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Lured by hope, trapped by lies: Healing after being trafficked
Human Rights
Eight years ago, Maria left Caracas, Venezuela, driven by dwindling opportunities and the hope of completing her veterinary studies. At just 21, she accepted an offer from an acquaintance who…
Human Rights
A number of high-profile media outlets in the UK recently targeted the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), a new religious movement inside Islam, on the basis of declarations…
Human Rights
Recalling his own experience living under dictatorship in Portugal, Mr. Guterres told participants at the Global Assembly of the international rights charity Amnesty International on Friday that the fight for…
Human Rights
In Gaza City, families living in tents reveal a shared, grim reality.Many have been forced to flee the fighting dozens of times. Most find themselves homeless and hungry while facing…
Christianity
An Israeli strike on July 17 hit the only Roman Catholic church in the Palestinian autonomous territory known as the Gaza Strip. It is the Holy Family Church, the Latin…
Human Rights
“The playing field is still far from level,” Mr. Türk said. In the past few years, topflight women’s sporting competitions have achieved increased global prominence with around a billion people…
Human Rights
Juliette Touma, the director of communications for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has visited Gaza several times during and before the war and has been reflecting on the…
Human Rights
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued 14th of Jully an emergency order to the country's government, and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the head of the State Medical and Biological…
Human Rights
The violence erupted two days after a Druze merchant was abducted on the highway to Damascus.The incident marks the latest episode of sectarian bloodshed in Syria, where fears among minority…
Human Rights
Threatened or actual tariff increases are largely focused on taxing imports into the United States and will make the products made by factories outside the country more expensive – a…
