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Botswana’s new president is a human rights lawyer on a mission
30 Jan 2025 17:41 GMT
… Five decades later, the former human rights lawyer leads one of Africa … Botswana that took on many human rights cases.
In 2006, Mr. … Mr. Boko’s experience with human rights eventually inspired him to go … be able to ride this Barack Obama-like wave of excitement …
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One more broken promise to close Guantanamo
03 Feb 2025 08:00 GMT
… the United Nations and various human rights organisations, media reports, documentaries, books … of extrajudicial detention, torture and human rights abuses worldwide. The prison’s … past 16 years. US President Barack Obama famously signed an executive order …
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Leonard Peltier belongs in jail
02 Feb 2025 20:41 GMT
… why no president including President Barack Obama has seen fit to endorse … ’s manufactured persona as a “human rights activist.”
The evidence against Peltier …
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Syrian behind Caesar Act to reveal identity: ex-regime official
02 Feb 2025 15:50 GMT
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The individual who documented serious human rights abuses in Syria which led … snapshots proving torture and other human rights abuses.
Only six people were … Al-Arabiya, as he said Barack Obama and his administration must bear …
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N.J. advocates slam ICE raids, say Trump vilifies immigrants
02 Feb 2025 14:26 GMT
… of Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall University … to the administration of President Barack Obama, who was slapped with the …
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Inside the Kennedy family's vicious in-fighting, and how one death paved the way
01 Feb 2025 12:20 GMT
… US Rep. Joe Kennedy II, human rights activist Kerry Kennedy, filmmaker Rory … . Bettmann Archive
Former US President Barack Obama presented Ethel Kennedy with the …
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Jonathan Scott: How progressives lost rural Canada—and what they should do now
01 Feb 2025 08:41 GMT
… them.
On culture
In 2004, Barack Obama famously declared: “There’s not … in the moment.
Of course, human rights are non-negotiable. But is …
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Week in Review: Whiplash Over Federal Funding, Changes in Agency Leadership, New EEOC Priorities, and New K-12 Executive Order
01 Feb 2025 05:26 GMT
… in 2015 by former President Barack Obama. Her tenure lasted through the … laws, such as the Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibit discrimination and … the State level, the Illinois Human Rights Act still protects individuals from …
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Jonathan Cook: 30 Years of Middle East Lies
01 Feb 2025 02:50 GMT
… Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama. (Obama White House/ Pete … policy.
March 28, 2011: President Barack Obama delivering an address in Washington … believe that all the major human rights groups were wrong to conclude …
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Martin Luther King III addresses packed crowd at University Fireside Chat
31 Jan 2025 20:22 GMT
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Through his work as a human rights activist, philanthropist and advocate, King … father’s legacy, fighting for human rights and combating racism, violence and … Renee King, asked former President Barack Obama what would be done about …