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UN decries Peru approval of law granting amnesty to human rights violators
JURIST
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August 14, 2025
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned on Thursday recent Peruvian legislation that grants amnesty to those who committed human rights violations during the nation’s 1980-2000 armed conflict, urging the government to prioritize...
UN puts Israel, Russia on notice over credible evidence of sexual violence in conflict
Malay Mail
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August 15, 2025
NEW YORK, Aug 15 — The United Nations warned Israel and Russia on Thursday that their militaries faced being listed as parties suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict in light of credible evidence of violations. UN Secretary General...
US report on human rights abuse in SA rejected
The Citizen (South Africa)
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August 15, 2025
Government and analysts say the report is politically biased and risks further damaging relations between the two nations. The recently released report from the US stating the human rights of minorities in South Africa are being violated serves as...
‘Deliberate erasure’: State Department removes anti-LGBTQ+ abuses from annual human rights report
Pink News
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August 14, 2025
The Trump government has been lambasted for removing LGBTQ-specific references in the State Department’s global report on human rights, with the chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus saying it doesn’t just erase abuse but “condones it”. The...
U.S. State Department Confirms: No Credible Reports of Significant Human Rights Violations in El Salvador
El Salvador in English
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August 15, 2025
The United States Department of State, in its latest annual human rights report, has officially stated that “there were no credible reports of significant human rights violations” in El Salvador during 2024. This milestone marks a clear departure...
ANTHONY BUTLER: Worsening human rights crisis a reality that cannot be ignored
BusinessLIVE
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have joined the US in painting a depressing picture of SA A dispassionate assessment may be better than a “national dialogue” even if it is wrong. After all, its findings can be rationally accepted or...
MEA Rejects US Human Rights Report, Calls Tariffs Unjust As Trade Talks Set For August 25
Free Press Journal
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August 15, 2025
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs did not reply directly to the Treasury Secretary’s threat that secondary tariffs would go up if Trump-Putin Summit failed but India has made its stance clear on the tariffs in the past. In a statement...
Sri Lanka at Human Rights Council: “Engage to Disengage”
Daily FT
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President Anura Kumara Disanayake UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk The interactive dialogue that would follow the High Commissioner’s presentation would be the occasion for members of the council and others, including Sri Lanka,...
Human Rights groups fault gov't over delay in Kwa Binzaro mass grave exhumation
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 14, 2025
The planned exhumation of the KwaBinzaro mass graves has been postponed to a yet-to-be-determined date. The exercise has been hampered by a lack of personnel and equipment. This move has sparked outrage within the human rights movement at the...
Five key points on how a long-respected US human rights report became a ‘cudgel’ under Trump
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
In May, Donald Trump took to the stage at a business conference in Saudi Arabia’s capital, promising that the US would no longer chastise other governments over human rights issues or lecture them on “how to live and how to govern your own...
US Government Human Rights Report Cites Canada’s Online News Act, State Funding for Media as ‘Censorship’ Concerns
The Epoch Times
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August 14, 2025
Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock A new human rights report released by the U.S. State Department says Canada’s Online News Act could be used to discriminate against “disfavoured” independent media outlets. It also says that government funding for...
Việt Nam denounces US State Department's human rights report
Vietnam News
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August 14, 2025
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has rejected claims made in the latest annual human rights report by the US Department of State, saying the document contains unverified and inaccurate information that does not reflect the country’s actual situation. The US...
‘African nations are not dumping grounds’ — NGOs challenge secret US-Eswatini deportee deal
Daily Maverick
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August 14, 2025
Human rights organisations in Eswatini and South Africa have launched a legal challenge against the Eswatini government over its confidential agreement with the Trump administration to accept five hardened third-country criminals from the US. The...
Human rights activist’s new novel shines a light on ‘invisible’ asylum-seekers from India
Religion News Service
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August 14, 2025
(RNS) — Ruchira Gupta’s new young reader novel, “The Freedom Seeker,” tells the story of Simi, a 12-year-old girl from Chandigarh, India, whose family is forced to flee to the United States after her parents, a Hindu-Sikh father and Muslim mother,...
UN experts urge rejection of Taliban rule and call for accountability
JURIST
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August 14, 2025
UN human rights experts issued a forceful appeal to the international community on Thursday to reject the Taliban’s four-year rule in Afghanistan, denouncing it as violent, illegitimate, and fundamentally oppressive. Highlighting the systemic...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 14, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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August 14, 2025, 8:45pm ET Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. Click here to see ISW's interactive map of Ukraine's offensive in...
Russia: The left and the anti-Putin opposition
LINKS
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August 15, 2025
First published in Russian at Rabkor. Translation by Dmitry Pozhidaev for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal. The anti-capitalist left in Russia failed to organise itself as an independent political force before the start of the...
China’s factory output, retail sales growth slumps in July
BDNews24
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China's factory output growth slumped to an eight-month low in July, while retail sales also slowed sharply, reinforcing the challenge confronting policymakers as they strive to shore up an economy in the face of soft demand at home and external...
Russian hackers ‘opened taps on Norwegian dam’
The Times
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The head of Norway’s main security agency has said Russian hackers seized control of a dam for four hours in April. The cyberattack on the facility in Bremanger, 100 miles north of Bergen on the western coast, involved fully opening the flow...
Russia and Central Asia are quietly embracing the Taliban
The Interpreter
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August 15, 2025
Russia, in July, became the first country to extend diplomatic recognition to the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan. A month later, Kazakhstan recognised a Taliban diplomat as Chargé of Affairs of the Afghan Embassy in Astana. Tajikistan, once a...