Thẻ: Human rights

Hướng dẫn thực tiễn dành cho Xã hội dân sự: LÀM THẾ NÀO ĐỂ TIẾP TỤC THỰC HIỆN CÁC KHUYẾN NGHỊ VỀ NHÂN QUYỀN CỦA LIÊN HIỆP QUỐC

~ Nguyễn Thị Phương Hạnh ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

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  1. Cách sử dụng Hướng dẫn này

Hướng dẫn này, ban hành bởi Văn phòng Uỷ ban cấp cao về quyền con người (OHCHR), tập trung vào việc làm thế nào xã hội dân sự có thể tiếp tục thực hiện các khuyến nghị từ các cơ chế, chỉ thị, tổ chức nhân quyền của Liên hiệp quốc. Độc giả của cuốn sách, những người chưa hiểu biết nhiều về các đặc điểm chính của các cơ chế nêu trên, xin mời tham khảo Sổ tay dành cho xã hội dân sự của Văn phòng Uỷ ban cao cấp về quyền con người – Làm việc với chương trình nhân quyền của Liên hiệp quốc và cuốn Hướng dẫn thực tế dành cho xã hội dân sự của Liên hiệp quốc.

Mục từ 1 đến 3 của Hướng dẫn này giải thích thế nào là “tiếp tục thực hiện” và “thực hiện”, mục 4 mô tả các phương pháp và các hoạt động mà các chủ thể xã hội dân sự có thể sử dụng. Mục 5 nhìn lại các quy trình thực hiện hiện hành và thực tế cơ chế nhân quyền Liên hiệp quốc và cách thức mà các chủ thể xã hội dân sự có thể tham gia.

Sách hướng dẫn này cũng đề cập đến những công cụ để thúc đẩy xã hội dân sự thực hiện các hoạt động tiếp nối. Các công cụ này được liệt kê trong Mục 6. Tiếp tục đọc “Hướng dẫn thực tiễn dành cho Xã hội dân sự: LÀM THẾ NÀO ĐỂ TIẾP TỤC THỰC HIỆN CÁC KHUYẾN NGHỊ VỀ NHÂN QUYỀN CỦA LIÊN HIỆP QUỐC” →

‘Unruly’ ‘rebels’? The situation of defenders working on corporate accountability in East Asia

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

Governments, business, and ASEAN and UN bodies must act to respect and protect individuals, organisations and communities working to promote corporate accountability in East Asia in the face of mounting attacks and worsening restrictions against human rights defenders and corporate accountability activists in the region. 

ISHR – (Geneva/Bangkok) – Human rights defenders working to promote corporate respect for human rights or accountability for business-related human rights violations face significant challenges across the East Asia region, regardless of the country or sector in which they work. In a joint report released publicly today, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) draw from information from nine different national-level human rights organisations to highlight country-specific concerns and to provide recommendations to improve the situation for defenders. Tiếp tục đọc “‘Unruly’ ‘rebels’? The situation of defenders working on corporate accountability in East Asia” →

Migration and refugees

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ODI – Development is migration: millions leave their countries each year in search of opportunities and better lives. People also leave their homes to escape conflict, repression or environmental disasters. Remittances – the money that people send home from abroad – accounts for nearly 600 billion dollars, dwarfing global aid budgets.

Our research and high-level debates on the crisis in the Mediterranean and, more recently, on the Syrian refugee crisis, examine how we can meet these global challenges – and the role of international development to better manage global migration.

Through research, events, media engagement and partnerships, ODI offers evidence to lay bare the political and economic realities of migration and to inform the public debate.

Specifically, we focus on three areas: refugees and displacement, European migration policy and human mobility.

Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia – Open Review

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

cis-india – This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and modification. Please share your comments via email sent to raw[at]cis-india[dot]org with ‘Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia – Comments’ as the subject line. This text is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

You are most welcome to read the pre-publication drafts of other sections of the Asia Internet History Vol. 3, and share your comments: https://sites.google.com/site/internethistoryasia/book3.

Preparations for the World Summit on the Information Society

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conferences organized by the United Nations in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005) initiated crucial platforms and networks, some temporary and some continued, for various non-governmental actors to intensively and periodically take part in the discussions of governance of Internet and various related activities towards the goals of inclusive development and human rights. Many of the civil society organizations taking part in the WSIS conferences, as well as the various regional and thematic preparatory meetings and seminars, had little prior experience in the topic of Internet governance. They were entering these conversations from various perspectives, such as local developmental interventions, human and cultural rights activism, freedom and diversity of media, and gender and social justice. With backgrounds in such forms of applied practice and theoretical frameworks, members of these civil society organizations often faced a difficult challenge in articulating their experiences, insights, positions, and suggestions in terms of the (then) emerging global discourse of Internet governance and that of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as instruments of development. At the WSIS: An Asian Response Meeting in 2002, Susanna George, (then) Executive Director of Isis International, Manila, succinctly expressed this challenge being faced by the members of civil society organizations:

For some feminist activists however, including myself, it has felt like trying to squeeze my concerns into a narrow definition of what gender concerns in ICTs are. I would like it to Cinderella’s ugly sister cutting off her toe to fit into the dainty slipper of gender concerns in ICTs. The development ball, it seems, can only accommodate some elements of what NGO activists, particularly those from the South, are concerned about in relation to new information and communications technologies. (George 2002)

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LandMark: Protecting Indigenous and Community Lands by Making Them Visible

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WRI – Up to 65 percent of the world’s land is held by Indigenous Peoples and communities, yet only 10 percent is legally recognized as belonging to them. The rest, held under customary tenure arrangements, is largely unmapped, not formally demarcated, and therefore invisible to the world. Without strong legal protections or concrete maps delineating their territories, communities are vulnerable to losing their land to governments and investors for economic and commercial development.

That’s where LandMark comes in. Launched today, LandMark is the first online, interactive global platform to provide maps and other critical information on lands that are held and used by Indigenous Peoples and communities. The platform aims to raise awareness, engage audiences, and help these people protect their land rights. Shining a light on indigenous and community land reduces the likelihood that irregular acquisitions and expropriations go unnoticed, and helps protect the livelihoods and well-being of billions of rural people.

1) Indigenous and Community Land Is Not “Vacant” Land.

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Child marriage: a devastating effect of the refugee crisis

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

By Mabel van Oranje

Oct 22 2015

weforum – The global refugee crisis triggered by the Syrian war and other conflicts poses a major challenge for governments around the world. Behind the scenes, though, it is exacerbating another, less visible, but equally disturbing global phenomenon: a dramatic increase in child marriage.

When families find themselves in dire straits because of war or natural disaster – without a home or income, with worries about security and an uncertain future – many choose to marry off their daughters, often to older men. Parents may believe this is the only way they can protect and provide for these young girls. The impact, however, can be devastating. Child brides are often affected by domestic violence and face overwhelming pressure to have children when they themselves are still children. Most of them are also denied education, even though this is a well-established route out of poverty. Tiếp tục đọc “Child marriage: a devastating effect of the refugee crisis” →

Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers

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UN HUMAN RIGHTS

Office of High commissioner for Human rights

Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers

Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, Cuba 27 August to 7 September 1990

Whereas in the Charter of the United Nations the peoples of the world affirm, inter alia , their determination to establish conditions under which justice can be maintained, and proclaim as one of their purposes the achievement of international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,

Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the principles of equality before the law, the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, and all the guarantees necessary for the defence of everyone charged with a penal offence,

Whereas the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights proclaims, in addition, the right to be tried without undue delay and the right to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law, Tiếp tục đọc “Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers” →