Tag Archives: human-rights

US criticises Ireland for insufficient action on modern slavery

Stealing babies from Guatemala and El Salvador is new US slavery!

People trafficking report highlights forced labour in Irish fishing industry

Ireland has been downgraded by the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for failing to do enough to tackle modern slavery.

The 2018 TIP report, released on Thursday, gives Ireland a Tier 2 ranking, on a par with Indonesia and India, because of what it describes as the government’s failure to adequately protect victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and labour abuse, and failure to convict traffickers.

Related: ‘We thought slavery had gone away’: African men exploited on Irish boats

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Inspired by Trump, the world could be heading back to the 1930s | Jonathan Freedland

The US president tears children from parents, and in Europe his imitators dehumanise migrants. We know where such hatred leads

You’ll remember Godwin’s law, which holds that the longer an online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will mention Hitler or the Nazis. It was an amusing observation and one that served a useful purpose, guarding against hyperbole and fatuous comparison. Except last August, as the American far right staged a torchlight parade in Charlottesville, Mike Godwin suspended his own law. “By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis,” he tweeted. “Again and again. I’m with you.”

Related: I saw a 5-month-old baby in detention. The harm to him cannot be undone | Lauren Dass

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The US withdrawal from the UNHCR is a gift to Xi Jinping and China | Frances Eve

It appears the last holdout in the resistance to ‘human rights with Chinese characteristics’ has collapsed

The US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is a gift to China’s leader Xi Jinping.

Quitting the UNHRC won’t make it disappear. It opens a leadership vacancy that China is happy to fill. The Trump administration has stepped back to allow China the space to dominate the council unchallenged and advance its agenda to redefine human rights after the “China model.”

Related: US quits UN human rights council – ‘a cesspool of political bias’

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Drowned, restrained, shot: how these migrants died for a better life

We may never know the life stories of the many thousands who died trying to reach Europe. But this is a tiny snapshot of some of the names on the List

The Guardian is today publishing a list of 34,361 people who have lost their lives trying to get into Europe over the past 25 years. Many are just anonymous entries, but our reporters have investigated a few cases to put faces and stories to the victims.

What is the List?

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Held for 16 Months, a Detained Immigrant Recounts His Experience After Hurricane Irma

Ibrahim*, an African asylum seeker, has been in ICE detention for 16 months. He’s been held at the Krome SPC near Miami, FL, the Broward Detention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and also in regular prisons. Here, in his own words, is his story as translated by Barbara Woshinsky.

I was transferred from Krome in Florida to New Mexico. In that prison, the water was not drinkable, nor was the water we washed with; that water had a strange smell. When I washed, my body turned white and I itched all over. From there I was transferred to BDC [Broward Detention Center] where I am now, but what happened during the transfer was horrible and risked our lives.

We had taken off in a plane that didn’t have enough fuel and had mechanical problems, for the plane hadn’t yet reached normal altitude when there was a change in pressure that blocked everyone’s ears followed by a violent shaking, as if we were in a turbulent zone, even though we had just taken off. This went on for half an hour until we landed again. We were told we would take off again in an hour.

That hour became 10 hours in the plane, shackled. We’d had nothing to eat since that morning. We spent all day at the airport until around 6:30 p.m., when they told us we couldn’t travel that day because the plan had problems and we had to go back to detention in New Mexico where another flight would be scheduled. So we were taken back to detention in a minibus and finally transferred to BDC.

All in all, the conditions we live under in detention are unacceptable. We live in hell because we have no rights. Everything that’s written down about detainees’ rights is only words, because none of it is respected.

We are treated like criminals.

* not his real name

Editors note: We recently learned that Ibrahim has been deported.

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ACLU ‘One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol Off a Greyhound Bus’

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One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol Off a Greyhound BusBy Mitra Ebadolahi

Border Litigation Project Staff Attorney, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties

Censored NewsJUNE 13, 2018 | 1:00 PMOn June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire Flower Beauty Company, was riding a Greyhound bus from Bakersfield, California to Las Vegas,

Navajo President: ‘No Uranium Exploration, Extraction or Transportation on Navajo Lands’

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U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Ariz., (middle), listens as President Russell Begaye speaks during a uranium town hall meeting May 30 in Cameron.

PRESIDENT BEGAYE: NO URANIUM EXPLORATION, EXTRACTION OR TRANSPORTATION ON NAVAJO LANDS

By Navajo Nation President Begaye Press Office

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WINDOW ROCK—President Russell Begaye is applauding the U.S. House of Representatives for