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UN will investigate crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar

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  • Posted 24 Mar 2017 19:08
  • Updated 24 Mar 2017 19:16

A Rohingya refugee girl carries a baby outside the food distribution center at Kutupalang unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Claudia Jardim

GENEVA: The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday (Mar 24) to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

But Myanmar ambassador Htin Lynn, speaking before the decision was taken by consensus, rejected the move as “not acceptable”. Myanmar’s national commission had just interviewed alleged victims who fled to Bangladesh and would issue its findings by August, he said.

The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution without a vote, brought by the European Union and supported by countries including the United States, that called for “ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims”. Tiếp tục đọc “UN will investigate crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar” →

Duterte: International Criminal Court ‘cannot stop me’

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Al Jazeera

Philippine president vows anti-drug war campaign will continue and will be ‘brutal’ as death toll passes 8,000 mark.

Duterte has repeatedly said that if lives of law enforcers are in danger that they should ‘shoot’ the suspects [EPA]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would not be intimidated by the prospect of the International Criminal Court (ICC) putting him on trial over his bloody war on drugs, promising that his campaign would continue and would be “brutal”. Tiếp tục đọc “Duterte: International Criminal Court ‘cannot stop me’” →

Anti-China sentiment flares up in Vietnam

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al jazeera 14 March 2016

Rallies denounce China on anniversary of deadly navy battle amid continuing row over South China Sea islands.

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China is Vietnam's biggest trade partner and the communist parties that run both countries have historically been close [Reuters]
China is Vietnam’s biggest trade partner and the communist parties that run both countries have historically been close [Reuters]

Demonstrators marched in Vietnam’s capital on Monday to mark the 28th anniversary of a bloody naval battle with China and to denounce China’s growing assertiveness in the hotly contested waters of the South China Sea.

About 150 people wearing headbands and carrying large banners circled the busy streets around Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem lake chanting “Down with invasive China”.

They laid wreaths for 64 Vietnamese sailors who died in a 1988 clash with Chinese forces in the Spratly islands. Tiếp tục đọc “Anti-China sentiment flares up in Vietnam” →

Indonesian tribes rally for land rights

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Fearing extinction, tribes in Indonesia call on the government to protect their land rights.

Many tribal Indonesians do not have a formal title to the land their families have lived on for generations. [ATAR Agency/AFP]

Thousands of tribal Indonesians gathered on Sumatra, urging President Joko Widodo to protect their land rights.

On Friday, more than 5,000 people from 2,000 tribal communities convened in Tanjung Gusta village outside North Sumatra’s provincial capital Medan.

The gathering is organised by the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago and held every five years.

“We’ll fight for our rights to the last drop of our blood,” said Abdon Nababan, the secretary-general of the alliance at the conference.

Indonesia’s environment and forestry minister reiterated on Friday the government’s commitment to tribal rights. Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesian tribes rally for land rights” →

Rodrigo Duterte impeachment papers filed in Philippine Congress

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Opposition lawmaker formally calls for president to be removed from power, accusing him of high crimes

Rodrigo Duterte should be impeached over a host of offences, says an opposition MP.
Rodrigo Duterte should be impeached over a host of offences, says an opposition MP. Photograph: Erik de Castro/Reuters

Reuters Wednesday 15 March 2017 23.57 EDT

An opposition lawmaker filed an impeachment complaint in the Philippine Congress on Thursday against President Rodrigo Duterte, calling for his removal for what he said were high crimes, betrayal of public trust and abuses of power. Tiếp tục đọc “Rodrigo Duterte impeachment papers filed in Philippine Congress” →

Philippine VP: Bullets can’t stop illegal drug use

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Al Jazeera

Leni Robredo urges Filipinos to ‘defy incursions on their rights’ as she denounces president’s bloody anti-drug war.

More than 7,000 people have been killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte began his 'war on drugs' [Romeo Ranoco/Reuters]
More than 7,000 people have been killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte began his ‘war on drugs’ [Romeo Ranoco/Reuters]

The Philippine vice president has raised an alarm about the country’s bloody crackdown on illegal drug use, saying it can’t be solved “with bullets alone”, adding Filipinos should “defy brazen incursions on their rights”.

Vice President Leni Robredo’s comments, some of her sharpest critiques so far of Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, are likely to antagonise the brash-talking president. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine VP: Bullets can’t stop illegal drug use” →

Philippine ‘hit man’ set to file ICC case against Duterte over crimes against humanity

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Reuters, Mar 14, 2017

MANILA – A self-confessed assassin who testified to being in a “death squad” under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will soon file a case at the International Criminal Court accusing the president of crimes against humanity, his lawyer said Tuesday.

More than 8,000 people have died since Duterte took office in June and unleashed a bloody war on drugs, a third in raids and sting operations by police who say they acted in self-defense.

Duterte and the police have denied links to the other killings, many of which rights groups say bear the same hallmarks as hundreds of suspicious deaths of criminals in Davao City during the 22 years Duterte was its mayor. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine ‘hit man’ set to file ICC case against Duterte over crimes against humanity” →

Violence against Rohingya may amount to ‘crimes against humanity’: UN rights chief

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  • By May Wong
  • Posted 08 Mar 2017 20:55
  • Updated 09 Mar 2017 01:33

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. (Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

YANGON: The severity of the reported violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar warrants the attention of the International Criminal Court, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday (Mar 8).

Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the violations, “against a backdrop of severe and longstanding persecution”, amount to the “possible commission of crimes against humanity”.

He was addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where he highlighted the current major human rights issues in more than 40 countries. Tiếp tục đọc “Violence against Rohingya may amount to ‘crimes against humanity’: UN rights chief” →

The Enduring Darkness of International Women’s Day

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Women have gotten screwed for millennia, and that’s not a legacy that can be shaken off in a few short decades.

By Rosa Brooks March 8, 2017

The Enduring Darkness of International Women’s Day

About a week before the election that swept Donald Trump into the White House, I was sitting at home with my two girls, listening with half an ear to their after-school chatter. “Michael is so mean,” declared my seventh-grader, showing her phone to her sister. “He sent my friend Hannah” — not her real name — “a text with bad words in it.”

“Is that a screenshot? May I see?” I asked. I was curious to know what counted as a “bad word” to a 12-year-old girl. Butthead? Poop brain?

I was way off. Michael had called my daughter’s friend — also 12 — a “cunt” and a “whore.” He asserted that she “wanted dick” and accused her of giving blow jobs to another boy in the class.

Whatever I’d been expecting, it wasn’t this sexualized vitriol — not from a nice middle-class boy at a nice middle-class school. Tiếp tục đọc “The Enduring Darkness of International Women’s Day” →

TOP 10 VẤN ĐỀ TRONG KINH DOANH & NHÂN QUYỀN THẾ GIỚI

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English: TOP 10 BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Ngày 10/12/2016 đánh dấu ngày nhân quyền quốc tế – Viện nhân quyền và kinh doanh (IHRB – Institute for human rights and business) công bố danh sách hàng năm lần thứ 8 về 10 vấn đề đầu tiên về nhân quyền và kinh doanh cho những năm tới.

Những thách thức về nhân quyền dự kiến trong năm 2017 phản ánh sự thay đổi rõ rệt trong định hướng kinh tế, chính trị, xã hội ở cấp độ toàn cầu. Nguy cơ xói mòn của hệ thống quốc tế duy trì bảo vệ nhân quyền và các nguyên tắc của pháp luật có thể tác động đến xã hội, kinh tế và các doanh nghiệp.

Các phong trào nhân quyền đối mặt với một tương lai khó khăn trong năm 2017 và điều này là trách nhiệm của tất cả các thành viên tham gia – xã hội dân sự, các chính phủ cũng như các doanh nghiệp – để đấu tranh cho các đề người dân quan tâm và giúp nhân quyền có liên quan đến cuộc sống hàng ngày của người dân. Tiếp tục đọc “TOP 10 VẤN ĐỀ TRONG KINH DOANH & NHÂN QUYỀN THẾ GIỚI” →

Freedom House – Freedom in the World 2017 Report

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Vietnam (below) is ranked as “not free” country, with political rights at 7 (least free), civil Liberties at 5 (close to least free), Freedom rating at 8 (close to least free), aggregate score at 20 (close to least free, 0 being least free and 100 being most free).
Read full report here 

Table of Country Scores

PR = Political Rights
CL = Civil Liberties
CL, PR, Freedom Rating Explanation: 1 = most free and 7 = least free
Aggregate Score Explanation: 0 = least free, 100 = most free
* denotes territories, as opposed to independent countries

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Freedom Status PR CL Freedom Rating Aggregate Score Trend Arrow
United States Free 1 1 1.0 89
Uruguay Free 1 1 1.0 98
Uzbekistan Not Free 7 7 7.0 3
Vanuatu Free 2 2 2.0 80
Venezuela Not Free 6 5 5.5 30
Vietnam Not Free 7 5 6.0 20
West Bank * Not Free 7 5 6.0 28
Western Sahara * Not Free 7 7 7.0 4
Yemen Not Free 7 6 6.5 14
Zambia Partly Free 4 4 4.0 56 ↓
Zimbabwe Partly Free 5 5 5.0 32
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Key Findings

  • With populist and nationalist forces making significant gains in democratic states, 2016 marked the 11th consecutive year of decline in global freedom.
  • There were setbacks in political rights, civil liberties, or both, in a number of countries rated “Free” by the report, including Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, and the United States.
  • Of the 195 countries assessed, 87 (45 percent) were rated Free, 59 (30 percent) Partly Free, and 49 (25 percent) Not Free.
  • The Middle East and North Africa region had the worst ratings in the world in 2016, followed closely by Eurasia.

Welcome to the Post-Human Rights World

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Geopolitical realignments and the rise of populist nationalism have unleashed a global backlash against human rightsBy Sebastian Strangio March 7, 2017

Welcome to the Post-Human Rights World

Less than two months in, President Donald Trump is already shaping up as a disaster for human rights. From his immigration ban to his support for torture, Trump has jettisoned what has long been, in theory if not always in practice, a bipartisan American commitment: the promotion of democratic values and human rights abroad. Tiếp tục đọc “Welcome to the Post-Human Rights World” →

Retired officer links Duterte to almost 200 killings

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Al Jazeera

Philippine officer admits to killing 300 people, about 200 as a member of a ‘Davao death squad’.retired Philippine police officer has linked President Rodrigo Duterte – during his time as a mayor  of Davao – and his men to nearly 200 killings that the officer and other members of a “death squad” allegedly carried out.

Arturo Lascanas made the allegations at the start of a nationally televised Senate inquiry on Monday after he admitted to lying in October during another Senate inquiry into alleged extrajudicial killings linked to Duterte.

Lascanas said that he had personally killed 300 people, about 200 as a member of a “Davao death squad”, with his last in 2015. He also detailed two cases where he had murdered critics of Duterte, under the instruction of the then-mayor’s bodyguard. Tiếp tục đọc “Retired officer links Duterte to almost 200 killings” →

‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines

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Washington Post

By Emily Rauhala March 4

Relatives and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings leave Manila’s Baclaran Church for a vigil Feb. 17, 2017. (Jes Aznar/For The Washington Post)

MANILA — A world of sin. A weary savior. Filipinos know the story well.

Since coming to power last summer, President Rodrigo Duterte has used biblical language to build a case for mass killings, vowing to sacrifice himself, even his son, to cleanse the nation of crime.

Conjuring a world in which evil stalks the innocent, Duterte launched a wave of violence that has claimed at least 7,000 lives. With his critics cursed and shamed, and with public support for the president running high, the establishment, including the Roman Catholic Church, has for the most part stayed quiet.

But now, more than seven months into Duterte’s tenure, with the death toll climbing night by night, the country’s Catholic hierarchy is finding its voice. In a pastoral letter published in February, church leaders denounced Duterte’s campaign as a “reign of terror” against the poor. Tiếp tục đọc “‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines” →