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Tag: Human Rights

Europe’s New Taliban Outreach Starts at Help with Mass Deportations
Foreign Policy

Europe’s New Taliban Outreach Starts at Help with Mass Deportations

August 26, 2025August 26, 2025

Afghan diplomats are occupying consulate buildings in Geneva and Berlin as Western Europe attempts to implement a policy of…

Visits to US Sharply Fall as Trump’s Immigration, Censorship Policies Proving a Borderline Tourism Killer
Travel

Visits to US Sharply Fall as Trump’s Immigration, Censorship Policies Proving a Borderline Tourism Killer

May 12, 2025

The effects of President Trump’s stricter border controls, immigration, and even censorship policies may have had a direct impact…

Human Rights Rapporteur Urges Expulsion of Israel from United Nation
War

Human Rights Rapporteur Urges Expulsion of Israel from United Nation

November 4, 2024November 7, 2024

In a new report submitted at the recent session of the UN General Assembly, the organization’s Special Rapporteur on…

Julian Assange Speaks for First Time Since Release: ‘I am not free today because the system worked’
World News

Julian Assange Speaks for First Time Since Release: ‘I am not free today because the system worked’

October 2, 2024

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday morning, Julian Assange addressed…

The Non-Aligned Countires Are Fed Up With Sanctions: NATO Isn’t
ArchivesForeign Policy

The Non-Aligned Countires Are Fed Up With Sanctions: NATO Isn’t

April 5, 2023July 13, 2023

GENEVA, Switzerland. April 4th, 2023. The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution condemning the use of…

Barcelona Mayor Breaks off Civic Relations With Tel-Aviv over “Apartheid State”
ArchivesWorld News

Barcelona Mayor Breaks off Civic Relations With Tel-Aviv over “Apartheid State”

February 13, 2023July 11, 2023

In a rather unique act of local government action, paired only in scale perhaps by the Ben & Jerry’s…

African Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Ogiek People On Reparations and Land Rights in Kenya’s Forests
ArchivesPolicy

African Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Ogiek People On Reparations and Land Rights in Kenya’s Forests

July 4, 2022July 3, 2023

Story at a glance… An African human rights court ruled in favor of the Ogiek people of Kenya against…

War

One Year Later and Biden Considering Rejoining Quest for Yemen Extermination

February 11, 2022

PICTURED: King Salman and US President Joe Biden discussed strengthening partnership during phone call. PC: Reuters. Fair Use. WASHINGTON…

War

U.S. Inaction Puts More 28 Million People at Risk of Starvation in Syria and Yemen

October 14, 2021

PICTURED: A makeshift aid and water treatment center in south Yemen. WASHINGTON D.C., October 13th, 2021. In a joint-press…

World News

Afghanistan Four Days Later: Girls Return to School and First Official Presser

August 19, 2021

PICTURED: Taliban official spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid gives a press conference in Kabul. PC: Reuters. Fair Use. Story at a…

World News

Human Rights Watch Report Says Israeli Guilty of Apartheid — Recommends ICC Investigation At Least

May 5, 2021

PICTURED: A screen capture taken from an embedded video in a HRW official tweet. A report from Human Rights…

Wracked by Decades of War Mosul Museums and Monuments Try and Rebuild
ArchivesWorld News

Wracked by Decades of War Mosul Museums and Monuments Try and Rebuild

March 2, 2021November 15, 2024

When war came to the country of Iraq in the 21st century, it would arrive in a land that…

World News

Secret Documents Show That Lofty Ideals And International Authority Can’t Save Uighurs

November 25, 2019

Washington, July 2009. PICTURED: American Uighurs rally outside the White House in an anti-China protest following the Urumqi riots…

Foreign Policy

Senate Urges EU To Join US Maximum Pressure Campaign In Venezuela  

August 15, 2019

August 8th 2019. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has written Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign…

Foreign Policy

Venezuela To Share Cuba’s Fate As Sanctions Turn To Embargo

August 6, 2019

Washington, August 6th, 2019. President Trump has signed an executive order placing the once sanction-gripped South American country of…

World News

UN Resolves That US Sanctions Are A Human Rights Violation, But Needs To Take Action On Their Criminality

July 21, 2019

Geneva, Switzerland, July 15th, 2019. The 41st session of the United Nations Council on Human Rights adopts a resolution…


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Israel’s Destruction of Palestinian Olive Trees: Security Meets Environmental Warfare

Suzanne Latre August 28, 2025

At dawn on Monday, Israeli military bulldozers entered the Nablus area. They began uprooting thousands of olive trees, which…

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US Has Bombed Somalia Over 50 Times This Year

Andy Corbley August 21, 2025

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab southwest of the city of Bariire in central Somalia last…

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American Children Getting as Much as Two-Thirds of Daily Calories from Ultra-Processed Foods

Andy Corbley August 7, 2025

Between August 2021 and August 2023, a new report from the CDC found that ultra-processed foods make up over…

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