More than 262,000 Venezuelans lived in Brazil as of August 2020. Brazil’s June 2019 legal recognition of a “serious and widespread violation of human rights” in Venezuela speeds up the
The State Department’s Human Rights Report, issued every year since 1977, serves as a record of human rights practices around the world. It supports U.S. and international efforts to combat violations and abuses. The 2021 report documents human rights protections, violations and abuses in 198 countries and territories around the world.
Presenting the new report on Myanmar to the Council, Ms. Bachelet explained that it detailed many serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Economy in freefall The country is also facing an “economy in freefall”, and the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; “a human rights catastrophe that shows no
In 2019, civilians in affected parts of the country suffered serious abuses at the hands of National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, FARC dissidents, and paramilitary successor groups. Human
Articles 4 & 5. Find info on the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights including the right to exist, personal liberty and freedom from abuse and violation of individual, group and ethnic safety such as genocide. Learn more humanitarian groups like United for Human Rights defending right worldwide.
Tagalog version (PDF) 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.
United Kingdom 2022. Legislation was passed or tabled that seriously undermined human rights, including replacing the UK’s primary human rights protection instrument and attacks on the rights to freedom of assembly and expression and to asylum. Further proposals were launched that would provide impunity for grave human rights violations.
Some human rights groups, including Military Court Watch, claimed the country’s detention of the majority of convicted Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza in prisons inside Israel was a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Human rights organizations asserted the law is in violation of Article 21 of the constitution and continued to call for its repeal, citing numerous alleged human rights violations. Nongovernmental forces, including organized insurgents and terrorists, committed numerous killings.
Refugees’ and migrants’ rights. Over 160,000 people fleeing from Ukraine requested temporary protection in Italy under the EU Temporary Protection Directive. The authorities granted them priority access to residence permits and a subsistence allowance. On other routes, 1,373 people went missing at sea trying to reach safety in Italy.
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