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US Signals it No Longer Cares About Human Rights

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Elise Labott
May 13, 2025
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After Russia invaded Ukraine, it kidnapped thousands of children and forcibly relocated them to more than 100 different locations around the massive country. With the backing of the State Department, which funded it, Yale's State Humanitarian Research Lab tried to help. It tracked 35,000 of the Ukrainian children by using satellite imagery and biometric…

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