Human Rights Law

Critics said the reforms were a sham as the laws were replaced with legislation that is just as repressive. “The replacement legislation has been as bad or worse from a rights perspective,” said Phil Robertson, Asia deputy director for Human … Continue reading →

Portland’s Human Rights Commission is forming a task force on fair housing … and evaluate if changes are needed to the law. Review government policies for the siting of affordable housing. Explore the role that zoning plays in affordable …

It called on Iraqi MPs to delay voting on the law until it was reformed to conform to international human rights standards, a call which some members of the three parliamentary committees working on the law have agreed with. “Many … Continue reading →

It contains, in microcosm, many of the human rights concerns and critical gaps in the country’s laws and rule-of-law institutions,” she said. The human rights chief underscored that the investigation would also help to examine the causes of the protest … Continue reading →

It will be the latest repressive law to be annulled as part of Najib’s pledge to protect civil liberties. Opposition leaders claim the reforms are a ploy to gain public support ahead of polls that must be called next year. … Continue reading →

Mali is “descending into hell” because of the executions, rape and torture taking place in its north, said a report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH … Islamists seek to impose Sharia law. Mali spiralled into crisis …

The proposed law’s overbroad restrictions on content impose draconian criminal penalties that would silence dissenting voices, Human Rights Watch said.Article 3 provides for lifeimprisonmentand a large fine for “intentionally …

Several of the oldest and most respected Ethiopian human rights groups have been forced to cease most of their operations due to the restrictions on foreign funding imposed by the law, or arbitrary enforcement by the new agency established to … Continue reading →

which acts as an adjudicatory body that enforces the city’s Human Rights Act. The act, among other things, bans discrimination in employment, housing, education, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation, gender identity and …

Just consider Cuba’s most Orwellian act of the session: its resolution establishing … Those who truly wish to reform the world’s top human-rights body must speak frankly and diagnose all that continues to ail it. Calling a sick patient …