In October Angola became party to the Optional Protocol aiming to the abolition of the death penalty, to the Convention against Torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and to the Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. The European Union welcomed Angola’s alignment with these three significant international…
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U.N. issues devastating Burundi HR report
More crimes against humanity were committed in Burundi in 2017 and 2018, whipped up by rhetoric from top officials including President Pierre Nkurunziza, a U.N. human rights report said. Has the human rights situation improved in #Burundi ? “The answer is no”:#COIBurundi details summary executions, torture, sexual violence, arbitraryarrests and detention, and forced disappearances committed…
Paris: escaped circus tiger executed
News of the tiger’s escape came after Paris’ public transport authority, RATP, briefly closed down a tramline in the 15th arrondissement, according to France Info – the public radio that broke the news. Two eyewitnesses told the radio station said they saw the tiger descend onto the tracks. “At first, we thought it was a technical incident,”…
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