Human Rights
Friday 1 July 2022
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“Different people with different views are going to gather ... this will be a positive step for stability in Afghanistan and strengthening national unity.”
Since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, they have blocked women from participating in public life. -
“Bucha 2.0: Kyiv unleashes an explosion in Kremenchug. What is known so far.”
Russia fires off falsehoods to spread confusion about its deadly missile strike on a Kremenchug mall. -
“Those most responsible for the tragedy that occurred, and the unfortunate loss of human lives, are the international mafias that organize the violent attacks.”
Human rights groups say Moroccan border security, not “mafias,” brutalized migrants seeking refuge in Spanish Melilla. -
“Terrorism was the main cause of the outbreak of violence in Rakhine in 2016 and 2017.”
Decades of repressing Myanmar’s Rohingya population led to violence that the government used to launch genocidal campaign. -
“[A]fter visiting Xinjiang and the rest of China, she didn’t find any evidence of genocide.”
While the U.N. human rights chief explicitly stated her visit wasn’t an investigation, China has spun it as such to score propaganda points. -
“The city was under Ukrainian yoke for eight years. On May 20, 2022, the last of Azov’s militants have surrendered. Mariupol was finally liberated from the Ukrainian nationalists.”
This Russian propaganda video, spread in the U.K., is full of disinformation about the fall of Mariupol. -
Foreign troops who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine are entitled to POW rights under the Geneva Conventions.
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“[T]he current situation with Ukraine grain has nothing to do with the food crisis.”
While numerous factors are driving food prices and insecurity, Russia’s war is making matters worse. -
“Every citizen has the right to equal protection of the law and to the protection of his or her rights and fundamental freedoms.”
The military’s seizure of power has brought tribunals, a surge in death sentences and a lack of due process. -
“In turn, humane treatment of prisoners of war is the norm for the Russian armed forces.”
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“According to investigators, hundreds of medical files found at the Red Cross base contain information on children’s healthy organs, with no indication of any illnesses.”
Russia has repeatedly pushed misleading claims about organ harvesting since first invading Ukraine in 2014. -
“What you mentioned is the latest example of the anti-China forces’ smearing of Xinjiang. … The lies and rumors they spread cannot deceive the world.”
Thousands of photographs and official Chinese documents leaked from hacked computers in Xinjiang were authenticated and shared with 14 news organizations.