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Amnesty International reports that the Chinese government has censored numerous articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Nicholas Bequelin, Regional Director at Amnesty International has criticized that "the Chinese authorities risk withholding information that could help the medical community tackle the coronavirus and help people ...
Patriarch Filaret, a prominent religious leader in Ukraine who heads the UOC-KP, claimed that COVID-19 was "God's punishment for the sins of men", linking it to same-sex marriage. He was sued by Insight, a Ukrainian LGBT+ group, for his comments. [76] Patriarch Filaret later tested positive for COVID-19, and was hospitalized. [77]
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is an American non-profit non-governmental organization that is part of the worldwide Amnesty International organization.. Amnesty International is an organization of more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in over 150 countries, [1] with complete independence from government, corporate or national interests.
On 14 April 2021, the US Senate voted 92–6 to advance the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would allow the US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19, with a section of the bill (titled the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act, originally drafted by Senator Richard Blumenthal) dedicated to providing federal grants for ...
In March 2022, Paul O'Brien, the Amnesty International USA Director, speaking to a Women's National Democratic Club audience in the US, stated: "We are opposed to the idea—and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate—that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people", while adding "Amnesty takes no political views ...
A CDC report revealed that COVID-19 incidence rates were 3.5 times higher for American Indians/Alaska Natives compared to white Americans during the first 7 months of the pandemic. [111] Intergenerational trauma and structural racism along with the lack of recognition by leadership and governance result in a constantly building allostatic load ...
The International Monetary Fund in its latest World Economic Outlook report warned that the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was projected to be slower than previously forecast, with growth in 2020 estimated at -4.9 per cent, or nearly two percentage points below April projections, indicating a deeper recession and slower recovery.
Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Part of the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 misinformation and COVID-19 misinformation by governments An anti- lockdown protest at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, on 25 April 2020 Date 15 March 2020 – 5 December 2022 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Worldwide Caused by Local struggles or opposition to government responses to ...