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Caribbean slavery reparations group takes fight to Westminster and Brussels
03 Jul 2025 21:11 GMT
… and ongoing impact of slavery and colonialism, hosted an … such as Heirs of Slavery, Indigenous communities, Jamaican Maroons … memorialisation, judicial reform and human rights and debt cancellation,” O … the celebration of the slave trade, no matter how long …
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ECOWAS Promises Protection of Human Rights in West Africa
02 Jul 2025 03:40 GMT
… injustices, including the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, apartheid, and … National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Salamatu Sulaiman, said: “National Human Rights Institutions … reporting and enforcement of human rights in Nigeria.
“We currently …
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Movers & Shakers: Arts leaders appointed to Create NSW and writing council
03 Jul 2025 15:26 GMT
… Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has promoted Julia Bowen to … Education Commission.
Behrendt received the Human Rights Medal in 2021, 2009 NAIDOC … of TAFE NSW, NSW Anti-Slavery Commission, and UTS School of …
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In Brazil's forests, babaçu nut gatherers battle for communal rights
03 Jul 2025 04:36 GMT
… whom are descendants of former slaveholders, has had a catastrophic … fight against the legacy of slavery and a battle to … Rosário has worked in this trade since childhood. Here, as … under a protection programme for human rights defenders, along with two other …
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The 2025 Patsy Robertson Memorial Lecture – The legacy of Sir Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal
02 Jul 2025 14:12 GMT
… Yes, we must attend to trade, aid, and migration.
But … that idea —working daily across human rights, law, health, education, sustainable … woman and her white slave owner on one branch … for promoting and monitoring human rights across our membership, embedding …
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The United States owes King George an apology
01 Jul 2025 23:38 GMT
… and critique. Jefferson, that slave-owning rotter, surely had his … tariffs (“cutting off our Trade with all parts of the … accused of encouraging entirely justified slave revolts, not attacks on … on the premise of universal human rights and equality but on …
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Special investigationSyria's Alawite women and girls disappear in abductions
01 Jul 2025 15:43 GMT
… Damascus.
Interviews with families and human rights and advocacy groups point to … in 2011 to investigate human rights violations after the outbreak … women were subjected to sexual slavery, sex trafficking and torture. … #47;5
UK-EU trade at a glance
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UK migrant arrivals on small boats hit new record
01 Jul 2025 14:09 GMT
… gangs” behind the people smuggling trade.
The government says more than … under modern slavery and other human rights laws, a move criticised by human rights groups.
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Where Is Mahjabeen Baloch? Polio Survivor’s Disappearance Exposes Pakistan’s Crackdown on Baloch Voices
01 Jul 2025 13:09 GMT
… to exist under conditions resembling slavery,” Sabiha Baloch said.
Sabiha also … abduct individuals, engage in extortion, trade in narcotics, shoot at unarmed … “contrary to Pakistan’s international human rights obligations.” The organisation urged authorities …
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Criteria for inclusion on the UN sanctions list
01 Jul 2025 12:20 GMT
… that violate international human rights law or acts that constitute human rights abuses, including … violence, including rape and sexual slavery, in Haiti.
Paragraph 16 (g … through the illicit exploitation or trade of natural resources.
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