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Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on March 23, 2021 7 Comments

In a historic shift, the European Union has imposed sanctions against Communist China for the first time in more than thirty years. Brussels froze Chinese assets and sanctioned four senior Chinese officials for their role in human rights violations inside China -- the first measure of its kind since the end of the Cold War. 

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 19, 2020 19 Comments
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has singled out Israel for allegedly violating women's rights. The multinational body, which looks after UN's economic and social work, voted 43 to 3  in support of a resolution condemning Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, for violating women's rights, the Geneva-based watchdog group UN Watch reported on Friday. None of the other 192 member states of the UN were rebuked for its treatment of women.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 09, 2020 27 Comments
Not stopping at imprisoning and torturing women for refusing to wear Sharia-mandated hijab, the Iranian regime is now cracking down on 'indecently dressed' mannequins in shops, the Iranian state-controlled media reported. Iranian police are screening shop windows for any violation of the Sharia dress-code and shutting down retailers found in violation. They also "warned online clothing retailers that display their products in an un-Islamic fashion," news reports say.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on March 09, 2019 8 Comments
A London court has sentenced a woman to eleven years in prison for mutilating the genitals of her three-year-old daughter. The 37-year-old Ugandan immigrant became the first person in the UK to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM) since the practice was criminalized three decades ago.

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 13, 2018 3 Comments
Earlier this month, a Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in jail after they exposed the human rights abuses by the Myanmar military on the Rohingya minority. The judge claimed the two men “collected and obtained confidential documents.” Now Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, defended the jailing of the journalists at a World Economic Forum summit.
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