Category: Human Rights in The world

06/02/2022 | Asia

China: Don’t Return 5 Refugees to North Korea

Don’t Send North Koreans Back to Horrific Prison Camp System June 24, 2017 (Seoul) – China should immediately release five North Korean refugees held in Chinese detention and agree not to return them to North Korea, where they would face grave danger, Human...

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06/02/2022 | Articles, Europe and Central Asia

France: Don’t ‘Normalize’ Emergency Powers

Proposed Measures Undermine Rights, Rule of Law June 27, 2017 (Paris) – The French government’s new counterterrorism bill would move some overly broad emergency powers into normal criminal and administrative law without adequate judicial safeguards Human Rights Watch...

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06/02/2022 | Asia

Iran: Free woman human rights defender Atena Daemi

2017-06-23 The Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD-IC) is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Atena Daemi from Tehran’s Evin prison. She must also be given immediate access to specialised medical care outside prison. Atena...

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06/02/2022 | Middle East and North Africa

Bahrain: UN event assesses violations of the right to freedom of expression and assembly

23 June 2017 On 21 June 2017, a panel discussion held on the sidelines of the 35th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, examined the criminalisation of peaceful expression in Bahrain. “Freedom of expression and assembly in Bahrain are currently under...

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06/02/2022 | Middle East and North Africa

Yemen: UN panel discusses the ongoing attacks on public freedoms during wartime

22 June 2017 On 20 June 2017, a panel discussion focused on the ongoing attacks on public freedoms in Yemen was held on the side lines of the 35th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council currently convening in Geneva. Participants at the panel of the side...

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06/02/2022 | Middle East and North Africa

Iraq: Kurdish journalist Bakhtiar Haddad killed in Mosul by explosive device

20-June-2017 Iraqi Kurdish journalist Bakhtiar Haddad died on 19 June 2017 after an explosive device went off in Mosul, injuring three French journalists at the same time. One of them, Stéphane Villeneuve, also died of his injuries, and another, Veronique Robert, is...

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06/02/2022 | North Amarica, Official Letters, Publications and reports

The Observatory sends an urgent message to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the speech of Mahmoud Abbas before the Human Rights Council

The Observatory sends an urgent message to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the speech of Mahmoud Abbas before the Human Rights Council Photos of the message sent to the Secretary...

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06/02/2022 | North Amarica, Official Letters

Urgent message to His Excellency the President of the United States of America Mr. Donald Trump Esquire

After Greetings.. Mr. President.. the news was published on the electronic newsletter and the Palestinian press close to the sites, which is called the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that Your Excellency have invited Mr. Abbas to visit the White House...

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06/02/2022 | Middle East and North Africa

The Arab Network for Media Crises (ANMC) rejects security interventions in the press and attempts to terrorize journalists

Cairo 24 June 2017 The Arab Network for Media Crises (ANMC) is following with great concern the terrible decline in the level of public freedoms, freedom of opinion, expression and press publication, and the practices of the security apparatus to confiscate...

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