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UN Human Rights Office Launches US$500 Million Appeal To Reinvigorate Global Support For Human Rights
31 Jan 2025 08:22 GMT
… to deliver better through integrating human rights
into their work.”
“During … human rights
violations, supported over 10,000 survivors of contemporary
forms of slavery … promote a human rights economy, the Office supported
projects using human rights-based …
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World News in Brief: Deadly virus outbreak in Uganda, $500 million human rights appeal, Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws in spotlight
30 Jan 2025 20:48 GMT
… appeal aims to support critical human rights efforts, including rights mainstreaming, advisory … Peoples, or those impacted by slavery.
Launching the appeal in Geneva … years in prison, violates international human rights standards.
Free speech rules
“Under …
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Human rights organisation accuses Chechen Akhmat fighters of using mobilised queer men as sex slaves
29 Jan 2025 16:05 GMT
… mobilised queer men in sexual slavery, Isteev said he was … Beyond being held in sexual slavery, Isteev said that queer … Isteev said. He added that human rights activists began investigating the practice … was subjected to sexualised slavery was deployed to the …
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State representative and human rights advocates push for removal of slavery from constitution
28 Jan 2025 20:27 GMT
… Brown, Jr., and other human rights advocates held a press conference … that would remove a slavery exception from the Kentucky … the state’s constitution, slavery and involuntary servitude are … Gailey, who represents Abolish Slavery Kentucky, and Savvy Shabazz, …
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UK to keep ban on asylum seekers claiming modern slavery protections
30 Jan 2025 13:36 GMT
… claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as … asylum seekers using modern slavery laws to challenge decisions … deny asylum seekers using modern slavery laws would "drive … would hide victims of modern slavery.
Starmer's …
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Labour accused of rank hypocrisy over plans to detain child migrants and ditch slavery protections
30 Jan 2025 13:19 GMT
… ”. And independent anti-slavery commissioner Eleanor Lyons said … victims of modern slavery “deserve our compassion … it effectively hid modern slavery victims from UK authorities … , from the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre …
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We will continue to fight for the balance of the world, as a contribution to the preservation of the human species
02 Feb 2025 15:05 GMT
… history of exploitation, plunder and slavery that enriched a specific set … to science and technology, and human rights for all, not just for …
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Akwa Ibom witnessing criminality laced with madness – Inibehe Effiong
02 Feb 2025 11:06 GMT
A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has alleged … Ibom youths have accepted political slavery and internal colonialism as the …
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Direct flights from East Turkestan to UK spark fears
02 Feb 2025 09:18 GMT
… ethnic group faces significant human rights abuses, has become a … the UK’s Modern Slavery Act, which requires companies … serious concerns about ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet and … a disturbing pattern of human rights violations, such as incommunicado …
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Myanmar’s nonviolent revolutionaries must not be forgotten
02 Feb 2025 01:47 GMT
… UN’s special rapporteur on human rights has said could ‘amount to … opium production, cybercrime, and cyber slavery—horrors with far-reaching consequences … is a writer, scholar, and human rights advocate. He is the Director …