MOSCOW (AP) - Azimzhan Askarov, a human rights defender in Kyrgyzstan who was serving a life term on charges of involvement in ethnic violence that were widely criticized as trumped-up, has died in a prison clinic. He was 69.

The U. N. Human Rights Committee and leading international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged the Central ( Read more... )

More on the effects of Autralia's shameful treatment of refugees

OP: I'm putting even the title of the article under the cut because of the trigger warnings.
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Ethnic Uighurs are being rounded up and held in massive prisonlike camps. Here’s what you need to know.

In China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, an area with long-simmering unrest between the ethnic Uighur (pronounced “we-gur”) minority and the Han Chinese majority, the government has detained more than a million members of this and other Muslim ( Read more... )

Revealed: how US sex traffickers recruit jailed women for prostitution

Guardian investigation finds incarcerated women are groomed by pimps and forced into sex work once released

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OP: Domestic and migrant worker abuse is a huge problem across the world. "[M]any domestic workers are still excluded from provisions that other workers take for granted with respect to essential working conditions, such as paid annual leave, working time, minimum wage coverage and maternity protection." (From this reference.) Many people still ( Read more... )

Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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In Syria's Eastern Ghouta a doctor's battle: 'We will stay until the end'

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Serena Williams: I almost died after giving birth to my daughter

Grand slam champion says she was lucky to receive excellent care, but that others are not so fortunate after giving birth


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Turkey jails 6 Turkish journalists for life, releases German reporter

(CNN)A Turkish court sentenced six journalists and other media professionals to life in prison Friday, Turkey's Anadolu state news agency reported, roughly an hour after another court freed a German-Turkish reporter who had been behind bars for a year.

The six were all ( Read more... )

Israel issues deportation notices to African migrants

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