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Los Angeles (AFP) - Strippers in the US state of Washington have won workplace protections after the governor signed a bill of rights putting them on the same legal footing as people in any other job. The legislation, signed into law on Monday by Governor Jay Inslee, is some of the most far-reaching in the country, and sets standards for safety and pay. "Strippers are workers, and they should be given the same rights and protections as any other labor force," said Washington state Senator Rebecca Saldana, who sponsored the bill. "If they are employed at a legal establishment in Washington, the...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday criticized Cuba for barring a prominent activist, Martha Beatriz Roque, from visiting the White House to receive an award. The State Department named Roque, who has been outspoken in her criticism of the communist-run island's repression of dissent, one of its "International Women of Courage" in an annual award presentation. Presenting the awards at the White House, Blinken called Roque an "unyielding defender of human rights in Cuba." "Cuban authorities have subjected Martha to a long campaign of detention and abuse, including ...
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Geneva (AFP) - Israel's planned ground assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip would contravene the orders issued by the United Nations' highest court, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday. On January 26, the International Court of Justice in The Hague -- while stopping short of ordering an immediate halt to the war in Gaza -- said Israel must "prevent the commission of all acts within the scope" of the Genocide Convention. "I fail to see how such an operation could be consistent with the binding provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice," Volker Turk told the UN Human...
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Washington (AFP) - An Ohio man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for trying to burn down a church that planned to host drag shows, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Aimenn Penny, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, pleaded guilty in October to attempting to set fire to the Community Church of Chesterland in Chesterland, Ohio. Penny was sentenced on Monday to 216 months in prison and three years of supervised release. According to court filings, Penny, a member of the neo-Nazi White Lives Matter group, attacked the church with two Molotov cocktails on March 25, one week before it planned to host t...
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Washington (AFP) - An Iranian and two Canadians, including a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to assassinate Iranian dissidents on US soil, officials said Monday. Naji Sharifi Zindashti, 49, Damion Patrick John Ryan, 43, and Adam Richard Pearson, 29, plotted to murder two residents of the state of Maryland, Justice and Treasury department officials said. Zindashti, who is based in Iran, is a narcotics trafficker who runs a network that has carried out numerous "assassinations and kidnappings across multiple jurisdictions in an attempt to s...
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London (AFP) - International humanitarian and rights organisations on Wednesday called on countries to halt weapons transfers to Israel and Palestinian armed groups in a bid to end the Gaza conflict, or risk being complicit in possible war crimes. In a joint statement, the 16 groups urged United Nations member states to stop sending weapons, parts and ammunition to "stop the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life." "Israel's bombardment and siege are depriving the civilian population of the basics to survive and rendering Gaza uninhabitable," the st...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The past 12 months marked a grim year of suppression of human rights, with world leaders ignoring violations in Sudan and Gaza, and against marginalized groups like the Uyghurs, a monitor said Thursday. In its world report for 2024, Human Rights Watch singled out "tremendous suffering" caused by the Israel-Hamas war, and the conflicts in Ukraine, Myanmar, Ethiopia and the Sahel region of Africa. The bloodiest-ever Gaza war has raged since the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7. "Israel's government responded by cutting water and electricity to Gaza...
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New York (AFP) - Some 430 Americans of Yazidi background and Nobel laureate Nadia Murad accused French conglomerate Lafarge of supporting brutal attacks on the population through a conspiracy with the Islamic State, according to a complaint reviewed Friday by AFP. The civil suit, filed in a New York court by attorneys that include human rights lawyer Amal Clooney references a $778 million US Department of Justice fine and guilty criminal plea in October 2022 by Lafarge, which was acquired by Swiss company Holcim in 2015. Yazidi plaintiffs asked the court to find Lafarge liable for violations o...
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The Hague (AFP) - A group of human rights organisations took the Dutch government to court on Monday, arguing its supply of parts for F-35 fighters contributes to violations of international law in Gaza. The case concerns US-owned F-35 parts stored at a warehouse in the Netherlands and then shipped to several partners, including Israel, via existing export agreements. Oxfam Novib, one of the groups filing suit, said the export "made the Netherlands complicit in violations of the laws of war and the collective punishment of the civilian population of Gaza". The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday said it had extended until January the detention of US reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia earlier this year on spying charges. The court said Gershkovich's "period of detention" was extended by two more months until January 30, in what the Wall Street Journal, his employer, called a "brazen and outrageous attack on a free press." The 32-year-old correspondent, the Wall Street Journal and the US government have all rejected the spying allegations. The hearing was held behind closed doors, and no press were allowed inside. The US Em...
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