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Annual Human Rights Tracker 

2022

Meet the Japanese American jailed for refusing to go to WWII incarceration camp

Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese American sociologist, was jailed for months after openly opposing the US govt’s Executive Order 9066 (an order to place all Japanese Americannextshark.com/life-of-gordon-hirabayashi s and immigrants of Japanese descent in incarceration camps) during World War II 

Taliban is a Gender Aparthied Regime: Former Afghan MP

A former member of Afghanistan’s parliament urged the world on Monday to label the Taliban a “gender apartheid” regime because of its crackdown on human rights, saying the apartheid label was a catalyst for change in South Africa and can be a catalyst for change in Afghanistan. 

United Nations presses Sri Lanka to advance Human Rights amidst economic crisis

Sri Lanka should improve human rights and strengthen institutions to tackle the humanitarian challenges that have sprung from its worst financial crisis in seven decades; a top UN Human Rights official

The Pope's Penitence

Balbir Punj writes: He apologised in Canada. He should also acknowledge Church's excesses in India

Iran Arrests Baha'i Members; Advocates Demand their Release

Iran arrested several members of the Baha’i faith on spying charges, authorities said Monday, the latest sign of a tightening crackdown across the Islamic Republic as it faces international pressure over its tattered nuclear deal. 

Federal Indian Boarding School System Intentionally Sought to Destroy Native Families 

The 106-page Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report released on May 11 provides a glimpse into the deliberate intention of the federal government to disrupt the Native American family structure through assimilation. The report says the government’s plan involved the permanent breaking of family ties. 

USCIRF Report isn't Credible

It fails to document even a single case of victimisation. The USCIRF report is a compendium of outright lies, half-truths and distorted information; a vitriolic Hindu-phobic diatribe that reads like a rabid evangelist’s sermon; a one-sided propaganda that fails to document even a single instance of Hindu victimhood but piles on a list of atrocities allegedly perpetrated against minorities in India--all totally unsubstantiated. 

Thomas Jefferson once secretly wrote to Congress that the US would try to drive Native Americans into debt in order to take their land 

He suggested encouraging Indian Tribes to purchase goods on credit so they would go into debt

Leonard Peltier to Joe Biden: 'I am Not Guilty, I would like to Go Home'.

In a rare interview, the imprisoned Native American rights activist said he is also “grateful” to Biden for giving tribes their sovereignty back. 

Black Doctors say They Face Discrimination Based on Race

The medical school association and the National Medical Association in 2020 announced an initiative to address the scarcity of Black men in medicine — they made up only 2.9% of 2019-2020 enrolled students. 

The owner of a South Dakota hotel said she was banning Native people. Tribal leaders quickly issued the hotel a trespassing notice, citing an 1868 treaty.

Sioux leaders issued the hotel a trespass notice and are pushing Rapid City to pull its business license.

UK Assylum Deal: Is Uganda a Land of Saftey or Fear?

"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country," Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC. 

Canadian news outlet speaks out after Trudeau government denies them journalism license

Canada PM Justin Trudeau seeking to forcibly silence news outlet

Rebel News founder Ezra Levant speaks out to Tucker after government denies newly-created journalism 'license'.


Role of french Government in the Rwandan Genocide

A new report on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda further confirms what was already widely understood: France enabled this genocide, and in the intervening years, France went to great lengths to hide its complicity. 

Pope Apologises for the 'Deplorable Conduct' of Some Catholics in Residential Schools

After years of resisting calls to do so, Pope Francis apologized for the “deplorable conduct” of some Catholics in Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous children, saying he was “deeply grieved” by the stories of “suffering, hardship, discrimination and various forms of abuse” from survivors. 

There is a Path to Peace in Tigray

Ethiopia can end its civil war by upholding the Constitution

Saudi Arabia Executes 81 People on a Single Day

The death penalty applied for a range of charges in the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom’s modern history. 

Uyighur Women Cry on International Womens Day

 No group of women is suffering more today than Uyghur women, in land occupied by China while my people are facing active genocide. Women in East Turkistan, referred to as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by the Chinese government. 

Human Rights in the Age of South East Asian Extractivism

The differing experiences of Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines offer valuable lessons in the era of globalised extractivism, accelerating climate change and the struggle for human rights. 

Blot on American rights claims: Gitmo turns 20

It’s high time US President Joe Biden closed the books on the Guantanamo Bay prison which is infamous for its unrelenting human rights violations. 

UN General Assembly approves resolution condemning Holocaust denial

The United Nation’s General Assembly adopted, by consensus, a resolution that condemns denial and distortion of the Holocaust.  

Xi Jinping forced 10,000 people who fled overseas to return to China through an operation called 'Sky Net,' says human rights NGO

A new report published by a human rights NGO has detailed the methods used by China to force thousands of fugitives to return from other countries, describing the extent of Beijing's operations on foreign soil to control the Chinese diaspora. 

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