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Major UK charity accepts ‘dirty money’ linked to human rights violations in Palestine
Apr 16, 2021 18:02A British children’s charity is accepting money made from human rights violations in Palestine. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has taken more than £5 million (approximately $6.9 million) from bulldozer manufacturer JCB.
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UK government-backed report claiming British racism in decline, ironically demonstrates opposite
Apr 08, 2021 08:22Over the last few years, Islamophobia, something the current British prime minister himself has been accused of, anti-Black systemic racism evidenced with the Windrush scandal, and anti-immigrant sentiment, have continually surfaced and arguably grown, amid a general growing climate of hostility in Britain in the street within right wing movements and political policy at the heart of the government’s ‘hostile environment’.
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How cutting down US military spending could bring about peace
Apr 06, 2021 14:22Certainly US history as well as its record of causing, not preventing, chaos undercut any idea of US moral authority. Moreover, the numerous US violations of international laws, its failure to ratify treaties that, among other things, ban land mines and cluster bombs and safeguard the rights of women and of children, and its failure to join the International Criminal Court, hardly recommend it for a position of leadership.
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Israeli occupation authorities ban celebration for new freed Palestinian detainees
Apr 06, 2021 14:07The harassing policies that Israel applies against newly freed Palestinian prisoners vary according to the prisoners' home regions and positions. In the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, prisoners are sometimes released at dawn or midnight to ensure families and friends cannot immediately greet and celebrate with the newly freed Palestinians.
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UK government's undermining of EHRC is a threat to democracy
Nov 15, 2020 17:46The UK government actively subverts democratic scrutiny by undermining independent bodies like the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) through a politicized appointments process.
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UNHCR chief says for world’s 80m displaced, international aid ‘life-saving’
Nov 05, 2020 19:45The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi said many refugees live within communities, rather than camps, where they are additionally impacted by the “pandemic of poverty.” Many are informal workers, whose livelihoods have been thrown into disarray. This has led to rising demands for assistance, even in countries that have offered refugees sanctuary for decades.
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Time to toss US sanctions in the nearest dustbin
Oct 11, 2020 21:41Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, has made a joint statement at the General Debate of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, on behalf of 26 countries, criticizing the United States and Western countries for violating human rights, calling for the complete and immediate lifting of unilateral sanctions, and expressing grave concern on systematic racial discrimination.
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'Deeply disappointing': US Supreme Court slammed for refusing to examine doctrine that bolsters police immunity
Jun 19, 2020 13:37The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear several cases involving a longstanding legal doctrine giving police officers and other government officials sweeping immunity from civil lawsuits, a decision that comes in the midst of a nationwide uprising against police brutality and racial injustice.
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How Human Rights Watch whitewashed a right-wing massacre in Bolivia
Nov 25, 2019 15:14Since its establishment, Human Rights Watch has consistently been criticized for being an agent of U.S. foreign policy, employing former U.S. government officials in key positions, and for displaying bias against leftist governments unfriendly to the United States.
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Gambia takes global lead in justice for Rohingya
Nov 15, 2019 07:39Recently, the government of The Gambia gave the 740,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh a hint of something unfamiliar to them: hope. The West African country accomplished that by filing an official complaint against Myanmar with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for violations of the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention linked to abuses against its Muslim Rohingya minority.