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An interesting article on the response of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the situation in Libya was published on the website of the American Society of International Law (ASIL): On March 25, 2011, for the first time in its history, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (“African Human Rights Court”) [...]
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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has adopted a new convention at its 100th annual meeting (16 June 2011): the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers. The text of the Convention can be found here: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_norm/@relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_157836.pdf The ILO reports that, while estimates point to 53 million domestic workers (83 percent of whom are girls and [...]
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The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), the human rights body monitoring the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), has stated in a report of 20 May 2011 that Turkey violates several human rights enshrined in the ICESCR with the constructions of dams and hydroelectric power plants. The Committee made particular [...]
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published a new 300 page “Practitioners Guide No. 6 on Migration and International Human Rights Law” (researched and written by Massimo Frigo and edited by Róisín Pillay): see http://icj.org/dwn/database/PGNo6-ElectronicDistribution.pdf? “For migrants, the principle that human rights accord to all human beings often seems to be illusory in practice. Although national [...]
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has judged that refugee status cannot be automatically refused for having been a member of a terrorist group. The following summary is from ECRE – European Council on Refugees and Exiles (www.ecre.org): “In its ruling on 9 November in combined cases C-57/09 and C-101/09, the Court of Justice [...]
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Introduction The United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) organizes every year a Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability.[1] This year’s Academy, which took place from 25 to 31 July in Hohenkammer (Munich), focused on the protection of environmental migrants from a policy perspective. Twenty PhD researchers from thirteen countries and experts [...]
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At its last session, the UN Human Rights Council affirmed that the right to water and sanitation is legally binding: “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental [...]
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South Africa has good reasons to be excited. Tomorrow, 11 June 2010, the 19th FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa, this year’s host country of the premier international football tournament. It is the first football World Cup on the African continent. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the opening ceremony in Johannesburg [...]
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The following post supplements a previous ILO post by myself (May, 4) on Italy’s “push-back” policy, titled Italy’s asylum policy violates international law (click here). For more information, see also a column published in Human Rights Brief, (2010) Vol. 17(3), titled The European Court of Human Rights scrutinizes Italy’s asylum policy (click here). Last week, the United [...]
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Last week, officials from 27 African states, United Nations envoys and international activists assembled in Dakar, Senegal, for a conference on female circumcision. The aim of the meeting was to encourage the adoption of a universal resolution that explicitly prohibits female genital mutilation as a practice that violates human rights. According to the World Health [...]
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In its 2009 report on Italy, pubished on 28 April, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) condemned Italy’s “push-back” policy. The report can be found here: http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/ita/2010-inf-14-eng.htm. This push-back policy means that hundreds of mainly African people trying to reach Italy by boat are intercepted in [...]
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Below you can find the programme of the 2010 Summer School on minority rights and indigenous people, organized on yearly basis by the Irish Centre for Human Rights (NUI Galway). The aim of the course is to provide participants with an overview of the legal, political and philosophical issues pertaining to international human rights law [...]
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The following is a guest post by Michèle Morel, who is a Ph.D. researcher at the Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium. Her Ph.D. deals with the international legal aspects surrounding environmental displacement. On February 4, 2010, the African Union adopted the decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued in May [...]
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No week passes without a newspaper article, television news or a documentary describing the plight of “climate refugees”. In this post, I would like to explain why, in my opinion, “survival migrants” is a more adequate term than “climate refugees” from a humanitarian and legal protection perspective. Secondly, I would like to examine to what [...]
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