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StepFeed
December 28, 2017
The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum is concerned about the December 10 arrest of journalist, human rights defender, and 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow Wini Omer on charges of “indecent and immoral acts.” Wini was arrested after attending the hearing of 24 women charged with indecency for wearingÃÂ ...
StepFeed
December 27, 2017
The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum is concerned about the December 10 arrest of journalist, human rights defender, and 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow Wini Omer on charges of “indecent and immoral acts. .... Ukrainian chess champion Anna Muzychuk, 27, won her two titles in Doha, Qatar last year.
PinkNews
December 22, 2017
The British official spoke about the importance of civil liberties in a speech at Plekhanov University, before meeting with a group of activists who are fighting for LGBT rights in the country. He told them: ... “We speak up for the LGBT community in Chechnya, and elsewhere, as people would expect from us.
The Cheat Sheet
December 18, 2017
But international organizations have expressed concern about the country's observance of human rights, protection of civil liberties, and adherence to democratic procedures. Most Americans have probably only heard of Kazakhstan because of the movie Borat. The movie may have damaged Kazakhstan'sÃÂ ...
Conatus News
December 10, 2017
Four years on from Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution, the country's reform process is stalled and the promise of the movement remains largely unrealised. .... Ukraine's civil society, so influential during Euromaidan, must focus their efforts once again and push for media reform and the advance of civil liberties more broadly.
Aljazeera.com
October 28, 2017
Rights groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have blasted these measures as unconstitutional and repressive. On Monday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed an executive order that similarly bans firms that boycott Israel from state contracts. Last week, the city of Dickinson,ÃÂ ...
Daily Signal
August 4, 2017
Ukrainian troops say U.S. weapons would be a morale booster, but probably wouldn't change the outcome of the war. ... “Russia is already in Ukraine, they are already heavily armed,” U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker told Radio Liberty in a recent interview after he visited the front-line town ofÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
July 11, 2017
BRUSSELS -- The European Union's 28 member states have formally endorsed the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, the final step in the ratification process after years of political twists and turns. The deal, which strengthens ties between the EU and Kyiv, will enter into force on September 1.
Center For American Progress
December 7, 2017
The notion that assets can be seized before an individual or criminal entity is found guilty has triggered deep constitutional concerns among groups across the political spectrum, ranging from the Heritage Foundation to the American Civil Liberties Union. The notion of such pre-emptive asset forfeitures ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 3, 2017
By hanging on to the coattails of the United States in its most recent attempt to destroy the government of Syria, the European Union (EU) led by ..... England and France) somehow began in ancient Greece and has brought enlightenment to the world: modern technology, science, civil liberties and the rule of ...
Russia Matters
December 2, 2017
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile program. .... (Interfax, 11.21.17); Russian President Vladimir Putin said there's a “real chance” to end the 6 1/2 year civil war in Syria as he met his counterparts from Iran and ...
MilTech
November 29, 2017
The center honored you in 2010 and you honored us by attending our event .... on which Western civilization is built: Liberty, equality, and human dignity. ... We hope Russia will take steps to restore Ukraine's full sovereignty and .... from a vibrant civil society and a deep respect for certain self-evident truths.
The Jewish Star
November 29, 2017
Ukrainian Mennonites volunteered to assist Nazi death squads as they ... the American Civil Liberties Union, on the ACLU website, declares, ...
San Diego Jewish World
November 28, 2017
In 1942, the Molotschna Mennonite colony in the Ukraine formally hosted .... the American Civil Liberties Union, on the ACLU website, declares, ...
The American Prospect
November 15, 2017
This article appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The American Prospect. ... He touted Poland as an outpost of liberty. ... revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine encouraged Vladimir Putin and ... These declines in political freedoms are reflected in shrinking political space for civil society, free press, and rule of law.
PaZimbabwe
November 14, 2017
While Ukrainian authorities expressed outrage over his death and ... other rights activists and her association with the UN Human Rights ... Ahmed Mansoor has fought to roll back restrictions on political rights and civil liberties in the United Arab ... In early 2017, he came forward with claims that he had been ...
Just Security
November 9, 2017
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here's today's news. The MUSLIM BAN. Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates was fired by Donald Trump last night after she refused to defend his executive order banning ...
Mintpress News (blog)
November 7, 2017
Many American liberals who once denounced McCarthyism as evil are now ... As the Times laments, “It's the old guilt by association.” ... So, for instance, a Ukrainian using the Cyrillic alphabet could end up falling into the ..... Traditional supporters of civil liberties have looked the other way as the rights of ...
The New Yorker
November 6, 2017
By the early two-thousands, the port had fallen to fifteenth busiest in the world .... They belong to an organization called the Sandy Hook Pilots' Association. .... John Wolfe Ambrose, a civil engineer, had had the vision to push for the ... All the officers on the ship were Ukrainian, and all of the crew Filipino.
New Eastern Europe
November 6, 2017
They have observed Ukraine and Georgia and learnt from the two countries ... Lala invites us to the offices of the Caucasus Civil Initiatives Center, a local ... outlets (including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), human rights ...
KGBT-TV
November 2, 2017
“Civil libertarians are very upset about this when the target is somebody ... Americans also broadly approve of the charges against Manafort and Gates, ... in American Politics,” observed that Manafort's work with Ukrainian interests ..... The Internet Association, a trade group that represents about 40 internet ...
Reliefweb
October 30, 2017
In that context, Ukraine's delegate stressed that the people of Crimea had .... dire, he said that country had become more repressive amid civil society crack .... Human rights issues related to the African American population and rights ... to do so in the spirit of its national traditions of liberty and democracy.
Interfax-Ukraine
October 30, 2017
... are together with us," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said, ... for Civil Liberties, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, and the ...
New York Times
October 30, 2017
Paul Manafort, Catalonia, Ukraine: Your Tuesday Briefing ... The event was probably arranged to signal Beijing's status as America's superpower peer, ... Their cause, they argue, is not about politics, but civil liberties. ... Some say the well-intentioned gesture has led to painful associations with the Holocaust ...
iPolitics.ca
October 23, 2017
iPolitics AM: Welcome to Canada, soon-to-be-officially-recognized U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft! ... The Entertainment Software Association of Canada descends on ... an afternoon session with Ukrainian Canadian Congress president ... Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Journalists for Free ...
iPolitics.ca
October 23, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence applauds as U.S. Ambassador to Canada .... during an afternoon session with Ukrainian Canadian Congress president ... the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Journalists for Free ...
The Intercept
October 5, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a petitioned in federal court Thursday on behalf of an American citizen captured on the battlefield in ...
Deutsche Welle
September 27, 2017
It could affect people's "right to liberty and security, the right to access to court, freedom of movement, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief," according to a statement by two UN human rights rapporteurs, Fionnuala Ni Aolain and Michel Frost.
The Intercept
August 13, 2017
... such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union, that defend the free speech rights and other civil ...
Daily Signal
August 4, 2017
Ukrainian troops say U.S. weapons would be a morale booster, but probably wouldn't change the outcome of the war. ... “Russia is already in Ukraine, they are already heavily armed,” U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker told Radio Liberty in a recent interview after he visited the front-line town of ...
Miami Herald
July 10, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Miami seeking to prevent President Donald Trump's voter-fraud commission from collecting voter data it is seeking from all 50 states. The lawsuit was filed against the Presidential Advisory Commission for Voter Integrity, along with Vice ...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 31, 1999
Many American liberals who once denounced McCarthyism as evil are now ... in the frenzy of Russia-bashing and guilt by association for any American who ... So, for instance, a Ukrainian using the Cyrillic alphabet could end up ..... Traditional supporters of civil liberties have looked the other way as the ...
