HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

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Pakistan's Karachi Becomes a Human Rights Nightmare
By Farheen Rizvi, Contributor
Pakistani American social activist
Pakistan's financial capital and largest city, Karachi, has witnessed several gruesome incidents within one week.
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Fighting Terrorism Without Violating Human Rights
By Lydia Canaan, Contributor
Singer-songwriter, poet, humanitarian, activist, UN delegate
Unlike some cultural aspects that are relative, violations of innocent people's physical integrity - such as dropping bombs on them - is universally deviant.
CRIME
Broken Toilets: The New Frontier of Prisoner Abuse
By Chandra Bozelko, Contributor
Founder and writer of Prison Diaries, the 2016 Webby Award Hon...
The broken toilet is the future frontier of prisoner abuse. Allowing an inmate to exist with a broken or dirty one is easy; the only evidence of it is the inmate's self-report, an account that will be discredited.
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One of the Darkest Moments for Human Rights in China
By Dr. Jianli Yang, Contributor
Activist and President of "Initiatives for China"
A massive crackdown has so far resulted in more than 300 people disappearing and being arrested, detained, beaten up, harassed and put under surveillance. 
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It's About Time, My World
By Lydia Canaan, Contributor
Singer-songwriter, poet, humanitarian, activist, UN delegate
It's about time you realize that I am you and you are me, that we are all intertwined and connected in humanity. Whether you are from the East or from the West, aren't you aware that we share a planet and not a world? And, what is a world?
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The Paradoxes of Human Rights Discourse
By European Horizons, Contributor
A student think tank that connects students, professors, and d...
Now, it's no news that big and powerful countries have been selling arms to Human Rights violators, and France's Egypt-Dassault deal is only a recent and particularly telling example. However, this does not make it more excusable in any way.
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Help Activists After Their Release from Detention! An Initiative of Yemeni Journalist Feras Shamsan
By Elham Manea, Contributor
Humanist, writer and academic
He was left without justice. All his demands for an apology and an acknowledgment that he was detained unjustly were left without answer. And no one seems to notice his blight. No one seems to understand his psychological wounds, not to mention the physical ones.
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Mexicans Protest for 43 Disappeared Students
By Michael Solis, Contributor
Development worker in Sierra Leone and writer
These are things we can never know. But what is obvious is that a country of 122 million people has been awakened by 43, raising a collective voice for Alexander and the cause of justice in a way that has never been seen before in Mexican history.
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Why Did Bahrain Arrest A Top Human Rights Activist?
By Rahel Gebreyes
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The 10 Worst Countries For Human Rights
By Sara Gates
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China and Nigeria: Neo-Colonialism, South-South Solidarity, or Both?
By Daniel Wagner and Giorgio Cafiero, Contributors
Bilateral relations between China and Nigeria will likely take one of two paths in the long term: either China will remain the overwhelmingly dominant actor or Nigeria will become a regional superpower, evening out the playing field.
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Human Rights and the Failings of U.S. Public Diplomacy in Eurasia
By Amy McDonough, Contributor
Global Health Corps Fellow
If the United States starts treating these issues more consistently, leaders of oppressive regimes in the region will know that they will face increased pressure on the international stage if they do not choose to fully respect the rights and freedoms of their citizens.
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The 10 Worst Human Rights Offenders In The World Are...
By Sara Gates
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Getting Real on Human Rights at the U.N.
By Ted Piccone, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order ...
In the past several days, sound and fury again erupted in Geneva, with allegations of hypocrisy leveled against the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Peace vs. Justice: The Diminishing Importance of Diplomacy with the Emergence of International Justice
By Kip Hale, Contributor
International Criminal Lawyer and Advocate, Washington, DC
While the case-by-case circumstances of each conflict always matters, the question remains what standard playbook should the global community employ when confronted with the mass perpetration of international crimes?
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ICC Turns Ten: A Measure of Justice
By Kip Hale, Contributor
International Criminal Lawyer and Advocate, Washington, DC
In this tenth year of the ICC, it is an appropriate time to take stock of the Court's progress in its primary mission: end impunity through the just rule of law.
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Human Rights Crimes Still Taking Place In Syria, UN Reports
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When the Human Rights Community Is Its Own Worst Enemy
By Kip Hale, Contributor
International Criminal Lawyer and Advocate, Washington, DC
International human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often the vanguard in this global fight. So, it is perplexing when some of these NGOs undercut their own legitimacy by making public outcries that do little to help their overall causes, and in fact, undermine them.
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Holding Iran's Supreme Leader Accountable
By Reza Pahlavi, Contributor
Iran's former crown prince
It is my sincere hope that whatever political motivations have previously guided nations in the past vis-à-vis Iran, they will do what is clearly right and side with the people of Iran by voting to refer this case to the International Criminal Court at once.
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Judge Garzón's Prosecution: Spain's Version of "Lo Pasado, Pasado Está"
By Dorian de Wind, Contributor
Retired U.S. Air Force officer and writer
POLITICS
Remembering 9/11 and Reclaiming Accountability for Human Rights
By Jamil Dakwar, Contributor
Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program
The U.S.-led 'War on Terror' has resulted in the erosion of hard-fought human rights achievements, including the absolute prohibition on torture, and undermined accountability mechanisms against governmental abuses of power.
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Why Did Iran Say "NO" to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights?
By Omid Memarian, Contributor
Award Winning Journalist
Considering the dire human rights situation in Iran, it seems that Tehran has found it politically very costly to let a foreign independent inspector visit the country.
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To the Mahatma, From a Stateless Indian
By Dinkar Jain, Contributor
Michigan engineer, Harvard MBA
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A Matter of Civil Rights
By Sarah Leah Whitson, Contributor
Executive director, Middle East and North African division at ...
In a week when the U.S. paused to recall the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, President Peres might have considered King's message and why such a system of racial inequality remains in place.
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From Mexico to the Middle East: The Oppressed Oppressors
By Karen Berg, Contributor
Spiritual Director, Kabbalah Centre International
The poverty and human rights violations we see are in fact a result of years of our collective and repeated lack of respect for human dignity. We need to change our ways, before they kill us.
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Eritrea: Africa's Human Rights Black Hole
By Kathryn Cameron Porter, Contributor
Founder & President, Leadership Council for Human Rights
Eritrea, one of the youngest countries on earth, is quickly emerging as one of the largest violators of human rights. The situation in Eritrea wasn't always this dire, but the future doesn't look bright.
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