human rights gains made by Afghanistan during the last two decades are at risk of collapsing following the Taliban's takeover of the country more than a month ago.
The Islamist movement is wasting no...
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A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021.
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“President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses,” the AP reports.
“His pitch for greater global partnership...
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Ahead of next week’s vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) introduced seven amendments on September 16, seeking to “end the sale of weapons to countries that have violated human rights”.
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