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Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US

Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US

Al Jazeera — Washington, DC - Two journalists who say they have been targeted by the United States have filed a complaint against the American government, accusing it of putting them on a "kill list" and demanding to be taken off it.
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Afghanistan's refugees: Dying for a better life

Afghanistan's refugees: Dying for a better life

Al Jazeera — Kabul, Afghanistan - The pain etched on refugee faces on Greek and Turkish shores does not remain there. For many Afghans, it follows them home as they are deported back to Afghanistan - the bodies of their drowned loved ones, if they are found, in tow. Loss followed Massoud Ahmad, 35, and his wife, Weeda Jan, 32, back to Kabul on December 28, along with the bodies of their two children - Gholam Seddiq, nine, and Elaheh, eight. "They were the top of their class," says Ahmad, wiping tears from his eyes. He lets the tea in front of him grow cold as he tells his story.
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Trapped In Turkey: One Afghan Asylum Seeker's Quest To Make A Life In The EU

Trapped In Turkey: One Afghan Asylum Seeker's Quest To Make A Life In The EU

thinkprogress.org — CREDIT: Photo courtesy of Baaz Muhammad Kakar, via D. Parvaz On Saturday, Baaz Muhammad Kakar left the coastal city of Mersin in Turkey and boarded a bus to Istanbul - another step in his long journey from home. He had eaten only a biscuit in the past 24 hours. He caps that update to me with, "Unfortunately, I'm still alive." A 23-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, and an example of the collateral damage of America's longest war, Kakar has been stuck in Turkey since March 20, waiting for human smugglers to get him to Greece.
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Afghanistan's internal refugee crisis

Afghanistan's internal refugee crisis

Al Jazeera — Facts Around 20,000 Afghans applied for refugee status last year There are roughly 1,000,000 internally displaced people The average daily wage is no more than $2 a day Last year (2015) was Afghanistan's deadliest year since the 2001 invasion Kabul, Afghanistan - Hamidullah takes a moment to consider his surroundings after asking a young man to fetch him some drinking water. "Oh, what clean water we had in Kunduz," the 35-year-old said of his hometown, which lies near the Tajik border. "What clean air." "Here, everything is so polluted. We are surrounded by rubbish," he said. "Look at how we're living."
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Afghanistan's boomerang asylum seekers

Afghanistan's boomerang asylum seekers

Al Jazeera — Kabul, Afghanistan - Sitting in an underground coffee shop in the heart of Kabul, Akhtar tried to describe the dreams and hopes he had held for the future, but was overcome with tears. "My parents had sent me here to get an education with a hundred hopes ..." he said as he buried his head in his hands, weeping. He had big plans - with a visa in hand, he was about to take off for Iran the following week. Akhtar is educated, with a degree in economics and a job, but he said he had no choice but to leave everything behind.
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Selling American girls

Selling American girls

Al Jazeera — Until recently, the victims were the ones being arrested, while those who purchase them got off easy. Our series looks at the whole picture, showing how vulnerable girls are exploited by pimps, sold to johns and punished by the law.
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The immigration interview: A moment of truth for migrants, refugees

The immigration interview: A moment of truth for migrants, refugees

Al Jazeera — Although the majority of the news coverage given to the refugee and migrant crisis focuses on the perilous journeys they take to reach European shores, the fact is, for many of the more than 700,000 who have arrived by land and sea since the start of the 2015, surviving long enough to reach the EU is just the beginning. What comes next is dealing with a maze of regulations - applications, interviews, rejections and appeals - mostly in languages they do not speak. The flow of people leaving countries such as Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and elsewhereis described by United Nations agencies and humanitarian groups as mixed flow or mixed migration.
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Finally heard: Former Guantanamo detainee 'beamed' into art installation

Finally heard: Former Guantanamo detainee 'beamed' into art installation

Al Jazeera — Mohammed el Gharani was around 11 years old and living with his parents in Saudi Arabia, helping them herd goats, when he was alleged to have aided Abu Qatada al-Filistini with terror plots. At the age of 14, while attending school in Pakistan - being a Chadian citizen, he was denied an education in Saudi Arabia, where he was born - el Gharani was arrested during a raid on a mosque, an incident UK-based rights group Reprieve has described as an "abduction." The teenager was first sent to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where he was allegedly kept naked and abused for days before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
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Oklahoma: Doctors have no duty of care in executions

Oklahoma: Doctors have no duty of care in executions

Al Jazeera — In its response a brief filed by a physicians' group asking that the doctor who botched Clayton Lockett's April 2014 execution be named and investigated, the state of Oklahoma said a doctor carrying out executions is not acting as a doctor, even though the state requires a doctor to do the job. "Even if some of the actions are medical in nature, it does not follow that doctors participating in executions are engaged in medical practice," reads the response, filed on Tuesday at the federal appeals court in Denver. The response states, "Doctors who participate in executions do not have a physician-patient relationship with the inmate that is being executed."
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Life after Ebola: Liberia's invisible babies

Life after Ebola: Liberia's invisible babies

Al Jazeera — Last year's Ebola outbreak, which killed over 4,000 people in West Africa, continues to leave its mark even on those who were not infected. According to the United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, over 70,000 births between August 2014 and January 2015 were left unregistered in Liberia during the Ebola crisis. This translates to a 39 percent drop in registrations from pre-Ebola levels, with only 700 births registered between January and May of this year. The registration of a birth is a crucial step in ensuring that a child's basic rights are protected.
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Rights group declares Australia's offshoring of refugees a 'disaster'

Rights group declares Australia's offshoring of refugees a 'disaster'

Al Jazeera — Human Rights Watch (HRW) declared Thursday that Australia's policy of offshore detention is a "disaster" for the refugees arriving on its shores. For the past two years, Australia has detained nearly 1,000 asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Since the start of 2015, two asylum seekers have died, including one the rights group says was allegedly beaten to death by detention center security staff. No one from the island has been resettled since Australia started detaining individuals abroad in 2013. Since then, Australian authorities gave 40 men official refugee status but continued to deny them the right to work or seek education.
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The death penalty: How we kill | Al Jazeera America

The death penalty: How we kill | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America — As of the start of 2015, there were 3,109 inmates on death row in the U.S. If they lose their legal appeals or do not die of other means while incarcerated, they will likely be put to death by one of the means below.
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Lebanon's immigrant domestic workers remain vulnerable to abuse | Al Jazeera America

Lebanon's immigrant domestic workers remain vulnerable to abuse | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — BEIRUT - At a meeting of domestic workers in the Wata El Msaytbeh neighborhood on a sleepy Sunday, 20 women from Asian and African countries gathered to do what seemed impossible just a few months ago: Create an action plan for a newly formed union to protect the rights of domestic workers. In the Middle East, where domestic work is rarely classified as labor under the law, a formal proposal in late December for Lebanon's government to form a union for domestic workers attracted international attention.
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Rights group calls on Ghana to end child labor in gold mines | Al Jazeera America

Rights group calls on Ghana to end child labor in gold mines | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — A rights group estimates that thousands of children are working in Ghana's gold mines, violating international laws prohibiting child labor in hazardous industries as well as Ghana's own Children's Act, which prohibits those under 18 from working in mines. But the insatiable global trade in the artisanal gold procured from Ghana's small-scale mines drives the industry in the country, which, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday, is the one of the world's top ten producers of the precious heavy metal. According to the rights group's researchers, children as young as nine are being exposed to dangerous work environments, with toxic materials, including mercury, lifting heavy loads and working 14-hour days.
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Spike in Saudi executions raises concern among rights groups | Al Jazeera America

Spike in Saudi executions raises concern among rights groups | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — A spike in executions carried out in Saudi Arabia over the last few months has reportedly seen at least 90 people put to death since the start of the year - surpassing the Gulf state's total of 88 for all of 2014. Human Rights Watch commented on the surge Monday, noting that 41 of those killed this year had been sentenced for non-violent drug offenses. "
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For migrants and forced laborers, help might be a decade away | Al Jazeera America

For migrants and forced laborers, help might be a decade away | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America — DOHA, Qatar - A United Nations Congress on crime and justice that takes place once every five years is precisely the catchall event one would imagine. It's a lot to pack into eight days, even after the adoption of the Doha Declaration, a document aimed at strengthening international crime-fighting mechanisms. Narcotics trafficking? Check. Cybercrime? Yes. Counter-terrorism efforts? Indeed. Piracy on the high seas? Of course. Crimes against, men, women, children and wildlife? Sure. Some topics seemed more dominant than others, and the rather broad issue of migration/labor was among them.
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Human Rights Watch presses for labor reform in UAE | Al Jazeera America

Human Rights Watch presses for labor reform in UAE | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — The rights of laborers on Sadiyaat Island in the United Arab Emirates have not improved six years after Human Rights Watch (HRW) first reported on allegations of abuse suffered by workers building a campus for New York University, as well as facilities that will house Louvre and Guggenheim branches there. Strongly rejected by Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development Investment Company, Tuesday's report details incidents including confiscation of passports, withheld wages and filthy, cramped living conditions for the roughly 1,000 men and women who work on Saadiyat (Happiness) Island. The report says that hundreds have been deported without compensation for protesting their treatment.
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Rights groups criticize resumption of executions in Indonesia | Al Jazeera America

Rights groups criticize resumption of executions in Indonesia | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — Rights activists inside and outside Indonesia have expressed alarm after the country executed six people in January, officially resuming the death penalty after a one-year reprieve. On Jan. 29, the government named the next 11 people to be executed, eight of them on drug-related charges, and, of those eight, seven are foreigners. In 2013, after an almost five-year gap, the Southeast Asian country executed five people, then held off for a year before executing six people at the start of this year, putting on notice about 150 people currently on Indonesian death row. Some activists said the move is largely about domestic politics.
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Australia's top court rules holding asylum seekers at sea was legal | Al Jazeera America

Australia's top court rules holding asylum seekers at sea was legal | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — Australia's highest court ruled Wednesday that the country's detention of asylum seekers at sea last June was lawful - a decision that hands a major legal victory to backers of Canberra's hardline immigration policy. Australia had initially intended to send the group of Sri Lankan Tamils back to India, from where they had set sail. They were held on an Australian customs ship for weeks, and after refusing to cooperate with Indian consular officials were transferred to the South Pacific island of Nauru, one of the places where Australia has detention centers to hold asylum seekers until their cases are resolved.
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Rights groups alarmed over increase in inmate deaths in Egypt | Al Jazeera America

Rights groups alarmed over increase in inmate deaths in Egypt | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — When Egyptian authorities arrested 51-year-old government employee Mahmoud Abd al-Rahman a year ago and accused him of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, he was supposed to be detained for 15 days. But his detention order was renewed again and again - until he died 10 months later in an overcrowded Suez jail cell, after what Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday were "apparent heart attacks." A spike in the number of detainee deaths in Egyptian prisons - at least 35 between June and September of 2014, according to an Egyptian NGO - has global rights groups sounding alarms and calling on Egyptian authorities to investigate the deaths and prosecute officials responsible for alleged prisoner abuse.
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New York's 'Hamas lawyer' headed to prison | Al Jazeera America

New York's 'Hamas lawyer' headed to prison | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — Stanley Cohen has made a career out of defending rights activists, people living on the margins of society and clients many Americans believe don't even deserve due process, including Osama bin Laden's son in law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Cohen is known as the "Hamas attorney" because he has since 1995 represented the party (but not its military arm), which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization. He is also one of the most controversial firebrand attorneys in the U.S., and he is about to be imprisoned for the relatively pedestrian though certainly serious crime of obstructing and impeding the administration of tax laws and failing to report $3 million in income.
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Judge issues timetable for release of Gitmo force-feeding tapes | Al Jazeera America

Judge issues timetable for release of Gitmo force-feeding tapes | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — A Washington, D.C., district court judge has issued a timetable for when the government should release recordings of how a Guantánamo detainee is extracted from his cell and force-fed. In a document filed on Thursday, Judge Gladys Kessler ordered that "the government shall complete the previously ordered redactions" to the tapes be made by Oct. 17 and that media organizations petitioning for access to the tapes submit a proposal "how the tapes can be made available to the public most efficiently" by Oct. 20.
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Family of detained UK citizen in Iran plea for her release | Al Jazeera America

Family of detained UK citizen in Iran plea for her release | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old United Kingdom-Iranian citizen, has been in prison in Tehran since June 29 after being arrested for trying to enter a stadium to view a men's volleyball game.
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Will regulating drugs in the West save lives in the East? | Al Jazeera America

Will regulating drugs in the West save lives in the East? | Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera — A line up of powerful politicos recently called on governments across the globe to regulate illegal narcotics and take them - and the profits they generate - out of the hands of violent drug cartels. Members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy - including former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and former U.S Secretary of State George Shultz - say the reasons for regulating drugs include the protection of human rights. The U.S.-led "war on drugs," they say, almost uniquely focuses on prohibition and tends to disproportionately imprison racial minorities and women.
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