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This article was written by Harry Sanders, a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service. Since November 2020, the Tigray region in th

This is actually something that I hadn't heard about yet. War has broken out in the area and people are fleeing trying to get away from the violence. Girls are being raped and beaten across the area. Tigray refuges are not receiving the humanitarian aid that they need due to Ethiopia not allowing organizations into the region. The refugees of Tigray are in desperate need to help otherwise they may face losing even more of their lives not only to the violence there but also starvation. This has been happening since November 2020 and this is the first I have heard of it happening. We talk a big game about caring about human rights but when things are actually happening like this or the Xinjiang internment camps in China, the media and officials don't do much to call out those countries. If the United States and other countries really cared about human rights as much as they say that they do then they should be doing more.

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I also have not heard of this conflict, and I am shocked that there has been no media coverage of this given that it has been going on for a decent amount of time and it seems like the situation is very grave. I think this conversation about how the media or officials portray different countries and their human rights violations is very important, because not every violation is equally paid attention to. It almost seems like the more powerful a country is the less attention it pays to human rights violations in less powerful countries, and they seem to tend to only call out countries who are on or close to their level of international power—which is highly concerning considering that the countries that would actually be able to do something about abuses like these are the ones who tend not to pay attention to them, which is incredibly problematic.

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DUBAI: Yemen’s Houthi militia, who control most of the country’s north including the capital Sanaa, have been blocking international efforts to supply COVID-19 vaccines, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The New York-based group accused Houthi leaders of suppressing information about both the dangers of COVID-19 and the prevalence of the disease in territory under their control.

The COVID pandemic has obviously put the world under a lot of strain and stress since it started. Now that the vaccine is widely available, it is important that it is accessible to people of all countries on earth. Sadly the Houthi militia which control parts of Yemen have been denying vaccines to its citizens according to Human Rights Watch. It is important that countries do not falsely report the number of COVID cases they have in order to make themselves look good on the world stage. Pretending the virus does not exist is not a good strategy for mitigation, just like the article says. It is awful that people who want access to the vaccine are unable to get it even when doses are available.

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This reminds me of the Pete Ricketts stated that undocumented immigrants working in meat packing plants (who are literally essential workers) would not be receiving vaccines first. It is abhorrent to think that a vaccine in a deadly pandemic is being withheld from people for a political agenda, when a right to health is what many consider to be a basic human right. It takes a global community to get out of a global pandemic, and I think that this pandemic has given us a very clear idea where we didn’t have one previously about how willing some countries are to prioritize their citizens’ rights over things like their economies, which honestly shouldn’t even be a question in the first place.

FLORIDA — Today, as Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Florida Senate Bill 1028 — an education bill that was amended to ban transgender girls and women from participating in sports at the secondary and post-secondary level consistent with their gender identity...

This article reminded me about the conversation we had in class about how in the US we are focused more with lawsuits than legislation, and it got me thinking about how sometimes it isnt just the ease and speed of a court case to help make decisions that makes them appealing. In states like Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota where it can be almost impossible to pass legislation that would do the same thing that this potential lawsuit is trying to do, action through the courts is the only option. I have seen this time and time again in the NE unicameral where we see awesome legislation that would expand Nebraskan’s Rights come up, specifically with the anti-discrimination law that passed in the 2020 session regarding workplace discrimination against natural hair which was then vetoed by the governor. It seems that sometimes a path of resistance through the courts is the only thing possible in trying to combat legislation that violates human rights, rather than trying to go through the legislative process, especially in matters that are more time sensitive.

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For more than a year, the U.S. government has misused public health authority to expel and block families, adults, and children seeking refu

This article was interesting to me given what we talked about today in class. We are all well aware of how egregious Trump's immigration policies were but the entire U.S. immigration system has been broken for years. One of Biden's promises on the campaign trail was to address what Trump did during his time in office but he has been slow to show any actual proof that he is reversing what Trump did. Personally, I have seen the damage of what Trump's policies do to families up close. It's disgusting what the U.S. immigration system is doing to families and there needs to be better solutions than what there is now. Biden's administration has still illegally expelled asylum seekers back to the countries they were seeking asylum from. While the election of Joe Biden let many people across the country and around the world take a deep breath, many people who voted for Biden are frustrated with the administration's lack of action on fixing what is wrong with our immigration system currently.

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I agree completely. Immigration is usually a hardline issue for me when it comes to voting and supporting candidates, and I really thought that the Biden administration would be able to make some progress with the immigration system in the United States. However, when you look at it, there has been so much damage done to the immigration system through various administrations, with each one seeming to pile more things onto it than reforming it. I would argue the best solution is to just scrap the whole system and sit down and start it over. It is difficult to do that however, given that there are so many systems and issues in this country that call for scrapping them and starting them over that there is not enough time to just scrap everything and start everything over. Our country needs a reset button on a lot of different systems and policies.

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Pro-choice groups say many restrictions have been introduced in states across the US this year.

The issue of abortion is being discussed and changed in many states across the country. Currently, Roe V. Wade is under fire and may be doomed, making many people angry and many happy. This would take away the rights of women and what they choose to do with their bodies. I personally think that is wrong and is an infringement on human rights. The issue of abortion always brings me back to things like immigrant children and the death penalty. Why do we care so much about the lives of the unborn but not the lives of those others, who are also threatened?

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This reminds me a lot of the conversation we had in class regarding Perry’s claim that in order to human rights to exist people have to have a “religious world view”, and how we had the same conversation in regards to how some people’s religious world views justify hate--in the case of abortion often which is under attack--justified by people’s religious beliefs. Perry would say that these people are wrong, but it is hard to be able to convince people that abortion should not be outlawed because it is difficult to argue against what someone believes. The solution based on what we have learned in class would be story telling, but we have reached a point where people ignore those stories and sometimes become further grounded in their own beliefs. It is a very hard line to walk, but I agree with you that the recent restrictions on abortion are a human rights violation.

Members of the Uyghur Muslim community in China and abroad are being targeted in a surveillance efforts by likely "Chinese-speaking" hackers through the use of fake emails from the United Nations (U.N.) and a human

The first thing I will say about this, is that it is incredibly scary. The Uyghur populations is already suffering the greatest human rights violation, genocide, and they are already receiving minimal attention from the international community and human rights organizations. The international community in most ways has chosen to turn a blind eye to this situation which has been ongoing for years at this point. The use of hacking to try and give false hope to these people that they have help coming in in order to try to further attacks on them honestly poses as one of the scariest updates to this atrocity. It is also incredibly worrisome that the UN can be hacked to allow for these emails to occur.

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In this article, I thought about Wolstencraft and how her idea that better education leads to better long-term results. The author talks about how many families try to move heaven and earth to get their children a quality education. However, during COVID, many families have been unable to get their children to school. Many students (even in the US) have not been able to get that solid education needed for a better society. And all of this doesn’t talk about the teaching side of the equation. Overnight, teachers had to adjust lesson plans to teach over the internet. Almost all educational services across the globe had no safety precautions for such an emergency. It took months for many teachers to try and grasp an understanding of how to teach in the current climate. With this article, I learned the need for internet access. Proper emergency preparations that schools need to focus on are also paramount to secure a better future and a better education.

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I totally agree with this post. However, I would like to expand on this idea. I think that during the pandemic we have see a lot of shortfalls in what we consider human rights in the United States. Another one that I have thought a lot about is what should be a basic human right to housing, and this was incredibly apparent in the pandemic because lots of people lost their jobs and then were not able to pay their rent, and faced eviction notices. The pandemic also showed (as mentioned above) how education can be impacted even in a country where we often pride ourselves on access to public education, and I know that in western Nebraska this was incredibly difficult without high enough access to broadband to have quality enough internet to perform school online. It is every interesting that we often think of human rights abuses as something that only happens during times of conflict or under a turbulent or authoritative government, when we can find instances like these under our noses everyday in our own society.

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This very brief article was interesting to me, because often we don’t think about Europe as being the end all be all of human rights abuses, often I think we perceive it to be the opposite. This concept really made me think about how we white wash human rights, and that we often thing that the Global North/Western Nations are somewhat “excused” from conversations about how they can better their human rights situations. Last fall I took state terror with Dr. Mehta and she really called to attention that what we think about as a human rights abuse happens really everywhere, and I think that the George Floyd protests last summer helped to call attention to the fact that Human Rights are under attack in so many more places than just the Global South. I think it is very important to keep this in mind and remember that the conversation about expanding and protecting human rights needs to go beyond what we typically think about in this context.

The situation is South Sudan is clearly riddles with Human Rights abuses, and I wholeheartedly agree that the embargo should be extended past its expiration at the end of this month. This article reminded me of the conversation we had today about how there are, in reality, very few things that we can do to try and curb human rights abuses because of sovereignty, and I wanted to share this article because embargos are a good example of what the international community can do to try and halt abuses. Another thing I find interesting is the conversation of the right to privacy, and I would argue that this right is one that is fairly recent--especially in the sense that it is constantly evolving in the age of technology. This is important in the case of South Sudan given that the violations of the right to privacy are completely based on technology and surveillance via evolving technologies--this is also an conversion that comes up a lot in the US especially with the PATRIOT act.

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