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| Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-TAIPEI (Reuters) - Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater prominence to the island’s name. TAIPEI (Reuters) - Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport... | ||||
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| Fewer foreign students are expected to Lund this year | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- These days, Lund's international students are welcomed to the historic Scanian university city. But this year, universities estimate that they will be far fewer than in previous years, almost 1,000 students against the approximately 2,000 who usually come.Lund University has corona-adapted both its event "Arrival Days" and the introductory weeks to be able to receive students safely during the current pandemic. - This year, there... | ||||
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| Filmmaker Who Mocked Egypt’s President Dies in Prison | ||||
Shady Habash had been held without trial at a maximum-security prison for two years. His lawyer said the cause of death was unknown.Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-CAIRO — An Egyptian filmmaker imprisoned over a music video that mocked President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi died at a maximum-security facility on Friday after two years in detention without trial, his lawyer said. The cause of death of the filmmaker, Shady Habash, 24, was not immediately clear. But it brought... | ||||
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| Why abortion and contraception are essential healthcare | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- The COVID-19 pandemic is stretching healthcare systems around the world to breaking point. As a result, many people are finding it harder than ever to access abortion and contraception.A health crisis on this scale means governments are having to make difficult decisions about where to target limited health resources. Already, in some countries, including Nepal and South Africa, providers of abortion and contraception have been forced to reduce... | ||||
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| Thailand: Authorities using repressive laws to intensify crackdown on online critics | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- The Thai authorities are prosecuting social media users who criticize the government and monarchy in a systematic campaign to crush dissent which is being exacerbated by new COVID-19 restrictions, Amnesty International said in a new briefing released today.‘They are always watching’ shows how General Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s administration has increased the use of vague or overly broad laws to bring criminal charges against dozens of peaceful... | ||||
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| Egypt: Rights Activist Detained, Allegedly Tortured | ||||
Escalating Campaign Against Human Rights AdvocatesMiddle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities on February 7, 2020 detained Patrick George Zaki, a researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), in a serious escalation of their campaign against human rights activists and groups, Human Rights Watch said today. A source at the rights organization told Human Rights Watch that the National Security Agency held George incommunicado... | ||||
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| Egypt: Private-sector garment workers forced to choose between health and livelihoods | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-On 16 March, the government decided to reduce the number of workers in governmental and public institutions in provinces with COVID-19 cases, and granted paid leave to workers in at least some state-run factories. However, the government did not make any similar provision for private-sector workers, who are left to face their employers’ discretionary measures. On 29 March Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly confirmed that there were no restrictions on the movement... | ||||
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| South Asia: As COVID-19 spreads, fears rise for people at higher risk | ||||
-Protect daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisonersMiddle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-As cases of COVID-19 escalate in South Asia, one of the world’s poorest and most populous regions, Amnesty International calls on the authorities there to put human rights at the heart of their responses and intensify efforts to protect marginalized and vulnerable groups at higher risk, including daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers... | ||||
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| Bangladesh: COVID-19 response flaws put older Rohingya refugees in imminent danger | ||||
Older refugees are both the most at risk from the pandemic and the least included in the humanitarian responseDangerous lack of access to even basic information Mistakes made during general humanitarian response efforts for Rohingya refugees are being repeated | ||||
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| Medics at Egypt's main cancer center test positive for virus | ||||
Egyptian officials say at least 17 medics in the country’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health facilities in the Arab world’s most populous countryMiddle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-CAIRO -- At least 17 medics in Egypt’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, officials said Saturday, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health... | ||||
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| Digital surveillance to fight COVID-19 can only be justified if it respects human rights | ||||
-More than 100 civil society groups sign joint statement setting out conditions that must be met before the use of surveillance technology to fight pandemicMiddle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-With governments across the world rapidly expanding the use of digital surveillance in an attempt to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Amnesty International and other leading NGOs have set out strict conditions that must be met to safeguard human rights and prevent surveillance overreach. | ||||
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| After this pandemic we can do better | ||||
David Griffiths is Director of the Office of the Secretary General at Amnesty International Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-The pain of the COVID-19 pandemic, a defining event of our times, will continue long after the virus subsides. When the immediate crisis is over many will have experienced unimaginable loss. Many will have lost loved ones, huge numbers will have lost jobs and perhaps homes, and hundreds of millions will have experienced the anxiety and loneliness... | ||||
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| India secures its east after western Himalaya clashes with China | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm-GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - India has moved troops to its eastern stretch of border with China since clashes erupted between the nuclear-armed rivals on the western part of their border in the Himalayas in June, a government official said. The June clash in the Ladakh region, in the western part of their border, was the worst violence between the Asian giants in decades and there has been little sign of a reduction in tension, with more military... | ||||
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| Human Rights Watch Calls on Morocco to Ensure LGBTQ Rights | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-Human Rights Watch affirms the “precarious” situation for LGBTQ identifying people in Morocco. The organization makes ongoing calls for justice.Rabat – Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international NGO headquartered in New York, has questioned the justice system surrounding Moroccan transgender women and LGBTQ rights in Morocco. A July 22 publication titled “‘Where is the Justice’ for Moroccan Transgender Women?,” highlights... | ||||
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| Brazil: Cattle illegally grazed in the Amazon found in supply chain of leading meat-packer JBS | ||||
Government data shows steep rise in illegal commercial cattle ranching in protected areas of Brazil’s AmazonIllegal commercial cattle ranching drives land seizures, violence and threats against Indigenous peoples and traditional residents of Reserves JBS urged to implement effective monitoring system by end of 2020 Cattle illegally grazed in protected areas of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have entered the supply chain of the world’s largest meat-packer, JBS, Amnesty International... | ||||
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| How to stay safe online during the COVID-19 crisis | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-With much of the world on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are relying on our phones, laptops and other devices to stay connected. While cyber-surveillance is a longstanding threat to human rights defenders and others, this new normal means options for using physical security alternatives (like simply communicating sensitive information in person rather than online) are seriously diminished. This raises the human rights stakes. It can... | ||||
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| Europe: Mass protests provide hope as rights and judicial independence eroded | ||||
Europe: Mass protests provide hope as rights and judicial independence erodedMoyen-Orient aujourd'hui / Suède / Stockholm: -People’s rights are being violated by governments in Europe and Central Asia, who are cracking down on protests and seeking to erode the independence of the judiciary to avoid accountability, Amnesty International said today as it published its annual review of human rights in the region. The organization praised those brave people who took to the... | ||||
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| Death penalty 2019: Saudi Arabia executed record number of people last year amid decline in global executions | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-Saudi Arabia, Iraq, South Sudan, and Yemen bucked a global trend with spikes in executionsGlobal executions fell by 5%, hitting a 10-year low Saudi Arabia executed a record number of people in 2019, despite an overall decline in executions worldwide, Amnesty International said in its 2019 global review of the death penalty published today. The Saudi authorities put 184 people to death last year, the highest number Amnesty has ever recorded in a... | ||||
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| Egypt: Further Information: Detained Researcher in Critical Condition: Ibrahim Ezz El-Din | ||||
Urgent Action Update: Detained Researcher in Critical Condition (Egypt: UA 104.19)Detained human rights researcher Ibrahim Ezz El-Din’s health has deteriorated in Tora prison putting him at particular risk if exposed to COVID-19. Ibrahim remains in pre-trial detention following his arrest on 11 June 2019 and enforced disappearance for 167 days. Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- Detained human rights researcher Ibrahim Ezz El-Din’s health has deteriorated in... | ||||
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| Cambodia: Exclusive footage reveals deplorable prison conditions | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-Amnesty International is releasing shocking footage providing first-hand evidence of the inhumane conditions and extreme overcrowding inside one of Cambodia's prisons.The organization recently called the country's detention facilities a "ticking time bomb" for a potentially disastrous coronavirus outbreak. "These deplorable conditions make a mockery of 'physical distancing' and show the Cambodian authorities' utter neglect for these... | ||||
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| Philippines: President Duterte gives "shoot to kill" order amid pandemic response | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-Responding to orders from President Duterte to police, military officials and barangay officials to shoot ‘troublemakers’ protesting during community quarantine, Amnesty Philippine Section Director, Butch Olano, said:“It is deeply alarming that President Duterte has extended a ‘shoot to kill’ policy to law enforcement agencies. Deadly, unchecked force should never be used in an emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic. “The... | ||||
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| Medics at Egypt's main cancer center test positive for virus | ||||
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Egyptian officials say at least 17 medics in the country’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health facilities in the Arab world’s most populous country Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:-CAIRO -- At least 17 medics in Egypt’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, officials said Saturday, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health... | ||||
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| Algeria: Quash conviction and sentence against political leader Karim Tabbou | ||||
Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- An appeal court in Algiers has today handed key opposition political leader, Karim Tabbou, a one-year prison sentence and a fine of 50 000 Algerian dinars (around 405 USD) for trumped up charges related to “incitement to violence” and “harming national security” in relation to his speech in videos published on his political party’s Facebook page where he peacefully criticized the role of the army in politics.Karim should never have... | ||||
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| Sierra Leone: Discriminatory ban on pregnant girls attending school is lifted | ||||
Following today’s ministerial statement to overturn with immediate effect the ban on pregnant girls attending schools, Marta Colomer, Amnesty International’s Acting Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa said:Middle East today / Sweden / Stockholm:- “Today we have cause to celebrate as thousands of pregnant girls across Sierra Leone will be allowed back into classes nationwide when schools reopen after COVID-19. This inherently discriminatory ban... | ||||
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A general view shows Tahrir Square, which was the focal point of the Jan. 25, 2011 Egyptian uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, closed off by police during curfew hours as a prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty))
