| | The Canadian province of Prince Edward Island has joined eight other provinces to block the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) from using provincial jails to incarcerate migrants and asylum seekers on administrative grounds. Nine of Canada’s ten provinces have stood up to CBSA, ending their complicity in human rights violations taking place in provincial jails against migrants and asylum seekers. It’s time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed the same leadership. | |
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 | | | In the charred remains of Mariupol, a vibrant city once stood. Before Russian forces attacked, about 540,000 people called the bustling city in southeastern Ukraine home. It was a place as rich in culture as it was in industry, strategically placed on the Sea of Azov.
War transformed the city into something unrecognizable: a tangled mess of crumpled buildings and a place of shallow graves. Thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting or died from other causes. Mariupol has suffered some of the worst destruction in war-scarred Ukraine. | |
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 | | | Meta should do more to protect the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and all its users, in particular on Facebook and Instagram, Human Rights Watch, Social Media Exchange (SMEX), INSM Foundation for Digital Rights, Helem, and Damj Association said in the #SecureOurSocials campaign launched last month.
Based on Human Rights Watch research and civil society recommendations, the #SecureOurSocials campaign aims to engage Facebook and Instagram to be more transparent and accountable by publishing meaningful data on investment in user safety, including regarding content moderation in the MENA region and around the world. | |
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 | | | Increasingly extreme rhetoric from political leaders and escalations of Texas’ Operation Lone Star border deterrence program are increasing the risk to the lives and safety of immigrants and border residents alike, Human Rights Watch said earlier this month.
While there is no evidence Operation Lone Star has slowed migration, the program has led to injuries and deaths, consistently violated the rights of migrants and US citizens, and suppressed freedoms of association and expression of groups providing basic aid in Texas. | |
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 | | | Global carmakers, including General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being used in their aluminum supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released earlier this month.
The report finds that some carmakers have succumbed to Chinese government pressure to apply weaker human rights and responsible sourcing standards at their Chinese joint ventures than in their global operations, increasing the risk of exposure to forced labor in Xinjiang. | |
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| | | The fossil fuel and petrochemical industry in the Louisiana area that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley” has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents, Human Rights Watch said in a recent report
Cancer Alley refers to an approximately 85-mile stretch of communities along the banks of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where communities exist side by side with some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical operations. | |
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