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Dec 13

Barack Obama receives Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award at NYC gala

By Sabrina Caserta, Associated Press

"I'm not sure if you've heard, but I've been on this hope kick for a while now. Even ran a couple of campaigns on it. Thank you for officially validating my hope credentials," Obama said during his remarks.

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Nov 15

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Yemen’s war must end to address starvation, UN food aid chief says

In Yemen, 10,000 are estimated to have been killed in the war that's been raging for three and a half years. But millions are suffering from an acute hunger crisis and the United Nations warns that Yemen is on the…

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Oct 18

Analysis: With Trump’s ‘America First’ policy, where do human rights rank?

By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

President Donald Trump has shown no interest in calling out the kingdom over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi — or calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin on assassinations or North Korea's Kim Jong Un on political prisoners.

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Sep 23

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Architects designing for prisons confront ethical questions

By PBS News Hour

The number of prisons in the U.S. has exploded from nearly 500 in the 1970s to almost 2,000 today, becoming a source of business for the architects who design them. But some in the profession are urging fellow architects to…

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Jul 17

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News Wrap: EU court orders Russia pay Pussy Riot for wrongful imprisonment

In our news wrap Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Russia was wrong to jail members of the group Pussy Riot for a protest in 2012. The court ordered the Putin government to pay nearly $50,000 to the…

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Jun 15

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Witness to starvation and executions, North Korean defectors hope Trump broaches human rights

President Trump has repeated that the nuclear weapons issue is now more important than 70 years of human rights atrocities committed by the Kim dynasty in North Korea. Two defectors with harrowing stories of starvation, deprivation, public executions, losing parents,…

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Apr 20

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The universal danger of ignoring human rights violations

In Syria, almost every conceivable atrocity has been committed in the last few years, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. Al Hussein joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the U.S. role in the destruction of Raqqa,…

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Feb 11

Leading human rights and pro-democracy advocate Asma Jahangir dies at 66

By Pavni Mittal

Asma Jahangir, a lawyer and renowned human rights activist in Pakistan, died of a heart attack on Sunday in Lahore at the age of 66.

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Jul 24

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Myanmar’s Rohingya stuck in limbo between persecution and relocation

By PBS News Hour

The Rohingya people, an ethnic Muslim minority group, have fled murder and persecution by the army of Myanmar to seek refuge in camps in Southern Bangladesh, but their arrival has been less than welcome. Special correspondent Tania Rashid reports.

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May 29

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Has China really stopped obtaining organs from executed prisoners?

By PBS News Hour

For decades, China obtained human organs such as kidneys and livers from executed prisoners, a practice condemned by human rights activists and medical ethicists. China says they no longer do this and have built a new system for organ transplants…

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