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  • Brazil Indigenous group sues Bolsonaro at ICC for ‘genocide’

    /Reuters] Far-right president has led ‘an explicit, systematic’ anti-Indigenous policy since taking office far-right president has led “an explicit, systematic and intentional anti-Indigenous policy” since taking office Official figures released on Friday show deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached near-record levels

  • Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide

    Biden reflected his administration’s commitment to human rights, a pillar of its foreign policy. Since taking office, Mr. Biden has kept Mr. they don’t want to be too cozy with him either,” said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, the director of the Ankara office further over the genocide designation, said Asli Aydintasbas, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign “It did not change with more than 20 countries officially recognizing it, including Germany,” he said

  • Hamas Health Ministry Says Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens

    The Israeli military has yet to embark on the sweeping ground offensive that government officials have Israel has dismissed those warnings in public, but some military officials have privately  conceded that The office of Mr. Netanyahu said he had spoken with Steve Witkoff, Mr. But an Israeli official familiar with the talks said there was little expectation of a breakthrough. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.  

  • Why the UN Fails to Prevent Mass Atrocities

    For instance, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) warned in 2020 that violence targeting While 2017 violence took place in a highly volatile context, FARDC military officers and generals have Hence, official records indicate fighting for the sake of fighting, while leaving a vacuum in terms of They accuse the Banyamulenge of being “foreigners” or “immigrants”. Failing to account for the presence of foreign armed groups, consequences of forced displacement coupled

  • CNDIH Flags Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances

    arbitrary and prolonged detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and alleged abuses by police officers The commission additionally reported alleged abuses by police officers, including the use of firearms Lawmakers questioned Nyaboho about disciplinary measures taken against police officers accused of abuses Nyaboho said some officers had been imprisoned while others had been dismissed from the police force. “For the cases involving the police officers concerned, there are two types of sanctions: some have been

  • Nepal: Conflict victims seek UN help for justice

    Referring to the remarks of Minister of Foreign Affairs during the 76th session of the United Nations "Let us remind you, earlier in February 2019, the former foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali had made a "We, therefore would like to request you to take with a pinch of salt what our foreign minister has remarked

  • Mexico City police evict Indigenous activists

    Paramedics tend to the wounded after a midnight raid on occupied government offices in Mexico City on They celebrated the third anniversary of the taking of the offices last Thursday. Among the injured were a 13-year-old girl who fainted after being kicked in the head by three officers “The officers came all the way up to the doors of the House of the People,” said García. He and the other activists called on the government to expropriate the occupied offices and turn them

  • Burundi: Human Rights Violations Persist

    arbitrary and prolonged detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and alleged abuses by police officers The commission additionally reported alleged abuses by police officers, including the use of firearms Lawmakers questioned Nyaboho about disciplinary measures taken against police officers accused of abuses Nyaboho said some officers had been imprisoned while others had been dismissed from the police force. “For the cases involving the police officers concerned, there are two types of sanctions: some have been

  • Dozens Killed in Saudi-Led Coalition Air Raid on Yemen Prison

    center via AFP] Dozens of people have been killed in an air raid on a prison in northern Yemen, a Houthi official According to the UK-based charity Save the Children, at least three children were killed in the Hodeidah terrorist acts pursued by the Houthi group,” he told US special envoy Hans Grundberg, according to the official

  • Jordan Arrests, Harasses Pro-Palestine Protesters

    She said that authorities took her to the Criminal Investigations Unit, where an officer questioned her After being called into an interrogation room, he said he briefly laughed, after which an officer responded The officer grilled him about his social media activity, including a call for a general strike in support 27-year-old activist said that after attending several protests, she was summoned by an intelligence officer She said that the officer grilled her about her social media activity and attendance at protests, and

  • Christian villagers say Army helicopters fired on them

    Foreign Service officer and the founder of Genocide Watch. Security officials drew criticism for failing to stop the blasphemy murder of college student Deborah

  • ‘UN should protect Indian minorities'- Juan Mendez

    It includes constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials, or private individuals. Al Jazeera: Do you think that the world, especially the US, the UK, and the European countries have paid I think the UN should have done more since 2004 when the office on Prevention of Genocide was created

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