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Amhara voices of despair from East Wellega
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…
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Venezuela: International Criminal Court Investigation Opens
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
Ukrainian neo-Nazis threaten a Ukrainian blogger in Spain
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
Enhancing Inter-regional Cooperation to Combat Trafficking in Persons by Air in Eastern Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf States
© 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
The Human Rights problem of the 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…
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How the scheme for transferring migrants through Belarus to Germany works
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…
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France has accused Lukashenko’s family of trafficking in migrants
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
Act now to stamp out child labour by 2025: FAO chief
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
International Shock: A Eugenics Ghost is still alive and kicking around in the 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
[Press Release] Human rights defender launches “Organcide”, a new notion for Chinese organ theft practices
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…