The Attorney Generalâs Office launched 8,581 investigations on alleged police abuses committed from October 2019 to March 2020. By January 2021, it had closed more than 35 percent of them
14 June 2022 Human Rights. Still suffering from the devastating consequences of the February 2021 military coup, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday that the people of Myanmar remain âtrapped in a cycle of poverty and displacement, human rights violations and abusesâ. âWhat we are witnessing today is the systematic and widespread use of
The human rights situation in Ethiopia remained precarious, with government security forces, militias, and non-state armed groups responsible for systematic abuses, with impunity remaining the norm.
Gang rape, child and baby rape, prostitution and sex trafficking rings, paedophilia, sexual predators, murder, theft -- the allegations of abuses by peacekeepers and peacekeeping staff have continued unabated for years. Although the UN has a âzero toleranceâ policy towards sexual violence, actions speak far louder than words.
Canada is home base for nearly half of the worldâs mining companies, but the countryâs efforts to improve corporate accountability for environmental and human rights violations have fallen Vulnerable groups, including families with children, older people, and people with health issues were among those summarily pushed back to Belarus. Human Rights Watch documented similar abuses Between 240 and 310 people remained arbitrarily detained on political grounds. The stateâs repressive policies targeted journalists, independent media and human rights defenders. Illegal mining and violence threatened Indigenous peoplesâ rights in the Orinoco Mining Arc. Abortion was still criminalized in almost all circumstances.
The 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights in the DPRK found Pyongyang committed crimes against humanity against those forcibly returned by China to North Korea. Very few North
get the amnesty international report 2022/23 documenting the state of human rights in 156 countries during 2022
Highlighting major double-standards in foreign policy, the EU and its member states failed to take decisive action to address serious human rights abuses in Egypt, the Gulf countries, Israel and
A Human Rights Watch report in July found child athletes in Japanâat both the grassroots and elite levelsâsuffer physical, sexual, and verbal abuse when training in sport. Following the report
As a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Argentina has supported UN scrutiny of rights violations in Belarus, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In October 2021, Argentina
What Are Human Rights Violations? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was established in response to the atrocities during WWII, including the Holocaust. The document outlines the human rights that all people are entitled to such as freedom from torture, freedom of expression, and the right to seek asylum. A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in North Korea stated that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the government included 7awY0.
