Thẻ: Human rights – Nhân quyền

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” →

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” →

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” →

Finland is really good at stopping bullying. Here’s how they’re doing it.

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Then you walk around the corner and see this:

A student being pushed into some lockers.

Photo from iStock.

What would you do?

Unfortunately, this is a pretty common scene.

About a fourth to a third of all students report that they’ve been bullied in school. Tiếp tục đọc “Finland is really good at stopping bullying. Here’s how they’re doing it.” →

If you see it, you can stop it

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UNICEF_For International Youth Day, UNICEF has released the results of a new global poll of more than 100,000 young people from more than 14 countries that shows two-thirds of young people have been bullied.

We asked Yeshna, a 18 year old blogger living Mauritius to write a reflection on the results and share her thoughts on bullying and why it continues to affect children in every region of the world.


Nerd. Loser. Ugly. Fake. Lame. Fat. Stupid. Worthless. Weak. Hopeless. Pathetic. If these words that so many use appeared on our skin, would we still feel ‘beautiful’? Tiếp tục đọc “If you see it, you can stop it” →

Thousands march against Duterte’s war on drugs

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Al Jareeza
Luis Antonio Tagle, Catholic leader of Manila, said violence cannot be the answer to the country's drug problem [Reuters]
Luis Antonio Tagle, Catholic leader of Manila, said violence cannot be the answer to the country’s drug problem [Reuters]

Thousands of Catholics have gathered in the Philippine capital in a “show of force” to protest extrajudicial killings being carried out under the banner of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

The rally, dubbed the “Walk for Life”, was attended by 20,000 people, organisers said. Manila police estimated the crowd at 10,000.

At the biggest rally yet against the killings, members of one of the nation’s oldest and most powerful institutions prayed and sang hymns as they marched before dawn on Saturday, to condemn a “spreading culture of violence”.

More than 7,000 people have died since Duterte took office almost eight months ago and ordered an unprecedented crime war that has drawn global criticism for alleged human rights abuses.

The move, however, has been popular with many in the mainly Catholic nation.

“We have to stand up. Somehow this is already a show of force by the faithful that they don’t like these extrajudicial killings,” Manila bishop Broderick Pabillo told AFP news agency before addressing the crowd.

“I am alarmed and angry at what’s happening because this is something that is regressive. It does not show our humanity.”

The demonstrators also condemned legislation restoring the death penalty for drug-related crimes and other offences. Tiếp tục đọc “Thousands march against Duterte’s war on drugs” →

Công việc chăm sóc không lương – Để ngôi nhà thành Tổ ấm

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Author ActionAid Việt Nam – Date published Thursday, September 29, 2016
AA – Công việc chăm sóc không lương (CVCSKL) là một khái niệm không còn mới trên thế giới nhưng khá mới mẻ ở Việt Nam. Đã có nhiều nghiên cứu và báo cáo sử dụng khái niệm này hoặc nói đến thời gian sử dụng cho các công việc chăm sóc nói chung và công việc cho gia đình cũng như cho cộng đồng nói riêng.

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International Criminal Court told Australia’s detention regime could be a crime against humanity

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The Guardian

Submission argues ICC should investigate possible crimes ‘committed by individuals and corporate actors’

Asylum seekers on Manus Island in 2014
Asylum seekers on Manus Island in 2014. The Global Legal Action Network says Australia’s immigration detention regime could constitute a crime against humanity. Photograph: Eoin Blackwell/AAP

Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime could constitute a crime against humanity, a petition before the International Criminal Court from a coalition of legal experts has alleged.

On Monday morning, GMT, a 108-page legal submission from the Global Legal Action Network (Glan) and the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic was submitted to the court, detailing what the network describes as the “harrowing practices of the Australian state and corporations towards asylum seekers”. The petition submits the office of the prosecutor of the ICC should open an investigation into possible “crimes against humanity committed by individuals and corporate actors”.

“As recent leaks reveal, these privatised facilities entail long-term detention in inhumane conditions, often including physical and sexual abuse of adults and children,” Glan said in a statement. Tiếp tục đọc “International Criminal Court told Australia’s detention regime could be a crime against humanity” →

Vì sao Nhà nước độc quyền 20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ?

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VE – Có những ý kiến trái chiều xung quanh dự thảo danh mục 20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ do Nhà nước độc quyền…

Vì sao Nhà nước độc quyền 20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ?
Sản xuất vàng miếng nằm trong danh mục 20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ do Nhà nước độc quyền.

20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ sẽ do Nhà nước độc quyền trong hoạt động thương mại. Đây là nội dung tại dự thảo nghị định về hàng hóa, dịch vụ, địa bàn thực hiện độc quyền Nhà nước trong hoạt động thương mại mà Bộ Công Thương vừa trình Chính phủ cho ý kiến.
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A Rare Survivor of a Philippine Drug Raid Takes the Police to Court

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By FELIPE VILLAMOR FEB. 10, 2017

Maria Belen Daa, 61, with a photo of her son Marcelo, 31, in the Philippines last week. He was shot along with four others by the police, who raided his home looking for drugs last August. Jes Aznar for The New York Times

MANILA — The drug raid ended like so many others in the Philippines, with all the suspects shot by the police.

But one of them, Efren Morillo, a 28-year-old fruit and vegetable vendor, did not die.

As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government’s assertion that the thousands of suspects killed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s antidrug campaign were killed by the police in self-defense. And his testimony lies at the heart of the first court case to challenge that campaign.

According to his sworn affidavit, none of the five suspects were drug users and none were armed.

The police took two of them, including Mr. Morillo, inside a house, handcuffed, Mr. Morillo said. Three others were lined up at a clearing near a ravine, ordered to kneel, their hands tied behind their backs.

There was begging and crying as the police shot each man at close range, Mr. Morillo said.

“Thoroughly frightened that I might be shot again, I closed my eyes and played dead,” he said. As he lay on the floor bleeding, he said, he overheard the police officers talking about planting guns and drugs because they had found none there.

When the police officers left the house, he took a chance and fled.

Pope Francis Rebukes Myanmar Over Treatment of Rohingya

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By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA

A Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The United Nations estimates that about 69,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since October. Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a fresh rebuke against Myanmar over its repression of the Rohingya minority group, just days after a United Nations report concluded that security forces had slaughtered and raped hundreds of men, women and children in a “campaign of terror.”

“They have been suffering, they are being tortured and killed, simply because they uphold their Muslim faith,” Francis said of the Rohingya in his weekly audience at the Vatican.

He asked those present to pray with him “for our Rohingya brothers and sisters who are being chased from Myanmar and are fleeing from one place to another because no one wants them.”

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Debate Flares Over China’s Inclusion at Vatican Organ Trafficking Meeting

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New York times,  Sinosphere

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW FEB. 7, 2017

Dr. Huang Jiefu, co-chairman of the National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee of China, at a meeting on organ trafficking at the Vatican on Tuesday. Andrew Medichini/Associated Press

BEIJING — A politely worded but testy debate has flared over a Vatican conference on human organ trafficking, with a group of ethicists warning that China will use the participation of its most senior transplant official to convince the world that it has overhauled its organ procurement system.

In a letter to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome, where the two-day Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism began on Tuesday, 11 ethicists wrote: “Our concern is with the harvesting and trafficking of organs from executed prisoners in China.”

China has admitted that it extracted organs from death row prisoners for decades, in what critics have called a serious violation of the rights of inmates who cannot give genuine consent. Since Jan. 1, 2015, Chinese officials have said they no longer use prisoners’ organs, though doubts persist.

Duterte Gives ‘Rotten’ Officers Choice: Go to Terrorist Hotbed or Go Home

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By FELIPE VILLAMOR FEB. 7, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines assailed police officers during a live broadcast on Tuesday. Robinson Ninal/Presidential Photographers Division, via Associated Press

MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines angrily dressed down more than 200 police officers on national television on Tuesday, presenting them with a thorny ultimatum: Resign or be shipped off to a terrorist hotbed known for beheadings and attacks on police stations.

Mr. Duterte accused the 228 officers of a litany of criminal and professional misdeeds, including corruption, drug use and dealing, and, in one high-profile case, the kidnapping and murder of a South Korean businessman.

Calling the group of National Police officers from Manila, the capital, “rotten to the core,” Mr. Duterte said he was ordering them to Basilan, an island in the country’s restive south and home to the Islamic terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf.

Một tư tưởng nữ quyền tiên phong và thấu đáo

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DĐ – Bùi Trân Phượng

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Nam nữ bình quyền do ĐH Hoa Sen và NXB Hồng Đức tái bản, quý 3/2014
(tin Thể Thao & Văn Hoá)

Đặng Văn Bảy (1903-1983) là tác giả sớm nhứt ở Nam bộ đã viết về nữ quyền. Nam nữ bình quyền được viết ở Vĩnh Long từ đầu tháng 8 năm 1925 đến đầu tháng 7 năm 1927, xuất bản năm 1928 ở Sài Gòn và bị cấm khoảng một năm sau đó.

Nay đọc lại, chúng ta thấy đây thực sự là một tiếng nói tiên phong đấu tranh cho quyền bình đẳng nam nữ, bảo vệ quyền làm người của phụ nữ. Là một trong những tiếng nói sớm nhứt về vấn đề nầy, Nam nữ bình quyền của Đặng Văn Bảy đồng thời xứng đáng được coi là suy nghĩ và diễn ngôn vào loại đi xa nhứt trong sự đặt lại vấn đề, thách thức trật tự lâu đời và hiện hữu, trật tự trong quan hệ giới, và cả trong quan hệ giữa người cai trị và bị trị, giữa người áp bức và bị áp bức. Tiếp tục đọc “Một tư tưởng nữ quyền tiên phong và thấu đáo” →