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  • Court Bans Foreign Flags in Bosnian Serb Institutions

    Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court suspended a controversial law allowing Republika Srpska to display foreign country symbols alongside Republika Srpska symbols on public institutions, seals and official documents “In such a situation, the display of foreign state symbols alongside the symbols of the entity, with While the court did not explicitly mention which foreign state symbols were involved, statements from officials strongly indicate that they refer to the symbols of Serbia.

  • The U.K.'s Failure to Recognize Genocide

    Gregory Stanton Founding President Genocide Watch For years, the lawyers in the UK’s Foreign Office have policy to courts, and to the lawyers in the UK Foreign Office. UK Foreign Office lawyers’ refusal to use the word genocide until genocide is declared by a court means By ceding a monopoly on the term “genocide” to courts and Foreign Office lawyers, the UK Foreign Minister Foreign Office lawyers should be advising, rather than dictating, UK foreign policy.

  • Foreign Affairs demands probe of Nigerian massacres

    House Foreign Affairs Committee to Call for Probe of Nigerian Government Lack of Response Truth Nigeria human rights took a giant step forward on Tuesday (Feb. 6) with an action by the influential  House Foreign “Abuja is now on notice that the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S.

  • What's Behind Attacks on Foreigners in South Africa?

    About two million foreigners live in South Africa and a majority of them were born in other African countries What can be done to calm fears about foreigners working in the "rainbow nation"?

  • The UK's Failure to Recognize the Genocide in Sudan

    The Janjaweed militias were issued uniforms and became an official government force, renamed the "Rapid Their excuse is that “the UK holds the pen.” On the 28th of October 2024, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated that only an appropriate court may So long as the UK refuses to declare that the massacres in Sudan constitute genocide, the UK’s words The UK’s support for the UAE makes the UK complicit in the Sudanese genocide.  

  • Why are the UK and US still downplaying the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda?

    Yet in the UN security council the UK and US governments avoided the question of mass killing and saw Kovanda remembers a friendly arm taking him aside as UK diplomats told him such inflammatory language The UN had officially recognised the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi, she reminded them, and the council had and acolytes, who claimed misgivings clearly existed at the highest levels, throwing into doubt the “official disinformation handbook, it was dismissed by Human Rights Watch in 1994 as a smokescreen to distract foreign

  • Kurdish groups in UK complain of intimidation by Turkey

    People visiting Turkey from the UK say they have been questioned over their links to community groups Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Members of the Turkish and Kurdish community in the UK have accused The charity believes that the UK-based individuals have been targeted after photos of them attending Mehmet Ovayolu, of Ovayolu Law Office in Istanbul, said: “The main purpose is to frighten people away Foreign Office sources said officials consistently underlined the importance of treating all civilians

  • US’s & UK’s 1953 Iranian Coup: A Cautionary Tale

    Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and the 1953 US & UK-sponsored coup After the end of World War II, British officials persuaded their State Department and CIA counterparts in Washington that Mosaddegh and benefit from the lifting of international sanctions, the Iranian people would not be freed from official Any government that owes its rise to power to a foreign nation is inherently indebted, as such support primary responsibility of any government is to serve the well-being of its people, not the interests of foreign

  • 'Quite frankly terrifying': How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK

    Shemirani told the crowd: “Our government has declared war on the people of the UK.” human trafficking, holds marches in cities around the UK. references to “Pizzagate”, an unsubstantiated QAnon precursor that claimed several high-ranking Democrat officials By contrast, QAnon has been confined to the fringes of the UK political scene. out of an earlier conspiracy, “Pizzagate”, which suggested that a paedophile ring involving senior officials

  • UK and France Asylum Deal - Human Rights violations?

    for ‘one in, one out’ scheme to end 6 Feb 2026, The Guardian, Diane Taylor The UN has called on the UK detention and staged a peaceful protest against the scheme while detained, which was responded to by Home Office A woman from Yemen, who said she had been enslaved since the age of three, was told by the Home Office The UK and France must listen, act now, and stop the harm they are causing.” A Home Office spokesperson said: “We are confident of the legal basis for this pilot which complies fully

  • Foreign Students Attacked in India Over Ramadan Prayer

    Foreign students attacked over Muslims prayers at Indian university By Al Jazeera Staff At least four foreign students have been injured after a Hindu far-right mob allegedly stormed a university hostel “Two foreign students were injured in the clash. “These are foreign students and when you go abroad, you must learn cultural sensitivity.

  • Germany to Deport 4 Foreign Residents for Pro-Palestine Activism

    In partnership with The Intercept Berlin’s immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign Two, for example, are accused of calling a police officer “fascist” — insulting an officer, which is Two are accused of grabbing an officers’ or another protesters’ arm in an attempt to stop arrests at one of the four whose deportation order included a charge — the accusation that he called a police officer Department for the Interior and Sport exercises technical and administrative supervision over the State Office

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