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Russian Ministry of Justice recognizes film about ‘Zionists’ filmed in USSR extremist
Human Rights
On November 8 RIA Novosti reported the Soviet documentary film "Secret and Clear. Aims and Deeds of the Zionists" *, filmed in 1973, is included in the list of extremist…
ECHR
Sikh Festival Draws 100,000 to Yuba City, Calif.; Texas Voters Amend State Constitution, Expand Religious Liberty; Judge: Religion Exempt From LGBTQ Bias Liability; U.S. Supreme Court On Religious Liberty Cases;…
Human Rights
Photo credits: SM/Borkena – TPLF militia On 4 November, the EU High Representative issued a declaration about the situation in Ethiopia in which he stressed that “the EU is particularly…
America
Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch Maduro Atrocities to Receive International Judicial Scrutiny (Washington, DC) – The decision of…
Human Rights
Anatoliy Sharij, a Ukrainian videoblogger, has been on the run in Europe since he left his country in 2011 to save his life which was threatened by neo-Nazis. In the…
Human Rights
© UNODC Dubai (United Arab Emirates), 4 November – Malaika Oringo is a survivor of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) from Uganda. When she was 15 and her mother died, a…
Council of Europe
In a surprise move, the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe shoved the hot potato of the possible new legal instrument on the use of coercive measures in…
Human Rights
At the Polish-German border: police detained migrants who entered Germany illegally. The transfer of illegal migrants through Belarus and Poland to Germany does not stop: more than 6,000 people have…
Human Rights
France last month accused the family of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of being behind human trafficking, "cleverly organized" towards the EU through Turkey and Dubai, AFP reported. "This trafficking in…
Human Rights
Effective action and strong leadership are essential to end child labour by 2025, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
