As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny.

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WRITTEN BY Sarah Repucci Amy Slipowitz

As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world in 2020, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny. Incumbent leaders increasingly used force to crush opponents and settle scores, sometimes in the name of public health, while beleaguered activists—lacking effective international support—faced heavy jail sentences, torture, or murder in many settings.

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Cập nhật: 10:39, Thứ 5, 11/02/2021

(ANTV) – Đặc xá là chính sách khoan hồng của Đảng, Nhà nước và thể hiện truyền thống nhân đạo của dân tộc Việt Nam đối với những người phạm tội. Đồng thời, đặc xá cũng là sự ghi nhận kết quả cải tạo, chấp hành tốt các nội quy của phạm nhân, kết quả của quá trình giáo dục cải tạo phạm nhân, thể hiện sự kết hợp chặt chẽ giữa trại giam, gia đình, các cơ quan chức năng có liên quan và xã hội. 

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Để có được ngày vui trọn vẹn của những phạm nhân, trong buổi sáng 8-2 (ngày 27 tết), Trại giam Nghĩa An, Bộ Công an, nơi trực tiếp giam giữ, cải tạo phạm nhân đã nỗ lực hoàn tất các khâu, các thủ tục cần thiết.

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Robust civic space is essential for good governance, the rule of law and for enabling citizens to shape their societies. However, civil society space around the world is under significant pressure and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation.

The weakening of international institutions and democratic norms worldwide has resulted in fewer constraints on autocracies. Meanwhile, the rise of nationalism, populism and illiberalism is taking its toll on civil liberties.

The private sector is in a unique position to work with civil society organizations to uphold and defend civic freedoms and support sustainable and profitable business environments. Companies have the capacity, resources and expertise to enhance the protection of civic space.

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Mimi Vu, Dorothea Czarnecki and Nadia Sebtaoui, The Guardian

Criminal networks are depending on the chaos of Covid and Brexit. Now more than ever we need focus and international cooperation to prevent further tragedies

The 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated as they were being smuggled across the Channel in a sealed refrigeration trailer. Photograph: Essex PoliceSupported by

Fri 1 Jan 2021 08.30 GMT

Trials in the UK of the drivers and haulage organisers involved in the Essex lorry tragedy in which 39 Vietnamese migrants perished ended in guilty pleas and convictions. Vietnam also convicted the agents who brokered the victims’ journeys to the UK and sentenced them to terms of imprisonment.

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The Guardian

Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimes

A person using Facebook at a cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam, last month. Photograph: Kham/ReutersRebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondentTue 1 Dec 2020 00.01 GMT

Facebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” in Vietnam, according to a report by Amnesty International that accuses the platforms of openly signalling that they are willing to bow to the wishes of authoritarian regimes.

Facebook’s executives have repeatedly promoted the platform as a bastion of “free expression”, but in Vietnam, where there is little tolerance for dissent, the company complied with hundreds of requests to censor content earlier this year. This includes peaceful criticism of the state by activists, which is protected under international human rights law.

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Al Jareeza

Rights group says Chinese policing programme selects people for arrest for ‘everyday, lawful’ behaviour.

9 Dec 2020

A big-data program in China’s Xinjiang “arbitrarily selects” Muslims for detention, flagging behaviour such as wearing a veil, studying the Quran or going on the Hajj pilgrimage as reasons for arrest, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

In a new report on Wednesday, the rights group said it analysed a leaked list of more than 2,000 detainees in Xinjiang’s Aksu prefecture and found that the programme – known as the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) – also flagged people for their relationships, their communications, their travel histories, or for being related to someone the authorities consider suspicious.

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ANI
03 Dec 2020, 18:55 GMT+10

Taipei [Taiwan], December 3 (ANI): Despite the attempts by the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to curb freedom of expression, right to information, association and religion in Tibet, there has been a rise in domestic social media giving platform to voices challenging the government-sponsored news.

The CCP censors the internet and maintains intensive surveillance apparatus in the form of facial recognition technology and Global Positioning System (GPS) coordination in its occupied territories including Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), and Southern Mongolian (Inner Mongolia), reported The Taiwan Times.

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Singapore activist in court over one-man ‘smiley face’ protest

Jolovan Wham is facing charges under Public Order Act after posing for a photo with his placard in March.

23 Nov 2020 Al Jazeera

Social worker and activist Jolovan Wham appeared in a Singapore court on Monday morning accused of illegal assembly after standing alone outside a police station holding a placard with a hand-drawn smiley face in March.

Wham, who has had a number of run-ins with the authorities in the tightly controlled country, wore a white T-shirt emblazoned with a smiley face and matching mask on his way to court.

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Việt Nam: Tóm tắt tình hình quốc gia

Số trang: 20

Ngày xuất bản: 2019

Tác giả: UNFPA

UNFPA – Việt Nam đã đạt được những tiến bộ trong việc thực hiện các mục tiêu bình đẳng giới thuộc Mục tiêu 3 của Mục tiêu Phát triển Thiên niên kỷ, và đã phê chuẩn Kế hoạch Hành động Quốc gia tháng 5 năm 2017 như một khung hướng dẫn thực hiện Mục tiêu Phát triển bền vững cho Việt Nam tới năm 2030. Khung pháp lý nhằm bảo đảm bình đẳng giới và trao quyền cho phụ nữ đã được tăng cường hơn. Tuy nhiên, những biểu hiện của bất bình đẳng giới như bạo lực đối với phụ nữ và trẻ em gái, tình trạng tảo hôn và lựa chọn giới tính thai nhi vẫn còn tồn tại.

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By Ben Westcott and Selina Wang, CNN Business

Updated 0357 GMT (1157 HKT) September 9, 2020

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Disney has publicly thanked a Chinese government agency accused of human rights abuses in Xinjiang for its help in making “Mulan” — a revelation that has provoked a storm of criticism online.

Disney (DIS) acknowledges several Chinese government bodies in the credits for the live-action remake of the 1998 animated picture of the same name, but a few in particular have raised red flags: The Xinjiang government’s publicity department and the Public Security and Tourism bureaus for Turpan, a city of about 633,400 people just outside Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi.Disney did not respond to a request for comment from CNN Business to its media inquiry line, and to US press officers about the film and the credits. 

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Walter E. Williams / @WE_Williams / August 26, 2020 / Daily Signal

Despite the nation’s great achievements in race relations, there remains institutional racism in higher education. (Photo: Sshepard/Getty Images)

COMMENTARY BY

Walter E. Williams@WE_Williams

Walter E. Williams, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism. Both operate under the assumption that one race is superior to another. It involves the practice of treating a person or group of people differently based on their race.

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yenbai.gov.vn – 17/10/2019 10:16:00

Theo báo cáo của Bộ Công an, tại Việt Nam, từ năm 2016 đến 6 tháng đầu năm 2019, toàn quốc phát hiện xảy ra hơn 1.000 vụ, với gần 1.500 đối tượng, lừa bán hơn 2.600 nạn nhân, trong đó có 892 vụ mua bán người sang Trung Quốc, với 1.187 đối tượng, lừa bán 2.319 nạn nhân…

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