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Stop funding projects that exacerbate climate change, human rights violations! – CSO to AfDB

B & FT Online 02 Jun 2022
Civil society organisations are calling on the African Development Bank (AfDB) to stop funding projects that exacerbate the climate crisis and damage the environment, causing human rights violations ... This approach to development has led to negative impacts on communities from AfDB projects, including human rights, labour and environmental harm.
photo: AP / Salvador Melendez, File
FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, center, listens to his national anthem prior to his annual address at Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 2021.
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El Salvador accused of human rights violations under president Nayib Bukele

The Guardian 02 Jun 2022
The claims from Amnesty International come amid a security crackdown with almost 2% of the country’s adults in prison Amnesty International has accused El Salvador ’s government of committing “massive human rights violations” during an extraordinary security crackdown that has seen more than 36,000 people arrested in just over two months ... .
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Interview: 'Xinjiang Police Files' Hack and Its Significance

Beijing News 02 Jun 2022
ambassador in Geneva and repeatedly, I raised the gross human rights violations happening in Xinjiang and the need for her individually and her office to speak out and address these terrible human rights violations that were taking place at the time.
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El Salvador: President Bukele engulfs the country in a human rights crisis after three years ...

Amnesty 02 Jun 2022
Over the past few weeks, an Amnesty International crisis response team has meticulously documented 28 cases of human rights violations involving 34 people, interviewing victims and their families, human rights organizations, journalists, people currently or formerly involved in the administration of justice, and community leaders.
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PTI asks UN, rights body to take notice of ‘excesses’ against workers

Dawn 02 Jun 2022
Drawing attention of the United Nations Special Procedures Mechanisms to human rights violations allegedly committed by the federal and provincial governments, along with law-enforcement agencies, Ms Mazari demanded an independent and impartial investigation into these “state excesses and human rights violations”.
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Russia Says Planning Domestic ‘Alternative’ to European Rights Court

Moscow Times 02 Jun 2022
Filing a complaint through the ECHR was one of the only ways that Russians could seek justice for political persecution and human rights violations, and the court had ordered Russia to pay out millions of euros to plaintiffs for rights violations over the years ... Human rights.
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At least 18 have died in Salvadoran police custody amid crackdown – Amnesty

FX Empire 02 Jun 2022
During a speech marking his third year on Wednesday, Bukele assured that his government was on the verge of “winning the war against the gangs” and questioned the countries and international organizations that have accused the government of abuses of authority and human rights violations.
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At least 18 have died in Salvadoran police custody amid crackdown - Amnesty

Reuters 02 Jun 2022
But London-based Amnesty accused the Salvadoran authorities of committing "massive human rights violations" in the gang crackdown, including arbitrary arrests, violations of due process, torture and mistreatment.
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Amnesty Urges Croatia Not To Extradite Pussy Riot Activist to Turkmenistan

Balkan Insight 02 Jun 2022
... face a risk of serious human rights violations ... “Interpol warrants have been notoriously abused by a number of authoritarian regimes and countries with appalling human rights records to try to silence activists and those who speak out about human rights violations,” she said.
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Beijing Criticises US-New Zealand Joint Statement, Threatens NZ Trade

The Epoch Times 02 Jun 2022
... that expressed “grave concerns” on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights violation record and its current bit to expand influence in the Pacific region.
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Mali: Deadly convoy attack tragic reminder of threats to peacekeepers

Beijing News 02 Jun 2022
Rights violations increase. MINUSMA this week published its quarterly human rights report which showed that 812 cases of violations and abuses were recorded in the first three months of the year ... Some of these operations have resulted in serious allegations of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, according to the report.
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Pakistan: Khan-led PTI seeks UN probe into protest crackdowns

Khaleejtimes 02 Jun 2022
... these ‘state excesses’ and human rights violations, The Express Tribune reported.
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US govt 'biggest producer of terrorism within or outside America,' victims around the world should sue: experts

People Daily 02 Jun 2022
In response to a question on whether the Office of the High Commissioner will investigate the US' human rights violations, including racial problems and the gun control issue, UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet said that they have presented a report at the Human Rights ...
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President House to invite members of AJK Legislative Assembly to discuss Indian atrocities in IIOJK

Urdu Point 02 Jun 2022
He called upon the international human rights organizations and the United Nations to take serious note of the human rights violations being committed by the Indian Security Forces against Muslims of the IIOJK and other minorities in India ... ....
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Will our “war on nature” ever end?

New Statesman 02 Jun 2022
“Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential for his well-being and enjoyment of basic human rights” ... These environmental changes have left impoverished households vulnerable to trafficking and human rights violations, including forced labour, withholding of wages and slavery-like working conditions.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (May 27, 2022) President Joe Biden Jr. delivers the graduation address as the guest speaker during the U.S. Naval Academy's Class of 2022 graduation and commissioning ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
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