European Union member-states risk getting into a race to the bottom if they rely on coercion to make life more uncomfortable for the Roma in their country than in others.
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Posted in: Europe, Justice, Rights & Equality
Topics: antidiscrimination, deportation, European Union, France, Heather Grabbe, immigration, integration, Roma
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By taking former child soldiers to The Hague to recount how they were conscripted, the battles they fought, and how they saw their fellow children kill and be killed in battle, the Lubanga war-crimes trial has given the world a vivid picture of the horrors of using child soldiers.
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Through the process of resource mapping, young people in the Gulf Coast of the U.S. discover that they deserve better and begin to demand it.
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U.S.-supported paramilitary death squads who kill and abuse Afghan civilians with impunity give the Taliban a potent propaganda tool, and make it difficult to instill in Afghan officials the importance of accountability.
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