Human Rights Law 
Step Up Urgent Human Rights Reforms – Reliefweb.int
Officials have also sought to clamp down on speech critical of the government, in violation of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed in South Sudan’s constitution and international law. In a number of cases Human Rights Watch has documented … Continue reading
South Sudan: Step Up Urgent Human Rights Reforms – Human Rights Watch
Officials have also sought to clamp down on speech critical of the government, in violation of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed in South Sudan’s constitution and international law. In a number of cases Human Rights Watch has …
Human Rights Council establishes working group to negotiate a draft declaration on the right to peace (A/HRC/20/L.15), (A/HRC/20/L.16) – Reliefweb.int
Given the flaws of the alleged right to peace and its potentially negative effects on human rights law, the group of countries would abstain. Italy, in an explanation of the vote after the vote, said that the notion of the … Continue reading
Russian Draft Law Seeks to Label NGOs and Activists ‘Foreign Agents’ – Der Spiegel
Deputies in his party have proposed a new law that will force human rights and environmental activists receiving support from abroad to submit to audits and publicly acknowledge their status as “foreign agents.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has never …
Bashar Assad to the Human Rights Council? – Article.nationalreview.com
it even issued a statement in 2008 that “acknowledges the steps taken by the Government of the Sudan to strengthen the human rights legal and institutional framework, principally in law reform.” By comparison, from 2006 to 2010, the Human …
HC comes down on human rights violations by police – in.com
The Principal District and Sessions Court here had convicted the DSP under IPC section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) as well as a few provisions of the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 in 2004. The … Continue reading
ARMM enacts human rights charter for region – Manila Times
Acting Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman signed last Tuesday Muslim Mindanao Act (MMA) 228, otherwise known as the region’s Human Rights Charter under which the newly-created ARMM Human Rights Commission (AHRC) will operate. The law has been passed barely …
Advocacy of gay rights unwelcome in Uganda – Washington Times
According to the Ugandan weekly newspaper the Observer, a leaked portion of the list includes the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, the Refugee Law Project, the Rainbow and Diversity Organization, the Angel Support …
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD ITS ONE-HUNDREDTH AND FIFTH SESSION IN GENEVA FROM 9 TO 27 JULY – UN News Centre
Chief of the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch in the Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and adopt its agenda and programme of work. It will then hold … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Make Rights a Priority at Tokyo Conference – Human Rights Watch
The human rights situation in Afghanistan is poor and could become … Violence against women goes largely unpunished, in spite of a 2009 law meant to curtail it. About 400 women and girls are imprisoned for “moral crimes,” including the … Continue reading
