Following President Trump’s decision to revoke the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, affecting the future of nearly 800,000 people in the US, journalist Liz Fields takes a look at the upshot of Trump’s presidency — so far — on human rights and civil liberties. A new world order has set in, and an …
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“I will never forget the day they told us we couldn’t go to the US”
For weeks, Suzanne Khoja had Monday January 30 etched on her mind. She had been thinking of little else since finding out it would be the date she and her family would finally land in the US after a gruelling three-year asylum application process. That process had started after the family had fled the ongoing …
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What President Trump means for human rights
After 14 months on the front lines, political journalist Liz Fields discusses what she believes Trump as President means for human rights in United States and the world. Covering the 2016 US presidential election was a woolly ride to say the least. I joined Bernie Sanders as he picketed with fast food workers, watched Hillary Clinton …
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