Universal application of human rights
ÁFRICA
SOUTHAFRICA
Persistent violence, looting, property destruction and deaths fueled by the inadequacies of the criminal justice system. More than 70 people have lost their lives in looting in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng, the epicenters of the violence. The unrest began after former President Jacob Zuma surrendered to KwaZulu Natal authorities on the evening of July 8, following a Constitutional Court ruling that found him guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
https://www.deathpenaltyproject.org/sierra-leone-abolishes-the-death-penalty/
ASIA
PAKISTAN
On Wednesday, the Senate unanimously passed the Women’s Property Rights Enforcement (Amendment) Bill 2021, which provides for the protection of women’s property ownership and possession rights, ensuring that “such rights are not violated by harassment, coercion, force or fraud.”
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TAILANDIA
Stop using terrorism financing measures to shrink civil society space. Today, the ICJ urged the Thai authorities to refrain from adopting the so-called additional principles to the “Draft Act on the Operation of Non-Profit Organizations” as they are contrary to Thailand’s obligations under international human rights law. Soft law” anti-terrorism rules cannot be used to undermine binding human rights obligations under international law.
AUSTRALIA-ASIA-PACÍFICO
AUSTRALIA
The Victorian Ombudsman today released its Advice and Complaints: a second edition of the Good Practice Guide, which incorporates the new legislative provisions of the Local Government Act, uses good practice in complaints handling and reminds councils to look through a human rights lens when dealing with complaints.
LATINOAMÉRICA Y EL CARIBE
HAITI
The Office for the Protection of Citizens (OPC), an independent national institution for the promotion and protection of human rights, expresses its deep sadness at the spectacular assassination of the Head of State, His Excellency Jovenel Moise and the attempted assassination of his wife, Madame Martine Moise, on the night of July 6-7, 2021, at his private residence in Pèlerin (Pétion ville). In condemning this despicable and repugnant act, the OPC recalls that violence is an obstacle to democracy and to the exercise or enjoyment of human rights.
https://opchaiti.com/publication/actualite/252
PERU
The Ombudsman’s Office reported that, from January to June of this year, 2891 alert notes have been reported for disappearance of girls, adolescents and adult women (16 on average per day), which represents 18% more than what was reported in the same period of 2021 (2457). This means that the problem is worsening in a context in which the sanitary measures have been made more flexible by COVID-19, in view of which an adequate treatment of the reports and an effective search that guarantees the integrity of the victims must be ensured.
https://www.defensoria.gob.pe/defensoria-del-pueblo-se-han-incrementado-las-cifras-de-adolescentes-y-mujeres-reportadas-como-desaparecidas-en-lo-que-va-de-2021/
EUROPA
IRLANDA
Public Consultation on the Ombudsman’s Office Strategy Statement 2022-2024. It is proposed that the Office of the Irish Ombudsman will also provide shared resources and services to a Protected Disclosure Office to be established by the end of 2021. The Office is currently developing its Strategy Statement for the period 2022- 2024. The Office of the Ombudsman is keen to hear your views on a range of issues and has opened a public consultation process on the development of our Strategy Statement.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZNHFS3C
FRANCIA
The rapid development of the Covid-19 epidemic, driven by the Delta variant, led the government to submit last night to the Council of Ministers a bill concerning “the management of the health crisis”. This text proposing profound transformations for the exercise of rights and freedoms that are the basis of our social and republican pact, the Defender of Rights, despite the extremely tight deadlines to examine it, wanted to make public today an opinion in Parliament.
NORTEAMÉRICA
NEW YORK
On Wednesday, the world officially reached four million deaths as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this figure would be below the actual number of people who have lost their lives since the first case of the coronavirus was detected. “The world is at a dangerous point in this pandemic,” said the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) at his regular press conference to report on the health emergency.