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How the scheme for transferring migrants through Belarus to Germany works
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.
Council of Europe
The Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe over the last years has been preparing a new legal instrument on the use of coercion in psychiatry. The instrument is…
Human Rights
Falun Gong demonstrating in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington DC. - William Neuheisel, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Andy Vermaut hopes that organcide can especially raise awareness…
America
President Biden “a Good Catholic” Says Pope Francis; Buddhist Reality and Freedom From Illusion; Ásatrú, Viking Religion on Rise in Iceland; Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandates Rejected by Supreme Court;…
Council of Europe
Human rights according to the United Nations, are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings – they are not granted by any state. These universal rights are…
Council of Europe
The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted by groups and experts within the forming Council of Europe in 1949-1950, based on an earlier draft produced by the European Movement.…
America
US President Joe Biden had an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29, Reuters reported. The agency notes that it took place against the backdrop…
Council of Europe
The European Convention of Human Rights, lists out basic rights and freedoms which can never be breached by the States, that have ratified the Convention. These include such rights as:…
