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HRW says ‘coup’ occurred in Bolivia
Jan 16, 2020 09:30Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the series of developments that led to the resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales constituted a coup, raising the alarm about human rights abuses by the country’s military at the time.
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NGOs boycott pre-G20 meetings in Saudi Arabia over rights violations
Jan 14, 2020 09:28Three prominent international NGOs have boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying to “whitewash its dire human rights record” by hosting such events.
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Religious minority MPs blast UN rights resolution against Iran
Dec 22, 2019 09:07Religious minority lawmakers at the Iranian parliament have condemned a UN human rights resolution against Tehran, calling it a conspiracy hatched by the US, Israel and their allies.
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North Korea warns against UN human rights meeting
Dec 05, 2019 10:51North Korea has warned the United States against holding any United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the country’s human rights situation.
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HRW slams Israel’s decision to expel its Occupied Palestine director over support for BDS
Nov 25, 2019 03:38Human Rights Watch (HRW) has lambasted Tel Aviv’s decision to expel the rights group’s Israel director from the Occupied Territories over his purported support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi sued for first time over Rohingya
Nov 14, 2019 08:56Human rights groups in Latin America have filed a case against Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of the country’s military to hold them accountable for the state-sponsored atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
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Intl. community turning blind eye to Iranian scientist's detention in US
Oct 23, 2019 05:20Dr. Masoud Soleimani, a top Iranian stem cell scientist is still behind bars in the United States without trial, while the international civil society is not doing anything about it.
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Family of Iranian scientist jailed in US hold presser in Tehran
Oct 23, 2019 05:15Inhumane and hostile; this is how the worried family of renowned Iranian stem cell scientist Masoud Soleimani describe the US’s detention of the top Iranian scientist.
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HRW: Europe must repatriate Daesh inmates from Syria
Oct 15, 2019 09:39Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned against the transfer of the Daesh terror group’s European members from prisons in northern Syria to Iraq in the wake of an ongoing Turkish offensive, saying that the European states should instead repatriate them for prosecution.
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Human rights victim of sabotage by US: Iranian official
Aug 08, 2019 03:28Human rights have been sabotaged by the United States and its allies, says the head of Iran's Human Rights Council, noting that the Islamic Republic is trying to free human rights of politicization.