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The sentencing was long awaited in Minnesota, with hundreds of people gathering near the courthouse into the evening
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The bodies were discovered at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 to 1997
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Such petitions must be re-submitted before October 1, 2021
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Fauci said that the vaccines authorized in the United States, including the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, are effective against the new variant
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Human Rights First report records 3,300 incidents of kidnap, rape, trafficking or assault linked to Trump-era Title 42 health protocol
Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a US border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted, according to a new report by the campaigning group Human Rights First.
The report documents cases of migrants and asylum seekers stuck in Mexico since Joe Biden took office on 20 January. The number of cases has jumped in recent weeks from roughly 500 such incidents logged in April to 3,300 by mid-June.
Related: Trump-era policy forces families to make life-altering decisions at US-Mexico border
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms from China to Colombia
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Celebrations become ‘month of mourning’ after three murders in a week, with calls for urgent state reform
Guatemala’s LGBTQ+ community is in mourning after two transgender women and a gay man were murdered in less than a week during pride month.
Andrea González, a prominent activist and leader in the transgender women’s organisation Otrans Reinas de la Noche (Queens of the Night) was shot dead on 11 June in the street near her home in Guatemala City. Her murder followed the killing of another Otrans member, Cecy Ixpatá, who was assaulted and died from her injuries on 9 June in a hospital in Salamá, about 50 miles north of Guatemala City. José Manuel Vargas Villeda, a 22-year-old gay man was also shot and killed on 14 June in Morales, 150 miles north-east of the capital.
Related: ‘Epidemic of violence’: Brazil shocked by ‘barbaric’ gang-rape of gay man
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Novavax’s study involved nearly 30,000 people aged 18 and up in the US and Mexico
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The son of the footballing legend is carrying on his father’s quest to trace the children taken from parents murdered by the junta
Diego Armando Maradona Jr, son of the late Argentine football legend, is urging Italians to submit DNA to help the Argentinian government trace hundreds of children who were stolen and their parents murdered by the military junta that controlled the country four decades ago.
Maradona Jr is doing radio interviews in Italy and using his 400,000-strong social media following to broaden the search, which has already seen DNA testing programmes rolled out in Madrid and Rome.
Related: Argentina sends out DNA kits in drive to identify thousands ‘disappeared’ under dictatorship
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The mistreatment of First Nations children in residential schools was appalling – and racial injustices persist
Last month, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation found the remains of 215 children who had been buried in unmarked graves at the site of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia. Residential schools, which operated in Canada from 1883 to 1996, were government-funded, church-run institutions that took Indigenous children away from their families, with the aim of “[killing] the Indian in the child”.
This was not just a metaphor. The mass grave discovered was one of many that are believed to exist at or near more than 100 residential schools all over Canada. These graves were often visible from the windows of the schools. Some children were even forced to bury their own classmates.
Related: ‘He was just a child’: dead of Indigenous residential schools haunt Canada
Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, is the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and professor at McGill University. Pamela Palmater, a member of Ugpi’ganjig (Eel River Bar First Nation), is professor and chair in indigenous governance at Ryerson University
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Data shows increased danger for those on the frontline in the pandemic, with misinformation, scarce vaccines and fragile health systems blamed
Hundreds of healthcare workers treating Covid patients around the world have experienced verbal, physical, and sometimes life-threatening attacks during the pandemic, prompting calls for immediate action from human rights campaigners.
Covid-related attacks on healthcare workers are expected to rise as new variants cause havoc in countries such as India and rollouts of vaccination programmes belatedly get under way in some countries, according to the UN special rapporteur on the right to health.
Related: ‘They stormed the ICU and beat the doctor’: health workers under attack
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Colombia to China
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American students have access to the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines
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He also called for imposing fine on China for the death and destruction they have caused due to this ‘lab leak
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The banquet hall had been rented out for a concert
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Multiple victims were also wounded in the attack
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Peru
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The Biden administration, she said, is now working to extend that assistance to other South Asian countries that have been impacted by COVID
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Biden has so far resisted joining other world leaders and much of his own Democratic party in calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Colombia to China
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The first shipment includes 960,000 rapid tests, which can detect Covid in 15 minutes, and 100,000 N95 masks for frontline health workers
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Prime Minister Modi thanks Japan PM for providing assistance to India for combating the pandemic in ‘summit phone talk’
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Cambodia to Peru
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The South American country has the world’s second-largest COVID-19 outbreak after the US, with 340,776 deaths and 13,193,205 infections
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No new proclamation was issued by Biden till Wednesday mid-night, resulting in the automatic end to the ban on issuing of fresh H-1B visas
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Twitter last week said it would seek public input on when and how it should ban world leaders, saying it was reviewing policy
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An initiative of the Obama administration, the first India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in May 2011
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Police said the suspected gunman was believed to be the only individual with serious injuries who survived the bloodshed
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is in the middle of its 179th Period of Sessions, which is being held again in an all-virtual format. The IACHR has called a hearing on its own initiative (an ex officio hearing) on the important topic of content moderation: “Internet content moderation and freedom of expression in the Americas”, scheduled for Thursday 25 March 2021, from 2-3:30pm ET.
For some of my earlier posts on this topic, see: https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/tag/content-moderation/
To register to watch the virtual hearing on Internet Content Moderation, visit: https://cidh-org.zoom.us/j/85942567179?pwd=SWY1cTVTOUp6MmhyTjR6bFNPZTV1Zz09
Event: IACHR Hearing on Internet Content Moderation and the Freedom of Expression in the Americas
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