Archive for April 19th, 2020

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19/04/2020

For My Birthday, All I Want Is a Healthy Forest

Human Wrongs Watch

By Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue*

(Greenpeace International)* — When I think of the forest, I remember playing in it. We would build huts of sticks and moss, and vehicles from bamboo trees. Getting lost in the forest was a real adventure. We used to turn the forest into a navigation game. We could get a sense of orientation without a compass or a GPS.

Forest Campaigner in Cameroon Rainforest. © Jean-Pierre-Kepseu / Greenpeace
The author on a field trip in the rainforest in the South of Cameroon, 2017. © Jean-Pierre-Kepseu / Greenpeace

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19/04/2020

Qatar: Migrant Workers Illegally Expelled during COVID-19 Pandemic

Qatari authorities rounded up and expelled dozens of migrant workers after telling them they were being taken to be tested for COVID-19, Amnesty International has learned.
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The organization interviewed 20 men from Nepal who were apprehended by Qatari police, alongside hundreds of others, in March.

The police told most of the men that they were going to be tested for COVID-19 and would be returned to their accommodation afterwards. Instead, they were taken to detention centres and held in appalling conditions for several days, before being sent to Nepal.

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