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The Persecution desk

To witness is to refuse silence.

Persecution takes many forms. It can be visible in violence, or hidden in laws, borders, prisons and the slow removal of a community’s right to belong.

Persecution Defined

Unfair or cruel treatment over a long period of time because of race , religion or political beliefs .

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(55) Displaced Nearing 400,000 in Mozambique's Islamist Insurgency

Reports of more than 50 beheadings by Mozambique’s Islamic extremist rebels have raised international...

(54) Albinos Are Being Killed In Record Numbers For Their Body Parts

Albinism is more common in sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere in the world. Superstitions about the condition...

(53) ' Bride Kidnapping': a Growing Hidden Crime

In at least 17 countries around the world, girls are being kidnapped, abducted, raped and forced into...

(52) Five Ways Coronavirus Is Deepening Global Inequality.

Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. But the...

(51) Billionaires Are Profiting From A Pandemic.

Since the start of the pandemic, American billionaires have been cleaning up. As more than 50 million...

(50) China Continues Its Persecution of Uighur Muslims.

Chinese government has pressed on with its “mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment” of Uighur...

(49) How Women are Getting Squeezed by the Pandemic.

The coronavirus has worsened existing social and economic inequalities, especially for women. While both...

(48) Israel Prepares for West Bank Annexation Despite Pandemic Spread.

Thanks to the Trump administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan, the topic of Israel annexing parts of...

(47) Covid-19: Women Trapped Between a Deadly Virus and a Deadly Partner.

Trapped at home with an abusive partner or father, women and children are in greater danger, during the...

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