Aug 17, 2017

Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Protest Timeframe Limitation for Demarcation of their Territories

Members of indigenous communities protest in Brazil’s capital. Banner says “Land is life; timeframe is death”. Photo courtesy of Inayê Gomes Lopes   Throughout this week, indigenous peoples protested in different parts of Brazil, including in the Brazilian capital, against the “timeframe limitation” for land demarcation approved by President Temer in the previous...

Aug 17, 2017

Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Protest Timeframe Limitation...

Members of indigenous communities protest in Brazil’s capital. Banner says “Land is life; timeframe is death”. Photo courtesy of Inayê Gomes Lopes   Throughout this week,...

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Aug 16, 2017

Oromo: Life Still Under Emergency

Photo Courtesy of The Hindu   Almost two weeks after the lifting of the state of emergency imposed in October 2016, the situation in Oromia region is far from stabilised. The Hindu recalls the many...

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Aug 16, 2017

Tibet: Monk Released After Two-Year Incarcer...

Photo Courtesy of Radio Free Asia   Around 10 July 2017, Chinese authorities freed 48-year old Tibetan monk Gomar Choephel, RFA reports. His relatives were forbidden both from organising a welcome...

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Aug 16, 2017

UNPO Severely Condemns Dolkun Isa’s Detention...

    The night before Dolkun Isa’s brief arrest by the Italian Security Services at the request of Beijing on 26 July 2017 in Rome, the Italian Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman...

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Aug 11, 2017

HRLHA Denounces Use of Torture and Systematic...

Photo courtesy of AllAfrica   A recent press release by the Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) denounces the violence and the inhuman conditions that inmates face in Ethiopian prisons....

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Aug 11, 2017

Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Women Disproportionately...

Photo courtesy of Star File    According to Khushi Kabir, coordinator of Nijera Kori and member of the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission, the “deliberate exclusion of indigenous...

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Aug 10, 2017

Crimean Tatars: Political Prisoner's Verdict...

Photo Courtesy of Interfax-Ukraine   On 11 September, Simferopol’s High Court will hand down its final decision on the case of Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz. The political prisoner...

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Aug 10, 2017

Gilgit Baltistan: Growing Call for Social Media...

Photo Courtesy of Khan Khattak   The arrest of political and social media activist Hasnain Ramal on Tuesday 8 August 2017 has triggered an outcry from human rights organizations in the region. Among...

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