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Analysis: Seeking Redress On Human Rights Violations? Avoid UN Human Rights Council

The appointment of a Saudi U.N. ambassador to chair a Human Rights Council panel that selects independent experts to investigate human rights abuses is described as “the final nail in the coffin for the credibility” of the council.

Robert Fantina
بواسطة Robert Fantina
Newly elected chair of the UNHRC panel Faisal bin Hassan Trad.

KITCHENER, Ontario --- According to its own website, the United Nations Human Rights Council is “responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.” At the opening of the 4th UNHRC session on March 12, 2007, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: “All victims of human rights abuses should be able to

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Could Iran Become An International Example Of Sound Drug Policy?

Iran already has very progressive harm reduction policies in place including the implementation of nationwide distribution of clean syringes to injecting drug users and methadone substitution treatment both inside and outside prisons.

Maziyar Ghiabi
بواسطة Maziyar Ghiabi
Mideast Iran Narcotics

After Uruguay courageously legalised the use of cannabis under a new drug policy, could Iran be the next country to make it legal? From the outside, the image of Iran as retrograde and inherently conservative hardly fits with the reality of a more dynamic domestic political debate within. But drug policy is one of the areas of debate in which the

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Native American Tribe Donates $10,000 Flint Residents Amid Water Crisis

If only more people would recognize we have everything we need to create independent, autonomous communities, perhaps the State would get out of the way and allow freedom to flourish.

Derrick Broze
بواسطة Derrick Broze
Flint residents receive free water being distributed at the Lincoln Park United Methodist Church in Flint, Mich. Feb. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Flint, Michigan —The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians in Manistee, Michigan has donated $10,000 to the Genesee County sheriff’s office to assist in providing clean water to the residents of Flint, Michigan. Flint is currently under a state of emergency after local, state, and federal officials admitted there was lead contamination in the

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Venezuelan Right Wing Leaders Caught Manufacturing Bogus Media Campaign

Imprisoned Venezuelan right-wing figure Leopoldo Lopez had planned a social media campaign against the head of the Ramon Verde prison.

teleSUR
بواسطة teleSUR
The wife of arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Lilian Tintori, gestures during an opposition

Venezuelan right-wing personalities Leopoldo Lopez and Lilian Tintori sought to manufacture a media campaign including trumped up claims of human rights abuses, according to revelations late Wednesday. Lopez and Tintori were seeking to target the head of the Ramon Verde prison, Colonel Jose Viloria. Lopez has been imprisoned at Ramon Verde

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Israel Plans To Seize Large Chunk Of West Bank Farmland

The 380 acres of farmland is in territory which was intended to be part of an eventual Palestinian state, but settlers objected to this, as they’ve been illegally farming the outskirts of the land for years.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Palestinian protesters carry national flags and plant olive trees facing the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit during a protest marking Land Day, in the village of Wadi Fukin, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, March 30, 2015.

In a move that seems determined to fuel more international backlash against them, the Israeli government is preparing to seize a large plot of Palestinian farmland near Jericho, allowing nearby settlements to access the land for themselves. The 380 acres of farmland is in territory which was intended to be part of an eventual Palestinian state,

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Counter Protesters Gather To Challenge Malheur Militia

Hundreds showed up at demonstrations across the northwest while others have been camped out in counter protest for weeks

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
Hundreds of people gathered in Eugene, Oregon on Tuesday to protest the ongoing militant occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo: Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard)

The militant occupation of a wildlife sanctuary in Oregon has stirred the the ire of hundreds of nature lovers and defenders of public lands who have launched their own counter-protest against the group's ongoing "temper tantrum with guns." "We can show the gang that's out there at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge how you really make a

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