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Detroit’s prison population will soon be stuck living next to a toxic site
Jul 23, 2021 15:24The close ties between incarceration and pollution seen in Detroit are replicated across the United States. A recent Grist analysis found that the nation’s three largest jail systems — Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago — have facilities disproportionately located in areas where there are elevated risks for pollution-related cancer, respiratory hazards, diesel pollution exposure, and proximity to toxic wastewater and hazardous waste.
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Official investigation finds EU border agency failed to protect human rights of refugees
Jul 15, 2021 06:56The European Parliament (EP) has found that the European Border and Coast Guard Agency — known as Frontex — has failed to protect the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers who tried to reach Europe.
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Russia denounces long-time US blockade against Cuba as violation of human rights
Jul 11, 2021 06:43The Russian Foreign Ministry has denounced the decades-long US embargo against Cuba as a violation of both international law and the human rights of Cubans.
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Zionist entity to demolish al-Quds residential building displacing 55 Palestinians
Jul 09, 2021 02:06Zionist regime authorities have delivered a demolition order against a multi-story Palestinian building in a neighborhood of the occupied al-Quds that would displace several families.
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IFJ urges UN to act against ‘systematic’ Israeli attacks on media workers in occupied lands
Jul 07, 2021 08:09The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has deplored the systematic attacks on journalists working in occupied Palestinian territories by the illegal Zionist entity, urging the United Nations to adopt proper measures against the Tel Aviv regime’s crimes against media freedom.
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UN report calls for reparations for victims of systemic racist police violence in US
Jul 06, 2021 15:25After the killing of George Floyd and subsequent mass protests, the USHRN and the ACLU organized an international coalition that urged the HRC to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate systemic racism and police violence against people of African descent in the United States of America.
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Queen statues toppled amid outrage over unmarked graves of Indigenous children
Jul 04, 2021 15:41A group of demonstrators gathered at the Manitoba legislature on July 1st as the country marked Canada Day, and pulled down a statue of Queen Victoria.
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US violence keeps targeting Iranians: Zarif on plane tragedy anniv.
Jul 04, 2021 01:34Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recalls the US’s downing of an Iranian passenger plane on the tragedy’s anniversary, saying Washington continues to target the Iranian nation with violence to date.
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Canada Day muted as country reckons with treatment of indigenous, other minorities
Jul 02, 2021 03:21Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country's colonial past.
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Canada: Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves destroyed by fire
Jul 01, 2021 15:02Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in western Canada have been destroyed by fires that investigators are once again treating as suspicious.