In 2020, as governments focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, human traffickers found new ways to perpetrate their crimes, a new State Department report says. Traffickers targeted vulnerable families with fraudulent offers that led to exploitation. And more time online left some more vulnerable to trafficking. Meanwhile, lockdowns and social distancing requirements limited victims’ access to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 7 July, 2021 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: China, Cuba, human trafficking, labor rights, social activism
Ted DeLaney arrived at Washington and Lee University as a janitor. By the time he left, he’d been chairman of its history department. DeLaney’s story is extraordinary, but his path is one shared by millions of Black Americans: Overcome prejudice, seize new opportunities, and contribute to your community and your nation. DeLaney was born and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: African Americans, campus life, social activism, U.S. history
Ever since the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors in 1993, its scholars have been educating visitors about the horrors of Nazi Germany’s genocide of European Jews (and other targeted victims) leading up to and during World War II. But the Washington-based museum also has another important mission: helping the general public — as ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 4 February, 2021 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: civil society, freedom of religion, social activism, WWII
The U.S. Air Force on December 1, 2020, the 65th anniversary of Parks’ 1955 protest, unveiled a sculpture of her at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, adding to an array of memorials that honor the civil rights icon, who died in 2005 at the age of 92. This year ShareAmerica is highlighting some of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 2 February, 2021 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: African Americans, civic equality, female leaders, social activism, U.S. history
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Leigh Hartman The Chinese Communist Party forces critics and activists to publicly confess to crimes before trial, violating Chinese and international law, rights groups say. In a
recent report to the United Nations (PDF, 1MB), groups including Safeguard Defenders and Human Rights Watch say the CCP forces critics into confessions that are then aired on state-run television, making a mockery of due ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 2 December, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: China, civil society, freedom of expression, press freedom, social activism
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ShareAmerica Iran’s regime is jailing relatives of political activists in an effort to silence critics at home and abroad, human rights advocacy groups say. The regime in July sentenced Alireza Alinejad, the brother of prominent regime critic Masih Alinejad, to eight years in prison on trumped up charges, according to the Center for Human Rights ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 4 August, 2020 | Topics: News from Washington | Tags: freedom expression, Iran, press freedom, social activism
Iran’s regime continues persecution of human rights defenders (July 20) Protesters, journalists and women who refuse to wear a hijab all risk facing trial in Iran. But many of the lawyers trained to fight for those defendants are already in jail. According to a recent report from the Center for Human Rights in Iran, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 July, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: civil society, freedom of expression, Iran, social activism, women's empowerment
This 1990 disabilities law ushered in a new era (July 20) When President George H.W. Bush signed the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act into law on July 26, 1990, he specifically mentioned Lisa Carl, a young woman with cerebral palsy. Two years before joining the president for that signing ceremony, Carl had gone to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 July, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: civic equality, disability rights, social activism
From civil rights activist to member of Congress: Remembering John Lewis (July 20) Civil rights hero and U.S. Representative John Lewis died July 17 at the age of 80. He had been battling pancreatic cancer since he received the diagnosis in December. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was a central figure in the U.S. civil ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 July, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: African Americans, civic equality, Congress, Martin Luther King Jr., social activism, U.S. history
Police leaders march in solidarity with peaceful protesters (June 11) Americans often have different opinions on how to tackle pressing social challenges, but U.S. citizens share a respect for the right to free speech, free expression and peaceful protest. Some police leaders have joined peaceful demonstrations in the aftermath of the death of George ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 11 June, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: civic equality, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, policing, social activism
Iranian president begs voters to be regime’s ‘savior’ (February 20) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledges that Iran’s regime is in dire straits. But rather than taking responsibility, he is asking the Iranian people to vote for more of the same. At a recent rally in Tehran, Rouhani implored the Iranian people to set aside any ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 February, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, News, News from Washington | Tags: elections, freedom of expression, Iran, social activism
