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Businesses are deeply implicated in abuses of human rights defenders worldwide. In 2021 more than “a quarter of lethal attacks were linked to resource exploitation,” according to Global Witness. Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately attacked. Over 40 percent of fatal attacks targeted Indigenous people who make up only 5 percent of the world’s population. One in […]
On August 30th each year, the world is reminded that hundreds of thousands of people in at least 85 countries don’t know where their loved ones are, or even whether they are alive or dead. For the victims of enforced disappearance and their families, every day is the Day of the Disappeared. The unrelenting uncertainty […]
Short-term #EnforcedDisappearances: “Every Minute Counts": Contribution to project for a joint statement by #UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances & #WGEID | led by Peacemakers Trust. Full submission 15 August 2023: https://www.peacemakers.ca/publications/PeacemakersTrust.Input.CED.WGEID.Short-Term.EID.15Aug2023.pdf.
Countries mentioned include #Afghanistan #Canada #China #Colombia #Iran #Laos #Myanmar #Russia #Sudan #Thailand #Türkiye #USA.
See more about our project to combat enforced disappearances at https://peacemakers.ca/research/HumanRights/EnforcedDisappearance.2023.html
Russia is using the law as a weapon against its own citizens to silence all criticism of its unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine. International attention has been focused on Russia’s high-profile criminal prosecutions of independent journalists and opposition politicians. Comparatively little attention is being paid to thousands of dissenters punished with hefty fines under […]