Leading rights groups urge US not to waive human rights conditions on aid to Egypt April 23, 2021 at 12:11 pm | Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Egypt, News, US
A 40,000 Detainees Without Charge, Children, Girls, Youth poster held by demonstrators during a protest marking the fourth anniversary of Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre in Times Square, New York, United States on 13 August 2017 [Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency] April 23, 2021 at 12:11 pm
A coalition of 14 of the leading human rights groups and NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken not to waive human rights conditions on aid to Egypt. The appeal has been made in a letter sent to Blinken as the Biden administration considers a national security waiver to continue aid payments despite Cairo s appalling human rights record.
April 21, 2021 President Yoweri Museveni inspecting an army parade
The USA threatened action against human rights abuses in Uganda for months in 2020 and last Friday an official travel ban was announced against unnamed high-profile government officials shining critical light on an increasingly important question: How damaging are the existential consequences for such banishment for the country and certainly the sanctioned individuals?
Though no names were mentioned, at least we have an inkling of who must be on the travel blacklist. When Congressmen began pushing the outgone Donald Trump administration last October for a more muscular response to what they described as “human rights abuses in Uganda and the country’s slide toward authoritarianism, the lead campaigners brandished a list of errant Ugandan officers that should be sanctioned.
April 21, 2021 Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was blunt and plain-spoken in his unflattering assessment of Uganda’s poor human rights record when he delivered on-camera remarks on April 4 while presiding at the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Uganda’s grades on human rights took a battering before, during and in the immediate aftermath of 2020/2021 election campaign period that put on public display the army and police’s use of high handed brute force to break up opposition campaign rallies, arrest politicians and their supporters deemed to run counter to Covid-19 rules limiting gatherings to 200 people.
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US Report on Fiji is factual in nature – Greubel
Raj says the report contains factual inaccuracies
US Report on Fiji is factual in nature – Greubel
Raj says the report contains factual inaccuracies Thursday 08/04/2021
US Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires to Fiji, Tony Greubel and Director of the Fiji Human Rights and Anti Discrimination Commission, Ashwin Raj. [image: file]
US Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires to Fiji, Tony Greubel has today maintained that the US State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Fiji are factual in nature however the Director of the Fiji Human Rights and Anti Discrimination Commission, Ashwin Raj says the US report contains factual inaccuracies and has a scant interpretation of the law.