Fifa’s choice of Qatar as host of the 2022 men’s football World Cup has been controversial since day one. Questions continue to be raised about the nation’s attitude to human rights, and its treatment of migrant workers, writes Argyro Elisavet Manoli
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Each of the 39 countries we analyzed – including Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States – saw an overall decrease in human rights in 2020.
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84 million people are displaced due to violence, insecurity, and climate change.
By UNHCR
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Kim Jong Un’s first decade in power has seen a continuation of the deadly repression and failed policies that have kept North Koreans living in fear and under the threat of starvation for the last 70 years.
View More Kim Jong Un’s decade in power: Starvation, repression and brutal rule – just like his father and grandfather
The U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has generated intense debate for two decades, with enduring questions about national security, human rights, and justice.
View More Guantanamo Bay: Twenty Years of Counterterrorism and Controversy
Witness testimony has traditionally played a central role in human rights fact-finding and investigations. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, and United Nations (U.N.) offices and inquiries…
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In its Sept. 14 decision on providing U.S. military financing to Egypt, the Biden administration seemed to forget or disregard the recent past in ways that reduce any chance of inducing improvements in that country’s dire human rights situation.
By Adam Keith
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