HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS Archives - Washington Daily Report

Living on the edge in the homeless encampments of Los Angeles

by Jahnra Cadungog | Nov 4, 2019 | HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS, News, Top Right

After years on the street, Kimberly Decoursey spends her nights at a Los Angeles temporary housing site called the Hollywood Studio Club. But by day, she can still be found at a highway off-ramp with her homeless fiance and a less rule-bound street community....

Adoption Groups Could Turn Away LGBT Parents Under Proposed Rule

by Jahnra Cadungog | Nov 3, 2019 | HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS, News, Top Right, Uncategorized

A proposed rule by the Trump administration would allow foster care and adoption agencies to deny their services to LGBT families on faith-based grounds. The proposal would have “enormous” effects and touch the lives of a large number of people, Denise Brogan-Kator,...

Azerbaijani Activists Protest Violence Against Women

by Jahnra Cadungog | Oct 24, 2019 | HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS, News, Top Left, Uncategorized

Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, have detained several protesters who had gathered for a second straight day of unauthorized demonstrations. Some 50-60 people, mostly women, gathered in central Baku after police blocked the route of their planned march....

White House acknowledges strings attached in Trump withholding Ukraine aid

by Jahnra Cadungog | Oct 18, 2019 | Bottom Left, HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS, News, Top Left, Uncategorized

President Donald Trump’s withholding of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine was linked to his request that the Ukrainians look into a claim – debunked as a conspiracy theory – about the 2016 U.S. election, a senior presidential aide said on Thursday,...

ACT for America

by Jahnra Cadungog | Oct 7, 2019 | HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS, News, Top Left

ACT for America is the largest anti-Muslim group in the United States, with a purported 750,000 members nationwide. ACT propagates the hateful conspiracy theory that Muslims are infiltrating US institutions in order to impose Sharia law. ACT stokes irrational fear of...

SAUDI ARABIA ADDED TO LIST OF TERRORISM-FINANCING ‘DIRTY MONEY’ COUNTRIES AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO BACK KINGDOM

by Jahnra Cadungog | Sep 23, 2019 | Bottom Middle, HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS, Top Right

The European Union has added Saudi Arabia to its growing list of countries that lack tight control over money laundering and terrorism financing. If all 28 European Union member states ratify the move, it will mean that European banks have to place tighter controls on...