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UPROXX
March 24, 2018
Of course, if you are, say, an activist campaigning against a repressive government, a journalist an intelligence service would like to discredit, or just somebody who would rather not have any jerk with a password looking through your camera roll for nudes, it's not so great. In fact, in terms of expansivenessÃÂ ...
UPROXX
March 24, 2018
Of course, if you are, say, an activist campaigning against a repressive government, a journalist an intelligence service would like to discredit, or just somebody who would rather not have any jerk with a password looking through your camera roll for nudes, it's not so great. In fact, in terms of expansivenessÃÂ ...
Tehachapi News
March 24, 2018
And I remember it vividly as thousands of people fled or tried to flee as refugees to escape a ruthless right-wing government repression backed by at least ... and other church-affiliated lay people began appearing dead or disappeared for daring to speak out against the repressive regime, Romero could noÃÂ ...
Daily Journal
March 21, 2018
Our Founding Fathers of this country had been under a repressive government and when establishing the Constitution of the United States, insisted that certain rights were needed to be in place to protect individual citizens' rights from government, the reason for the first 10 amendments. Our country is nowÃÂ ...
University of Miami
March 13, 2018
Now a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, Taraciuk Broner was born in Venezuela, but was able to return to Argentina as a young child after the repressive government there was toppled. Today she views her job as helping Venezuelans who have fled their own repressive regime return homeÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
March 9, 2018
(New York) – The Chinese government's repression of political dissent in Tibetan areas warrants fact-finding visits by United Nations human rights experts, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a new compilation of cases and sentences against Tibetans. On February 21, 2018, six UN experts calledÃÂ ...
HarpersBAZAAR.com
March 9, 2018
"Wear the red dress," June says in a haunting voiceover, spelling out the list of commands given to handmaids in this repressive regime where fertile women are kept as sexual slaves. "Wear the wings. Shut your mouth. Be a good girl. Roll over and spread your legs. Yes ma'am. May the Lord open.
OCRegister
March 8, 2018
'Cambodian Rock Band' in Costa Mesa fuses music with family history – and a brutal, repressive regime ... I wanted to write a play about this dark period in Cambodia's history – about musicians who died because their music was seen by a repressive regime as a threat – but didn't know how to write it.”.
The Independent
March 8, 2018
With the notable exception of people suspected of terrorism offences, Britons – although subject to blanket state eavesdropping – are safe from arbitrary arrest, torture or extrajudicial execution. The same cannot be said for the citizens of dozens of states to which Britain is approving the sale of spyÃÂ ...
The Independent
March 7, 2018
With the notable exception of people suspected of terrorism offences, Britons – although subject to blanket state eavesdropping – are safe from arbitrary arrest, torture or extrajudicial execution. The same cannot be said for the citizens of dozens of states to which Britain is approving the sale of spyÃÂ ...
Inside Higher Ed (blog)
February 13, 2018
This brings me to Andrew Sullivan's incisive piece in New York Magazine. Sullivan is basically saying that campus identity politics, once a useful critique for bright young minds to consider, now threatens to become a repressive regime. Like Baldwin, Sullivan understands the anger behind identity politicsÃÂ ...
Independent Women's Forum (blog)
February 12, 2018
But the mainstream media seemed to have no reservations about showering compliments on Kim Yo Jong of North Korea, who represented her dictator brother at the winter Olympics in South Korea. North Korea is a prison state where torture and starvation are so prevalent that if the regime falls the worldÃÂ ...
Irish Examiner
February 12, 2018
The universal struggle for justice is provoked by an individual's sense of self worth, writes John Lloyd. In China, women calling themselves the “silence breakers” have demanded investigations into allegations of sexual harassment. In doing so, they pit themselves against a macho culture, a CommunistÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
February 7, 2018
Across the country, President Trump's request for a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue has sparked a debate on optics, cost and necessity. But in South Florida, such a show of uniforms, medals and hardware likely will rattle the hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Venezuelans and NicaraguansÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
The order, which applies to all U.S. citizens and other people living in the United States, belongs to a broader package of sanctions the Trump administration has leveled against the repressive regime of Nicolas Maduro in recent months. In February, Maduro launched a version of bitcoin unique toÃÂ ...
iNews
December 31, 1999
Saudi Arabia and other autocratic regimes with poor human rights records have spent nearly ã700,000 in the last five years on luxury trips for MPs, prompting claims that British politicians are being used to the “launder the reputation” of some of the world's most repressive governments, i can reveal.
Socialist Worker
February 27, 2018
The Home Office has invited various repressive regimes next month to browse stalls selling surveillance technology and crowd control equipment at a ... sniper rifes, shotguns, batons and handcuffs, the exhibition promotes cyber-spying firms that have been accused of helping repressive governments.
CoinDesk
February 27, 2018
The recent sanctions-skirting crypto projects, however, would enrich, not the citizens of these countries, but the repressive governments responsible for their pariah status. Which, as crypto critic Preston Byrne wryly noted on Twitter, doesn't match up with the tech's early libertarian rhetoric. Thoughts onÃÂ ...
The Daily Telegram
February 24, 2018
A good start would be to abandon ambitions to dominate the world, to overthrow repressive regimes and “make the world safe for democracy.” Our armies can overthrow repressive regimes, but these are replaced by worse ones or by weak governments that allow terrorists to proliferate. The world will neverÃÂ ...
eNCA
February 22, 2018
JOHANNESBURG - Across Southern Africa, courageous people and activists refused to give in to government repression and took to the streets to claim their human rights under difficult circumstances, Amnesty International said on Thursday. “2017 was a terrible year for human rights in Southern Africa.
africanews
February 22, 2018
Government repression – including ordering thousands of villagers in the Anglophone southwest to leave their homes – has driven support for a once-fringe secessionist movement, stoking a lethal cycle of violence. The secessionists declared an independent state called Ambazonia on Oct. 1. Since thenÃÂ ...
American Center for Law and Justice (blog)
February 20, 2018
We have launched our own investigation into Obama's Iran lie and the Hezbollah cover-up – filing critical legal demands of the deep state. Obama's deadly Iran deal must be thrown out before the dangerous, repressive regime grows even stronger as a result. We stand in support of Iranian Christians andÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 20, 2018
Their mission is to serve as public emissaries for an isolated and repressive regime. Suki Kim, a journalist who spent months undercover in North Korea working in a missionary school for the children of North Korea's elite, said the women are prohibited from speaking about their experience abroad onceÃÂ ...
Vox
February 17, 2018
Anti-government protesters are demanding more freedoms from the repressive government. [Al Jazeera]; Things came to a head recently, causing the government to release three political prisoners, including journalists Eskinder Nega and Woubshet Taye and political opposition leader Bekele Gerba.
ThinkProgress
February 17, 2018
Pence's virtue signaling in North Korea, on its face, comes off as righteous disgust for a repressive regime. But further examination of the Trump administration's rhetoric over the past year, as well as its overall lack of attention to human rights, makes Pence's antics at the Olympics seem cynical andÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
February 16, 2018
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League — a prominent Jewish civil rights organization — questioned the wisdom of attending a meeting with the leader of a repressive regime like Iran and said Farrakhan's presence should have indicated the danger: “Yes, there may have been manyÃÂ ...
NPR
February 15, 2018
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has died at 65. He had been suffering from colon cancer. As the arch political rival of then-president Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai came to symbolize courageous resistance to Mugabe's repressive regime. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; EmailÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
February 15, 2018
Since then, three generations of Kims have ruled the North and turned it into one of the most isolated and repressive regimes in the world. The Trump administration is now struggling with the youngest Kim's nuclear aspirations, which have put the regime on the verge of becoming the world's latest nuclearÃÂ ...
Irish Examiner
February 13, 2018
The universal struggle for justice is provoked by an individual's sense of self worth, writes John Lloyd. In China, women calling themselves the “silence breakers” have demanded investigations into allegations of sexual harassment. In doing so, they pit themselves against a macho culture, a CommunistÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
February 13, 2018
... Tucker Carlson said the tendency of the left to support dictators such as Fidel Castro, Chairman Mao, Hugo Chavez, and Idi Amin comes from resentment of their own fathers. "Progressives have a long and dishonorable history of supporting the world's most repressive regimes," he said. "No exaggeration.
Inside Higher Ed (blog)
February 13, 2018
This brings me to Andrew Sullivan's incisive piece in New York Magazine. Sullivan is basically saying that campus identity politics, once a useful critique for bright young minds to consider, now threatens to become a repressive regime. Like Baldwin, Sullivan understands the anger behind identity politicsÃÂ ...
Fox Business
February 12, 2018
The media tried to shift the North Korea image from aggressive, dangerous militarism, to a softer brand. Little attention was paid to just who the little sister actually is. She is in charge of propaganda and agitation for a murderous regime! She whitewashes one of the world's most repressive governments.
Independent Women's Forum (blog)
February 12, 2018
But the mainstream media seemed to have no reservations about showering compliments on Kim Yo Jong of North Korea, who represented her dictator brother at the winter Olympics in South Korea. North Korea is a prison state where torture and starvation are so prevalent that if the regime falls the worldÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 11, 2018
The United Nations allowed the North Korean delegation to travel to South Korea for the Olympics, granting an exemption on sanctions against the repressive regime. During the trip, Pence has kept up pressure on the North over its nuclear ambitions and human rights record. Fred Warmbier attended theÃÂ ...
HuffPost
February 11, 2018
CNN is facing a backlash for publishing an article about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, which critics claim paints her family's repressive regime in a positive light. The piece, which was published Saturday, is headlined: “Kim Jong Un's sister is stealing the show at the WinterÃÂ ...
Finger Lakes Times
February 10, 2018
But it does sound similar to something from the former Soviet Union or any one of a number of brutally repressive regimes around the globe where American-style free travel is severely restricted by the government. Imagine what any non-American tourists thought on that Amtrak train in Syracuse when theyÃÂ ...
Financial Express
February 9, 2018
US President Donald Trump on Thursday once again denounced the “repressive regimes” of Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and North Korea and said that his administration is on the side of all those people around the world suffering “persecution” because of their religious faith. Trump delivered his remarks at theÃÂ ...
EURACTIV
February 7, 2018
Instead of providing migrants and refugees with safe and legal channels into the EU and sharing responsibility for them equitably, the EU has put in place policies to limit arrivals and to outsource responsibility to repressive regimes. This is exemplified by the deals the EU has signed with Turkey and Libya.
Miami Herald
February 7, 2018
Across the country, President Trump's request for a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue has sparked a debate on optics, cost and necessity. But in South Florida, such a show of uniforms, medals and hardware likely will rattle the hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Venezuelans and NicaraguansÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
February 1, 2018
Australia has no plans to tighten scrutiny of its arms trade under a controversial new export drive announced on January 29. While the government aims to ramp up foreign sales, rights groups fear that more Australian weapons will end up in the hands of repressive regimes, especially in Asia and theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 30, 2018
In 2006, the United Nations began imposing sanctions on the repressive regime, but as North Korea forged ahead in its nuclear and missile developments and in defiance, sanctions have continued to tighten. China, seen as the oppressive neighbor's longtime ally, has been pressured by the internationalÃÂ ...
The Asbury Collegian
January 27, 2018
Social media usage in Iran has become less restricted, allowing young people to see a life in a world unattainable to them, due to current government repression. Instagram underwent a blockage to the Iranian people from Dec. 31 of last year until Jan. 6. Twitter has long been left unavailable to the IranianÃÂ ...
CNBCAfrica.com
January 26, 2018
We condemn in the strongest terms the violence perpetrated by DRC security forces on January 21 against church-led peaceful protests that resulted in at least six confirmed deaths, dozens of injuries, and numerous arbitrary arrests. We are appalled that the DRC government, including President Kabila,ÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 24, 2018
We condemn in the strongest terms the violence perpetrated by DRC security forces on January 21 against church-led peaceful protests that resulted in at least six confirmed deaths, dozens of injuries, and numerous arbitrary arrests. We are appalled that the DRC government, including President Kabila,ÃÂ ...
Madison.com
January 20, 2018
Dear Editor: I agree with the sentiment of the letter writer who wrote "Conservatives fiddle while country burns." However, the real cause of our local, state and national political malaise is extremism. It is necessary to be honest with ourselves as citizens, to ascribe the correct verb to this serious issue.
Nikkei Asian Review
January 19, 2018
TOKYO -- Several Southeast Asian countries have experienced deteriorating conditions of political rights and civil liberties in the past year, according to a report by U.S. nongovernmental organization Freedom House. In this year's "Freedom in the World" report, six out of ten member countries of theÃÂ ...
RT
January 16, 2018
Among the countries with a questionable record of human rights and to whom Britain licensed arms exports this past year is Equatorial Guinea, which tops the list of the most corrupt and repressive regimes in the world. The list also includes Azerbaijan, which is said to have conducted a violent crackdownÃÂ ...
Highsnobiety
January 12, 2018
HBO's Michael B. Jordan-Starring 'Fahrenheit 451' Tackles Censorship & Repressive Governments. By Jonathan Sawyer in Trailers; Jan 12, 2018; 0 Comments. 1232 Shares. ShareTweetEmailWhatsAppComments. Loading. Play. Subscribe to Highsnobiety on YouTube ÷ HBO has tapped Michael B. Jordan and Michaelà...
iNews
January 12, 2018
Britain has dramatically increased the value of weaponry and defence equipment it sells to the world's most repressive regimes since vows by senior ministers to expand arms exports after the Brexit vote. Figures seen by i show that the Government cleared export licences worth ã2.9bn in the 12 monthsà...
The Peninsula Qatar
January 11, 2018
Doha: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said the allegation of supporting terrorism on Qatar by siege countries is a tool to gain sympathy in Western countries while extremist policies pursued by repressive regimes are the main cause ofÃÂ ...
