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The daughter of jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti received the EU’s top rights prize on his behalf Wednesday, saying she did not even know...
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A Uighur scholar imprisoned in China since 2014 and a trio of Brazilian activists were nominated Tuesday for a top European rights prize, along...
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The European Parliament on Thursday awarded the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to the beleaguered Venezuelan opposition, calling for a “peaceful transition to democracy”...
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A Guatemalan indigenous leader and environmental activist who is among the finalists to receive a prestigious European human rights award says she owes her...
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Two Yazidi women activists pleaded tearfully on Tuesday for Europe to bring Islamic State group leaders to justice for the crime of genocide, as...
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A Yazidi teenager who escaped the Islamic State group after nearly two years of enslavement said Friday the prospect of one day becoming a...
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Iraq’s Yazidi minority is in the spotlight Thursday after two women from the community won the European Parliament’s Sakharov human rights prize. Nadia Murad...
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Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who survived enslavement by the Islamic State group, welcomed the Sakharov prize for human rights Thursday as a “profound...
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Two Yazidi women who survived a nightmare ordeal of kidnapping, rape and slavery at the hands of Islamic State jihadists won the European Parliament’s...
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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi — sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam and winner of the Sakharov prize — is a known passionate fighter...