![US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has suspended some investigations into imports the agency suspected to be tainted by slave labour because of staff shortages, a watchdog report found [File: Eric Gay/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/b3276010e65e460ea6b46babae06ecef_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
The US suspended probes into imports it suspected to be slave-made because of staff and data shortages, a report found.
Human Rights
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UN expert proposes human rights framework to manage the world’s tens of thousands of mass grave sites.
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Malnutrition in Yemen worsened in 2020 due to factors including coronavirus pandemic, global economic...
Five lawyers support each other as they navigate the fast-changing, hostile world of immigration law...
![Since the August election that handed Lukashenko a victory with 80 percent of the vote, mass protests have rocked the ex-Soviet nation [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_8TE49R.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Award comes as EU sanctions Belarusian officials amid protests and refuses to recognise Alexander Lukashenko as leader.
![A protester holds a slogan with a photo of the killed transgender Filipino woman Jennifer Laude during a rally in Quezon City, the Philippines on September 11, 2020 [AP/Aaron Favila]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20255344829443.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Allowing the use of the ‘panic defence’ in court enables impunity for murderers of LGBTQ people.
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Embarrassment for the kingdom, the current G20 president, as it gears up to host world leaders next month.
![A demonstrator protests against Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on October 17 [Temilade Adelaja/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX830UR.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
How a police unit established to combat armed robbery became synonymous with unlawful killings, torture and extortion.
![In 2018, Anglo American and five other companies paid about $390m to settle a class action suit by former gold miners suffering from respiratory disease silicosis [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/angloamerican.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The lawsuit alleges ‘generations of children’ have been poisoned by the mine’s operations in Kabwe.
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urges India to protect human rights defenders and NGOs.
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Manchester United’s Nigerian footballer lashes out the gov’t after reports emerged of soldiers shooting protesters.
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Friends of the Earth and Survie want Total to disclose how it is addressing alleged adverse impact of its activities.
![The annual re-enactment of the country's last documented mass lynching; people recreate the contentious primary democratic elections in Georgia, along with the lynching [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Picture-11-AJE.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
How a mass lynching and the people re-enacting it are forcing the US to confront the truth of its past and its present.
![Hundreds have been killed and some 200,000 people displaced in Libya since the latest escalation, which began in April 2019 [File: Mahmud Turkia/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/fcbb5a8e2a2b4d32acc37f6318d325b5_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The bodies were recovered from newly discovered mass graves in Tarhuna, south of capital Tripoli.