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First Person: Journeys of resilience in Ukraine
Manfred Profazi, who is based in Vienna, Austria, has been touring some of the regions in Ukraine which have been most seriously affected by over 13 months of conflict following…
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The simple truth about ECT: No one should be given shock treatment
Peter R. Breggin MD is a lifelong reformer known as “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his criticism of biological psychiatry and his promotion of more effective, empathic, and ethical forms…
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ECT – what the United Nations says about Electroshock
Electroshock - In February 2013, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Mr Juan Méndez, when speaking amongst other things, ECT (electroconvulsive therapy o electroshock) recommended an “absolute ban on…
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Guatemala: Türk alarmed by reprisals against anti-corruption officials
Mr. Türk’s warning comes amid the reported harassment and prosecution of justice officials involved with the UN-backed International Commission against Impunity (CICIG), including, most recently, former Commissioner Francisco Dall’Anese. The UN rights chief called…
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Greater protection needed for Palestinians amid rising violence, annexation threat
“The wave of deadly violence sweeping through the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year is the inexorable consequence of an acquisitive and repressive occupation with no end…
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Patriarchal and synodal message on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews
On the tenth of March, the institutions of the Bulgarian state and our public commemorate the day when, in 1943, in the darkest hours of the Second World War, when…
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Former Eugenics leader Ernst Rüdin on trial in Romania
The International Mock Trial on Human Rights of Ernst Rüdin was held in the plenary hall of the Romanian Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday 22nd March.
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United Nations was asked to take cognizance of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Balochistan
Human rights activists called upon the UN to investigate human rights violations perpetrated by Pakistani security forces in Balochistan
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An Orthodox priest’s wife is accused along with Putin of deporting Ukrainian children
The International Criminal Court in The Hague accused Putin and the children’s ombudsman of the President of the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, of war crimes. An arrest warrant has been…
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RUSSIA, Six years and five months of prison for a Jehovah’s Witness
Konstantin Sannikov sentenced to six years and five months of prison