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US judge orders reinstatement of Washington slavery exhibit
The exhibit about people enslaved by George Washington was removed in January. Judge compared Trump administration to Ministry of Truth in dystopian Orwell novel "1984."
As China builds the future, Trump’s repeal of climate finding is self-inflicted wound
Eliot Whittington is Executive Director of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Last week, the Trump Administration reversed the critical finding that greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations, a scientific and legal foundation that has underpinned US climate regulations since 2009. In doing so, the US government not only […]
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Egypt: Refugees in hiding amid crackdown involving arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations
In recent months, the Egyptian authorities renewed their campaign of arbitrarily detaining and unlawfully deporting refugees and asylum seekers solely on the basis of their irregular immigration status in blatant violation of the principle of non-refoulement and Egypt’s own asylum law, Amnesty International said today. Refugees or asylum seekers registered with the UN High Commissioner […]
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Russia: Two years after Navalny’s death, authorities evade justice, continue to hound his supporters
Commemorating the second anniversary of the death in custody of Russian opposition politician and prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “Two years have passed since Aleksei Navalny, a prisoner of conscience and one of the most fearless voices against corruption and state repression in Russia, died in a remote […]
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Kazakhstan: Draft Constitution Raises Rights Concerns
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev speaks during his televised address to the nation in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, January 7, 2022. © © 2022 Kazakhstan’s Presidential Press Service via AP, File (Berlin) – The Kazakhstan Constitutional Commission’s proposed amendments to the country’s constitution would severely weaken checks on executive power and fundamental human rights protections, […]
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Greece Continues Its Relentless Assault on Civil Society
Click to expand Image Greek emergency personnel wait to transfer bodies of dead migrants, following migrant’s boat collision with coast guard off the island of Chios, in the port of Chios, Greece, February 3, 2026. © 2026 Konstantinos Anagnostou/Reuters The recent acquittal of 24 humanitarian workersby a court in Lesbos, in what the European Parliament called […]
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Philippines: Duterte ICC Hearing Set to Begin
Click to expand Image Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seen on a screen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, March 14, 2025. © 2025 Peter Dejong/AP Photo (The Hague) – The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s first major hearing in the case against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is […]
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Uzbekistan: Cotton, Wheat Farmers Exploited, Abused
Click to expand Image Farmers outside the “Sampling Room” at a Fergana Region cotton collection point (ginnery), September 2023. © 2023 Uzbek Forum The Uzbek government is violating the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production system, including penalties such as land seizure for not meeting quotas. Though the […]
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Austria files terror charges in alleged Taylor Swift concert plot
Prosecutors in Austria have filed terrorism charges against a 21-year-old who was allegedly plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024.
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France opens murder probe into right-wing activist’s death
French authorities have opened a murder probe into the death of a far-right activist in Lyon, seemingly in a clash with the far left. A public prosecutor said he was attacked by "at least six" people.