Making our human rights law
By Ashfaq Khalfan, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Policy Coordinator
Amnesty International has launched a campaign digest describing one of the key themes of its Demand Dignity campaign: ‘Make our rights law: Enforce economic, social and cultur…Continue Reading
Zambia: Police Brutality, Torture Rife
(New York) – The Zambian police routinely engage in cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, including torture, to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should investigate, discipline those found to be implicated, and train…Continue Reading
Dignity on Trial
This 54-page report documents the continued use of the archaic practice and the continued reliance on the “results” by many defense counsel and courts.
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US: The Failure to Provide Fair Removal Hearings to Persons with Mental Disabilities
INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE
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US: The Failure to Provide Fair Removal Hearings to Persons with Mental Disabilities
INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE
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Campaigning to end segregation of Romani children Slovak schools
Fotis Filippou, Campaigner in the EU Team and Barbora Cernusakova, Researcher in the EU Team are blogging from Bratislava, Slovakia
We have been in Bratislava, Slovakia since the beginning of the week, in preparation for the launch of the new phase in …Continue Reading
A Strange Case
This 130-page report details ways in which some European multinational firms have carried out aggressive campaigns to keep workers in the United States from organizing and bargaining, violating international standards and, often, US labor laws.
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Saudi Arabia: Domestic Worker Brutalized
The apparent brutality by Saudi employers against a Sri Lankan domestic worker highlights the severe shortcomings in labor laws and practices that foster abuse and exploitation.
(New York) – The …Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia: Domestic Worker Brutalized
The apparent brutality by Saudi employers against a Sri Lankan domestic worker highlights the severe shortcomings in labor laws and practices that foster abuse and exploitation.
(New York) – The …Continue Reading
Kyrgyzstan: Locked in a Tinderbox
(OSH) – "They don’t stop beating me. Please, sell your house, your car, your last things to get me out of here." Nafiza (not her real name) recalls the words from memory, written by her 37-year-old son in a letter smuggled out of prison by …Continue Reading
Amnesty International on tour with U2: Detained in Moscow
By Lucy Macnamara, Demand Dignity Campaign Co-ordinator at Amnesty International and Danielle Solick the Art for Amnesty U2 Tour Volunteer Co-Ordinator
I’m writing this, my final blog, on the plane home from Moscow where U2 played for the first…Continue Reading
US: European Corporate Hypocrisy
(New York) – Many European companies that publicly embrace workers’ rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers’ rights in their US operations, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today.
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US: All Officials Should Uphold Freedom of Religion
(New York) – Decisions by state and local officials in several US states to uphold the building of mosques and Muslim community centers despite protests is an important affirmation of the right to freedom of religion enshrined in international human ri…Continue Reading