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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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The relations between the US and China are at an all-time low
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Policeman accused of sex trafficking, while 12,000 women and girls vanish in ‘shadow pandemic’
Judith Machaca was last seen on her way home from work in her home town of Tacna in southern Peru. The environmental engineering student had been working part-time at a mobile phone shop and would always send a message if she was going to be late.
The last text message from her phone was sent at 11pm on 28 November and the next day her distraught father reported the 20-year-old’s disappearance to the police. They sent him away, saying that she was probably with a boyfriend and would show up soon enough.
Related: ‘Shadow pandemic’ of violence against women to be tackled with $25m UN fund
By reporting a disappearance, you could be reporting it to the trafficker himself
No body, no crime
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Four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent, as a 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody
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Republican critics say Biden’s policies caused a sharp increase in migrants seeking to cross into the US illegally
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More than 3,000 incidents of abuse against Asian Americans were reported between March and December 2020
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The US is the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 29,150,068 and 529,102, respectively
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Floyd was declared dead on May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against the Black man’s neck for about nine minutes
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We are going to start off making sure Americans are taken care of first but we are then going to try to help the rest of the world, he said
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The common denominator in what we talked about China is that we will engage it from a position of strength
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Colombia to the Sahara
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The Biden administration has for the first time appointed such a large number of Indian-Americans in the first 50 days of his administration
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Given that the Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, the bill has little chance to be passed
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The comments were made in the Biden administration’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released on Wednesday
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I took my country to an international commission and won. Now it must scrap the homophobic laws that fuel hate
Finally the Jamaican state has been held to account for its complicity in the violence and discrimination I have faced for being gay. An international tribunal has ruled that Jamaica should scrap its homophobic laws immediately.
The hatred that LGBTQ+ people routinely face in Jamaica, and the colonial-hangover laws that criminalise gay relationships, are well documented. But, for the first time, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has determined that laws against the “abominable crime of buggery” and acts of “gross indecency” effectively led to state-sanctioned violence against LGBTQ+ Jamaicans.
Related: Jamaica should repeal homophobic laws, rights tribunal rules
Gareth Henry is a Jamaican LGBTQ+ activist living in Canada
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Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the Netherlands
An Australian senator will seek support from fellow upper house members to recognise China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority as genocide, after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the Netherlands.
The proposed motion – placed on the Senate’s notice paper for 15 March – looms as a test for the major parties at a time when Australia should join the international community in taking a stand, according to the South Australian independent senator Rex Patrick.
Related: ‘Being young’ leads to detention in China’s Xinjiang region
Related: ‘Our souls are dead’: how I survived a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp for Uighurs – podcast
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In his speech, the former president reiterated his allegation that there was massive electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential elections
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Blinken announces the ‘Khashoggi Act’ that will ban foreigners’ entry into US who threaten dissidents or harass reporters and their families
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Unlike his predecessor Donald Trump, who often sought to minimize the disease, Biden has made the pandemic his top priority
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Authors of the bill told reporters that the bill establishes a moral and economic imperative and a vision of immigration reform
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As the team’s operations lead, I am the primary point of communication between the GN&C subsystem and the rest of the project, said Mohan
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Increasing land grabs endangering forest communities and wildlife as governments expand mining and agriculture to combat economic impact of Covid
Indigenous communities in some of the world’s most forested tropical countries have faced a wave of human rights abuses during the Covid-19 pandemic as governments prioritise extractive industries in economic recovery plans, according to a new report.
New mines, infrastructure projects and agricultural plantations in Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Indonesia and Peru are driving land grabs and violence against indigenous peoples as governments seek to revive economies hit by the pandemic, research by the NGO Forest Peoples Programme has found.
Related: Trust our expertise or face catastrophe, Amazon peoples warn on environment
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