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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Commission finds Jamaican government responsible for violating the rights of two gay people
The Jamaican government is responsible for violating the rights of two gay people and the country’s homophobic laws should be repealed immediately, according to a ruling by an international human rights tribunal.
The decision by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights sets a precedent for LGBT rights across the Caribbean and is the commission’s first finding that laws that criminalise LGBT people violate international law.
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The Republican former president was accused of inciting riots in the Capitol which left five people, including a police officer, dead
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President Biden said that despite the acquittal the charges against Trump are ‘not in dispute’ and called on Americans to defend democracy
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Trump’s lawyers will begin their defense on Friday, arguing that he cannot be held personally responsible for the storming of Congress
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The call was to set the stage for the relationship under the new US leader, after it frayed under former president Donald Trump
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Two-thirds of those killed worked to protect environmental, land and indigenous peoples’ rights, while those providing Covid relief also faced reprisals
At least 331 human rights defenders promoting social, environmental, racial and gender justice in 25 countries were murdered in 2020, with scores more beaten, detained and criminalised because of their work, analysis has found.
Latin America, the most dangerous continent in the world in which to protect environmental, land and human rights, accounted for more than three-quarters of all the murders of human rights defenders in 2020. In Colombia, where activists are routinely targeted by armed groups despite a 2016 peace deal, 177 such deaths were recorded, more than half of the global total. The Philippines was the second deadliest country with 25 murders, followed by Honduras, Mexico, Afghanistan, Brazil and Guatemala.
Indigenous activists made up nearly one third of the total of 331 human rights defenders killed worldwide, even though indigenous peoples comprise only about 6% of the global population
A significant number of those murdered were working to stop extractive industry projects. They included the South African environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase, who was shot dead after opposing the extension of a coalmine near her home
13% of all those recorded killed were women
Six transgender human-rights defenders were killed in 2020, all of them in the Americas
Related: UK failing to protect human rights defenders abroad, says Amnesty
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A longstanding goal of US policy in South Asia has been to prevent India-Pakistan conflict from escalating to interstate war
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The trial is clearly uncomfortable for many Republican senators, who had to flee to safety during the violence
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Modi is the first foreign leader, whom Biden has spoken with beyond neighbours and key NATO allies
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Rana’s extradition is barred under Article 6 of the United States-India extradition treaty with India
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The US, he said is ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales
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US has said it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets and attract greater private sector investment
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Spouses of Indian professionals on H-1B visas, are the biggest beneficiary of the Obama-era rule that gave employment authorisation cards.
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U.S. administration believes this remains the best way to ensure Israel’s future
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The decision comes as Biden plans to turn his attention to equity issues that he believes continue to shadow nearly all aspects of US life
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Over the past few days, authorities in California, Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and Hawaii warned that their supplies were running out
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The delivery on Friday would be a much-needed boost to Brazil’s vaccination programme
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The orders ranged from rejoining the Paris agreement, halting US’ withdrawal from WHO, and stopping construction of Mexico border wall
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