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Hate speech: Nations fight back
- UN News
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Online hate speech is a growing, worrying phenomenon that puts lives at risks. In the second of three feature stories based on the new UN Podcasts series, UNiting Against Hatewe focus on the national strategies Costa Rica and the Czech Republic have put in place to tackle the issue.
‘All sides need to think about the future they want for Venezuela’, says UN human rights chief
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There is a general recognition across Venezuela’s political and social spectrum of the need for reform, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Saturday, wrapping up a trip to the country during which, among others, he heard complaints of arbitrary detention and torture.
Hate speech: A growing, international threat
- UN News
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Whilst hate speech is nothing new, it has arguably been super-charged by the internet, which has allowed lies, conspiracies, and threats to instantly spread around the world. In a short series of features, based on the new UN Podcasts series, UNiting Against Hatewe look at the effects, and possible solutions, to this growing problem.
Destruction of Ukraine's Healthcare Facilities Violates International Humanitarian Law
- Inter Press Service
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BRATISLAVA, Jan 27 (IPS) - While recent reports highlight the growing list of human rights abuses and war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine, new research has laid bare the massive scale of arguably Russia’s most systematic and deadly campaign of rights violations in the country – the targeting and almost complete destruction of healthcare facilities.
Erdogan's Desperate Bid to Become the New Atatrk
- Inter Press Service
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NEW YORK, Jan 27 (IPS) - As Turkey approaches its centennial anniversary this October, President Erdogan is stopping short of nothing to win the election in June to fulfill his life-time dream of presiding over the celebration. The Turkish people should deny him this historic honor because of the reign of terror to which he has mercilessly subjected his countrymen.
Holocaust remembrance: beware ‘siren songs of hate’ – UN chief
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At a UN ceremony to mark the Holocaust on Friday, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that antisemitism, hate speech, and misinformation are ever-present, 90 years on from the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.
Systemic racism within UK criminal justice system a serious concern: UN human rights experts
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Racism in the United Kingdom is “structural, institutional and systemic”, independent UN human rights experts said on Friday, warning that people of African descent in the country continue to encounter discrimination and erosion of their fundamental rights.
Myanmar mired ever deeper in crisis as human rights spiral backwards, warns Türk
- UN News
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Nearly two years on from Myanmar’s brutal military coup against the democratically-elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis, undergoing a wholesale regression in human rights, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.
Rahul Gandhis Long Walk Hailed, But Only Polls Will Determine Its Success
- Inter Press Service
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GOA, INDIA, Jan 26 (IPS) - When countless supporters of the Indian National Congress, the main opposition party, arrive in Srinagar on January 30 to hoist the Indian flag, they would have walked 3,570 kilometres over 150 days.
Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group, ‘yet another blow to human rights’ in Russia: OHCHR
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The court order closing down Russia’s oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is “yet another blow to human rights and civic space in the country”, said a Spokesperson for the UN rights office, OHCHR on Thursday.
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