Tag: Human Rights

Top Human Rights Tweets of 2021 (HRW)

The hashtags #WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar, #Tigray, #FarmersProtest, #WhereIsPengShuai, and #FreeBritney trended across the globe in 2021, springing from some of the world's most dire conflicts and...

Release of Revitalized Guidance on U.S. Foreign Policy on Human Rights Defenders (US Department of State)

Today, the United States is releasing revitalized and more robust public-facing guidance on U.S. government policy on human rights defenders, which will be supplemented...

Amnesty urges Pakistan to end ‘abhorrent’ enforced disappearances (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, as...

Belarus Carries Out Wave Of Detentions For Subscribing To ‘Extremist’ Telegram Channels (RFE RL)

Belarusian police have detained dozens of people in the southeastern city of Homel on charges of subscribing to “extremist” social-media channels in the latest crackdown on...

Polish Court Turns Down Russian Extradition Request For Activist (RFE RL)

A Russian human rights activist says a Polish court has ruled against his extradition to Russia, where he faces prosecution. Yevgeny Khasoyev, a leader of the Siberia...

‘Stay Strong’: Noted Belarusian Lawyer Who Defended Political Prisoners Deprived Of License (RFE RL)

Natallya Matskevich, a Belarusian lawyer known for having defended prominent political prisoners in the country, says she has been deprived of her license, becoming...

Jailed Kazakh Activist’s Sentence Toughened After He Signs Letter To UN, EU (RFE RL)

A court in Kazakhstan has toughened the sentence of a jailed activist convicted of "creating a banned organization and taking part in its activities." Kazakhstan’s Bureau for...

Women under fire in Belarus, activists tortured and exiled – UN expert (UN News)

“The Government's efforts to promote some rights of women at a policy level are rarely translated into concrete advancement of women's rights in law...

President Raisi: West’s invasion on human rights evident (IRNA)

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi blasted the West's double-standards vis-a-vis the human rights issues, and said that such approach has been harmful to other societies...

Human Rights. Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week (HRW)

Jim Murphy Trending rights tweets this week: 400,000 civil servants in Myanmar are still on strike, seven months after the military coup; the Taliban were...

Global – Protecting human and environmental rights in international investment agreements (East Asia Forum)

Gillian Moon writes: Concerns have long been held about certain adverse human and environmental rights impacts of the international investment arbitration system, or investor-state...

(Human Rights/Aluminium Abuses) Rights groups call on carmakers to address aluminium abuses (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Rights groups have called on car manufacturers to do more to address abuses in their aluminium supply chains, including the destruction...

Human Rights/Geopolitics – Geopolitical shifts and evolving social challenges – what role for human rights? (Chatham House)

Shifts in geopolitical power and the rise of authoritarianism are disrupting the dynamics for making progress on human rights globally. At the same time, the...

Human Rights – Why Laws Are Needed to Avoid Corporate Rights Abuses (Arvind Ganesan, HRW)

The United Nations formally recognized a decade ago that businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights. It was a groundbreaking development. 10 years...

Human Rights – Why the next generation is key to protecting human rights (Anar Bata, Martina Carlucci, Jacqueline Rowe, Chatham House)

Young people have always been drivers of social and economic reform, and today’s global youth population is more numerous and interconnected than ever before....

Sustainable Development/Fairer Economies/Human Rights – The elephant and the mouse: how corporate giants can avoid trampling on their stakeholders (John Morrison, Julia Olofsson, WEF)

• Business is increasingly keen to be seen to be doing due diligence on ESG. • The 'affected stakeholder' concept is a key way of...