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      UN Experts Say Abolishing Death Penalty 'Is the Only Viable Path'

      "Despite more than 170 states having repealed the death penalty or adopted moratoriums, there was a reported 20% increase in the number of executions last year."

      Jessica Corbett
      Oct 10, 2022

      A pair of United Nations experts joined people across the globe on Monday in marking the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty by calling for an end to capital punishment.

      "A growing trend of imposing the death penalty on those exercising their right to peaceful political protest is deeply worrying."

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      Can Formula 1 Star Lewis Hamilton Send a Message to the Saudi Government?

      Can Formula 1 Star Lewis Hamilton Send a Message to the Saudi Government?

      His willingness to speak out comes at an opportune time, as 2021 is the first year that Formula 1 will go to Saudi Arabia.

      Ariel Gold
      Danaka Katovich
      Apr 22, 2021

      For human rights advocates who also enjoy the sport of car racing, a great opportunity awaits us. Lewis Hamilton, the only Black driver in the history of Formula 1 racing, has been bravely and consistently supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. In the wake of the protests against the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Hamilton started to call Formula 1 out for its lack of diversity, even saying he would trade his 7th world championship for more diversity in the sport. Accused of bringing politics into the sporting world, he refused to back down, saying that his support for Black Lives Matter was a matter of supporting basic human rights.

      Hamilton describes his concern for human rights as being global, and has expressed concern about human rights violations taking place in countries that Formula 1 travels to. During the tail end of the 2020 season when an F1 race was scheduled to take place in Bahrain, Hamilton received a letter from the young son of a man facing the death penalty in Bahrain. Moved by the plea by 11-year-old Ahmed Ramadhan to "please save my father," Hamilton replied that he "definitely won't let it go unnoticed."

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      Citing 'Moral and Public Health Imperative,' Progressive Lawmakers Press Biden on Sanctions Relief

      Citing 'Moral and Public Health Imperative,' Progressive Lawmakers Press Biden on Sanctions Relief

      The 27 Democrats called for "much-needed and overdue changes to the way we use sanctions as a foreign policy tool."

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 10, 2021

      A group of 27 progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to "consider the humanitarian impacts of sanctions," which they say have "catastrophic" consequences during the coronavirus pandemic.

      "Far too often and for far too long, sanctions have been imposed as a knee-jerk reaction without a measured and considered assessment of their impacts."
      --Lawmakers' letter

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