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The UK government had a “very short window” to reverse some of its decisions, she said, before it joins “the countries listed as human rights abusers rather than human rights protectors
Globally, research from Amnesty International reveals that protesters have been arbitrarily arrested in over 50% of the countries covered in its a nnual report. “This global map clearly depicts the widespread scale of the repression and restrictions faced by protesters around the world. A litany of serious human rights violations occurs
The report ranks the ten worst countries for workers’ rights in 2017 as Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Qatar, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. The Philippines, South Korea and Kazakhstan have joined the ten-worst ranking for the first time this year.
The use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is growing consensus for universal abolition of the death penalty. Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.
BANGKOK/GENEVA (4 June 2020) – A heavy-handed focus on countering national security threats and illegal drugs has resulted in serious human rights violations in the Philippines, including killings and arbitrary detentions, as well as the vilification of dissent, a new report by the UN Human Rights Office said Thursday. Persistent impunity and
Corporations and Human Rights. Of all human rights failures today, those in economic and social areas affect by far the larger number and are the most widespread across the world’s nations and large numbers of people. Human Development Report 2000, United Nations Development Programme p. 73.
Gambia 2022. The government agreed to implement most of the recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, including the prosecution of former president Yahya Jammeh for human right violations during his presidency. Freedom of expression for critics of the government was under threat. The police used excessive force on
The countries, which included the United States and many of its Western allies, constituted the largest group of nations to publicly denounce China’s human rights violations in the region.
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list of countries by human rights violations