Crimes Against Humanity
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As Ukrainians fight for freedom, democracy, former leaders of Georgia, Ukraine weigh in on crisis at STTP event
Tags Share The invasion of Ukraine is Russia’s “last attempt” to crush the country, reclaim its empire and reestablish a pre-World War II era of “rule by might,” a former deputy Prime Minister of Georgia Eka Tkeshelashvili has said. “This is the new concept that Russia is imposing on all of us—accepting the fact that…
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Young People Fighting Racism in the Justice System
Tags Share Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the…
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UN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
Tags Share January 19, 2022 – The United Nations Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh’s notoriously abusive paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from UN deployment, 12 organizations said in a letter to Under Secretary General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, made public today. Human rights organizations have documented widespread RAB abuses. UN human rights experts have also…
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Bangladesh: Stop Harassment of Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share (December 14, 2021) – Bangladesh authorities must end the harassment of Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, respectively Secretary and Director of the human rights group Odhikar, who have been targeted through the misuse of the criminal justice system, eleven rights groups said today. On December 15, 2021, the Cyber Tribunal of…
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Bangladesh: Officials Linked to Hundreds of ‘Disappearances’
Human rights groups urge action on International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance.
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Bangladesh: End Enforced Disappearances
Tags Share *Joint Statement by 12 human rights groups ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 2020 (Dhaka, August 28, 2020) – Bangladesh security forces and law-enforcement agencies continuously commit enforced disappearances with impunity, targeting journalists, activists, and government critics, 12 human rights groups said today ahead of the International Day…
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CNN: Forced Disappearances are Increasing in Venezuela
In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s security forces have used disappeareances to silence prominent political opponents and instill fear.
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Enforced disappearance as a tool of political repression in Venezuela
Tags Share Enforced disappearance has been described as one of the most serious and cruel human rights violations, and is recognized under international law as a crime against humanity. This state-sanctioned practice of detaining people while refusing to acknowledge their fate is particularly alarming because it removes victims from the full protection of the law…
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New Report Shows Venezuela Uses Forced Disappearances to Silence Critical Voices
The first of its kind analysis pulls together data on more than 700 cases of enforced disappearance, offering rare insights into the Maduro regime’s patterns, priorities, and perceived threats.
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Venezuelan Massacres Investigated
When Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro attempted to halt humanitarian aid, indigenous villagers in need were murdered.
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Four Human Rights Defenders Disappeared
Whereabouts of members of CERJ, which works endlessly to protect indigenous Guatemalans’ rights.
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