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    Sue Mi Terry “Now is not the time to lift sanctions, either. Now, in fact, is the time to double down. If Biden wants to prevent North Korea from acting out, he needs to first provide the government with new incentives to talk-and that means new restrictions Washington can use as carrots. Biden, in other words, needs to take North Korean policy off autopilot and launch a proactive effort to deter Pyongyang. Otherwise, he risks encouraging an already emboldened Kim to stage a major provocation.” 5 hours ago
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    Christopher Cavoli “Russians don't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough. More to the point, they don't have the skill and capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage. They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that.” 5 hours ago
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    Nazar Voloshin “The situation in the Kharkiv sector remains complicated but is evolving in a dynamic manner. Our defence forces have partially stabilised the situation. The advance of the enemy in certain zones and localities has been halted.” 10 hours ago
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    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “The situation in the Kharkiv region is generally under control, and our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupier. However, the area remains extremely difficult.” 10 hours ago
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    Bezalel Smotrich “Defense Minister Gallant announced today his support for the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state as a reward for terrorism and Hamas for the most terrible massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.” 11 hours ago
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    Yoav Gallant “I must reiterate … I will not agree to the establishment of Israeli military rule in Gaza. Israel must not establish civilian rule in Gaza.” 11 hours ago
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#human rights

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The IPSEs are presented in chronological order based on when the IPSEs have been pronounced.

José Miguel Vivanco
José Miguel Vivanco

“President López Obrador is clearly just paying lip service to the human rights concerns surrounding the re-implementation of the 'Remain in Mexico' program. If he were truly concerned with ending the horrific abuses asylum seekers have suffered under the program, he would have clearly and unequivocally refused to participate from day one.”

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Director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division
09 Dec 2021 5 3
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Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe

“A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-US alliance. People in Beijing, [Chinese] President Xi Jinping in particular, should never have a misunderstanding in recognizing this. A stronger Taiwan, a thriving Taiwan, and a Taiwan that guarantees freedom and human rights are also in Japan's interests. Of course, this is also in the interest of the whole world. A military action targeting Taiwan would also lead to 'economic suicide' for China, despite it being one of the world's top economies, and significantly affect the global economy given China's close economic and trade ties with the rest of the world.”

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Former Prime Minister of Japan
01 Dec 2021 8 4
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Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara

“The friction between these two leading world powers has grown too wide and deep to bridge with diplomatic niceties. They disagree on almost everything from trade and security to human rights, and in the rare case they agree on an outcome, they disagree on the process. But some of the disagreements, such as the future of Taiwan, are boiling over, risking bringing the two powers into direct confrontation in a reckless test of wills. Beijing seems to insist on bringing the self-governed island back into the fold, by force, if necessary, while Washington appears determined to push back against China's use of military intimidation and economic and diplomatic blackmail to strong-arm Taiwan into submission.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera
18 Nov 2021 6 5
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Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China

“From the growing of cotton to the production of solar energy, widespread forced labour abuses in the Uyghur Region have tainted supply chains worldwide. Meanwhile, the Chinese government exploits trade dependency as a vulnerability - threatening punitive economic measures against those who refuse to acquiesce. Governments must now work urgently to enforce the upholding of human rights across international supply chains, including those set out by the International Labour Organization. Firms operating in the Uyghur Region, Tibet and elsewhere in China must be held accountable for efforts to remove such abuses from their supply chains.”

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Statement by Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)
01 Nov 2021 7 3
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Antony Blinken
Antony Blinken

“The United States continues to stand with Sudan's people in their nonviolent struggle for democracy. Sudan's security forces must respect human rights; any violence against peaceful demonstrators is unacceptable.”

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U.S. Secretary of State
29 Oct 2021 4 3
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Agnes Callamard
Agnes Callamard

“We are deeply indebted to Amnesty members and staff who over the last 40 years have worked tirelessly to protect human rights in and from Hong Kong. From successfully pushing for the full abolition of the death penalty in Hong Kong in 1993, to exposing evidence of excessive use of force by police during the 2019 mass protests, Amnesty in Hong Kong has shone a light on human rights violations in the darkest of days.”

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UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
25 Oct 2021 5 3
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Anjhula Mya Singh Bais
Anjhula Mya Singh Bais

“This decision, made with a heavy heart, has been driven by Hong Kong's national security law, which has made it effectively impossible for human rights organizations in Hong Kong to work freely and without fear of serious reprisals from the government. Hong Kong has long been an ideal regional base for international civil society organizations, but the recent targeting of local human rights and trade union groups signals an intensification of the authorities' campaign to rid the city of all dissenting voices. It is increasingly difficult for us to keep operating in such an unstable environment.”

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Chair of the International Board of Amnesty International
25 Oct 2021 4 3
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Ahmet Davutoglu
Ahmet Davutoglu

“Today, Turkey is facing a systemic problem. Not just one person can solve it. The more important question is: 'How do you solve this systemic earthquake, and how do you re-establish democratic principles based on human rights?'.”

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Leader and founder of the Future Party
23 Oct 2021 2 2
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Iain Duncan Smith
Iain Duncan Smith

“We will be in Rome to draw attention to President Xi [Xi Jinping] and the Chinese Communist Party's systematic onslaught on democracy, human rights and the rule of law. We will be in Rome to remind democratic states of their responsibility to safeguard the international rules based order - rules that we have helped to shape and are now under threat from Beijing. True leadership means addressing these challenges, not pretending they don't exist. This G20 must be a turning point and China must be at the top of the agenda.”

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British politician - Conservative - Member of the Parliament
18 Oct 2021 (approx) 6 3
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Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou

“There is a very clear connection between human rights and mandatory vaccinations. It is 100 percent a human rights issue related to the right to privacy and the right to bodily integrity. Human rights protect our bodies and our ability to be the masters of our bodies. The consequence of this is our ability to determine our medical treatments. But this right is not absolute. Governments can interfere with it if they can justify such interference as necessary for and proportionate to the achievement of another valuable goal.”

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Professor in human rights law at the University of Liverpool
18 Oct 2021 5 3
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Paul Hunt
Paul Hunt

“The Human Rights Commission doesn't favour a public or private approach - that's for the government of the day to decide, but whatever approach is chosen it must deliver and in recent years there's no doubt whatsoever it has failed. These treaties [international human rights law including the right to a decent home] have been ratified, so they're legally binding but somehow there's an attack of amnesia when politicians and officials fly back home over the Pacific. The right to enjoy a safe, secure, decent home is critically important for wellbeing. Without a decent home, it's very difficult for people to be active members of society.”

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Chief Human Rights Commissioner of New Zealand
04 Oct 2021 5 2
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Nooruddin Turabi
Nooruddin Turabi

“Everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments. No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran. Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security. Our deeds will show that we are not like the Americans who say that they stand for human rights but committed terrible crimes. There will be no more torture and no more hunger. We have a constitution but we will introduce changes to it and, based on those changes, we will revise the civil and criminal codes and the rules for civilians. There will be much less prisoners because we will follow the rules of Islam, humane rules. People worry about some of our rules, for example cutting hands. But this is public demand. If you cut off a hand of a person, he will not commit the same crime again. People are now corrupt, extorting money from others, taking bribes. We will bring peace and stability. Once we introduce our rules, no one will dare to break them.”

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Taliban leader in charge of prisons in Afghanistan and former justice minister in the 1996-2001 Taliban government in Afghanistan
24 Sep 2021 5 3
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Heiko Maas
Heiko Maas

“To schedule a show at the United Nations won't serve anything. What's important are concrete deeds and not just words, including on human rights and in particular the rights of women and on an inclusive government and distancing from terrorist groups.”

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Germany Foreign Minister
22 Sep 2021 5 4
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Epaminondas Farmakis
Epaminondas Farmakis

“The Greek government has emerged with the notion of refugees and migrants as a 'hybrid threat', while testimonies of the inhuman practice of pushbacks against vulnerable people fleeing war and harsh circumstances have increased. It is certain that in the near future Greece will receive refugee flows from Afghanistan. The stand we take towards them is crucial and will define the identity of the Greek government on the aspect of human rights.”

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Co-founder of the NGO Human Rights 360
15 Sep 2021 5 3
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Deborah Lyons
Deborah Lyons

“The economy must be allowed to breathe for a few more months, giving the Taliban a chance to demonstrate flexibility and a genuine will to do things differently this time, notably from a human rights, gender, and counterterrorism perspective.”

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United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan
09 Sep 2021 4 2
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Suhail Shaheen
Suhail Shaheen

“We do not want this assistance for ourselves but we want it for our people. It is a moral obligation of those Western countries to take part in the construction of Afghanistan. If they do not take part, it means that they do not help the people of Afghanistan [which shows that] their slogans with values of human rights and humanitarianism are empty words. They are raising a slogan on the one hand, but are doing the opposite.”

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Taliban spokesman
09 Sep 2021 3 3
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Gordan Grlić-Radman
Gordan Grlić-Radman

“One is the question of the people who helped within the European External Action Service and our soldiers in NATO, to whom we have a certain obligation. The other aspect is the refugees who are burdening the entire international community. Of course, first of all, it is in our interest for refugees to be deployed to the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, where they can be provided with their human rights and security. What is certain is that Croatia will oppose illegal migration. We do not want 2015 to happen again. The issue of refugees must be defined at a general level because it is the responsibility of the international community.”

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Croatian Foreign Minister
25 Aug 2021 7 4
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Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi

“Afghanistan is the victim of back-to-back mistakes. President Biden could have delayed this to wait for a political settlement - for even just another month, just get the political settlement first. They could have come to a deal. We all want international forces to leave. It's not sustainable or logical from any point of view to have a foreign force protecting your country, but this is so untimely for the US to have chosen now, in the middle of negotiations and before we get a settlement. If the Americans were to stick to their political leverage, pressing the Taliban and using all sources of pressure against them, then I think they would have come to a negotiated settlement. They used the travel [lifting of UN travel sanctions, enabling the Taliban leadership to be in Doha for talks] to strengthen their own position; they went to China, Russia, Iran [and] Turkey to bolster their support and enjoy the standing and the position they want. That is why I think the world must watch the situation unfolding very carefully. To ensure there are no blank cheques as they ignore human rights.”

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Former member of parliament in Kabul and member of the Afghan delegation negotiation peace with the Taliban in Doha
19 Aug 2021 10 4
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Nabila Massrali
Nabila Massrali

“The European Union has repeatedly urged China to abide by its international legal obligations to guarantee procedural fairness and due process of law for Mr. Spavor [Michael Spavor]. His right to a fair trial and due process, including the right to a public hearing, as guaranteed under international human rights law and China's Criminal Procedure Law, has not been upheld.”

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EU's spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy
11 Aug 2021 5 2
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