human rights Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/human-rights/ A platform for change Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:22:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The US may tout itself as a great defender of human rights but the data tells a different story https://flux.community/jamil-dakwar/2023/11/the-us-may-tout-itself-as-a-great-defender-of-human-rights-but-the-data-tells-a-different-story/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:22:26 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=14373 Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee delivered a searing report highlighting the U.S. government’s failure to meet its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). This international treaty, ratified by the U.S. in 1992, is one of only three key human rights treaties that the U.S. has […]

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]]> Border Patrol indifference claims the life of 8-year-old girl https://flux.community/brett-wilkins/2023/06/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-indifference-claims-the-life-of-8-year-old-girl/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:16:19 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13664 Last month a coalition of migrant advocacy groups mourned and demanded justice for an 8-year-old Central American girl who died in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody earlier in the month. The #WelcomeWithDignity campaign for asylum rights remembered Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez, an 8-year-old girl who came to the United States with her Honduran parents, […]

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]]> Identifying as LGBTIQ in Uganda on track to be punishable by life imprisonment https://flux.community/khatondi-soita-wepukhulu/2023/03/identifying-as-lgbtiq-in-uganda-on-track-to-be-punishable-by-life-imprisonment/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:09:36 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13045 Ugandan MPs last week approved a draconian new bill that makes identifying as LGBTIQ punishable by life imprisonment, and advocates the death penalty in certain cases. It also penalizes individuals and organizations who “promote” homosexuality and imposes a duty on Ugandans to report people in same-sex relationships to the authorities. Only two out of 389 MPs […]

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]]> Amnesty report demands Biden take action to end death penalty https://flux.community/julia-conley/2022/06/amnesty-report-demands-biden-take-action-to-end-death-penalty/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:00:06 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11423 International human rights group Amnesty International on Monday called on U.S. President Joe Biden to follow through on his campaign promise to eliminate the federal death penalty and commute the sentences of death row inmates as the country approaches the 50th anniversary of the landmark capital punishment case Furman v. Georgia. In a new report, The Power of Example, […]

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]]> ‘Leaving to sin’ is more about evangelicals’ obsessions than the desires of those who leave https://flux.community/chrissy-stroop/2021/05/leaving-christianity-religion-repression-desire/ Wed, 26 May 2021 18:16:40 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/05/leaving-christianity-religion-repression-desire/ The post ‘Leaving to sin’ is more about evangelicals’ obsessions than the desires of those who leave appeared first on Flux.

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