Posts Tagged ‘Human rights defender’
August 1, 2013
Here an example of what an ‘official’ human rights defender (the Armenian Ombudsman with the somewhat confusing title HRD) can do in the area of social rights:
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (HRD) issued a statement saying that the HRD has already examined omissions in the State Child Health Certificate Program in his previous annual report. Under the program children under the age of 7 shall receive free medical care. Yet parents, while having the necessary documents for free health care, often have to pay extra money to some doctors. “A year has passed since the problem was raised, but there has been no progress. Moreover, the Defender continues receiving complaints about such violations, especially complaints about Austrian Mother and Child Hospital of Gyumri CJSC. The Defender officially informed the Health Minister about it, but he has not received any definite answer about whether those guilty were held accountable or not. The Human Rights Defender, Karen Andreasian, calls upon citizens to apply to the HRD Staff in case of encountering such a problem.
via HRD: Hospitals charge extra sums from parents – aysor.am – Hot news from Armenia.
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Tags: Advocacy Organizations, Armenia, fraud, free health care, free medical care, Health Ministry, HRD, Human right, Human Rights and Liberties, Human rights defender, Ombudsman, right to health
July 30, 2013
The Business Mirror in the Philippines published on Monday 29 July 2013 a piece quoting the human-rights group Karapatan which asked the Chair of the Commission on Human Rights, Loretta Ann Rosales, to step down for allegedly failing to fulfill the mandate of her office. The group said that instead of doing her job as the country’s chief human-rights defender, Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Business Mirror, CHR, human rights, Human rights defender, Karapatan, Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Philippines, police action, police brutality, Rosales
July 30, 2013
Global Voices reports today that Free Saudi Liberals website founder Raif Badawi was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. Badawi was arrested on 17 June, 2012 in Jeddah and was charged with “setting up a website that undermines general security” and ridiculing Islamic religious figures. The Free Saudi Liberals website was an online forum for public discussions. It was shut following Badawi’s arrest, and it had been blocked within the country for years. In todays sentence, the judge also ordered the permanent shutdown of the website. On December 17, 2012, the case was referred to a higher court, the General Court in Jeddah, after he had been charged with apostasy, which carries the death penalty. Badawi was asked by the judge to abandon his views, but he refused. Amnesty International has considered him “a prisoner of conscience detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of expression” and demanded his immediate, unconditional release.
via Saudi Website Founder to be Imprisoned, Lashed · Global Voices.
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Tags: Amnesty International, Badawi, Capital punishment, corporal punishment, Human rights defender, Islam, Jeddah, prison sentence, Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia, twitter, website
July 5, 2013
On 25 June the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) published the trial observation report concerning its Executive Committee member, human rights defender and trade unionist M. Osman İşçi. He was arrested in Ankara, Turkey, one year ago on 25 June 2012, and detained at the high-level security prison of Sincan, Ankara, along with another 27 trade unionists arrested on the same date facing proceedings for allegedly supporting a terrorist organization.
The first hearing of Osman İşçi’s trial took place on 10 April in the Ankara Special Court, after ten months of pre-trial detention. Following this hearing, M. Osman İşçi and 21 other trade unionists and human rights defenders were released, however the charges against them remain and a new hearing is scheduled for the 8 July 2013. The trial observers noted that it had been conducted with courtesy by all participants, and defendants and their lawyers had been permitted to take an active part in the hearing. Nevertheless they noted with concern that a number of central features of international fair trial standards appeared to be absent from the hearing, and from the proceedings generally. To read the trial observation report please control/click here
via Observation of the trial of Osman İşçi, human rights defender and trade-unionist | Euromedrights.
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Tags: Advocacy Organizations, Ankara, EMHRN, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, Hearing (law), human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, Human rights defender, labour movement, lawyers, Osman İşçi, terrorism, Trade union, trade unionists, trial observation
June 30, 2013
On 27 June 2013, human rights defender John Abok was arrested and held in police custody over allegations of impersonation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bunge La Mwananchi, Frontline, Frontline Defenders, harassment, Human right, Human Rights and Liberties, Human rights defender, illegal detention, John Abok, Kenya, Nairobi, Police officer, release on bail
June 28, 2013
In a post on 4 June under the title “Bradley Manning not a Prisoner of Conscience for Amnesty International ?” I related the controversy surrounding the status of human rights defender for Breadly Manning. On 13 June, under title “Snowden a human rights defender? – Russia seems to think so” I referred to a similar issue with regard Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Amnesty International, Bradley Manning, citizens freedom, definition of HRD, Ecuador, Edward Snowden, freedom of information, Human rights defender, Just Foreign Policy, Oliver Stone, political asylum, politics, right to privacy, Snowden, United States
June 26, 2013
(Svetlana Gannushkina)Prominent Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina has been fined for refusing to provide documents demanded by prosecutors. A court in Moscow ruled late on June 18 that the chairwoman of Moscow-based Civic Collaboration Committee must pay 2,000 rubles (50 Euro) for failing to turn over papers related to the financial activities of her organization. Gannushkina, a Soviet-era veteran rights defender, has been refusing to provide the documents to investigators since April. Prosecutors made the request under the new law requiring all nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funding and engage in political activity to register as ‘foreign agents’. [Last week, a Moscow court rejected an appeal by Russia’s independent election monitor, Golos, against the 300,000 ruble $9,500 fine imposed on the group under the legislation.] Based on reporting by Interfax and ITAR-TASS
via Russian Rights Defender Fined For Refusing Demand For Documents.
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Tags: fined, Foreign agent, foreign funding, GOLOS, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, Interfax, Moscow, moscow court, Non-governmental organization, Russia, russian ngo, Svetlana Gannushkina, woman human rights defender
June 25, 2013
Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders condemns the brutal use of force against the Russian NGO ‘’For Human Rights’’ and its chairman Lev Ponomaryov, during the organisation’s forcible eviction Saturday night, 22 June 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Civil Rights Defenders, Eviction, forced evictions, Foreign agent, freedom of association, Human right, human rights activist, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, Lev Ponomaryov, Moscow, moscow city government, Non-governmental organization, Ponomaryov, Russia
June 21, 2013
On 15 June 2013, women human rights defenders Wajeha Al-Huwaider and Fawzia Al-Oyouni were sentenced to ten months imprisonment to be followed by a two-year travel ban
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Tags: AWID, domestic abuse, Fawzia Al-Oyouni, freedom of movement, Frontline Defenders, Human right, Human rights defender, Human Rights Defenders, human rights of women, marital relationship, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, Wajeha Al-Huwaider, Women Human Rights, women human rights defenders
June 20, 2013
(Du Jirong, sister of human rights activist Du Bin, with sign saying “Du Bin is innocent” outside the Fengtai District Public)
The 41-year-old photographer and filmmaker Du Bin disappeared on May 31, weeks after he had released a documentary on the extreme conditions of Chinese labor camps in May, called Women Above Ghosts’ Heads. His film focused on Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp where many detainees were Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: China, detention, disappearances, Du Bin, Du Jirong, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, film makers, Hu Jia, human rights, Human rights defender, human rights of women, photo journalism, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, writer
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 