For too long, human rights organizations have shied away from making disability rights part of their mandate. This must change.
Archive for June, 2011
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Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Council of Europe, disability rights, human rights, Interights, Ireland, Mary McAleese, Susan Treadwell, Thomas Hammarberg, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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In Mongolia, a landlocked country in Asia of just over 2.7 million people, studying anthropology is still considered a relatively new phenomenon.
Posted in: Asia, Education & Youth
Topics: anthropology, Central Asia, higher education, Luis Montero, Mongolia
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Moldova voted against the recent UN resolution supporting LGBT rights, an action that undercuts its aspirations to move towards closer relations and possible membership of the European Union.
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Late last Friday, New York became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage. It's truly a moment to celebrate. But it's one small step towards equality—not the end game.
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The human rights and anti-migrant sides of the EU immigration debate went head to head at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in a controversial case over "push-backs," or interceptions, of migrants in the Mediterranean.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Case Watch, European Court of Human Rights, Hirsi v. Italy, Italy, Libya, migrants, refoulement, Sarah Montgomery, UNHCR
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A new report reminds us that torture and other ill-treatment of prisoners are not aberrations; they are common, even routine, in many detention facilities around the world.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: global campaign for pretrial justice, Kersty McCourt, pretrial detention, torture
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The first-ever Social Innovation Camp brought together people, ideas, and digital tools to try to solve some of the most pressing problems facing the region—from human rights violations to environmental protection.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: Central Asia, digital activism, digital media, Internet, Kyrgyzstan, Lira Samykbaeva, Rachel Hart, Social Innovation Camp
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Migration is a creative force that has in large part defined modern urban life, says writer Salman Rushdie. Why has the subject become tinged with fear and unease?
Posted in: Europe, Media & Arts
Topics: Bernard Rorke, Europe, George Soros, Italy, migration, Roma, Roma Initiative, Salman Rushdie, Silvio Berlusconi, Venice Biennale
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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, considers the significance of the trial of the top four surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, both for Cambodians and for the evolution of international justice.