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Behind the scenes of Antonio Ledezma’s arrest in Venezuela

Political clashes in parts of Venezuela escalated this weekend with the arrest of the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. Ledezma is accused of being part of a foreign plot to force the current administration from power. The a...
by Laura Vidal
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Human Rights

Mexico’s Growing Human Trafficking Scene

In one Mexican farm alone, Bioparques de Occidente in Jalisco (BO), more than 250 workers were rescued from slavery circumstances.
by Carlos Arturo
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Gender-Based Violence

Indonesia’s virginity tests: A growing women’s rights violation

Indonesia’s city of Jember recently proposed imposing a state-sponsored two-finger test to check for the virginity of female high school students, preventing those who have engaged in pre-marital sex from receiving their ...
by Hina Tai
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Human Rights

The Future Of Human Rights In Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s death ends a fourteen-and-a-half year reign that saw marginal policy changes, particularly of those which relate to human rights.
by Sneha Nanavati
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Human Rights

A victory for women’s rights in El Salvador

El Salvador has been making several headlines for their harsh anti-abortion laws with imprisonments of women suffering miscarriages. However, it looks like the small Central American country has arrived at a turning point. On J...
by Isabela Vrba
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Human Rights

Did Torture Cost American Lives?

“The enemy is the enemy, until he becomes my prisoner,” I remember Lieutenant General Hal Moore saying, “then he is my responsibility”. Moore was with co-author Joe Galloway at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1993. They were talki...
by Christopher Kolenda
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Egypt’s Arab Spring: Not a Revolution

The past weeks may have erased in part the legacy of the hard-fought Egyptian revolution of 2011. The decision by the Egyptian judiciary to clear the former president Hosni Mubarak and members of his regime of the deaths of 846...
by Eva Uguen-Csenge
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Human Rights

Junior Jihadis: A New Era For Child Soldiers?

We are inundated with stories of children crossing continents to join the battle and to help to establish a caliphate.
by Flo Carson
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Human Rights

Worst 5 Human Rights Violations Of 2014

Today marks World Human Rights Day. Unfortunately, the term “human rights” is often associated with the violation of human rights, rather than the advancement of it. Although 2014 has seen many successes in variou...
by Jamal Russell Black
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