Highway Robbery in Alabama
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By Ben Jealous —
Imagine the neighborhood your family has lived in for more than 150 years being turned into a deteriorating...
ILO to launch new website with improved access to ILO information for all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvbk0DIjeW0GENEVA (ILO...
Free Palestine Non-Violently — Vantage Point Vignette by Dr. Ron Daniels
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Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels
A determined new multiracial, multireligious generation of college and university students, including a...
Haitians ‘cannot wait’ for reign of terror by gangs to end: Rights chief
"The scale of human rights violations is unprecedented in Haiti's modern history," Volker Türk said in a video statement to the UN Human Rights...
Dismay in Addis Ababa as ‘the soul of the city’ is razed for development
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Ethiopia’s push to attract tourism and investment has seen the demolition of a historic district in the capital, with people’s homes...
A Cosmopolitan Modernism
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The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.
By Rachel Hunter Himes, The Nation —
In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened...
Ukraine war: UNICEF highlights 40 per cent rise in children killed this year
Attacks that occurred between January and March left 25 children dead, including a two-month-old, said the agency. During the first three weeks of April,...
First Person: Christmas under rocket fire in Ukraine
In Ukraine, there was no respite from war over the holiday period, neither for the country’s citizens, nor the UN workers attempting to deliver...
Somali authorities investigate media rights group, freeze its accounts
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Kampala Uganda, April 19, 2024—Somali authorities should drop all criminal investigations against the Somali Journalists Syndicate and desist from...
Myanmar: Unbearable levels of suffering and cruelty
In a scheduled update to the UN’s top rights forum, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights explained that the humanitarian emergency there linked...
World News in Brief: Noncommunicable diseases in emergencies, aid plan for Haiti, peace efforts...
NCDs are responsible for 75 per cent of deaths worldwide, and it is estimated that strokes and heart attacks are up to three times...
Tell the truth about Israel’s crimes against humanity
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Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as mediaoutlets go out of their way to obscure...
How can we close the skills gap? Quality apprenticeships and the future of work
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The...
New ILO report reveals dangerous and long-lasting effects of climate change on workers’ health...
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CPJ calls for release of Turkish journalists Esra Solin Dal, Mehmet Aslan, and Erdoğan...
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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 press freedom and human rights organizations in a Friday statement condemning the...
Ukraine: Civilians killed and injured as attacks on power and rail systems intensify
Since 22 March, Ukraine’s energy infrastructure sustained four waves of attacks that killed six people, injured at least 45 and struck at least 20...
ILO to release new report on the economics of forced labour and illegal profits
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Michelle Austin Pamies and Courageous Women Resolving Crisis in Haiti
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March 25, 2024Women’s History Month Edition of Vantage Point
On this Women’s History Month edition of Vantage...
Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office
The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital...
CPJ welcomes acquittal of Nigerian journalists Gidado Yushau and Alfred Olufemi and calls for...
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Abuja, March 1, 2024–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the February 14 decision by an appeal court in Nigeria’s...
CPJ, others oppose the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act
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The Committee to Protect Journalists, along with over 70 civil society organizations, signed a letter urging Senate leaders to...
‘I couldn’t remain silent’: Son fights for Uyghur journalist’s release from Chinese prison
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The last time Bahram Sintash saw his journalist father was in 2017. Qurban Mamut, an influential Uyghur editor had...
‘Widespread’ sexual abuse of children in entertainment business revealed
“The sexual abuse and the exploitation of children within the entertainment industry resulting from unethical systems, structures, practices or abuse of power and authority...
Israeli peace activists are more anguished than ever − in a movement that has...
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Secular Jewish groups have historically made up the majority of solidarity and peace groups. But Palestinian citizens and observant Jews are...
