Category: International
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States have the primary responsibility to … protect the human rights of religious minorities
Today we honour and remember the victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief. Across the world, we continue to witness a rise in hate speech, intolerance, and even physical violence and attacks on individuals, groups, and sites, purely because of their religious beliefs or significance. This violence often goes hand-in-hand with the…
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International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief | 22 August
Human Rights Related to Freedom of Religion or Belief Freedom of religion or belief, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of association are interdependent, interrelated and mutually reinforcing. They are enshrined in articles 18, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Upholding these rights…
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Relationship between big tech and policing is shielded behind commercial confidentiality: it’s a problem
For over ten years, public inquiries, press reports, police whistleblowers – and even chief constables – have been raising the issue of police IT systems not being fit for purpose and ultimately failing victims of crime. This has prompted significant media attention and public scrutiny, as well as the resignation of the head of one force.…
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North Korea is starving, and Kim Jong Un is having fun on an 80-meter yacht
A food crisis and a terrible famine plague North Korea, while its leader Kim Jong Un has devoted himself to holiday entertainment, NK News reports, quoted by standartnews.com.
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20 years of UN Firearms Protocol and Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) shed light on way forward
Vienna (Austria), 9 August 2021 – As 2021 marks the 20th Anniversary of the UN Firearms Protocol and the Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), UNODC, jointly with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), recently held a high-level side event on the margins of the 7th Biennial Meeting…
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The New MIVILUDES Report: Bad Methodology, Unreliable Results
Privileging the saisines (i.e., reports by those who write to denounce a “cultic deviance”) may only lead to biased conclusions. by Massimo Introvigne The MIVILUDES, the French Inter-ministerial mission for monitoring and combating cultic deviances (dérives sectaires), which is now part of the Ministry of the Interior, published last week its report for the years 2018–2020. Like Diogenes wandering…
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Scientology celebrated World Friendship Day
For World Friendship Day, the Church of Scientology Shares the Key to Lasting Relationships LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA • A new “Golden Rule” to kindle compassion, improve relationships, and empower happiness, from a common-sense, universal moral code The Church of Scientology International extends an invitation to people of goodwill to join Scientology Churches and Missions in support of International…
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UNODC and Siemens AG strengthen partnership for business integrity
Vienna (Austria), 2 August 2021 – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Siemens AG signed a funding agreement worth US$ 4 million to strengthen business integrity. The sum represents the largest single contribution by the private sector to UNODC’s anti-corruption work. It will be dedicated to funding a new UNODC project,…
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“Victims´ Voices Lead the Way”: Karly Church
Karly had just arrived in a new city, she was homeless. She had no family or social support system and battled a serious drug addiction. This is when she met her traffickers. “They took the time to get to know me and my needs in a way no one had before,” explains Karly. Her traffickers…
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A truck full of coffee instead of opium – UNODC helps farmers in Lao PDR with alternative livelihoods
23 July 2021 – A man dressed in a purple silk shirt is inspecting a truck about to leave Huapanh, a North Eastern province of Lao PDR. The truck is departing an area infamous for the cultivation of opium poppies, where this illegal crop has been a dominant source of income for generations. For years,…