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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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Musician’s identity to be respected as a human right says Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology
Post Views: 26 PUBLIC STATEMENT 11 January 2017 In October 2016, The Finnish Migration Office (Migri) denied asylum from an Iraqi viola player. In the decision, it was accepted as a fact that in Iraq, the person in question had been
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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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Roboski Massacre: Five Years on, still no Justice
On the night of 28 December 2011 Turkish warplanes carried out a bombing in the district of Uludere/Roboski resulting in the death of 34 civilians, 18 of whom were children
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TURKEY: DEALING DEATH BLOW TO DEMOCRACY
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass – a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience.”
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“In the first 9 months…” TERROR IN ‘TURKISH’ KURDISTAN
There isn’t a poem or a text or a piece of music that can adequately describe the terror and the outrage and the pain inflicted on humans in the course of our long history
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The Death Penalty For Drug-Related Offences
33 countries or territories continue to impose the death penalty for drug-related offences, resulting in approximately 1,000 executions annually. Drug-related offences account for the majority of executions carried out in some countries and are mandatorily punished by death in a number of States
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Ungass 2016: what’s at stake?
Interview to Marie Nougier, coordinator of Civil Society Forum on Drugs (CSF) UNGASS working group and senior researcher and responsible for communications and publications of IDPC – International Drug Policy Consortium
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Qatari Poet Muhammad Al Ajami, Serving 15-year Sentence, Pardoned by Emir
Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami — who was the target of an international solidarity movement because of his 15-year prison sentence — has been pardoned
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