“Instead of investigating the executions and disappearances and providing information or assistance to the families, local authorities threatened some who dared to ask questions." Remembering Liu Xiaobo
The last time a Nobel Peace laureate died in state custody was in 1938, when pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died of tuberculosis under guard in a hospital in Nazi Germany. Asylum Seekers’ Silent Mental Health Crisis
“My hope is dead since they brought me here,” she said. “We saw all the terrible miseries [in Syria] but me and my children haven’t seen a jail [until coming to Greece].” Alleged ISIS Families Sent to ‘Rehabilitation Camp’ in Iraq
“The camps for so-called ISIS families have nothing to do with rehabilitation and are instead de facto detention centers for adults and children who have not been accused of any wrongdoing." Restricting Women’s Clothing – and Freedom – in Belgium
The European Court of Human Rights has struck another blow to women’s autonomy, ruling in favor of bans on full-face veils enacted in 2011 in Belgium.
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