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Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
El Salvador: Detained migrants are responsibility of US
The government of El Salvador has formally asserted it is the U.S., not the Central American nation, that retains 'legal responsibility' for Venezuelans held in a Salvadoran megaprison, contracting Trump administration claims. The disclosure was made to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and submitted in court filings by those challenging President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to send some 200 Venezuelan men to be held in the country's most notorious prison. 'The jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters,' El Salvador said, referring to the U.S. The comments are at odds with statements given by White House and Department of Justice officials, who have claimed they cannot seek the return of the men, as they are now in the custody of the Salvadoran government. 'El Salvador has confirmed what we and everyone else understood: it is the United States that controls what happens to the Venezuelans languishing at CECOT. Remarkably the U.S. government didn't provide this information to us or the court,' American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer Lee Gelernt, who is representing some of the men, said in an email. The filing from the ACLU seeks to order additional discovery in the case and argues the Trump administration violated its obligation to share information about its arrangement with El Savlador. In an April meeting in the White House with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, President Trump said it was up to the Salvadoran leader whether to release a man who was the subject of another case — mistakenly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And in court, the Trump administration has argued it was powerless in any effort to secure the return of the men, saying they were beyond the reach of the U.S. legal system and that their fate rests with El Salvador. The Trump administration in mid-March deported Venezuelans to the infamous CECOT prison, known by its acronym in Spanish, as well as some Salvadorans. A Justice Department whistleblower has accused Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove of suggesting the department may need to defy court orders grounding flights set to deport men under the Alien Enemies Act. The Trump administration has agreed to pay El Salvador $15 million to imprison the men, according to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who shared the figure after traveling to El Salvador to meet with government officials as well as Abrego Garcia. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Ya Biladi
02-07-2025
- Business
- Ya Biladi
Morocco champions human rights in business at UN event in Geneva
مدة القراءة: 3' For Habib Belkouch, Interministerial Delegate for Human Rights (DIDH), Morocco's participation in the forum aims to «expand the circle of stakeholders in the human rights project» by fully integrating businesses. He emphasized that this topic, now central to United Nations debates, is part of ongoing discussions around a binding international treaty on business and human rights. According to Belkouch, «Morocco brings to Geneva the conclusions of the Morocco-Africa Forum in Marrakech», recently held to help forge a common approach between Africa and the Arab world. He outlined three key pillars of Moroccan policy: - Protecting workers' rights, through a new law on the right to strike, described as «a balanced law that protects both workers and business interests». - Combating child labor, reaffirming that «a child's rightful place is in school». - Promoting gender parity in corporate governance, with legal targets of 30% women on company boards by 2024 and 40% by 2027. CGEM at the Forefront Representing the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), Youssef Alaoui noted that 95% of the Moroccan private sector is made up of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With over 90,000 members, CGEM has become a key player in social dialogue and economic governance. Since 2007, it has developed governance codes tailored to companies of all sizes, recently reinforced by an annual barometer for responsible governance. On the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) front, CGEM has awarded more than 150 Corporate Social Responsibility labels, now recognized at the European level through the Responsibility Europe network. A dedicated Responsible SME label has also been launched to support smaller businesses. On the social side, Alaoui praised the structured tripartite dialogue between the government, trade unions, and employers, which has led to a 20% increase in the minimum wage over the past six years. The constitutional right to strike is now regulated by a 2024 law that guarantees both union freedom and the right to work. Advancing Gender Parity in Governance Another key achievement, according to Alaoui—who also chairs the CGEM group in the Chamber of Advisors—is the extension of mandatory health insurance to 86% of the population, backed by a public contribution of 35 billion dirhams. CGEM has also launched a Social Academy, which has already trained over 100 managers in conflict prevention and collective bargaining, 42% of them women. Highlighting the link between diversity, economic performance, and sustainability, Alaoui called for a shift in mindset where women's representation in leadership is no longer symbolic but seen as a true growth driver. «Some companies already have 50 to 60% women in their governance structures», he noted. He also highlighted that child labor in Morocco has been reduced by 90% over the past two decades, dropping from 600,000 in 1999 to fewer than 60,000 today. Anti-child labor clauses, he added, will be integrated into CSR frameworks, especially in high-risk sectors like agriculture, construction, and textiles. International Recognition UN representatives praised Morocco's efforts. Pernille Fenger, Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) office in Geneva, commended the quality of strategic dialogue with the Moroccan government, particularly on gender equality and reproductive rights, with a focus on youth, women, and people with disabilities. Olga Nilova, a specialist in the UNDP's Business and Human Rights program, applauded Morocco for convening more than 300 participants, from governments, businesses, unions, and NGOs, and reaffirmed the UNDP's support for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Through this high-level event, Morocco sought to present a model that reconciles economic development, social inclusion, and human rights—a complex challenge, but one rooted in a clear vision: a private sector that drives transformation in the service of shared prosperity.
France 24
23-05-2025
- Politics
- France 24
Open letter: Our media colleagues in Gaza are in mortal danger and must be evacuated
Their names are Rami Al Meghari, Hassan Jaber, Kamal Abu Shabab, Fady Hossam... They have been working with the French media for years; they are our colleagues, our friends. Without them, we would have been deprived of vital information from within Gaza. For more than 18 months, these Palestinian journalists have been the eyes and ears of our newsrooms, keeping you informed about the ongoing horror taking place in the territory as the Israeli government obstructs the international press from covering the war by denying it access to the Gaza Strip. Without them, we would be drastically impeded from gathering survivor testimonies, documenting the destruction of hospitals, following the repeated displacement of the population or having any understanding of the scale of the humanitarian tragedy currently unfolding in the Middle East. Since the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 and Israel's responding offensive, more than 200 of our Gazan colleagues have died, according to figures from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. According to researchers from Brown University in the US, the number of journalists killed during the past eighteen months in Gaza exceeds the total number killed in both World Wars and five other major conflicts of the past 150 years put together. Today, as Benjamin Netanyahu's government seeks to take control of the entire Gaza Strip, our colleagues and their families are in mortal danger. Rami Al Meghari was shot at as he was driving home from a reporting trip. His daughter miraculously survived a bombardment. Fadi Hossam and his family survived a strike in Khan Younis. Kamal Abu Shabab's house in the northern Gaza Strip was destroyed by an Israeli strike and then bulldozed. Hassan Jaber, victim of a stroke, cannot receive treatment in a territory whose health system has been almost completely destroyed by Israel. And all of them, with the more than two million other Gazans, are threatened by famine. Faced with this danger, and after French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the 'intolerable level of suffering' of Gazan civilians while the international community fails to impose a ceasefire, we call on the French authorities to do everything in their power to evacuate our colleagues and their families and bring them to safety.
