📑🖊 OPINION | Human Rights Watch Outflanks Trump: Liberal NGO Pushes for Harsher Venezuela Sanctions
Solidarity activist Roger Harris calls out Human Rights Watch's lobbying for more collective punishment against the Venezuelan people. HRW’s latest report urged the US to intensify sanctions and expand support for opposition civil society—despite recognizing the sanctions' humanitarian impact.
🔗 Read the full opinion piece here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/human-rights-watch-outflanks-trump-liberal-ngo-pushes-for-harsher-venezuela-sanctions/
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📑🖊 OPINION | Human Rights Watch Outflanks Trump: Liberal NGO Pushes for Harsher Venezuela Sanctions
Solidarity activist Roger Harris calls out Human Rights Watch's lobbying for more collective punishment against the Venezuelan people. HRW’s latest report urged the US to intensify sanctions and expand support for opposition civil society—despite recognizing the sanctions' humanitarian impact.
🔗 Read the full opinion piece here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/human-rights-watch-outflanks-trump-liberal-ngo-pushes-for-harsher-venezuela-sanctions/
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💢 L'Union européenne pourrait adopter un 21e paquet de #sanctions d'ici à la fin du mandat de l'actuel président du Conseil de l'UE.
🔴Toutefois, un tel scénario n'est pas garanti en raison de la nécessité de parvenir à un accord sur ce paquet de sanctions et de la complexité des négociations, a déclaré Tomas Zdechovsky, député européen.
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💢 L'Union européenne pourrait adopter un 21e paquet de #sanctions d'ici à la fin du mandat de l'actuel président du Conseil de l'UE.
🔴Toutefois, un tel scénario n'est pas garanti en raison de la nécessité de parvenir à un accord sur ce paquet de sanctions et de la complexité des négociations, a déclaré Tomas Zdechovsky, député européen.
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📌 Iran: 26 people risk execution in relation to protests
Amnesty International reports on violations of human rights in Iran, where thousands of people were arrested and indicted within national protests. In order to end protest wave among people Iranian government sentenced death penalty to two protesters and claimed that they acted «against God». Thus, activists and international community is scared of death penalty for 26 people, including 11 already sentenced to death and others are waiting for trials.
However, according to international law death penalty is limited to «the most serious crimes», whereas in Iran 4 people were sentenced to death for vandalism, assault and arson, which is huge violation of human rights.
In addition, Amnesty International investigated facts of torture and cruel treatment to numerous suspects in order to get confessions in committed crime. For instance, doctor Hamid Grahe-Hassanlou was sentenced to death for corruption, even if he showed physical damages from torture, but authorities did not carried out any investigations. The rights to presumption and inviting own lawyers were also violated by Iranian state bodies. All these indicated facts show violations of norms of international law in the field of human rights. International community calls Iranian government to abolish execution of death penalty for 26 people and to hold fair trials.
🔗https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/6309/2022/en/
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📌125 UN member states voted for a moratorium on the death penalty
During the plenary session of the UN General Assembly (UBGA) 125 out of 193 member states voted for establishment of moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolishing the death penalty that was recommended by Australia and Costa Rica within framework of Inter-Regional Task Force member-states.
Positive trend in supporting abolishment of death penalty could be observed since number of countries voting for such moratorium raised from 104 in 2007 to 123 in 2020. According to Amnesty International as a result of international supporting trend, countries such as Kazakhstan, Central African Republic and Papua New Guinea abolished death penalty for all crimes that is great step forward in protecting human rights.
Even though there are states such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Myanmar still have practice of death penalty and unfair justice system, overall trend in international community is showing incontestable intention to cancel death penalty all over the world.
UN and Amnesty International call all members of international community to take steps in abolishing death penalty regardless reasons or circumstances of committed crime and observe human rights to life.
🔗https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/6323/2022/en/
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США расширили санкции.
В частности санкции были наложены и в отношении более 90 физических и юридических лиц из России, Беларуси, Британских Виргинских островов, Болгарии, Казахстана, Кыргызстана, КНР, Сербии, ЮАР, Турции, ОАЭ и других стран.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2404
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Насколько санкции (экономически) эффективны?
Чтобы понять, насколько экономические санкции помогают или не помогают достичь целей, которые есть у вводящих их стран, требуется проанализировать широкую литературу по вопросу. Новая статья мета-анализа (2021) пробует проверить, правда ли опубликованные статьи демонстрируют статистически значимый эффект от санкций.
Исследуются статьи с 1985 по 2018 годы, и три основных переменных влияния - торговые связи (trade linkage), длина санкций (sanction duration) и предшествующие отношения стран (prior relations). Предварительный анализ демонстрирует, что вроде бы значимое влияние есть, но проблемой оказывается то, что статьи страдают от так называемого "публикационного смещения" (publication bias). Именно, результаты статей, которые дошли до журналов, оказываются сдвинутыми в сторону гипотезы о значимом влиянии, а это означает, что "природный эффект" скорее около нуля, чем положительный.
То есть - вероятно, что экономические санкции могут оказаться неэффективными для целей, которые ставят перед собой страны, их вводящие.
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Зачастую ранее принимались отказы при рассмотрении таких вопросов.
https://www.rbc.ru/economics/06/09/2023/64f85ca69a79476f474467af?ysclid=lm8oener7535290388
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@RusEmbMalta Press release
📄 The Russian Foreign Ministry has compiled and issued a Report 'On Violations of the Rights of Russian Citizens and Fellow Citizens in Foreign Countries'
☝️ We note with regret that the problem of violation of the rights of Russian citizens and compatriots abroad still has no signs of any improvement so far and, moreover, the negative trends continue due to the efforts of the collective West. <...>
All such violations of the rights of Russians, such as denial of a wide range of services (educational, medical, banking, etc.), the introduction of measures against Russian business and seizure of property of Russian citizens, suspension of Russians from sports and culture events, hypocritically forcing them to public repentance and condemnation of the actions of Russian authorities (here one should also point out double standards applied by international sports organizations against Russians and representatives of some other countries in similar situations). <...>
In the light of the support for the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev demonstrated by the “collective West”, Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine itself and some other countries pursue the most Russophobic course.
The common feature for all of them was, under the pretext of “condemning Russian aggression,” to fight against monuments and memorials commemorating the Red Army soldiers who perished in the battles for the liberation Europe from Nazism. That fight they, as the genuine followers of the ideology of Nazism, brought almost to paranoia and manic persecution of any symbol commemorating fighters against fascism.
We would like to note in this regard, that, in addition to this report, the above-mentioned actions, which contradict the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal, are also covered in the Ministry's report on the manifestations of the glorification of Nazism in the world. <...>
In a number of countries (first of all in the Baltic states, the United States, Canada and Ukraine), members of the Russian-speaking community who promote the preservation of cultural, linguistic and historical ties with Russia and advocate constructive relations with our country face pressure and repression on the part of the authorities.
In addition, the authorities in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine intensified their efforts to squeezing the Russian language out of all educational institutions, thus trampling on the right of the residents (and citizens among them) to education in native language.
Furthermore, the threat of mass deportation of Russian-speaking residents by the authorities of the Baltic states is still maintained: the first attempts on their part to solve, once and for all, the "Russian problem", as well as the unprecedented – especially for the XXI century – issue of widespread statelessness in their territories, have already been recorded. <...>
We continue to record cases of foreign authorities' obstructing the activities of Russian journalists and persons representing Russian media. <...>
⚠️ We would like to emphasize: all such actions demonstrate the desire of the Western countries to eradicate alternative points of view and prevent the realization of one of the basic rights of their citizens, i.e. the right to freedom of expression, which includes the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of state borders.
This report has been prepared based on the information and analytical materials provided by Russia's missions abroad using data from both Russian and foreign media and other open sources, including the conclusions and recommendations of the international human rights organizations and mechanisms. It takes stock of and systematizes the reports of hundreds of compatriots about the infringement of their rights abroad, including those received through hotlines organized by diplomatic missions.
We also continue to exchange information with Russian specialized non-governmental organizations that conduct relevant monitoring within their purview.
Read in full here.
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Dr. Alena Douhan, in an exclusive interview, unveils a report focusing on access to justice amidst unilateral sanctions. Highlighting the complexities faced by individuals and entities in designated countries, Douhan calls for legal mechanisms to safeguard human rights and address the challenges posed by over-compliance.
Read the complete interview here 👉🏽https://bit.ly/3I0q35A
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Brazil’s Amazon is home to over 100 uncontacted Indigenous groups who, after traumatic encounters with outsiders and the memory of enslavement, choose isolation to protect themselves; they often hide deep in the forest or actively resist contact—shooting arrows at intruders or planes—to defend their territory and health.
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