In order to track how sanctions addressing human rights abuses and corruption have evolved over time, the authors paired the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)-issued sanctions designations from 2009 to 2021 with official Treasury Department press releases and legal notices to determine which sanctions have been
Several Western countries have imposed sanctions on officials in China over rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group. China has detained Uighurs at camps in the north-west
Refugees and Migrants. Turkey continues to host the world’s largest number of refugees, around 3.6 million from Syria, and over 400,000 refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, and other
14 June 2022 Human Rights. Still suffering from the devastating consequences of the February 2021 military coup, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday that the people of Myanmar remain “trapped in a cycle of poverty and displacement, human rights violations and abuses”. “What we are witnessing today is the systematic and widespread use of Human Rights Watch documented several suspected Covid-19 outbreaks in Egyptian prisons and police stations between March and July. At least 14 prisoners during that time likely died of Covid-19
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