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فشر مینز کوآپریٹیوسوسائٹی (ایف سی ایس) میں کرپشن،لوٹ مار

فشر مینز کوآپریٹیوسوسائٹی (ایف سی ایس) میں کرپشن،لوٹ مار،غیر قانونی بھرتیوں کا سلسلہ ایک عرصے سے جاری ہے۔ یہ سلسلہ تھمنے کا نام نہیں لے رہا۔ ایف سی ایس میں مسلسل بڑھتی ہوئی کرپشن اور لوٹ مار کی وجہ سے ماہی گیروں میں تشویش بڑھتی جا رہی ہے۔ جبکہ دوسری جانب ملازمین کو بلاجواز ملازمت سے فارغ کیا گیا اوران ...

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Voting for Human Rights: A Guide for 2020

In every election, human rights matter. From local schoolboard elections to presidential ones, voters have the chance to choose candidates who will fight for all people’s human rights, not work to undermine them. In the upcoming 2020 United States elections, fundamental human rights are at stake – like health care, a decent school for your kids, equal treatment at work ...

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Vietnam: Longtime Critic Facing Trial

Bangkok (HRP) – Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges against the blogger Pham Van Diep and immediately release him, Human Rights Watch said today. Pham Van Diep will face trial on November 26, 2019 in Thanh Hoa Province on charges of posting, liking, and sharing information on Facebook in violation of article 117 of Vietnam’s penal code, which criminalizes publication ...

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Tragic Loss of Somali Activist

Somalia (HRP)Somalia lost a bright star. Almaas Elman, a committed Somali-Canadian civil society campaigner, died after being struck by gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, while driving from a meeting in the heavily fortified Halane compound, near the international airport. It is unclear whether she was targeted or hit by a stray bullet, possibly fired by one of the many local, ...

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Nicaragua: Cruel Response to Hunger Strikes

Washington, DC (HRP)– The Ortega government’s use of repressive tactics to prevent hunger strikes should prompt increased international efforts to demand accountability for abuses in Nicaragua, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 14, 2019, mothers of people detained in the context of the 2018 crackdown began a hunger strike inside the San Miguel Arcángel Church in Masaya, Nicaragua, to ...

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Outcry as Japanese TV Show Mocks Transgender Woman

Last week, a Japanese television program outed and mocked a transgender woman, exposing the harsh reality trans people face in Japan. But a society that often misunderstands and objectifies them is only the beginning – Japan’s legal system also treats trans people like second-class citizens. The television program, billed for families, features a host conducting impromptu interviews with unassuming “strange” ...

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IMF: Delay Vote on Equatorial Guinea Loan

(Washington, DC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board should delay a planned December 2019 vote on a US$280 million loan agreement with Equatorial Guinea, eight human rights and good governance organizations and eight prominent experts said today in a letter to the IMF Executive Board. The program preceding the loan agreement and planned conditions for the loan are insufficient to address ...

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Unfair Trial; Continued Due Process Violations

(Beirut) – An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced at least six environmental experts detained since January 2018 after an unfair trial where the defendants apparently could not see the full dossier of evidence against them, Human Rights Watch said today. The court informed the detainees on November 20, 2019 that they had been convicted of “collaborating with the enemy state of the ...

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