Members of the Uyghur community and human rights activists protesting outside the UK Parliament. Photo: David Cliff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
In 2021 the governments of the United States, Canada and the Netherlands all independently stated China was committing genocide against Uyghur people in the region of Xinjiang. Last week, April 22, UK Parliament was the latest to accuse China of committing crimes against humanity and genocide in its treatment of ethnic and religious minorities.
Around 1 million Uyghurs and other minority groups are believed to have been illegally held and abused by authorities in internment re-education camps in Xinjiang, north-western China. Beijing denies these accusations and defends the measures as necessary to fight religious “extremism.”
Rodrigo Duterte has come under additional criticism from just about every major human rights organization on Earth. The UN Human Rights Commission has been nearly apoplectic over mass murders in the Philippines. So too has the International Criminal Court. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and numerous other Ivy League human rights groups have been hammering the Duterte government for numerous crimes against humanity.
There is no upside. While the members of Duterte’s junta have benefitted in power and wealth, the country has tanked. It is estimated that starvation will be taking a huge toll in the Philippines by the end of 2021. An estimate of COVID-19 excess deaths puts the Philippines around 77,000, a more realistic number that matches the anxiety of the population and the massive numbers of at-home funerals. Most Filipinos suffer COVID-19 at home and that is where they die. The cost of going to a hospital is beyond the vast majority of the population. Hence, deaths in
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Cape Town refugees: Bellville shelter packed up as City relocate group
The refugees who have been sheltered in Bellville since last year were told to either relocate or repatriate to their countries of origin.
The day has come for over 700 hundred refugees and asylum seekers were moved to Paint City in Bellville, Cape Town last year to either reintegrate into another cite allocated for asylum seekers or repatriate back to their country’s of origin.
This is the offer put on the table by government and the City of Cape Town has been met with widespread resistance from the group that occupied the Central Methodist Church in the City’s CBD in 2018 demanding that the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) assist them with repatriation away from the ‘xenophobic” communities they lived in here.