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UNITED NATIONS INDICTS TURKEY FOR “SERIOUS RIGHTS VIOLATIONS” in NORTHERN KURDISTAN
March 10 2017: The UN’s human rights office today released its report accusing Turkey of serious human rights violations.
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SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. STILL THE SCHOOL FOR KILLERS?
Global Witness: “Honduras, the most dangerous country per capita to be an environmental activist for the last five years, with 101 deaths between 2010 and 2014”
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STANDING ROCK SIOUX PROTESTS: Sorry!.
is there a place for acknowledgment, forgiveness and reconciliation in our enormous and violent conflicts?
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Leonard Peltier: Condemned again
February 6th, 2017 marked the 41st anniversary of the arrest of Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist involved in the June 26th, 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
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Ashraf Fayadh, poet… NOT FORGOTTEN
Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned stateless-Palestinian poet, is this year’s joint winner (with Malini Subramaniam, an award-winning Indian investigative journalist) of Pen International’s 2017 Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression
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The Murder of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez TO BE CONTINUED..?
Ömer Güney, the only suspect in the assassination of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on 9 January, 2013, died on December 17, 2016
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Human Rights Watch, 2017 WORLD REPORT
Human Rights Watch (HRW) have recently launched their World Report 2017 – Events of 2016
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FRONT LINE DEFENDERS. The Human Rights Defenders Report 2016
The Dublin-based HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS launched their Annual Report on Human Rights Defenders at Risk in 2016, January 5th 2017
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Asli Erdoğan. TEMPORARY RELEASE PENDING TRIAL
After over 4 months Turkish writer and human rights activist Asli Erdoğan was released from Bakirkoy women’s prison in Istanbul
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Grace Gifford. On a day this week, the 13th December, 1955
the 13th December, 1955 in Dublin city, in Ireland, the Irish artist, nationalist and republican Grace Gifford died after a lifetime watching the failed struggle for an Irish Republic to be born
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