US: Slow Progress on Human Rights
High-Level Pronouncements Marred by Systemic Racism, Abuse of Asylum Seekers (Washington, DC) – The administration of President Joe Biden...
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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
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...
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...
Hundreds more Afghan refugees arrive in Canada, including human rights defenders
Canada has pledged to resettle up to 250 refugees annually who qualify as human rights defenders The federal government announced on...
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...
Fire tears through Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
Left: A general view of the fire that broke out at the Balukhali rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, January 9, 2022....
Everything you need to know about the coup, massacres and fighting in Myanmar
Horrific stories of massacres, murder and countless acts of violence in Myanmar made headlines throughout the whole of last year. The...
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...
Tigrayans deported by Saudis ‘forcibly disappeared’ in Ethiopia – rights group
Thousands of Tigrayan migrants abused and deported from Saudi Arabia are forcibly detained in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch says Thousands...
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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