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    Jun 25

    Human Rights Watch will be releasing a new report on Monday June 29th at 10 am EDT on the plight of Canadian ISIS suspects and their families detained in northeast Syria. DM me for the embargoed report and a link to the virtual press conference.

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  2. Jun 24

    authorities should immediately release blogger & activist Mohamad al-Bokari, who is being tortured & beaten in detention & coerced to “confess that he is gay.” His crime? Posting a video calling for equal rights, including for people.

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  3. Jun 23

    The RAMCO workers’ strike was unprecedented in & demonstrated power of collective action. This interest-based mobilization may be best way to dismantle a corrupt system & achieve social justice, starting w/ abolishing .

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  4. Jun 23

    in come from US failure to protect Black and brown people’s human rights to health, adequate standard of living, clean water, to be free from racial segregation and from discriminatory policing

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  5. Jun 23

    What’s at the rotten core of ’s death and from ? US failure to end structural racism says : [please use attached photo]

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  6. Jun 22

    Nabeel Rajab was released from prison under a 2017 law that allows courts to impose alternative sentences after detainees serve half their sentence. While we are happy that Rajab is released, he should never have been arrested in the 1st place.

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  7. Jun 22

    authorities arbitrarily detained and abused a woman, Maha al-Mutairi, who exposed in a video how police allegedly raped and beat her. Maha’s speaking out sparked an international wave of solidarity.

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  8. Jun 22

    2-What did the Turkish authorities do when three medical chambers voiced concerns about Turkey’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic on social media? Put them under criminal investigation

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    Jun 21

    RT : Au , ce 21 juin est la Journée nationale des peuples . Le gouvernement devrait agir davantage pour faire respecter leurs droits. Thread (en anglais).

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    Jun 21

    Today is National Indigenous People’s Day in and while the country enjoys a global reputation as a defender of human rights the government needs to do better to respect and uphold the rights of Indigenous communities in Canada.

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  11. Jun 21

    Amid reports of covid-19 outbreaks in at least three detention facilities, poor conditions threaten the mental and physical health of prisoners.

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    Jun 19

    In about 24 hours between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on Greenwood, a successful black economic hub in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and burned it to the ground. This is rare footage of "Black Wall Street" before the massacre

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  13. Jun 20

    : In addition to the unprovoked beatings, excessive force, and arbitrary arrests during the protests, police are also actively endangering people’s health during the pandemic.

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  14. Jun 19

    Nearly two decades after 9/11, civil society takes stock of counterterrorism strategy and how to ensure efforts to make world safer don’t trample rights. Q&A with human rights leaders from around the world on best path forward. RSVP:

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    Jun 19

    With my colleague on Standpipe Hill, overlooking neighborhood in , where the 1921 race massacre took place. Read her report making the human rights argument in support of for survivors+descendants:

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  16. Jun 19

    The has made bold commitments to include & protect displaced people w . Yet, new research shows that displaced people w continue to face barriers accessing food and other basic services.

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    Jun 18

    celebrates the emancipation of the last large population of enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865. Federal, state, & local authorities need to take bold steps to reverse the harm done since, and they need to do that now.

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    Jun 18

    Honored to be in with colleagues + partners for commemorations tomorrow in the neighborhood - 99 years after the Tulsa race massacre, when a white mob burned down the economic hub known as + killed some 300 mostly Black people.

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  19. Jun 18

    Government forces are supposed to protect civilians not kill them. should effectively investigate and ensure justice for the killings of five civilians killings by security forces.

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    Jun 18

    How do we get closer to a world free of abuses? A new report lays out a landmark global treaty fighting violence and harassment at work, and dozens of promising examples of change.

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