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Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Child marriage is rampant in Zimbabwe, especially among Indigenous apostolic churches, an evangelical group that mixes Christian beliefs with traditional cultures and has millions of followers across the country.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Human Rights Watch deployment of border agents on horseback against Haitian migrants on September 19, 2021, stems from abusive and racially discriminatory immigration policies by the administration of President Joe Biden.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Israeli government has demonstrated an intent to maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the occupied Palestinians territory, that intent has been coupled with systematic oppression of Palestinians and inhumane acts committed against them. When these three elements occur together, they amount to the crime of apartheid.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
ASEAN must make it abundantly clear that he is not there as a representative of the Myanmar people, who totally reject his barbaric junta. min Aung Hlaing, who faces international sanctions for his role in military atrocities and the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, should not be welcomed at an intergovernmental gathering to address a crisis he created.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Ortega is the only Latin American leader who has not made a single public announcement on how his government would address the pandemic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Regardless of the verdicts in the case, Philippine authorities need to apprehend the several dozen suspects still at large.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Genital normalizing surgeries such as clitoral' reductions' and vaginoplasties instill deep shame and sexual trauma in young children when they can not make a decision for themselves.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Under President Xi, the government has further tightened control over Christianity in President Xi broad efforts to' Sinicize' religion or' adopt Chinese characteristics' -- in other words, to ensure that religious groups support the government and the Chinese Communist Party, the shutdown of a Protestant church in Chengdu epitomizes the Xi Jinping government's relentless assault on religious freedom in China.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
While activists have remained steadfastly committed to protecting their constituents and continuing their work, the government has failed to uphold its international human rights commitments.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Australian government's failure to address serious abuses appears to be a deliberate policy to deter further asylum seekers from arriving in the country by boat.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Months, and in some cases over a year, later, suspects have not been charged with any crimes and families cannot locate them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Settlement businesses depend on and benefit from Israel's unlawful confiscation of Palestinian land and other resources, and facilitate the functioning and growth of settlements.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since then, the police, the military, and the corrections department have all denied knowledge of Thanakorn's whereabouts to his family and lawyers, raising grave concerns for his safety.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The attack on the factory in the Sanaa governorate, which appeared to be producing only civilian goods, killed one person, and was in apparent violation of international humanitarian law.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Despite government claims that the death penalty is necessary to confront terrorism, only a small percentage of those executed were linked to militancy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The government has also tolerated and collaborated with pro-government armed groups of civilians.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The baseless conviction... exposes the extreme deterioration of the rule of law in Venezuela, the trials involved egregious due process violations and failed to provide evidence linking the accused to a crime.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It shows that you can actually achieve justice here in Africa.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Police are torturing criminal suspects to get them to confess to crimes and courts are convicting people who confessed under torture.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Prosecutors presented no evidence other than testimony from a police major in the National Security Sector of the Interior Ministry to support their accusation that the defendants planned to use violence to overthrow the government.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Security officers from multiple agencies raided homes, buildings, and shops, carting away money, cell phones, and other goods, they harassed and detained thousands -- including journalists, refugees, Kenyan citizens and international aid workers -- without charge, and in appalling conditions for periods well beyond the 24-hour legal limit.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This provision appears tailor-made to suppress organized gatherings to prevent evictions for mortgage default and rent arrears.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Afghan journalists face threats from all sides: government officials exploiting weak legal protections to intimidate reporters and editors to compel them not to cover controversial topics; the Taliban and other insurgent groups using threats and violence to compel reporting they consider favorable; and police and justice officials letting threats, assaults and even murders go uninvestigated and unprosecuted.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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