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Amazing Work of Human Rights Lawyers
AMAZING WORK OF HUMAN-RIGHTS LAWYERS – by Ellen Ratner My brother, Michael Ratner, who left us in May, used to think I was a conservative. I am not sure if he thought that because I […]
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Facebook deleting posts on human rights abuses
A coalition of 70+ human rights groups have sent a letter to the corporate website of Facebook asking for clarity on the social media website’s “policy on removing video and other content, especially human rights […]
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Civil Rights Organizations Concerned Facebook Censoring Human Rights Content
Civil rights organizations wants Facebook (FB) to clarify its position on removing videos and other content that document human rights issues. Mark Zuckerberg, FB’s CEO, has been asked to clarify his company’s position on protecting […]
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Mass Escape From Vietnam Drug Rehab Centre
More than 200 drug addicts are on the run after a mass escape from a rehabilitation centre in Vietnam. Security guards were overpowered by the inmates and were forced to open the main gate to […]
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Trump As President Would Pose Global Danger Warns Human Rights Commissioner
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein cited Trump’s views on vulnerable communities including minorities and his talk of authorizing torture in interrogations, banned under international law, as “deeply unsettling and disturbing”. […]
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Burundi suspends local activities of UN human rights office
KIGALI, Rwanda Burundi has been gripped by violence since President Pierre Nkurunziza won a third term last year. In September, the UN released a report implicating the country’s security forces in massive rights violations. The […]
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Oman takes over human rights body chairmanship
The Oman Human Rights Commission (OHRC) took over the Network’s chairmanship at the 13th General Assembly meeting of Arab Human Rights Network in Muscat yesterday. In attendance were renowned Arab, regional and international figures, chairmen […]
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Yahoo Email Scan Creates Human Rights Concerns
Serious human rights concerns have been raised by a Reuters report that Yahoo had scanned the emails of hundreds of millions of users at the request of a U.S. intelligence service, a United Nations’ human […]
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Iranian woman gets 6 years for writing a story never published
An Iranian woman has been sentenced to 6 years in prison after authorities found an unpublished story she wrote about women being stoned to death. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a female Iranian writer and human rights activist, […]
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Experts Appointed to Champion Health and Human Rights
The world’s governing bodies have tasked a group of experts to expand the health and human rights of women, children and adolescents everywhere. The new working group aims to generate high-level political support and technical […]