President Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of “special interests” around the White House to address the growing internal challenges that his country is facing, he has surrendered his foreign policy to right-wing and neoconservative hawks with an atrocious human..…
The group included senior police officers, human rights activists, and interfaith leaders, and in the advert, they warned their co-religionists that British Muslim prosperity “cannot be ensured while Jewish communities feel under threat”. . ..…
., says Hyder Shar, Karachi based lawyer and Human Rights activist.. The civil society will have to work with the state for the development and implementation of new social contract based on logic and rule of law among the masses. ..…
“Perceived U.S. unilateralism, interventionism, and Western promotion of democratic values and human rights.” Well, of course, that’s what the United States–when they project power it’s always about democratic values and human rights. ..…
This was the state of affairs at State Department first as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and then as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.. ... Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul..…
The United Nations human rights agency says Bahraini opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman and two of his colleagues have been given life sentences by the regime while Manama has attempted to portray their case as one of espionage.. ... We are concerned that these convictions are due to..…
It also overlooks major violations of international law and human rights (see Israel; Saudi Arabia) if those countries provide it with some benefits. . ..…
By the transnational corporations, UN Human Rights Council Rapporteur, Alfred de Zayas, pointed out that America's aim Venezuela is to crush this government and bring in government that is going to privatise everything and is going to sell out, lot of transitional corporations stand to..…
On August 17, 2015, a series of articles published in Times revealed that Yasmin Hussein, Amnesty International's Director of Faith and Human Rights formerly Director of International Advocacy, has links to Muslim Brotherhood possibly to Hamas.. ... In December 2013, admitted to..…
According to Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light, Coalition includes International Women's Peace Human Rights Commission, Christian Association for Anti-Corruption National Movement, IPYG Youth's Human Rights Committee, and World Buddhist Summit..,..…
However, Human Rights Watch has previously condemned Israel’s targeting of “unrecognized” Palestinian villages in the region. In 2016, Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, stated: . ..…
Warning that greed was driving the move to annex yet more indigenous resources, that there was a criminal silence on the part of world leaders pointing out the hypocrisy of lecturing indigenous people about democracy and human rights, while quashing their community identities and..…
Trans people experience higher rates of bullying and harassment than cis people, nearly half of nonbinary youth have attempted suicide, according to recent study by Human Rights Campaign. ..…
Human Rights Watch published research December 2018 that found that armed groups, including groups that emerged from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were committing rape and other sexual abuses in the municipality of Tumaco. ... In 2017, Human Rights Watch..…
On January 29, Deputy Spokesperson Palladino issued a statement expressing concern over the sentencing of human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang to four-and-a-half years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” ... Wang immediately, and remains concerned by the deteriorating..…
White House statement announced, President Trump stands with the people of Venezuela as they demand democracy, human rights and prosperity denied to them by Maduro, noting that the people had spoken out, and that the US would pursue increased sanctions on the country.. ... Washington..…
Israeli minister, on Wednesday, threatened to ban human rights group Amnesty International from the country, for its criticism of some tourism companies.. ... Such activities, Gardner added, violate UN's guiding principles on business and human rights. ..…
Following Friday prayer, on 24 January 2019, dozens of Palestinian men and human rights defenders headed to al-Risan Mount area located to the west of Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah, order to organize in protest at confiscating and seizing their lands by Israeli settlers. ..…
A United Nations human rights expert denounced the U.S. oil sanctions imposed on Monday, saying they would compound a grave humanitarian crisis. . ..…
Activists and advocates recount efforts to win reforms behind bars, such as the Get on the Bus program enabling children to visit mothers at Chowchilla prison in California; the Bedford Hills College Bound program in New York State; the Longtimers/Insiders Activist group in Louisiana prison working with the..…
According to Shifrinson, United States attempted to coerce Soviet Union to adopt Western standards on numerous issues — including human rights and nuclear arms reductions. ..…
President Obama felt pressure from the grassroots to alter his travel plans and give one of his trademark orations, broadcast on the eve of the march at Human Rights Campaign dinner, calling for end to Don't Ask, Don't Tell, repeal of Defense of Marriage Act and other civil rights..…
This clearly demonstrates the brazen level of hypocrisy of the U.S. position and illustrates just how concerned U.S. state managers are with human rights. ... “Yemen: Emergency law does not trump basic rights,” Human Rights Watch, March 23, 2011. . ..…
Moreover, Spain has already accumulated long history of human rights violations, if we consider the rulings of European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg. ... The year, in 2017, the same court, the protector of human rights Europe, found Spain guilty..…
The statement rapped the US government's silence on the violation of the rights of Shiite Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and massacre of Muslims Myanmar, Yemen and Gaza, is indication of the US leaders non-commitment to freedom and human rights laws.. ..…
At the time, Taiwan Association for China Human Rights contacted officials in Taiwanese government agencies about Huang's case. China retaliated by issuing its own human rights report, income individuals, and detainees Guantanamo Bay... ..…
Immigration lawyers and human rights groups slam “Remain in Mexico” as a logistical nightmare that will put vulnerable asylum-seekers at greater risk. . ... Heather Gies is a freelance journalist who has written on human rights, social movements and environmental..…
Congress passed S. 2142 (Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014). ... WOLA: Advocacy for human rights in the Americas. . Selby-Green, M. (Jan. 27, 2019). ..…
White House statement announced, President Trump stands with the people of Venezuela as they demand democracy, human rights and prosperity denied to them by Maduro, noting that the people had spoken out, and that the US would pursue increased sanctions on the country.. ... Washington..…
., addresses the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner reception in Washington in 2018. ..…
It promotes a human rights-based approach to ensure the protection of people moving in mixed and complex flows to, through and from North Africa. . ..…
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