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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...
In December Alston and 27 other U.N. human rights officials wrote World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to complain that the bank’s proposed revisions to its “social safeguards” policies for protecting people in the path of development “avoid any meaningful references to human rights.”
[8] [9] Two other independent international agencies are also investigating violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law in the area: the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 4 March 2022, and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine ...
A group of investigators sent by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission visited Mai Kadra to investigate the mass killings [31] between 14 and 19 November 2020, as part of its investigations into human rights violations after reports of ethnic cleansing. [20] Its preliminary findings were released on 24 November. [5]
The Persecution of Amhara people [8] is the ongoing persecution of the Amhara and Agaw people of Ethiopia.Since the early 1990s, the Amhara people have been subject to ethnic violence, including massacres by Tigrayan, Oromo and Gumuz ethnic groups among others, which some have characterized as a genocide.
A car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in eastern Germany on Friday, leaving five people dead and more than 200 injured, dozens of them critically.A 9-year-old boy was among those killed ...
Dec. 13—Sunday, December 10, was National Human Rights Day, accepted worldwide after the Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the United Nations in 1948. The declaration meant that human ...
In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights [19] ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania [20] were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run "black site" torture rooms and detention facilities [21] therefore committing grave human ...