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[TRENDING NEWS] In Border Crisis, Europe’s Unsavory Migration Deals Come Home

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Author: BY MAX FISHER - Publish Date: November 12, 2021 at 11:59PM Europe has long paid other nations to keep refugees away from its borders. Now, Belarus wants something, too, and has brought migrants right to Europe’s door to get it.

[TRENDING NEWS] Israel se dispone a silenciar a organizaciones esenciales de la sociedad civil palestina

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Author: BY ZENA AGHA - Publish Date: November 10, 2021 at 12:52AM Estos activistas y defensores de los derechos humanos no son terroristas.

[TRENDING NEWS] Así es como las mujeres latinoamericanas podemos seguir luchando por el derecho al aborto y ganar

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Author: BY XIMENA CASAS - Publish Date: November 3, 2021 at 01:13AM La Marea Verde ha conseguido victorias inéditas en la región y podría tener éxito en más lugares si nos organizamos a partir de acciones legales.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Administration Tries Again to End Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy

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Author: BY EILEEN SULLIVAN - Publish Date: October 30, 2021 at 12:39AM A court ordered the administration in August to reinstate the program, which forces some migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases are pending.

[TRENDING NEWS] Erdogan Threatens to Expel 10 Western Ambassadors

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Author: BY SAFAK TIMUR AND CARLOTTA GALL - Publish Date: October 24, 2021 at 12:57AM The move follows a statement from the envoys demanding the release of a prominent philanthropist jailed since 2017.

[TRENDING NEWS] An Asylum-Seeker’s Wrenching Decision: Stay on the Run or Save His Child’s Life?

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Author: BY ANDREW HIGGINS - Publish Date: October 7, 2021 at 01:01AM As a humanitarian crisis grows on Poland’s border, where the government has taken a hard line on migrants, one father had to decide whether to save an ailing baby girl and risk being expelled.

[TRENDING NEWS] Sri Lankan Minister Accused of Abusing Political Prisoners Resigns

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Author: BY AANYA WIPULASENA AND MUJIB MASHAL - Publish Date: September 16, 2021 at 02:02AM Claims that the minister in charge of prison affairs had barged into jail while drunk and forced Tamil inmates to kneel at gunpoint come amid U.N. discussions on the country’s human rights record.

[TRENDING NEWS] Will the World Formally Recognize the Taliban?

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Author: BY STEVEN ERLANGER - Publish Date: September 1, 2021 at 11:46PM The extremist group back in charge of Afghanistan has been a pariah to much of the world for its legacy of brutality, and the prospects for greater acceptance remain unclear.

[TRENDING NEWS] Cubans Want Much More Than an End to the U.S. Embargo

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Author: BY ARMANDO CHAGUACEDA AND COCO FUSCO - Publish Date: August 8, 2021 at 02:00AM They should have the right to create a society by and for themselves.

[TRENDING NEWS] Charged With Treason, a Genocide Survivor Opts to Fight, Not Flee

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Author: BY SETH MYDANS - Publish Date: August 6, 2021 at 11:33PM As a child, Theary Seng escaped Cambodia’s killing fields. After returning there as a human rights advocate, she angered the country’s strongman leader. But she refuses to be driven away again.

[TRENDING NEWS] Macron to the French: Vaccinate or Else

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Author: BY ROGER COHEN - Publish Date: July 15, 2021 at 12:39AM Reversing himself, the president gambles that the birthplace of individual liberties will accept coercion from the top down.

[TRENDING NEWS] Egypt Denies Times Report That Officials Sexually Abused Women

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Author: BY MONA EL-NAGGAR - Publish Date: July 11, 2021 at 04:35AM The government rejected the accounts of women who said they were sexually assaulted by Egyptian security and justice officials during searches.

[TRENDING NEWS] Stripped, Groped and Violated: Egyptian Women Describe Abuse by the State

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Author: BY MONA EL-NAGGAR, YOUSUR AL-HLOU AND ALIZA AUFRICHTIG - Publish Date: July 6, 2021 at 03:08AM Speaking publicly for the first time, these Egyptian women say they were sexually abused during invasive searches and medical exams by government authorities.

[TRENDING NEWS] Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed by Mass Protests

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Author: BY JOHN ELIGON - Publish Date: July 3, 2021 at 12:58AM Eswatini, the former Swaziland, has been ruled by high-living kings since its independence in 1968. Its impoverished citizens say they’ve had enough.

[TRENDING NEWS] She Was Deeply Moved by Refugees’ Stories. So She Told Them in Song.

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Author: BY BILL FRISKICS-WARREN - Publish Date: June 8, 2021 at 12:20AM “Song to a Refugee,” an inadvertent concept album from the singer and songwriter Diana Jones, strives to center the voices of migrant women.

[TRENDING NEWS] U.N. Rights Council to Investigate Israeli-Palestinian Violence

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Author: BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Publish Date: May 28, 2021 at 09:33AM The United Nations’ top human rights body voted on Thursday to open an inquiry into abuses and possible war crimes committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories during recent hostilities.

[TRENDING NEWS] Democrats, Growing More Skeptical of Israel, Pressure Biden

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Author: BY NICHOLAS FANDOS AND CATIE EDMONDSON - Publish Date: May 18, 2021 at 07:33AM Among Democrats in Congress, attitudes toward Israel have grown more critical as the party base expresses concern about the human rights of Palestinians.

[TRENDING NEWS] They Were Promised a Socialist Paradise, and Ended Up in ‘Hell’

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Author: BY CHOE SANG-HUN - Publish Date: May 5, 2021 at 11:00AM Lee Tae-kyung has campaigned tirelessly in South Korea to share the story of the 93,000 people who migrated from Japan to North Korea from 1959 to 1984 and were forced to stay.

[TRENDING NEWS] It’s Time to Rethink the Olympics

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Author: BY KURT STREETER - Publish Date: April 12, 2021 at 11:01AM Displacements, human rights violations, health concerns and overspending have dogged the Games in recent years. The Olympic mission is a mess in need of long-term fixing.

[TRENDING NEWS] U.S. Joins Allies to Sanction China Over Treatment of Uyghurs

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Author: BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Publish Date: March 23, 2021 at 07:00AM Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said that the United States and several of its allies were sanctioning Chinese officials because of “serious human rights abuses” against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang.