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Amnesty International called on Ecuador’s presidential candidates to address human rights concerns if elected in an open letter released Friday ahead of the tie-breaking run-off vote due to take place on April 13, 2025. Over the years, many international bodies have raised concerns around potential human rights violations in the country. February 9th’s presidential election resulted in a tie between President Daniel Noboa, who has held office since November 2023, and Luisa Gonzlez.
Creating projections for your law firm is great, because those are effectively coded goals. Build a budget projection youre trying to stay within it. Craft a set of revenue projections youre figuring out how to make a set amount of money. Assign metrics or KPIs thats a forward-looking goal. However, thats pretty meaningless, unless you compare those projections, to actual results to check (not only ) on the viability of your performance, (but also) the reasonable of the goal you set.
Over 35 human rights organizations on Friday issued an open letter, addressed to the leaders of Australias three major political parties, urging them to foster a “civil and respectful discourse” on the topic of refugees and asylum-seekers ahead of the upcoming federal elections in May. In the open letter local NGOs, such as the Asylum Seekers Center and Refugee Council of Australia, stressed the fact that debates surrounding the topic of refugees should under all circumstances remain
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A group of human rights organizations on Friday urged Bangladesh’s interim government to take decisive action to safeguard the freedoms of expression and opinion amidst increasing attacks on journalists, authors, and human rights defenders. The rights groups, which included Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Human Rights Watch (HRW), called on Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus ‘ administration to break from past repressive practices and protect individ
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