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4 Jun 2024, 6:05 am by Bonnie Docherty
” Destroying Cultural Heritage: Explosive Weapons’ Effects in Armed Conflict and Measures to Strengthen Protection, a recent report that I wrote for Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, identifies patterns of harm from explosive weapons to cultural heritage and, by extension, to civilians. [read post]
4 Jun 2024, 5:51 am by Melissa Stewart
Public hearings in the request for an advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) began in April 2024 in Barbados and continued at the end of May in Brazil. [read post]
4 Jun 2024, 12:06 am by Josh Richman
The chef, right, is the one who who does the choices and who's the chef matters, right? [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 10:00 pm by Sherica Celine
New York: New York City amends its Human Rights Law to prohibit provisions in employment agreements that shorten the period in which claims and complaints of unlawful discriminatory practices, harassment, or violence may be filed and in which civil actions may be commenced. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 1:48 am by INFORRM
Human Rights Groups coordinated online protests targeting Meta’s annual shareholder meeting to call for the end of systemic censorship of pro-Palestinian content, The Guardian reports. [read post]
The Chinese government is silencing discussion and commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, according to a statement released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday. [read post]
As Human Rights Watch reports, South Korea still struggles with pervasive and systemic discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. [read post]
Activists have pointed out other violations of Ugandans’ rights in recent years, including Human Rights Watch claiming in November that the country’s surveillance system threatens individuals’ constitutional rights to privacy, expression and association. [read post]
31 May 2024, 6:06 am by Melanie O'Brien
The list of human rights violations and international crimes that have arisen in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts are long, as documented regularly by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as well as in the work of the Tatoyan Foundation and the Centre for Truth and Justice, which collate evidence of crimes related to Nagorno-Karabakh. [read post]
31 May 2024, 5:55 am by Yousuf Syed Khan
Through both the statement and Expert Panel report, which together offer a level of transparency at this stage in the proceedings that is entirely uncommon, we receive a preliminary assessment of how starvation crimes are being viewed by the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), including through associated starvation-related conduct and crimes comprising war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as collective punishment, forced displacement (which was not charged), and the crimes against… [read post]
31 May 2024, 4:00 am by Ally Kvidt
New, shiny tech is always a temptation for Dennis and Tom, and right now they’re mulling over this latest Apple offering and whether its potential uses for attorneys make it worth the investment. [read post]
Human Rights Watch documented a similar case in 2023, in which a man was sentenced to death based on his Twitter and YouTube activity. [read post]
30 May 2024, 5:49 am by Amos Toh
One of the most closely watched regulations comes from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which released guidance in March prescribing minimum risk management practices for federal agencies’ use of rights- and safety- impacting AI. [read post]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) with the Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers and Right to Defence released on Monday a report into the politically motivated crackdown on human rights lawyers in Belarus. [read post]
HRW condemned the use of the law and stressed its incompatibility with the rights to freedom of expression and association as protected under international human rights law. [read post]