Chuyên mục: Human rights – Nhân quyền

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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FP
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” →

Bất bình đẳng giới từ sách giáo khoa

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TN – 08:06 AM – 04/02/2012

Sự phân biệt, trọng nam hơn nữ xuất hiện rõ rệt ngay trong sách giáo khoa (SGK) từ bậc tiểu học.

Bà Nguyễn Thị Minh Tuyết , giảng viên Khoa Xã hội học – Học viện Báo chí truyền thông đã có một nghiên cứu khá thú vị và đáng suy nghĩ về vấn đề này.

Bất bình đẳng giới từ sách giáo khoa - ảnh 1
Hình minh họa trong SGK luôn đặt khuôn mẫu về phân công lao động giữa nam và nữ khiến khó thực hiện về việc bình đẳng giới như yêu cầu của xã hội Tiếp tục đọc “Bất bình đẳng giới từ sách giáo khoa” →

BBC crew attacked in China and forced to sign confession

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Guardian

Journalist says crew trying to interview villager about land reform had cameras smashed and confiscated

A BBC camera crew reporting in China was attacked and later forced by police to apologise and sign a confession for trying to conduct an “illegal interview”, one of its reporters has said.

John Sudworth, a journalist with the BBC, and his team were attempting to interview a villager in rural China who claims her father was killed during a land dispute with the government. As they walked towards her house, a group of men blocked their way, pushed Sudworth and smashed and snatched the crew’s cameras. Tiếp tục đọc “BBC crew attacked in China and forced to sign confession” →

UN envoy calls for highest level Myanmar probe

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 03 Mar 2017 03:02

Yanghee Lee (C), the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, visits the Balu Khali Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar on Feb 21, 2017. (AFP Photo)

GENEVA: The United Nations rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar on Thursday (Mar 2) called for the creation of a Commission of Inquiry (COI), the UN’s highest-level probe, to investigate abuses in the country.

Rights envoy Yanghee Lee made the appeal in a report submitted to the UN rights council, currently holding its main annual session in Geneva. Tiếp tục đọc “UN envoy calls for highest level Myanmar probe” →

Thai prisons violate human rights, report says

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Al Jazeera

Prison conditions contravene UN treaties barring torture and stipulating minimum prisoner rights, group says.

Inmates sit on the floor inside Klong Prem high-security prison in Bangkok in 2016 [Jorge Silva/Reuters]

Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said.

Thailand also has the highest incarceration rate in Southeast Asia, jailing 425 out of every 100,000 people, according to the report by the International Federation for Human Rights, which was released on Tuesday.

More than 260,000 inmates are incarcerated in 148 prisons with an originally estimated capacity of less than 120,000, the report said, with the massive overcrowding forcing inmates to live in harsh conditions. Tiếp tục đọc “Thai prisons violate human rights, report says” →

Amid land grabs and evictions, Cambodia jails leading activist

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Cambodians demonstrating in support of land rights activist Tep Vanny are detained outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday. | REUTERS

japan times

Amid land grabs and evictions, Cambodia jails leading activist

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Thomson Reuters Foundation Feb 25, 2017

PHNOM PENH – Even before a Cambodian judge sentenced land rights activist Tep Vanny to prison, her fellow campaigners said her fate had already been sealed.

Vanny, who fought the evictions of thousands of residents from lakeside land in Phnom Penh to make way for a luxury real estate project, was sentenced to 2½ years on Thursday for her role in a protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s residence in 2013.

She was found guilty of inciting violence and assaulting security guards while trying to deliver a petition to Hun Sen on the land dispute.

The conviction came despite eyewitness testimony that neither Vanny or other protesters had committed acts of violence. It was criticized by campaigners as another step in a crackdown on dissent.

“The courts do not use their conscience. They just wait for orders from powerful men,” said Vanny, a mother of two in her mid-30s, during a recess before her verdict. “It’s easy to use the court. They are using my case to intimidate other people … and scare others to not protest.” Tiếp tục đọc “Amid land grabs and evictions, Cambodia jails leading activist” →

Hundreds protest on Philippine streets as Duterte jails top critic

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 25 Feb 2017 17:06
  • Updated 25 Feb 2017 17:10

A supporter of Senator Leila De Lima (not pictured), a top critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, shouts slogans as they hold a rally outside the court building in Muntinlupa City. (Photo: AFP)

MANILA: More than 1,000 people took to the streets of Manila on Saturday to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs, following the arrest of his most high-profile critic.

The protestors massed outside the national police headquarters where Senator Leila de Lima was detained on Friday, in a demonstration against the alleged death-squad murders of thousands of drug suspects.

Demonstrators warned the Duterte crackdown could lead to a repeat of the military-backed dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, which was toppled in a bloodless “People Power” revolution 31 years ago to the day. Tiếp tục đọc “Hundreds protest on Philippine streets as Duterte jails top critic” →

Senator Leila de Lima arrested in the Philippines

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Al Jazeera

Senator and vocal critic of President Duterte faces drug-trafficking charges related to her term as a justice secretary.

De Lima has branded the president a ‘sociopathic serial killer’ after he was accused of ordering drug killings [EPA]

A Philippines senator and staunch critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has been arrested by law enforcement agents after charges were filed in court alleging that she received money from drug dealers inside the country’s prisons.

Senator Leila de Lima is accused of orchestrating a drug-trafficking ring when she was justice secretary during the 2010-2015 administration of Benigno Aquino.

“The truth will come out and I will achieve justice. I am innocent,” she told reporters shortly before law enforcers escorted her away from her office on Friday. Tiếp tục đọc “Senator Leila de Lima arrested in the Philippines” →

Keen singer to police cell – Vietnamese suspect in Kim murder

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Reuters, Wednesday Feb 22, 2017

By Matthew Tostevin

The Vietnamese woman suspected of helping to kill the North Korean leader’s half-brother was a keen singer whose Facebook pages featured pouting portraits and pictures of parties.

Four days before Kim Jong Nam was killed at a Malaysian airport, she appears to have posted a picture of herself wearing a shirt emblazoned with the acronym “LOL”, similar to the one on the fleeing suspect caught on CCTV cameras.

Doan Thi Huong worked at an entertainment outlet, according to Malaysian police, who have arrested her over the murder of Kim Jong Nam. Tiếp tục đọc “Keen singer to police cell – Vietnamese suspect in Kim murder” →

Rodrigo Duterte accused of paying police to kill

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Al Jazeera

Philippine president ran a ‘liquidation squad’ as mayor of Davao city targeting drug dealers, alleges former policeman.

A retired Philippine police officer says President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was a mayor, ordered and paid him and other members of a “liquidation squad” to kill criminals and opponents.

The former policeman, Arthur Lascanas, told a news conference on Monday that he was speaking up because he was bothered by his conscience – including his role in the deaths of his two brothers, whom he ordered killed because they were drug users.

“I had my own two brothers killed. Even if I end up dead, I’m content because I’ve fulfilled my promise to the Lord to make a public confession,” he said, breaking into tears. Tiếp tục đọc “Rodrigo Duterte accused of paying police to kill” →

Febriana Firdaus wins inaugural Pogau award for courage in journalism

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Asia Pacific Report

By PMC Editor – February 19, 2017
Inaugural award winner Febriana Firdaus … courageous writing on the 1965-1966 massacres, disappearances and arbitrary detentions, and on discrimination, intimidation and LGBT community rights. Image: Pantau Foundation

Jakarta has a new award for courage in journalism honouring West Papuan editor Oktovianus Pogau, who died last year. The inaugural award has been made to reporter Febriana Firdaus, who has extensively covered human rights abuses in Indonesia, says the Pantau Foundation.

“We want to honour our colleague, Oktovianus Pogau, a smart and courageous journalist, who edited Suara Papua news and highlighted human rights reporting. He passed away at a very young age – just 23 years old. We want to honor his legacy by establishing this Oktovianus Pogau award,” said Imam Shofwan, chairman of the Pantau Foundation in a speech to a small gathering at his office. Tiếp tục đọc “Febriana Firdaus wins inaugural Pogau award for courage in journalism” →