Topic: Human rights
At UN, International Commission of Jurists highlights human rights approach to COVID-19
At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has urged countries to ensure human rights and avoid discriminatory impacts, and for businesses to respect their human rights responsibilities, in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rights body accuses Facebook and YouTube of removing human rights atrocities evidence
Social media platforms are taking down online content they consider terrorist, violently extremist, or hateful in a way that prevents its potential use to investigate serious crimes, including war crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday.
Death of human rights lawyer marks further low in Turkey’s human rights record, rights activists claim
Turkish human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik died on 27 August 2020 after three years in detention and a hunger strike lasting 238 days.
Healthcare vocabulary: On developing regional languages
It shouldn’t be groundbreaking to say that language is consequential to socio-political conversations, especially for already marginalized communities.
India persists with its repression of Kashmiri Muslims, says international rights watchdog
Indian authorities continue to impose harsh and discriminatory restrictions on Muslim-majority areas in Jammu and Kashmir, one year after the revocation of the state’s constitutional status on August 5, 2019, Human Rights Watch said.
Shift Saibaba to hospital, disability rights group writes to NHRC
Disability rights NGO National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has sought the National Human Rights Commission's intervention to shift professor G.N. Saibaba, a wheelchair user lodged in the Nagpur central jail, to a medical facility for treatment.
