Section 304 (a) of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016, Public Law 114-122 , enacted on February 18, 2016, requires the Secretary of State to provide a report to Congress that (1) identifies each person the Secretary determines to be responsible for serious human rights abuses or censorship in North Korea and describes the conduct of that person; and (2) describes serious human rights abuses or censorship undertaken by the Government of North Korea or any person acting for or on behalf of that Government in the most recent year ending before the submission of the report. The report is being submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.. The Government of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) continues to commit serious human rights ...

This case, coupled with the rampant arrests of human rights defenders, including 2018 Right Livelihood Award Laureates Waleed Abu Al-Khair, Abdullah Al-Hamid, and Mohammad Fahad Al-Qahtani (the latter two are founding members of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association - ACPRA) who are still behind bars; internal repression; the potential imposition of the death penalty on demonstrators; and the findings of the UN Group of Eminent Experts report which concluded that the Coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, have committed acts that may amount to international crimes in Yemen, all demonstrate Saudi Arabias record of gross and systematic human rights violations. Therefore, our organisations further urge the UN General Assembly to suspend Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), in accordance with operative paragraph 8 of the General Assembly resolution 60/251.. Saudi Arabia has never had a reputation for tolerance and respect for human rights, but there were hopes that as Crown ...

This chapter provides a general overview of international human rights law as well as the diplomats role in upholding human rights. Every State that is a member of the United Nations has made a commitment to uphold human rights. Today, a States human rights record is routinely scrutinized by the UN and in the media, and compliance with human rights obligations can define a States reputation and relations with other States. Diplomats are also increasingly involved in speaking out on behalf of their State about human rights abuses, whether or not these are committed against the States own citizens. They are also expected to respond to allegations of human rights abuses levelled against their government. ...

Johannesburg) - The failure of Zimbabwes government to investigate and prosecute killings, torture, and politically motivated violence since the 2008 elections is fueling further human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.. The 40-page report, Perpetual Fear: Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe, examines the lack of justice in several illustrative cases of political killings, torture, and abductions by government security forces and their allies during and after the presidential election run-off in 2008. Human Rights Watch called on Zimbabwes power-sharing government to conduct immediate, credible, impartial, and transparent investigations into serious human rights abuses and to discipline or prosecute those responsible, regardless of their position or rank. The power-sharing governments pledge after the 2008 elections for human rights reforms has been all talk and no action, said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. The ...

Human Rights Watch is one of the worlds leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world. Mission Statement:Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments

The Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir comprises an informal group of concerned citizens who believe that, in the prevailing situation in the former state, an independent initiative is required so that continuing human rights violations do not go unnoticed.. The first Report of the Forum was released in July 2020 and it probed the impact of the lockdown during the period of August 2019 to July 2020. The second report releases this month probes the human rights violations in the period from August 2020 to January 2021. The report elaborates on the impact of human rights violations through a range of issues such as civilian security, health, children and women, media and industry and employment.. Mid-Term report-Forum for human rights in Jammu and ...

In the past, the Chinese Government has openly expressed its displeasure with critical scrutiny of its human rights record. Such reactions demonstrate that China is sensitive to international attention. Public recognition at the Human Rights Council that China should be bound by its international human rights obligations will again give hope to thousands of defenders, lawyers, petitioners and others who seek to promote human rights in the country. At a time when human rights are increasingly under threat, the Human Rights Council should ensure that all its members, including China, uphold the highest standards of human rights and fully cooperate with the Council and its mechanisms, as required by UN General Assembly Resolution 60/251. In so doing, the Council will continue to act in accordance with its founding principles, and in defence of universal human rights everywhere. Please be assured, Excellency, of our highest consideration.. Amnesty International. Cairo Institute for Human Rights ...

The name of Oswaldo Paya, who died while peacefully working to promote constitutional democracy in Cuba, will never be forgotten in Cuba. This measure would ensure that Americans also would be reminded of Payas courage and the sacrifice he made for the people of Cuba, said Senator Cardin. Today, I had the honor to meet again with Oswaldo Payás daughter, Rosa Maria Payá, who continues her fathers legacy by denouncing the evils of communism and fighting for the people of Cuba. As an outspoken dissident, Oswaldo Payá courageously fought for freedom and democracy in the face of the Castro regimes brutal human rights abuses. The regime desperately wants the world to forget Oswaldo Payá. That is why I am proud to introduce this bipartisan bill once again to rename the street outside the Cuban embassy after Payá and send a powerful message to the Cuban regime that we stand with freedom fighters who work to liberate the people of Cuba as they stand up to ruthless oppression, said Senator ...

Flyer and Programme. In numerous countries around the world, witchcraft related beliefs and practices have resulted in serious violations of human rights including, beatings, banishment, cutting of body parts, and amputation of limbs, torture and murder. Women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities particularly persons with albinism, are particularly vulnerable. Despite the seriousness of these human rights abuses, there is often no robust state led response. Often judicial systems do not act to prevent, investigate or prosecute human rights abuses linked to beliefs in witchcraft. This institutional failure perpetuates impunity.. Beliefs and practices related to witchcraft vary considerably between different countries and even within ethnicities in the same country. There is overall limited understanding of beliefs in witchcraft, how it may be practised in some cultures, and why. The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, states in his ...

Photo: A Re-education Centre in Xinjiang, China (credit to Ng Han Guan, Associated Press). On October 21st, 2020, the House of Commons Sub-committee on International Human Rights issued a news release, stating that the government of the Peoples Republic of Chinas mass detention, forced population control, and repression of its Uyghur population constitutes genocide, as laid out in the 1951 Genocide Convention. This decision was reached after an exhaustive study, which included tragic and profoundly disturbing eyewitness testimony. The subcommittees statement was unanimous, with MPs from all parties supporting it.. Anita is a member and previous Chair of the International Human Rights Subcommittee. Speaking to The Globe and Mail, Anita said the gripping testimony from survivors, scholars and renowned human-rights advocates like Irwin Cotler, was alarming and compelling for MPs.. This is not a partisan issue but a human issue. The testimony, especially of the women who survived the ...

Abstract: Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international human rights trials. In the mid-1980s, scholars of transitions to democracy generally concluded that trials for past human rights violations were politically untenable and likely to undermine new democracies. More recently, some international relations experts have echoed the pessimistic claims of the early `trial skeptics and added new concerns about the impact of trials. Yet, relatively little multicountry empirical work has been done to test such claims, in part because no database on trials was available. The authors have created a new dataset of two main transitional justice mechanisms: truth commissions and trials for past human rights violations. With the new data, they document the emergence and dramatic growth of the use of truth commissions and domestic, foreign, and international human rights trials in the ...

New York) - The United Nations Human Rights Councils first review of Egypts human rights record on February 17, 2010, is an opportunity for the government of Egypt to show its willingness to transparently discuss human rights and to pledge to end serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.. Human Rights Watch, in a submission to the council as part of the review process, called for Egypt to lift its longstanding abusive emergency regulations; to hold security forces accountable for serious human rights abuses such as arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention; and to end systematic torture and unfair trials before state security courts. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is the mechanism by which member states in the Human Rights Council review Egypts and all other states human rights records. The three-hour review in Geneva on Wednesday morning forms part of this process.. Egypt says that it is taking the review seriously, so this is a perfect time to announce an end to the state of ...

There has been a massive increase in human rights abuses in South Sudan over the past nine months, partly because of the failure of the international community to set up a court and bring perpetrators to justice, a U.N. official said Tuesday. The scale of human rights abuses in South Sudan, particularly sexual violence, is so horrifying that the consequences of doing nothing are unthinkable, said Yasmin Sooka, chairwoman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. Sooka told the U.N.

I hope the Azeri government is paying Simon Clegg well to organise its latest farcical attempt to whitewash its reputation in the international arena. Because he is going over and above what the autocrat President Ilham Aliyev will be expecting of the senior figure in British sports. Read my comment piece in full.

Lebanese are all over the world as we know, as ordinary people migrating for a better livelihood and to even settle down and establish businesses and...

Saudi Arabia has appointed Bahraini judge Mansour al-Mansour to advise the Saudi-led coalition in Yemens Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT). The JIAT is the coalitions investigatory and accountability body tasked with reviewing alleged human rights abuses, including attacks on civilians. Mansour al-Mansour, now poised to issue verdicts on alleged human rights violations in Yemen, previously tried and jailed dozens of peaceful activists in 2011, despite their credible allegations of torture to extract coerced confessions. His appointment as an adviser to the body thus demonstrates the JIATs inability to operate with independence, impartiality, integrity, and in accordance with international humanitarian law (IHL).. In February 2011, thousands of Bahrainis peacefully demonstrated around the country, protesting against the governments continued denial of basic political freedoms and human rights. In response, the Bahraini government responded violently and declared martial law. It deployed ...

Business should always be conducted with respect for human rights, and states have a duty to ensure that business conduct does not violate human rights and to provide access to effective remedy for those whose rights are abused. These rights most often include workers and consumers rights, the right to health and environment, the right to privacy, and equality and non-discrimination.. Over recent years, global efforts have increased to encourage responsible business conduct that respects human rights and seeks to prevent or, at least, remedy certain negative impacts. In 2011, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) advanced the debate, building on the Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework, corresponding to three pillars for action. The first pillar focuses on states duty to protect against human rights abuses, the second focuses on corporate responsibility to respect human rights and the third focuses on victims right to access effective remedy. More ...

The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.. The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGOs, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More…. ...

The Centre is an independent Palestinian human rights organization (registered as a non-profit Ltd. Company) based in Gaza City. The Centre enjoys Consultative Status with the ECOSOC of the United Nation. It is an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists-Geneva; the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) - Pairs; member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network - Copenhagen; member of the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) - Stockholm ...

In considering the human rights policies of a sovereign, a functional definition of human rights is necessary. Unfortunately, the Uniform Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) expansively defines human rights by employing a positive rights standard advocated by Jack Donnelly. This expansive definition allows for the infusion of philosophical and political principles relating to justice not shared by all countries and societies. The lack of consensus results in a decreased ability to react swiftly and appropriately to per se human right violations, including genocide and ethnic cleansing. Traditional human rights, or negative rights, are most essential to the definition of human rights in limiting future atrocities assuming a pluralistic society. By defining human rights within the context of traditional negative rights, greater consensus is possible among and between sovereigns allowing prompt action and greater protections. This standard may not serve as a perfect normative theory of global ...

The Human Rights Council (HRC) was appointed by the UN General Assembly to replace the Commission on Human Rights in 2006, and is the part of the UN system that is responsible for the strengthening, promotion, and protection of human rights worldwide. Three times a year, in March, June, and September, the HRC meets for 3-4 weeks in Geneva, Switzerland to review the status of human rights in countries around the world, to address human rights violations, and to make recommendations to improve the fulfilment of human rights. All 193 UN Member States, UN Permanent Observers, and civil society may attend these regular sessions, but only the 47 States that are elected to be members of the HRC at any one time may table (propose) resolutions and vote to adopt them. These resolutions serve as a guidance for the international community on how to tackle human rights issues, can contribute to greater international awareness of human rights problems, can increase international support for policy and ...

The Philippines government has dismissed a UN human rights report which had claimed that the country had acted with impunity during its war on drugs, as

Aiming to bridge this gap, the UNGPs broadly encompass three Pillars: upholding states existing obligations to protect human rights; compliance and respect of human rights by business enterprises; and the right to effective remedy when human rights abuses occur. While not legally binding, the popularity of the UNGPs represents a shift in wider corporate discourse, with numerous MNCs integrating the Principles into their operations. This years Forum focused on Pillar III of the UNGPs-the right to access to remedy. Sometimes called the forgotten pillar, the right to access to remedy represents one of the greatest challenges within the business and human rights agenda, since it requires a complex and victims-based perspective that is very often overlooked. As Debbie Stothard, the Secretary General of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) said during one session in the Forum, How do you compensate for a death of a loved one, the loss of ancestral land, or cultural ...

Children in Syrian camps died of severe cold. The total number of victims documented by the Syrian Human Rights Committee on Sunday 13-11-2019 reached three persons including a child.. In the province of Aleppo, a two-month-old infant died in the Bab al-Nairab neighbourhood of Aleppo due to severe cold and inability of her family to buy fuel for heating.. In the province of Idlib, a person was killed by a bombardment by the regime forces that targeted the town of Al-Najiah in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughour.. In the province of Quneitra, a person was killed during raids by the regime forces on the townof Ain Farikha in the southern countryside of the province.. The Syrian Human Rights Committee documented the names of the following victims:. 1 - the infant Ghina, two months old/ Aleppo - Bab al-Nairab / due to severe cold and inability to buy fuel for heating. 2 - Mustafa Sherif / Idleb - Marj Zohour village / because of artillery shelling on the town of Al-Najiah.. ...

In regard to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the position of the United States is: human rights have been a cornerstone of American values since the countrys birth and the United States is committed to support the work of the UN Commission in promoting the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[189] U.S. President George W. Bush declared that the United States would not seek a seat on the Council, saying it would be more effective from the outside. He did pledge, however, to support the Council financially. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, We will work closely with partners in the international community to encourage the council to address serious cases of human rights abuse in countries such as Iran, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan, and North Korea. The U.S. State Department said on March 5, 2007 that, for the second year in a row, the United States has decided not to seek a seat on the Human Rights Council, asserting the body had lost its ...

In regard to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the position of the United States is: human rights have been a cornerstone of American values since the countrys birth and the United States is committed to support the work of the UN Commission in promoting the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[188] U.S. President George W. Bush declared that the United States would not seek a seat on the Council, saying it would be more effective from the outside. He did pledge, however, to support the Council financially. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, We will work closely with partners in the international community to encourage the council to address serious cases of human rights abuse in countries such as Iran, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan, and North Korea.. The U.S. State Department said on March 5, 2007 that, for the second year in a row, the United States has decided not to seek a seat on the Human Rights Council, asserting the body had lost its ...

Mongolis should promote human rights in the context of environmental protection, according to United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment.

The International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations honours the memory of victims of heinous and systematic abuses.. The day coincides with the anniversary of the murder of Monsignor Oscar Romero, who was killed four decades ago for speaking out against injustice and impunity in El Salvador.. On this Day, we honour the bravery and determination of victims, civil society representatives and community leaders around the world who relentlessly strive for a better future, guided by the compass of human dignity. Their efforts to uncover the truth about gross human rights violations and the circumstances in which they were committed is an inspiration and a service to us all.. Truth opens the path to justice, reparation and healing. It helps us overcome prejudice, divisive narratives and extreme polarization. It also helps address the root causes of conflict and prevent its recurrence. This also why The Highest Aspiration -- my Call to Action for Human Rights - ...

While calling on the Police Command to ensure justice and compensation for all the victims of the past few days of police brutality against unarmed protesters he urged the Police leadership to provide concrete plans on the deep and incisive police reforms to replace impunity with professionalism and truly make the Nigerian Police a world class outfit.. The statement read in part:. SARS must not be shut down only in words. The dreadful impunity that has unfortunately defined this must not be given another cycle of abuse of citizens and human rights in the stamp of another terminology. #EndSARS must truly mean #EndSARS.. We welcome the idea of a Citizens and Strategic Stakeholders Forum and hope that this will be an all inclusive forum. We look forward to making representations to the Investigation Team that is expected to honestly include civil society organizations and human rights bodies to work with the Police in investigating alleged cases of human rights violations.. Rest assured ...

A newly released human rights report says that Chinese authorities have been abusing the practice of secret detention to persecute dissidents. The practice is not limited to its own citizens, but extends to foreigners living in China.. This is a particular phenomenon of systematic human rights abuses by the Chinese judicial system, a report released Monday (June 21) by Madrid, Spain-based human rights group Defensoria de los Derechos Humanos exposes. The report says that thousands of people in China are subjected to a coercive detention measure that violates basic human rights known as residential surveillance detention (RSDL).. The organizations researchers noted that in 2013, China changed its laws to greatly expand police powers, which are virtually unchecked. Prior to that, the practice of residential surveillance in designated places was less common in China, largely limited to special figures such as Liu Xiaobo and Ai Weiwei. But after 2013, there has been a significant increase in ...

I want to assure you that the United Nations stands with the people of South Sudan at this difficult time. We know many of you are suffering from horrific attacks. Families are fleeing their homes. Many of you have lost loved ones and are grieving. Innocent civilians are being targeted because of their ethnicity. This is a grave violation of human rights. South Sudan is under threat, but South Sudan is not alone.. ...

Amnesty International published a report on 13 June 2012, urging the European Union (EU) and its member states, especially Italy, to protect the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers according to international standards.. According to Amnesty, human rights are violated as a result of migration control policies and practices, such as outsourcing border security. An online petition was opened in order to urge members of the European Parliament to hold institutions of the EU and national governments accountable for the way migrants are treated.. Tags: Amnesty International, Asylum seekers, Border control, European Parliament, European Union, Migrants, Refugees. Source: Newsday , Amnesty International: Europe endangers migrants ...

New progress report. The progress report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Accountability and Remedy Project is now available. This progress report was requested by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 when it asked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue work to facilitate the sharing and exploration of the full range of legal options and practical measures to improve access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses (see HRC Resolution 26/22, paragraph 7). The progress report outlines the work undertaken to gather inputs and data for the ARP. It also sets out the findings of two preliminary investigations into State practice in relation to the challenges posed by cross-border cases and explains how the various information-gathering activities relate to other comparative research.. If you want a comprehensive update on how the Accountability and Remedy Report is progressing, please do read the report. If you wish to comment on anything in ...

GUE/NGL is pleased to announce its nominations for the European Parliaments 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - three symbols of resistance against the violations of human rights in Brazil.. They are Marielle Franco (posthumous), Claudelice Silva dos Santos and Chief Raoni.. 1) Marielle Franco She was a political activist and human rights defenders who was brutally killed on 14 March 2018.. Marielle was a black bisexual woman born in a favela, known for defending the human rights of young black people, women, favela residents and LGBTI people.. She also frequently reported extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations committed by police officers and state security forces. Shortly before she was killed, Marielle was appointed to monitor the federal intervention into public security in Rio de Janeiro.. Her case remains in impunity.. 2) Claudelice Silva dos Santos. A human rights and environment defender, she is known for her stance against illegal lumberers, ranchers and ...

MEDIA CONTACT: Amanda Simon, [email protected] (New York, NY) - Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will deploy human rights observers to monitor protests and law enforcement response at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA, this week as it did for last weeks National Republican Convention in Cleveland, OH. Citing concerns about human rights violations at protests in the U.S. over the last couple of years, AIUSA decided to deploy teams of human rights observers to both conventions.. All people have the fundamental human right to take to the streets peacefully to express their opinions. Our independent human rights observers are helping ensure that peoples right to protest is respected and protected at both political conventions, said Eric Ferrero, Amnesty International USAs Deputy Executive Director for Strategic Communications and Digital Initiatives. In Cleveland, Amnesty International USAs delegation of human rights observers saw largely peaceful protests and saw police ...

COLLABORATE AS A VOLUNTEER OR WITH YOUR DONATION SO THAT CUBA DECIDE CAN CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR THE CUBANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE.. Persecution and repression of dissidents, mistreatment of political prisoners, extrajudicial executions, torture and many other crimes have been committed since the Castros totalitarian regime was established.. Any request or attempt for change is denounced by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), the unit that reports these instances to the state intelligence apparatus and the security services that respond to the power group. They are in charge of committing crimes against humanity and acts of repression, such as the constant violation of Cubans rights, diminishing claims and employing fear tactics towards citizens so that they cannot react, nor can they seek political alternatives that allow them to aspire to progress and freedom.. Both the OAS, the IACHR, and other international organizations have published reports detailing all these crimes ...

Courageous women who stand up for their rights inspire a better world, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.. Blinken and first lady Jill Biden hosted the 15th annual International Women of Courage Awards in a virtual ceremony on March 8. The ceremony honored a group of brave women, nominated by U.S. embassies from around the world, who have made a difference in their communities, countries and the world.. These women have dedicated their careers to advocating for justice, human rights, gender equality and womens empowerment, often while sacrificing their personal safety.. During the ceremony, Blinken emphasized, that it is often women who lead the charge for human rights, democracy and justice, including in places where women hold much less than half of the political, economic and social power … And its often women and girls who are the most vulnerable to human rights abuses.. The award ceremony recognized such women as Venezuelan Ana Rosario Contreras, who is president of the ...

The current campaign to elect a sheriff for the City and County of San Francisco can and must become San Franciscos eyes wide open opportunity to review what it can do to identify and promulgate a new path for the City on how it will create quantifiable change in the San Francisco County Jail and Youth Detention Centers disproportionate incarceration of African American and Hispanic men, women and youth. Vote for John Robinson for Sheriff on Nov. 3, 2015 ...

Recent reports show Kurdish flags painted on Assyrian reliefs in Dohuk, not once, but twice in quick succession. There is evidence of hammering and chiseling taking place, as well as numerous suspected bullet holes. The Kurdistan Regional Government have not condemned these acts or committed any resources to watching over and protecting Assyrian heritage.. Every time the Kurds failed in an attack against Turkey, they would migrate to Syria and try to claim Syrian land as their own. For instance, they tried to claim the Syrian city of Ayn al Arab, naming it Kobani/Kobane. The origin of the name is the word company, a reference to a German railway company that built the Konya-Baghdad railway. The Kurds also claimed Al Qamishli, another Syrian city, as their illegal capital and renamed it Qamislo/Qamishlo.. Its worth mentioning that Kurds are not even a majority in the land they claim as theirs in northeast Syria. For example, in the governorate of Al Hasakah, they amount to about 30 to 40 ...

Front Line Defenders, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice, Civil Rights Defenders, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and Reporters Without Borders condemn the gross human rights violations committed by the military against human rights defenders, journalists, peaceful protesters and other members of civil society in Myanmar, following the military coup on 1 February 2021.. The military has been conducting a campaign of attacks and intimidation against human rights defenders and civil society groups in order to silence all forms of protest and dissent. Following the coup, thousands of people across the country gathered peacefully to protest the power grab and to call for an end to the military dictatorship. Two months on, while the demonstrations calling for the restoration of the elected civilian government in the country continue, violent, and often deadly, reprisals against protesters have also increased. The ...

Examining the role of open remedies in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms. Open remedies declare a human rights violation but invite the other branches of government to decide what corrective action should be taken. Open remedies are premised on the need to engage institutions beyond courts in the process of thinking about and acting on human rights problems. This book considers examples across the United States, South Africa, Canada, and internationally, emphasising their similarities and differences in design and the diverse ways they could operate in practice. The book investigates these possibilities through the first systematic legal and empirical study of the declaration of incompatibility model under the United Kingdom Human Rights Act. This new model provides a non-binding declaration that the law has infringed human rights standards,

Human rights monitoring can be viewed as the collection, verification, and use of information about human rights and the abuse thereof. Whereas it is the duty of government to respect, promote, protect and fulfill the human rights of its citizens, community groups and individuals can complement this role by monitoring how government complies with its human rights obligations. Those who do so act as human rights defenders as defined by Amnesty International, as people who on their own or with others take action to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights for all.. Community monitoring of human rights means the formal and informal identification, by community members, of human rights challenges and developments in their own community, for the purpose of contributing to strategies that seek to prevent and address the human rights challenges they face. This forms part of community participation in, and contribution to good governance and accountability.. This bulletins gives the ...

Experts with a variety of experiences and perspectives will discuss whether and how international human rights law has real-world effects on preventing and redressing human rights abuses. The panel includes HLS graduates with experience in government, business, international organizations, advocacy, and academia, and a political scientist who studies the question empirically. After insights from the panelists are heard, the conversation continues with the audience.. ...

On 6 September 2018, Global Witness published a new briefing paper on the role that EU-based investors have played in supporting projects linked to human rights abuses, land grabs and large-scale environmental destruction. The report argues that while political momentum - particularly through the EUs landmark Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth - is building to make the financial sector more accountable, the Commissions legislative proposals released in May lack robust measures, and calls for mandatory regulations for EU-based investors.. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited those investors mentioned but who did not provide a comment in the report to respond, namely Aberforth Parnters, Legal & General, Silchester and Schroders. Aberforth did not respond, and Silchester told us over the phone that they do not provide comments on their portfolio to non-clients. Legal & General sent a statement they also sent us in relation to another report, which can be accessed here and ...

In March, 44 countries called on the Government of Eritrea to end its use of arbitrary detention and torture of its citizens. Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Human Rights Concern - Eritrea and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project welcomed this long overdue attention paid to the widespread and systematic human rights violations continuing in Eritrea for over a decade. In a statement to the UN Human Rights Council, states from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and North America expressed their concerns about the governments refusal to hold national elections or allow opposition parties, independent media or international non-governmental organisations to operate.. ...

GENEVA (10 November 2015) - The Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate human rights violations in Eritrea embarked on its second term after reconvening in New York.. In July 2015, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council extended the mandate of the Commission for one year to investigate systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in Eritrea with a view to ensuring full accountability, including where these violations may amount to crimes against humanity.. The Human Rights Council decided to extend the mandate after hearing the findings and conclusions of the three-person Commission contained in the first report [http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIEritrea/Pages/ReportCoIEritrea.aspx#report].. It notes that arbitrary arrest is a common occurrence, often ordered by anyone with de facto authority. Tens of thousands of Eritreans have been imprisoned, often without charge and for indeterminate periods and ill-treatment and torture of detainees are used routinely. The ...

Gaza, Palestine, (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights):. Weekly Report: Israeli human rights violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory (16-29 August). This week:. Two Palestinian civilians were killed. 239 civilians, including 52 children, 6 women, and 5 paramedics, were wounded; 10 of those wounded sustained serious injuries.. 14 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, were wounded and in the West Bank in addition to a foreign activist, who was wounded twice.. Israeli forces continued to open fire at the border areas in the Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.. Israeli forces continue collective punishment policy against Palestinians.. A house belonging to Mohammed Dar Yusuf in Kuber village, north of Ramallah, was demolished.. Israeli forces conducted 98 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and one limited incursion was conducted in the Gaza Strip.. 92 civilians, including 14 children, a woman and a journalist, were arrested in the West Bank.. 24 of ...

On 6 July 2021, Syrians for Truth and Justice and The Advocates for Human Rights addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council during the presentation of an oral update by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic covering recent developments in the country. We joined numerous countries and nongovernmental organizations in thanking the Commission of Inquiry for its work and calling for accountability in Syria. We look forward with continuing to collaborate with the Commission of Inquiry to monitor ongoing human rights violations in Syria. The text of our statement is reproduced below. You can watch the full session on UN Web TV.. _____. Madam President:. The Advocates for Human Rights and Syrians for Truth and Justice welcome the oral update of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria. Syrians for Truth and Justice monitors human rights violations in Syria. Our commitment to human rights monitoring stems from the idea that impartial and independent human ...

MalaCards based summary : Intermittent Explosive Disorder, also known as explosive personality disorder, is related to personality disorder and pyromania. An important gene associated with Intermittent Explosive Disorder is SLC6A4 (Solute Carrier Family 6 Member 4), and among its related pathways/superpathways are Peptide ligand-binding receptors and G alpha (s) signalling events. The drugs Guanfacine and Naratriptan have been mentioned in the context of this disorder. Affiliated tissues include amygdala and brain, and related phenotypes are homeostasis/metabolism and nervous system ...

As the UN Human Rights Committee prepares to scrutinize the human rights situation in Tajikistan, a report by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an OMCT-FIDH partnership) highlights how the regime of President Rahmon gradually eroded the freedom of association and expression of its critics, including human rights defenders and lawyers.. The report titled Their last stand? How human rights defenders are being squeezed out in Tajikistan, published on 1 July 2019 by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, outlines how the authorities have increasingly restricted the legal space for human rights organisations and independent lawyers to provide assistance to victims of human rights violations, including torture.. The report finds that amendments to, among others, the Law on Public Associations - allegedly introduced to combat money laundering, terrorism and financing of ...

Every infant has a right to bodily integrity. Removing healthy tissue from an infant is only permissible if there is an immediate medical indication. In the case of infant male circumcision there is no evidence of an immediate need to perform the procedure. As a German court recently held, any benefit to circumcision can be obtained by delaying the procedure until the male is old enough to give his own fully informed consent. With the option of delaying circumcision providing all of the purported benefits, circumcising an infant is an unnecessary violation of his bodily integrity as well as an ethically invalid form of medical violence. Parental proxy consent for newborn circumcision is invalid. Male circumcision also violates four core human rights documents-the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention Against Torture. Social norm theory predicts that once the circumcision ...

Human rights lawyers are internationally perceived as crusaders, advocating for basic human rights for all mankind. But what happens when the lawyers themselves, not the clients, are the ones subject to human rights violations?. Approximately three months ago, the Chinese government rounded up, questioned, and jailed over two hundred human rights lawyers, their associates, and their family members. In a concerted operation by the Chinese Communist Party, roundups of the human rights advocates were conducted over the course of three days as a way of discrediting the rights defense movement. The Chinese government argues that the rights defense movement involves human rights lawyers exploiting contentious cases as a way to attack the Party and enrich themselves. The Party has depicted those rounded up as venal con artists, sexual predators, and thugs.. The initial target of the roundup was the Fengrui law firm, which last year represented a human rights campaigner who died after reportedly being ...

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Summary. Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (17 - 30 December 2015).. Shooting: Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have also continued to use excessive force against Palestinian civilians participating in peaceful protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the majority of whom were youngsters. Occupied East Jerusalem witnessed similar attacks. During the reporting period, Israeli forces and police killed 17 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children and a woman. 14 of them were killed in the West Bank and the 3 others were killed in the Gaza Strip. Moreover, 106 civilians, including 34 children, were wounded. 59 of them, including 10 children, were wounded in the Gaza Strip while the remaining others were wounded in the West Bank. Concerning the nature of injuries, 85 civilians were hit with live bullets and 21 were hit with rubber-coated metal ...

Vision. The vision of LHR is to be a frontline human rights and constitutional accountability advocate and watchdog in Ethiopia and an effective domestic force in the development of a human rights culture in Ethiopia.. Mission. LHR mission include: to promote awareness, protection and enforcement of human rights through litigation and advocacy, to facilitate unimpeded access to and administration of justice by making available high quality and free legal service, to fight impunity for human rights violations by ensuring accountability of perpetrators, to strengthen the capacity of lawyers and human rights advocates through tailor made trainings and to strengthen laws, policies and institutional frameworks through proactive monitoring, research and advocacy.. ...

This paper reports original data on contentious challenges, especially protests, focused on human rights in seven Latin American countries from 1981 to 1995. An analysis reveals that human rights contentious challenges are most prevalent where human rights abuses are worse and authoritarianism is present and in countries that are more urbanized. However, the incidence of such human rights contentious challenges is not related to the number of human rights organizations in the country. Results also suggest two different types of human (...) rights contention. National human rights movements, present in Argentina and Guatemala, involved HROs and demanded improvements in the national human rights situation. The other form is ancillary human rights protest, in which human rights challenges are led by a variety of groups, focus on repression particular to the groups involved and are either short-lived or part of a more general wave of opposition. This form of contention was more prevalent in Brazil, ...

Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the week of 09-15 March 2017.. A Palestinian civilian was killed in occupied Jerusalem, while 11 civilians, including 3 children, were wounded in the West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued to target the border areas in the Gaza Strip.. Shooting:. During the reporting period, Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian civilian in occupied Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Israeli forces wounded 11 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, in the West Bank. The Israeli forces continued to chase Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Sea and open fire at farmers in the border areas.. In the West Bank, in new crime of using excessive force, on Monday, 13 February 2017, Israeli officers killed Ibrahim Mahmoud Matar (25), from al-Mukaber Mount, southeast of occupied Jerusalem. Israeli forces claimed that Ibrahim entered the Israeli police office in Lions Gate (al-Asbat), took a knife out and then stabbed 2 Israeli ...

Photo: Damage of houses belonging to Al-Najjar Family in Mawasi in Khan Younis after Israeli forces targeted a nearby agricultural land on Wednesday dawn, 13 December 2017.. Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the week of 07 - 13 December, 2017.. Israeli forces escalated the excessive use of force against protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A Palestinian civilian was killed and 446 civilians; including 71 children, one woman and 12 journalists, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes carried out several airstrikes at different targets in the Gaza Strip.. Shooting:. During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 2 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and wounded 265 Palestinian civilians; including 49 children, 5 women and 2 journalists, in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, 204 civilians, including 30 children and 10 journalists, were wounded. Thus, the total number of wounded persons in ...

Human rights have improved but not everywhere and for everyone. Scholarship has focused on domestic conditions under which they improve but we know little about how they affect different groups. Whose rights are being protected? Under what conditions? I compare dissidents and criminals as targets of human rights violations - specifically torture. I also examine the effectiveness of human rights protections under conditions of public insecurity due to crime - as opposed to political or civil conflict or terrorism. I argue that mobilization and judicial enforcement are less effective in the face of public insecurity, and criminals benefit less than dissidents because courts provide less accountability for violations of those accused of crimes. Human rights treaties that depend on these mechanisms thus primarily benefit dissidents. My statistical analysis supports this argument and directly addresses concerns about measurement bias. The key finding is that commitment to the Convention against ...

The resolution was adopted today in Geneva, with 24 nations voting in favour, 15 against, and 8 abstaining. This is a positive step forward for Sri Lankans, and an opportunity to end the longstanding impunity for human rights violations that have marked the country for decades, said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty Internationals Asia-Pacific Director. The Sri Lankan governments failure to provide justice and protect human rights, even after it defeated the LTTE, has forced the international community to act by offering assistance to improve the dire situation in the country. The vote supported by Nigeria, India as well as a number of Latin American countries, shows that this is not a north versus south issue. It highlights broad concern in the international community that the human rights situation in Sri Lanka is moving in the wrong direction. There are credible allegations of serious violations of international law in Sri Lankas long armed conflict, which ended in May 2009, including the use ...

We are proud to announce that a new PYN handbook on Human Rights will be presented across the region in next few months.. Often young politicians in parties are introducing new ideas and new policy proposals for party and in that way make very important contributions to the parties and public as well. All ideas should be strongly supported with expertise in order to make them applicable.. The aim of this publication, made by experts in the field, is to support your policy making process and addressing human rights violations as well as improvements in your country. If your party doesnt have public policy or it needs an update you will be able to find all relevant information in this handbook.. PYN handbook for human rights consists of four chapters regarding minority rights, womens rights, LGBTI rights and transitional justice. Chapters are divided into three parts that brings you: definition, structure and importance of specific branch of human rights; documents regarding international and ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (No Justice without Accountability) The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), an independent human rights organization, monitors and documents human rights violations in Syria, mobilizing our efforts and capabilities towards limiting them, contributing to...

Sheila B. Keetharuth was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea during the 21st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2012. She took her functions on 1 November 2012. As Special Rapporteur, she is independent from any government or organization and serves in her individual capacity. A lawyer from Mauritius, she has extensive experience in monitoring and documenting human rights violations, advocacy, training and litigation in human rights in Africa ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and their Syrian partners delivered an oral intervention on Syria before the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday morning, March 17. The intervention was delivered by prominent Syrian human rights lawyer Anouar Al Bunni, as part of the 28th session of the HRC, which opened on March 2 in Geneva and is scheduled to continue until March 27.. Coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the peaceful protests calling for democratic reforms in Syria, the intervention expressed dismay with the international communitys failure to confront the culture of impunity that is deeply rooted in Syria and protect civilians from abuses by both the Syrian government and warring parties in the country.. The organizations welcomed the report of the UN commission of inquiry on Syria and its efforts to expose grave violations and international ...

This is the Ministry responsible for both the Israel National Police (including the Border Police) and the Israel Prison Service. It oversees routine commission of serious human rights abuses and international law violations against the Palestinian people, and racism and violence directed at minorities within Israel. These well documented violations include brutal killings, the torture and imprisonment of children, medical negligence of political prisoners, home demolitions, persecuting human rights defenders, violent racism, and the entrenchment of Israel s illegal settlements (the Ministry itself is even located in a settlement).. These abuses and violations committed by the Israel National Police and the Israel Prison Service under the watchful eye of the Ministry are not abnormal or cases of bad apples , but are a vital, calculated, routine, and systemic part of the Israeli state s wider system of oppression of the Palestinian people.. Any collaboration with this Ministry by police forces in ...

Intermittent explosive disorder (sometimes abbreviated as IED) is a behavioral disorder characterized by explosive outbursts of anger and violence, often to the point of rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand (e.g., impulsive screaming triggered by relatively inconsequential events). Impulsive aggression is not premeditated, and is defined by a disproportionate reaction to any provocation, real or perceived. Some individuals have reported affective changes prior to an outburst (e.g., tension, mood changes, energy changes, etc.). The disorder is currently categorized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) under the Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders category. The disorder itself is not easily characterized and often exhibits comorbidity with other mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder. Individuals diagnosed with IED report their outbursts as being brief (lasting less than an hour), with a variety of bodily symptoms ...

A little-known mental disorder marked by episodes of unwarranted anger is more common than previously thought. Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) affects as many as 7.3 percent of adults -- 11.5 - 16.0 million Americans -- in their lifetimes. People with IED may attack others and their possessions, causing bodily injury and property damage. Typically beginning in the early teens, the disorder often precedes -- and may predispose for -- later depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders.

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The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume distinguished philosophers, political scientists, international lawyers, environmentalists and anthropologists discuss some of the most difficult questions of human rights theory and practice: What do human rights require of the global economy? Does it make sense to secure them by force? What do they require in jus post bello contexts of transitional justice? Is global climate change a human rights issue? Is there a human right to democracy? Does the human rights movement constitute moral progress? For students of political philosophy, human rights, peace studies, ...

An extraordinarily powerful documentary, Calling the Ghosts is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, childhood friends and lawyers, enjoyed the lives of ordinary modern women in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day former neighbors became tormentors. Taken to the notorious Serb concentration camp of Omarska, the two women, like other Muslim and Croat women interned there, were systematically tortured and humiliated by their Serb captors. Once released, the pair turned personal struggles for survival into a larger fight for justice-aiding other women similarly brutalized and successfully lobbying to have rape included in the international lexicon of war crimes by the UN Tribunal at the Hague. Chronicling the two womens experience and their remarkable transformation, Calling the Ghosts is an indispensable resource for deepening understanding of human rights abuses and combating ...

Theres a Senegalese proverb: The grandmothers heart is the school where one prepares for life.. But what if westernization has made that heart less available to young people, especially girls?. The standard practice for health and development workers looking to change unproductive traditional behaviors, like female genital mutilation, teenage pregnancy, and forced marriage, is to focus on the younger generation, which distances them from their tribal culture.. But in Senegal, The Grandmother Project has taken the opposite tack. It might seem counter-intuitive to enlist village grandmothers, the people responsible for FMB/C (female genital mutilation and cutting) but this approach has been very successful in a series of programs.. They begin by helping all members of the community to talk together about what has gone right, and then to decide what practices they want to end. When grandmothers understand the long term effects of some traditional practices, it is they who become the agents of ...

Both women, Irma Yolanda Choc Cac and Angelica Choc, had travelled from a remote part of eastern Guatemala, to continue pressing legal claims that Hudbay Minerals Inc., one of Canadas oldest mining companies, bears liability for rape, violence and other human rights abuses that took place more than a decade ago when their village was razed to make way for the Fenix nickel mine ...

The U.S. veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for the deployment of unarmed monitors to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip demonstrates the new administrations contempt for human rights. The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution, which came before the Security Council on March 28 after five days of tortuous negotiations that moderated the wording of the original draft. Still, this was not enough for the U.S., which vetoed its first UN Security Council resolution in five years. The call for international monitors has grown over the past six months as reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Israeli group Btselem have documented a pattern of gross and systematic human rights violations by Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian population. These have included detention without charge, torture, extrajudicial killings, rocket and mortar attacks against civilian targets, demolition of Palestinian homes, restrictions ...

On July 9, 2019, the Second Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) released its judgment in the Romeo Castaño v. Belgium case. The ECtHR held unanimously that Belgium had not upheld its obligations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when it decided not to execute European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) issued by Spanish authorities seeking surrender of an individual who had been charged with terrorism and murder and who was located in Belgium. In 1981, Colonel Ramón Romeo was murdered by an ETA commando. In 2013, one of the suspects, N.J.E., was arrested in Belgium pursuant to EAWs issued by Spain. Belgium did not execute the EAWs due to concerns that the suspect would have been subjected to human rights violations in violation of ECHR Article 3. This concern was based upon a Report issued in 2011 by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture in which the Committee criticized the Spanish legal system for issues of, inter alia, incommunicado ...

The Committee also continued the discussion of the field visits conducted by a number of NIHR Council of Commissioners members to a number of correction, rehabilitation and pretrial detention centres (for males and females) during Ashura season to ensure that male and female inmates practice their religious rites in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, in addition to its plans to conduct field visits to some of the accommodation places for expatriate workers of major companies in Bahrain, with the aim of closely examining the extent to which human rights standards applicable in such cases are adhered to, based upon the Committees keenness to activate the NIHRs supervisory role in the field of protection and promotion of human rights, especially in reform and rehabilitation centres, health, social and educational care centres, accommodation places for expatriate workers or any other place that may have human rights violation practices. ...

Human Rights Observers conference on Womens rights and Environment. Human Rights Observers an organization in special status with UN ECOSOC has organized conference on Womens rights and Environmental awareness Speaking on the occasion prominent senior advocate smt. Venkateshwari, stated that Violence against women and girls, a gross human rights violation, devastates lives, causes untold pain, suffering and illness. She has given various examples of […]. ...

While a lot of perspectives (economic, political, legal and even diplomatic) have been brought to the table regarding the possible effects of New York Judge Thomas Griesas verdict in the litigation between NML Capital, LTD (Plaintiff) and the Argentine Republic (Defendant), there has been no voice for a human rights perspective.. After the Republic of Argentina defaulted on its external debt in 2001, 92.4% of the bondholders agreed to negotiate with Argentina a reduction in its amount. NML Capital, Ltd. (NML) - one of Argentina´s bondholders - did not agree to restructure the debt and brought a suit in the United States courts to collect what it was owed. NML prevailed in 11 debt-collection actions brought against Argentina in the Southern District of New York.. Human rights issues creep into this debate: because of a US court decision, Argentina is facing a delicate economic and financial situation (including the risk of a new default), with the consequent human rights violations that it may ...

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN. WHEREAS Canada is a party to international instruments that provide for the respect and protection of the fundamental human rights of women and children; and. WHEREAS Canada is participating in an international initiative to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation; and. WHEREAS Canadians are concerned that women and girls who are ordinarily resident in Canada are being subjected to the practice of female genital mutilation;. BE IT RESOLVED that CASHRA recommend to the Minister of Employment and Immigration that all prospective immigrants be provided with information setting out Canadas commitment to upholding international human rights instruments; emphasizing that the protection and respect of human rights is a cornerstone of Canadian society and extends to the protection of women and children against any acts which would cause grave interference with their personal inviolability, including female genital mutilation; and ...

Should Zimbabwe be allowed to resume diamond sales? Thats the question delegates from 70 countries at talks in Israel recently had to decide. The organisation that controls the international diamond trade failed to find an answer after allegations of human rights abuses in Zimbabwes mines.. Members of the watchdog, known as the Kimberley Process, said discussions had been clouded by the arrest and imprisonment of a human rights activist. Farai Maguwu had alleged that forced labour, rape, torture and harassment were being used to develop Zimbabwes new lucrative Marange diamond mines.. Zimbabwes ability to export Kimberley certified diamonds - the Kimberley Process - was suspended after the army seized control of Marange, allegedly massacring up to 200 miners two years ago. The country has accused the west of trying to hold back its economic development.. The diamonds from the Marange field could see the country become one of the worlds top six exporters of diamonds and generate ...

On 6 May 2013, human rights defender, Fawzan Al-Harbi received a call from Al-Rawda police station in relation to a warrant issued by the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution in Riyadh. They summoned him to appear on 11 May 2013.. Al-Harbi is the co-founder and deputy president of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) and its believed that the warrant is related to his human rights activities.. On 22 May 2012, Saudi authorities stopped human rights defender Fowzan Al-Harbi at the King Khalid airport in Riyadh and prevented him from travelling to Geneva in order to attend a human rights conference.. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) believes that the summoning of Fawzan Al-Harbi is directly related to his legitimate and peaceful activities in defence of human rights and specifically his extensive involvement with (AVPRA) which defends peoples rights in Saudi Arabia. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights is very concerned that the escalation of repression against ...

The euphemism aside, the reality of these interrogation techniques remained brutal, with the CIA Inspector General conducting a 1984 investigation of alleged misconduct on the part of two Agency officers who were involved in interrogations and the death of one individual, the report said (although the details were redacted in the version released to the public).. In 1984, the CIA also was hit with a scandal over what became known as an assassination manual prepared by agency personnel for the Nicaraguan Contras, a rebel group sponsored by the Reagan administration with the goal of ousting Nicaraguas leftist Sandinista government.. Despite those two problems, the questionable training programs apparently continued for another two years. The 2004 IG report states that in 1986, the Agency ended the HRE training program because of allegations of human rights abuses in Latin America.. While the reports references to this earlier era of torture are brief and the abuses are little-remembered ...

Framing scholarship on human rights accountability through treaty bodies, this article examines the water and sanitation content of state human rights reporting to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In this novel application of analytic coding methods to state human rights reports, the authors trace the relationship between human rights advancements on water and sanitation and treaty body monitoring of water and sanitation systems. These results raise an imperative for universal human rights indicators on the rights to water and sanitation, providing an empirical basis to develop universal indicators that would streamline reporting to human rights treaty bodies, facilitate monitoring of state reports, and ensure accountability for human rights implementation.. ...

Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the fifth anniversary of Russias occupation of Crimea:. Five years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized the Crimean peninsula by force. I stand with the entire international community in strongly condemning Russias actions for what they are: bald-faced aggression against a peaceful, independent country and a fundamental violation of international law. The United States will never recognize this land grab by Vladimir Putin. I call on Russia to immediately end its illegal occupation of Crimea and return this Ukrainian territory to Ukraine.. I also remain deeply concerned by the appalling human rights abuses perpetrated by Russian officials in a campaign to silence those who dare to stand up to the Kremlin. In the coming months, I will push for stronger action to respond to Putins aggression worldwide and to help our allies and friends defend ...

It has taken the United Nations more than two years to even begin to address the grave human rights abuses being committed UK among the countries that introduced yesterdays General Assembly resolution Yesterdays United Nations General Assembly resolution on Syria is a positive step but it does little to address the immense ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in the country, Amnesty International has said.

SOAN 302. Anthropology and Indigenous Rights This seminar examines the relationship between culture and human rights from an anthropological perspective. By asking who are indigenous peoples? and what specific rights do they have? this course introduces students to a comparative framework for understanding cultural rights discourse. Given the history of intolerance to difference, the seminar demonstrates the need to explore the determinants of violence, ethnocide, and exploitation routinely committed against the worlds most marginalized peoples. At the same time, it also asks about the limits of tolerance, if human rights abuses are perpetrated under the banner of cultural pluralism. Students will analyze case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well as issues that cross-cut these regions. Prerequisite: Sociology and Anthropology 110, 111 or permision of the instructor; upper division coursework in anthropology, sociology, history or philosophy recommended. 6 cr., SS; SI, ...

Abysmal human rights conditions in North Korea have cost Pyongyang its 40-year diplomatic relationship with Botswana.The foreign ministry of land-locked Botswana, immediately north of South Africa, said in an undated statement on its website that the nation had cut all diplomatic ties with North Korea because of human rights abuses by Pyongyang.

Most mechanisms of transitional justice address the gravest human rights abuses: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Various approaches toward transitional justice have been implemented in more than 90 countries, including South Africa, the states of the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Iraq, Cambodia and Rwanda.. Traditionally, transitional justice has been viewed as a toolkit of different instruments that can be used to reckon with past abuses, including criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations, and institutional reforms. The toolkit approach presents serious shortcomings due to the unique experiences and needs of victims and communities in each transitional setting. HHIs transitional justice program aims to depart from this approach by providing evidence that will make existing transitional justice instruments more effective in meeting the needs and expectations of victims; and by exploring alternative approaches to transitional justice, ...

International Human Rights Law (LLM). The University of Essex in Colchester, United Kingdom, offers a 12-month Master of Laws degree program in International Human Rights Law. Students complete a dissertation and take mandatory courses in International Human Rights: Law, Institutions and Practice plus electives to fulfill the course requirements. Applicants must have an honors undergraduate degree and be fluent in English to be considered for admission. A degree in law can improve your chances of admission but is not mandatory for consideration.. Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (LLM). Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom, offers a 12-month full-time Master of Laws degree program in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. All students in the program take modules in International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law and Public International Law and complete a 15,000 to 20,000-word dissertation. Qualified applicants to the program will have a bachelors degree with ...

Honduran Junta Murdering Journalists - by Stephen Lendman This article follows an earlier one titled Death Squad Terror in Honduras, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/06/death-squad-terror-in-honduras.html Orchestrated by Washington, it discussed the June 28, 2009 coup, Honduran soldiers arresting President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint, exiling him to Costa Rica, obstructing his return, committing widespread killings and human rights abuses, conducting a sham November 2009 election under martial law, installing Porfirio (Pepe) Lobo Sosa president on January 27, 2010, the Obama administrations man in Honduras, succeeding interim leader, Roberto Micheletti, using death squad terror to solidify coup detat rule, what most Hondurans oppose and want ended. Founded in 1981, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an independent, nonprofit organization... promot(ing) press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear ...

In 2008 Democracy International conducted an evaluation of USAID/Colombias human rights program. The program was designed to assist the Government of Colombia to strengthen justice, focusing in particular on the more vulnerable areas and population groups of the country. The team made recommendations for USAID interventions, including working with civil society organizations and the government of Colombia to prevent human rights violations, protect vulnerable civilians and communities at risk, and fulfill victims rights to justice.. Photo credit: Agencia Prensa Rural. ...