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Vietnam’s authorities systematically trample on human rights by punishing brave bloggers like Nguyen Lan Thang for expressing their views about the government.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Voice of Democracy has served as an important mainstay of independent investigative reporting and objective criticism for years, hun Sen’s closure of VOD is a devastating blow to media freedom in the country and will have an impact across Cambodian society.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hope Neil Young will remember, he’s said some outrageous things too, treat others the way you want to be treated. If [Whoopi’s] wrong (and I think she probably is), it’ll come to light as soon as we engage in a conversation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We keep moving, i just hope people come to their senses. I’m a voice crying out in the wilderness, but I was put here because God saved me. What you’re seeing on planet Earth is spiritual warfare… The grace of God, it’s a free gift. So boy, if you’re on the wrong side of this thing, you really ought to rethink it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I hope that people would quit accusing each other, we’re all guilty of sin. We all make mistakes. Therefore, you have no excuse to pass judgment on someone else. That’s what people do. They find a mistake you made when you were 18 years old or something you said on the internet long ago. Then they go after you with a vengeance. You’re condemning yourself by passing judgment on others. Do you think you’ll escape God’s judgment? In a culture of accusations, shame and condemnation, I’m just trying to speak out about the word of God… Just forgive each other and move on for crying out loud.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Apostle Paul told Timothy that whoever lives a godly life in Christ will be persecuted, so we take persecution as a badge of honor. It doesn’t bother us at all. We just take it in and say, ‘I don’t hold anyone against it.’ Instead, we focus on telling others about Jesus and keep moving.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No regrets at all – none, i just went on. I never called AE and said, ‘What are you doing?’ I never said a word when they came to visit me about 10 days after this all went down. I said, ‘Guys, did y’all ever hear from me with some kind of irate phone call? ‘Cause you were firing me?’ They said, ‘Mr. Robertson, you never said a word.’ … I quoted a Bible verse that dealt with homosexual behavior. I just quoted the Bible verse that God had written through Paul the Apostle by the power of the Holy Spirit… I didn’t dream it off the top of my head. It didn’t go any further than that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The ones who attacked me, I didn’t hold it against them, they asked me a question about a particular sin, homosexual behavior. And they asked if I believed it was a sin. I thought to myself, that’s a weird question to ask someone, but I just quoted a Bible verse… I quoted what God had to say about that sin and nine other sins, but it was in the list of sins… As we were doing ‘Duck Dynasty,’ the upper crowd at AE decided to drop the ax on me without first looking into what went down.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He and the drummer are the last ones standing – I told Gibbons, ‘Let's face it, dude – we're getting old,’.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I pass on, it'll be up to you two – I wouldn't mind it if you throw on a little ZZ Top in there, i'd rather have that than a church choir.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At what point is it appropriate to make your point? I just kind of wanted to dig into that, i would hope we could see the flag and realize even in our differences that it kind of pulls us together although, we see maybe it doesn’t. I’ll still stand [during the National Anthem]cause that’s what I’m going to do and just because someone -- especially our guests that came in -- just because they don’t’ doesn’t make me dislike or hate them at all. I can understand it better.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s not easy having these conversations and actually putting yourself out there [but] I think Americans kind of want that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When it comes to issues in the African American community, why can’t we be the leaders and the champions of that as well? And use our voice and platform and do it?'.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The EU had an important opportunity to make real changes through the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
During the (former U.S. President Barack) Obama administration, pressure on rights connected with TPP (trade) negotiations helped the cause of human rights activists and political dissidents, the early visit of Prime Minister (Nguyen Xuan) Phuc in 2017 to the Trump White House saw human rights completely dropped from the agenda.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Arakan Army's hard to fathom that a government and its military could actually commit crimes against humanity against two different ethnic groups -- the Rohingya and Rakhine State -- in one province but somehow Myanmar has managed to do it, and now they need to be held accountable for it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Myanmar military onslaught has increasingly targeted civilians with indiscriminate artillery attacks and aerial bombings that amount to soldiers wantonly retaliating against populations living near spots where Arakan Army has staged ambushes or IED attacks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Myanmar's military, and its accomplices in Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government, are taking advantage of the world's distraction with Covid-19 to press forward with military atrocities to try and break the back of the Arakan Army resistance, and they don't care who they kill or maim to do it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Covid-19 pandemic has only intensified the misery of the Rohingya confined in Myanmar and in camps in Bangladesh, the Malaysian government can both protect against the spread of the virus and ensure that those risking their lives at sea are rescued and given a chance to seek asylum.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is the start of the downward slide for what little remains of political and press freedom in Singapore.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is little doubt that South Korea's move has condemned these two men to torture and likely execution, and for that reason, there should have been a much higher standard of evidence required before sending them back.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
She's done nothing wrong and should be immediately released and allowed to undertake the consultations she planned with the Malaysian government and civil society groups.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's ridiculous to say there is any sort of serious national investigation into these crimes. It's laughable, we have total impunity that continues to surround those who are involved in this.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These are supposed to be the rules of the road and both customers and regulators should insist social media platforms make the rules known and effectively police them, failure to do so opens the door to serious abuses.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Otto should have never been arrested in the first place and Kim is responsible for that decision and everything that subsequently happened.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Nhat was in Thailand for one reason only, to apply for asylum and someone obviously didn't want him to - so now the Thai government should launch an immediate investigation to find out what happened to him.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
President Trump should raise human rights concerns with Kim Jong Un, but I would be very surprised if he does, he will not let human rights stand in the way of a deal, that's for sure.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This group should be allowed to appeal their deportation in a full and fair hearing in a court of law rather than be hustled on to a plane and sent to an uncertain fate back in China.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In one fell swoop, President Obama has jettisoned what remained of U.S. leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam - and basically gotten nothing for it.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In one fell swoop, President Obama has jettisoned what remained of U.S. leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam – and basically gotten nothing for it.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Let's hope that someone on his team realizes that respect for human rights must be a core U.S. foreign policy value, and not just a reality show line.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Cruz trusts God. Cruz trusts James Madison. That's why I trust Cruz, you know what Iowa, that trumps Trump.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ted Cruz loves God, he loves James Madison and he's a strict constitutionalist. You know what Ted Cruz understands, god raises these empires up. It is God who brings them down.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When a fellow like me looks at the landscape and sees the depravity, the perversion -- redefining marriage and telling us that marriage is not between a man and a woman? Come on Iowa! it is nonsense. It is evil. It's wicked. It's sinful.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Thai government needs to show its sincerity about prosecuting traffickers by seriously stepping up efforts to protect witnesses who will point fingers at the corrupt officials and Rohingya trafficking gangs.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The fact that the top policeman investigating these cases fled Thailand because of a lack of protection afforded to him and his family shows just how poor government protection schemes have been.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A veil of silence has fallen over Sombath's case, international NGOs working in Laos say they are sympathetic but they can't talk about it.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think that the government is not doing what it needs to do to make sure that all Burmese citizens are able to vote everywhere they are, these people are largely going to be disenfranchised because the system doesn't encourage their participation.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This release continues Vietnam's cynical practice of releasing high profile dissidents from prison directly into forced exile, with immediate departure from the country being the price of their freedom.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They set out the potential for discrimination on religious grounds and pose the possibility for serious communal tension, now that these laws are on the books, the concern is how they are implemented and enforced.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Pakistan’s blasphemy law has been used in a way to target religious minorities, there has been violence perpetrated against people accused of blasphemy. When facing that kind of persecution, many have no choice but to leave.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They have done very little to improve the protection from abuse that migrant workers face. They have done precious little, frankly, to merit an upgrade.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Nothing that Amos Yee said or posted should ever have been considered criminal -- much less merit incarceration, the dismal state of Singapore's respect for free expression can be seen in the decision to impose the criminal justice system on outspoken 16-year-olds.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Human Rights Watch's going to be very important for front-line states to provide full and unimpeded access to the UNHCR and assess whether they are eligible, the one-year deadline is only going to happen if there are impartial assessments( of refugee status claims) by international agencies like the UNHCR.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
One of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country’s international reputation.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Singapore judicial system’s shameful recourse to using torture – in the form of caning – to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country’s international reputation.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Law Society of Singapore have not been enamored of Ravi for quite some time and have sought opportunities to knock him down, and because of Ravi's medical condition, they have had this latest chance to do so.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
PM Najib's government wants to push him off the political process.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a tally sheet exercise, with the Thai side trying to figure how many cases and how many officials the U.S. government wants prosecuted in order to give an upgrade, thailand's efforts this year have been a lot of talk, shuffling of assignments at government inter-agency committees, but little substantive action to effectively end trafficking.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Never before has a group of villagers successfully sued the government to require they clean up an industrial site, success here could lead to further lawsuits pressing for responsibility for industrial poisoning of communities in seriously affected areas like Map Tha Phut in Rayong, and the gold mines in Loei and Phichit provinces.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a test case for whether rule of law really means anything in Thailand when the poor and powerless take on a state agency that has been negligent, if the (Pollution Control Department) can defy an order from the Supreme Administrative Court without facing severe consequences, it spreads the word that government agencies can do what they want.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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