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News Clips- August 25, 2017

August 25, 2017 IJRC assembly and association, civil society, democracy & political rights, discrimination, domestic courts, economic, social & cultural rights, human rights defenders, ILO, international criminal law, international human rights, internationalized criminal tribunals, labor rights, LGBTI rights, liberty & security of person, News Clips, privacy, reproductive and sexual rights, thought, expression & association, torture, UN treaty bodies, Universal system, women's rights

Civil Society Protesters in Hong Kong demonstrated last weekend to call for the release of three pro-democracy activists who were imprisoned last week. [Guardian] Maina Kiai, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur and a human rights activist, was detained at the Nairobi airport for two hours before allowed to leave the country last Sunday. [Guardian] A Chinese human rights lawyer

News Clips- August 4, 2017

August 4, 2017 IJRC civil society, conditions of detention, democracy & political rights, European System, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, international human rights, LGBTI rights, liberty & security of person, migrants, News Clips, regional human rights protection, right to life, thought, expression & association

Civil Society This week, a source confirmed that the government of Syria executed activist and Internet entrepreneur, Bassel Khartabil Safadi, in October 2015. [Washington Post] On Thursday, it was reported that activists launched a public appeal asking the prince of Saudi Arabia to dismiss terrorism-related offenses against 14 Shiite men. [Washington Post] On Tuesday, two Venezuelan opposition leaders were taken

News Clips- July 28, 2017

July 28, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, civil society, democracy & political rights, discrimination, due process & judicial protection, economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, immigration & asylum, indigenous communities, international criminal law, international human rights, LGBTI rights, migrants, News Clips, thought, expression & association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system

Violence & Humanitarian Crises On Wednesday, several international aid organizations in the Central African Republic halted operations due to violence between armed groups and the targeting of aid workers. [Reuters] On Monday, suicide attacks targeted two camps for internally displaced persons in Nigeria resulting in the deaths of at least eight people. [UN News Centre] On Monday, at least 24

News Clips- June 30, 2017

June 30, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, children, civil society, discrimination, education, European System, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, international human rights, LGBTI rights, migrants, News Clips, regional human rights protection, Universal system

Civil Society On Tuesday, Amnesty International joined a boycott protesting the mandatory reporting rules for foreign-funded groups recently put into force in Hungary. [Washington Post] On Monday, Mexican reporter Salvador Adame was found dead in Mexico; seven journalists have been murdered in the country this year. [Guardian] Over the weekend, police forces in Istanbul, Turkey detained 44 people attending LGBT

European Court Rules Russia’s Gay Propaganda Law Violates Right to Non-discrimination

June 28, 2017 IJRC assembly and association, civil society, discrimination, European System, international human rights, LGBTI rights, regional human rights protection, thought, expression & association

On June 20, 2016, a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that legislation in Russia banning the promotion of homosexuality, especially to minors, violated three gay activists’ rights to the freedom of expression and the prohibition of discrimination, enshrined in articles 10 and 14, respectively, of the European Convention on Human Rights. See ECtHR, Bayev and

News Clips- June 23, 2017

June 23, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, civil society, corporate accountability, democracy & political rights, discrimination, economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, European System, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, international human rights, LGBTI rights, migrants, News Clips, regional human rights protection, reproductive and sexual rights, right to life, thought, expression & association, UN General Assembly, Universal system, women's rights

Civil Society On Thursday, several civil society organizations urged for the prompt and independent investigation into the “barrage of assaults and threats” against human rights lawyers in Pakistan. [ICJ] On Saturday, thousands of protesters in Madrid, Spain marched to demand that the government fulfill its pledge to take in 17,000 refugees. [Al Jazeera] Violence & Humanitarian Crises On Thursday, the

UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings: Gender-Based Killings Are Arbitrary

June 14, 2017 IJRC discrimination, health, international human rights, LGBTI rights, right to life, UN Special Procedures, Universal system, women's rights

The newly appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, presented her first report at the 35th regular session of the Human Rights Council in which she addressed the key elements of a gender-sensitive approach to the right to life, concluding that gender-based killings may constitute arbitrary execution and that systemic discrimination based on sex,

News Clips- May 26, 2017

May 26, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, civil society, crime & impunity, discrimination, Inter-American System, international human rights, LGBTI rights, migrants, News Clips, persons with disabilities, regional human rights protection, right to life, thought, expression & association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system

Civil Society On Wednesday, after eight weeks of protests, the death toll in Venezuela rose to 56 people. [LA Times] On Wednesday, anti-government protesters in Brazil set fire to a ministry building, and in response, President Michel Temer gave the army policing power to restore order. [Reuters] Violence & Humanitarian Crises On Wednesday, a bombing in Somalia, claimed by al-Shabaab,

News Clips- May 19, 2017

May 19, 2017 IJRC assembly and association, civil society, discrimination, domestic courts, environmental rights, human rights defenders, Inter-American System, international human rights, LGBTI rights, News Clips, property, right to life, thought, expression & association, UN Special Procedures, Universal system

Civil Society On Friday, an estimated 11 activists were detained in Moscow while reading aloud Russia’s constitution. [Guardian] On Wednesday, the government in Venezuela announced it will deploy 2,000 soldiers in response to the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators that have been protesting the government since April. [Guardian] Freedom of Expression & Access to Information On Thursday, independent experts from

News Clips – May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017 IJRC assembly and association, civil society, democracy & political rights, discrimination, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, Inter-American System, International Criminal Court, international criminal law, international human rights, LGBTI rights, liberty & security of person, migrants, News Clips, regional human rights protection, right to life, thought, expression & association

Civil Society On Thursday, five LGBT activists in Russia were detained while trying to submit a petition, requesting an investigation into the crackdown against gay men in Chechnya. [Guardian] On Monday, Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer in China, was tried for inciting state subversion. [Guardian] This week, the President of Tunisia deployed the army to protect businesses from sit-ins,