Human Rights
Co-Chairs of the IRF Summit Ring the Bell to Pray for Peace and Justice
Ambassador Sam Brownback, right, and Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, left, co-chairs of the IRF Summit 2022, rang the Bell of World Peace and Love to promote the idea of love and peace with Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze. (AP Images)
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Former Presidents of Five Countries Ring the Bell, Wishing for Peace at the 25th Eurasian Economic Summit
Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, second row, center, was invited to the 25th Eurasian Economic Summit, which brought together dignitaries from more than 40 countries. (AP Images)
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Taking Actions of Conscience 52 Influential Leaders Ring Tai Ji Men’s Peace Bell to Pray for World Peace
Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, right, presents Dr. Aldo Manos, former director of the United Nations Environment Programme, with a certificate of recognition.
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New US border policy poses risk to fundamental rights, warns UN’s Türk
Displaced Venezuelans shelter in Reynosa, a border city in the northern part of the state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico.
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Cambodia: Rights Crackdown Intensifies
Cambodia’s longtime prime minister, Hun Sen, used ostensible public health measures to further clamp down on the dwindling civic freedoms in the country in 2022, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2023 on January 12. The authorities targeted dozens of union leaders, activists, and opposition politicians and members for harassment, arbitrary arrest, and prosecution.
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Central Asia: Violent Response to Protests Fuels Rights Violations
Authorities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan used unjustified lethal force to respond to protests in 2022 and have utterly failed to ensure accountability for a multitude of human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2023 on January 12. Hundreds of protesters were killed or suffered serious injuries in the violence.
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Iran: UN rights chief Türk warns against further ‘State-sanctioned killing’
A view of Tehran, Iran's capital city.
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Peru: UN rights office calls for probe into protestor deaths
Investigations must be held into deaths and injuries that have occurred amid ongoing anti-government protests in Peru, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday, responding to the latest bloodshed.
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Rwanda’s President Politicizes Refugee Rights
This week, Rwandan President Paul Kagame delivered a stark warning to refugees fleeing renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “We cannot keep being host to refugees for which, later on, we are held accountable in some way, or even abused about.”
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Myanmar: Hundreds of political prisoners released, but thousands remain in jail
Protesters in Washington DC, United States, march against the military takeover in Myanmar.
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