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basic human rights and societies
Who to Ban Genetic Engineering of Smallpox Virus
The World Health Assembly has decided to ban genetic engineering experiments on the smallpox virus but postponed a decision on the destruction of the virus until 2010, when a "major review" of the research results on smallpox will be held. This review is to assist the WHA in 2011 to reach a consensus on the timing of the destruction of the smallpox virus stocks. The WHA is meeting in Geneva for its 60th session. The issue of the eradication of the smallpox variola virus stocks has been on (...) read
date of on-line publication : 22 May 2007
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Debating youth justice: From punishment to problem solving?
Far too many children are being criminalised and there are is an urgent need for a new approach to children in trouble, according to a report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College, London. The report Debating youth justice: From punishment to problem solving provides a critical analysis of the youth justice system in England and Wales by experts from the UK and abroad. The collection of essays notes that children are criminalised at the age of ten, (...) read
date of on-line publication : 22 May 2007
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Confronting the Contradictions : the case against the IMF on education
In the world’s poorest countries many children have gone without quality education for far too long, and as a result, the human capital that these countries need to grow and develop sustainably is still in desperately short supply. One reason is that the key ingredient to learning is missing: there are not enough trained teachers. Our research in Malawi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone shows that a major factor behind the chronic and severe shortage of teachers is that International Monetary (...) read
date of on-line publication : 23 April 2007
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Hidden apartheid : caste discrimination against India’s « Untouchables »
> Shadow Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), February 2007, 118 p. (pdf)
Discriminatory and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of over 165 million people in India has been justified on the basis of caste. Caste is descent-based and hereditary in nature. It is a characteristic determined by one’s birth into a particular caste, irrespective of the faith practiced by the individual. Caste denotes a traditional system of rigid social stratification into ranked groups defined by descent and occupation. Caste divisions in India dominate in housing, marriage, (...) read
date of on-line publication : 15 March 2007
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Strong foundations : early childhood care and education
> EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007, 405 p. (pdf)
The Education for All goals focus on the need to provide learning opportunities at every stage in life, from infancy to adulthood, before 2015 - the target year for achieving these goals. Tackling disadvantage and setting strong foundations for learning begins in the earliest years through adequate health, nutrition, care and stimulation. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by 192 nations, guarantees the rights of young children to survive, develop and (...) read
date of on-line publication : 14 March 2007
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Human’s rights violations during the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project
> People’s Tribunal, Cameroon, november 2005, 34 p. (pdf)
The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project is currently the biggest private sector investment in sub-Saharan Africa. Widely praised as being a "model" for other oil producing countries, the $ 3.7 billion high-risk project managed by the ExxonMobil, Chevron and Petronas Consortium was so much talked about, with so many promises made. But at the end of the construction of the pipeline, many complaints lodged by the people living along the pipeline right-of-way are still pending, while on the part of (...) read
date of on-line publication : 12 March 2007
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« We flee when we see them » : abuses with impunity at the National Intelligence Service in Burundi
> HRW Report, october 2006, 37 p., (pdf)
In the year to September 2006, Burundi’s state intelligence agency, now called the National Intelligence Service (Service National de Renseignement, SNR) appears to have been responsible for the extrajudicial execution of at least 38 individuals, and has tortured and arbitrarily detained some 200 more. These serious abuses have been perpetrated largely with impunity. A new government took office in August 2005 but its first year in power was marked by continued conflict with the last (...) read
date of on-line publication : 7 March 2007
Anatomy of a backlash : sexuality and the cultural war on human rights
> January 2005, 17 p. (pdf)
This paper highlights how the denial and violation of sexual rights and sexual freedom impacts on public health (particularly with regards to HIV/AIDS). The paper describes the nature of these attacks, stemming from a wide range of countries and existing under a number of banners (in defence of « culture », « values », or « religion ») and describes the efforts of groups to erase sexual rights from the international rights agenda. The author warns that an attack on sexual rights creeps into the (...) read
date of on-line publication : 7 March 2007
The Protocol on the rights of women in Africa
> Center for Reproductive Rights, June 2005, 25 p, (pdf)
The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, (adopted by the African Union in July 2003) provides broad protection for women’s human rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights. This briefing paper outlines the significations of this treaty and the way advocates can use it to pressure governments to address issues which threaten women’s health and rights in Africa. Furthermore, “it provides detailed information that can help African women use the protocol to exercise their (...) read
date of on-line publication : 7 March 2007
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Slow march to the gallows. Death penalty in Pakistan
In early 2006, the HRCP and the FIDH jointly organised a factfinding mission on the application of death penalty in Pakistan. Pakistan ranks among the countries in the world which issue the most death sentences : currently, over 7,400 prisoners are lingering on death row. In recent years, Pakistan has witnessed a significant increase in charges carrying capital punishment, in convictions to death, as well as in executions. The HRCP and the FIDH find that the application of death penalty in (...) read
date of on-line publication : 2 March 2007
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