Human Rights
Sunday 28 April 2024
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“The deposits of JSC Dalur are located on a hill and away from the water. The flood did not affect them. There is no threat of flooding …”
Satellite images of flooded areas in the Kurgan region compared with the maps of Dobrovolnoye uranium deposits show part of Rosatom’s uranium wells covered in water. Environmentalists believe that the radioactive solution has been flowing into the Tobol River. -
“…Unlike Western troops which were always often on the opposite side of the fighting in the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Russian troops have helped various states to regain the territory.’’
The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russia’s military presence is linked with aggravated violence and war crimes. -
“…. Why are we being accused of supporting M23. ... For those accusing us, actually, I should accuse them of not supporting M23 because it is as if they agree with the injustice that is being done to this community.’’
Kagame is condoning and supporting a group that stands accused of serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. and the U.N., both of which have sanctioned the M23 militants, have accused Kagame’s government of supporting the group. -
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
“Nigeria is safe… It’s one of the safest countries in the world… [r]elatively safer [compared to South Africa and the United States], because I am in Abuja now, I’m safe. I go to my town, I’m safe. I go to Lagos, I’m safe.”
The Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria eighth among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism, while, according to the Global Organized Crime Index, Nigeria has the world’s sixth highest criminality rate, far worse than the U.S., which is ranked 67th. -
“Women received political rights in 1918, but they received real power only now, under President Putin and United Russia’s majority ... previously, all this was more for decoration.”
The United Nations recommends that women hold at least 30% of political leadership positions so that women can influence decision-making. Russia is far below the UN threshold. -
“The US gov’t is stunned that Niger is kicking the US military out of the country. Officials from AFRICOM and Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) express alarm that without the airbase in Niger, the U.S. will not be able to assert its ‘interests’ in Africa.”
U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there. -
"Peskov, commenting on the U.N. report on the torture of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, said that this is not news to Moscow, all crimes of the Kyiv regime are documented."
RIA Novosti distorted the U.N. report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, covering only alleged violations by Kyiv while omitting the bulk of the report, which focused on violations by Moscow. -
“On March 24, 1999, Western nations started bombing the city of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, under the far-fetched pretext of ‘protecting’ Kosovars.”
While the roots of the Kosovo war are complicated, and atrocities were committed by both sides, the evidence shows forced displacement, and the targeted killing of Kosovo Albanians, preceded the 1999 NATO intervention. -
“The Ordinance strikes a balance between safeguarding national security and ensuring rights, freedoms and economic growth…It does not at all undermine the high degree of autonomy in Hong Kong…The US itself has an airtight national security system, with a large number of laws and unparalleled extraterritoriality. However, it keeps pointing fingers at Hong Kong’s Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. This is sheer political manipulation and hypocritical double standards.”
Lin Jian’s remarks incorrectly draw a parallel between Article 23 and the U.S. legal system. Careful examination of Hong Kong’s new ordinance reveals that it is starkly different from U.S. principles and in effect undermines Hong Kong’s special status and autonomy. -
“Thanks to Russian security support, ‘Peace returns to the Central African Republic.”
Hostilities in Central African Republic (CAR) are ongoing, with some 10,000 children fighting in armed conflicts among various rebel groups. Russia’s involvement with CAR’s leadership is replete with corruption, misappropriation of natural resources, mass violence and human rights abuses. -
“I am among the first speakers to be banned from traveling to the Western countries because I do not believe in homosexuality,” she said.
Source: Uganda Parliament ,12, 2024The U.S. and U.K. imposed travel ban on Ugandan officials involved in violating human rights and undermining democracy. Ugandan rights activists also accuse Among of gross corruption.