2016, up to June 30, 2018, more than 4,500 people have been killed in what the Philippine National Police calls lawful anti-drug operations, alleging that the fought back during raids. Research by Human Rights Watch, other rights groups, n that police officers and their agents..…
after winning journalism prize for being one of the reliable truth-tellers in Middle East, Labour party is about to declare that I, and many others like me, are irredeemable anti-semites.. Much of my journalism has been about documenting and reporting the careful work of scholars, human..…
Since May when the Trump administration declared moving ahead with plans to support Kurdish militants Syria, the US has been shipping heavy machine guns, mortars, anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles to the region, further inflaming tensions. . On Sunday, Syrian Observatory for..…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which mostly advocates anti-government forces in the Syria war, said on Tuesday that the US-led coalition killed a total of 225 civilians between April 23 and May 23, the highest 30-day toll since the campaign began in 2014. . ..…
Anti-Defamation League reports . U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . ..…
Their rule was marked by widespread human rights abuse, including the wanton killing of civilians. ... When Human Rights Watch visited Bakala on January 22, the UPC had again lost control. ..…
They have been whipping up anti-blasphemy hysteria, when they should be interesting in upholding individual human rights. ..…
And human beings have rights. Ideas don’t. . . The word “Islamophobia” does not make this distinction. When we say “anti-Semitism,” we’re not saying “Judaismophobia.” We’re saying “anti-Semitism,” because bigotry is against people. ..…
People need permission to be able to articulate those critiques, and to know that it's about speaking up for human rights--not about being against the Jewish people. . RABBI ROSEN, your chapter takes up the rising number of anti-Semitic attacks across Europe. ..…
Department of Justice and FBI, by Anti-Defamation League, United Nations, Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group and United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office. ..…
Stuart Littlewood asks why Jeremy Corbyn's team ignored legal experts warnings that adopting Zionist of 'anti-Semitism would contravene European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights Act. ..…
In mid-2013, Christian and animist militias, called the anti-balaka, formed to fight back, themselves committing serious human rights abuses. . ... Lissane, the FPRC political leader, told Human Rights Watch that Seleka fighters were preempting an imminent attack..…
Releasing those cleared by review boards or courts would be an obvious victory for civil liberties and human rights, most strikingly in the case of the Uighur prisoners—Chinese Muslims who had never been anti-American but who could not be returned to China for fear of torture and..…
He also wrote a troubling 2002 memo in which the administration essentially thumbed its nose at anti-torture law and international treaties, including the Geneva Conventions, that recognize protections for prisoners of war. Human rights activists have suggested that such disregard..…
They compromise their anti-racism since they back Israel as Jewish homeland--where Palestinians are deprived of most or all basic human rights. Unsurprisingly, PEPs are frequently prone to promulgating anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia--the ideological means for the Israel..…
Many of U.S-backed states involved in the anti- Assad campaign, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, have also committed gross human rights violations and war crimes, such as Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon.. ..…
Israeli governments come and go, and Netanyahu coalition is the product of frightening, long-term trends Israeli society ultra- Orthodox population that is increasing dramatically, movement that is growing more radical and more entrenched in Israeli and army, and Russian community that is prone to..…
The Communist Party of China seized control of all organs of the state and all political, economic, and social resources, and, using these, has produced a long trail of human rights disasters, including, among many others, the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957), the Great Leap Forward..…
I had no idea that the movement would have legs, or that it would become one of the most important human rights movements since the end of the anti-apartheid struggle. Indeed, the campaign for religious freedom actually sparked a much broader human rights quest..…
The so-called “new philosophers,” represented most prominently by Jean-Francois Revel and Bernard-Henri Levy, embraced anti-communism under the hypocritical banner of “human rights.” ..…
A picture showing the alleged wreckage of a Syrian jet shot down east of Damascus by anti-government militants on June 05, 2017. (Photo via social media) The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 21 civilians have been killed in a US airstrike near the city of Raqqah..…