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News Clips- March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017 IJRC African System, armed conflict, assembly and association, civil society, discrimination, economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, immigration & asylum, Inter-American System, international human rights, LGBTI rights, migrants, News Clips, regional human rights protection, right to life, thought, expression & association, Universal system

Civil Society On Thursday, a civil society organization called for an end to the targeting, prosecuting, and detention of journalists in Belarus. [Committee to Protect Journalists] On Wednesday, activists, politicians, and religious leaders protested unfair elections in Zimbabwe. [Fox News] This week in Macedonia, an estimated 50,000 individuals protested a potential coalition government, which includes Social Democrats and ethnic Albanians. [DW

News Clips- March 10, 2017

March 10, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, Asia, assembly and association, children, civil litigation, civil society, discrimination, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, Inter-American System, International Criminal Court, international criminal law, international human rights, labor rights, migrants, News Clips, regional human rights protection, right to life, thought, expression & association, U.S. courts, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system, women's rights

Civil Society On Wednesday, to mark International Women’s Day, women demonstrated around the world for equality. [Reuters] On Tuesday, in Argentina tens of thousands joined in a march protesting job cuts and other policies initiated under President Mauricio Macri. [Al Jazeera] On Monday, Israel passed a law denying entry visas to foreign nationals who support boycotts against Israel or its

News Clips- March 3, 2017

March 3, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, children, civil society, discrimination, domestic courts, family, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, international criminal law, international human rights, international humanitarian law, LGBTI rights, migrants, News Clips, right to life, thought, expression & association, Universal system

Civil Society On Wednesday, Russian security officials raided the home of well-known journalist and human rights defender Zoya Svetova. [Committee to Protect Journalists] On Tuesday, hundreds protested the evacuation of settlers from homes in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, after courts found the homes were built on Palestinian land in violation of the law. [CNN] Last Friday, United States

News Clips- February 24, 2017

February 24, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, Asia, assembly and association, children, civil society, crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, discrimination, domestic courts, economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, equal protection, freedom of religion, health, International Criminal Court, international criminal law, international human rights, liberty & security of person, migrants, News Clips, right to life, thought, expression & association, Universal system

Civil Society This week, civil society reported that journalist Shamael Al-Bur has been attacked and threatened by radical Islamists in response to her column criticizing Sudan’s spending on health and education. [Reporters Without Borders] On Wednesday, ten protesters in the United States were arrested during the closure of the Dakota Access pipeline central camp. [Guardian] On Thursday, eight demonstrators were

European Court: Syrian Migrant Faces Threat to Life Upon Return

February 22, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, due process & judicial protection, European System, immigration & asylum, liberty & security of person, migrants, regional human rights protection, right to life, torture

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued a unanimous decision on Tuesday, February 14 preventing Russian authorities from removing a Syrian national to his home country because the security and humanitarian situation in Syria poses a threat to the rights to life and prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. [ECtHR: Press Release] In addition to finding violations of

Yemeni Civilians Suffer Famine, Mass Casualties in Ongoing War

February 21, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, children, crime & impunity, economic, social & cultural rights, education, health, international criminal law, international human rights, liberty & security of person, right to life, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system, women's rights

Due in large part to an ongoing civil war as well as high levels of poverty, civilians in Yemen face a worsening food crisis, death and injury due to direct targeting in the conflict, and other human rights abuses, including forced displacement, sexual abuse, child marriage, and harassment of journalists and human rights defenders. [UN News Centre; OHCHR Press Release]

New Clips- February 17, 2017

February 17, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, civil society, crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, discrimination, economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, International Criminal Court, international criminal law, international human rights, labor rights, migrants, News Clips, right to life, thought, expression & association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system

Civil Society On Wednesday, the Court of Appeals in Kenya released seven imprisoned doctors’ union officials who had been jailed in relation to a strike demanding promised wage increases. [Washington Post] On Sunday, more than 60,000 Romanians protested for the 13th consecutive day in Bucharest, Romania, prompting the Romanian parliament to agree to a national referendum on anti-corruption reforms. [Al

OHCHR Reports Unprecedented Violence Against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

February 15, 2017 IJRC Asia, children, crime & impunity, discrimination, due process & judicial protection, economic, social & cultural rights, education, enforced disappearance, equal protection, extrajudicial executions, family, freedom of religion, health, immigration & asylum, international criminal law, liberty & security of person, migrants, reproductive and sexual rights, right to life, torture, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Universal system, women's rights

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recently published its findings from over 200 interviews with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that described severe human rights violations against Rohingya in Myanmar since an October 9, 2016 attack on the police in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. See OHCHR, Report of the OHCHR mission to Bangladesh: Interviews with Rohingyas fleeing from

News Clips- February 10, 2017

February 10, 2017 IJRC armed conflict, assembly and association, civil litigation, civil society, democracy & political rights, economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, human rights defenders, immigration & asylum, indigenous communities, international human rights, migrants, News Clips, right to life, thought, expression & association

Civil Society On Wednesday, four protesters were arrested in the United States while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline at a bank in Chicago. [Chicago Tribune] On Wednesday, human rights groups in Israel petitioned a high court to block a law that enables the seizure of private Palestinian land for Jewish settlements. [Washington Post] Following recent mass protests in Romania, the

Following Three Decades of Isolation, Morocco Rejoins African Union

February 6, 2017 IJRC African System, assembly and association, civil society, democracy & political rights, discrimination, international human rights, LGBTI rights, privacy, regional human rights protection, right to life, thought, expression & association, torture, women's rights

After more than 30 years of separation, Morocco has officially been admitted back in to the African Union (AU), the continent’s largest intergovernmental organization. [New York Times; Reuters] Morocco quit the African Union’s predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, in 1984 after the regional bloc officially recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) as a member. [BBC: Morocco] After a