IHR LEGAL Newsletter
Selected developments in the field of international human rights
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IHR LEGAL Newsletter – April to June 2022
- On May 6, 2022, the HRC determined that Peru failed to protect the right to life and peaceful assembly of two protesters who were shot and killed by policemen during a non-violent march.
- On May 16, 2022, the ACHPR issued a statement on a terrorist attack in the Republic of Togo.
- The ECtHR ruled in the Case “Taner Kılıç v. Turkey” and found Turkey responsible for the arbitrary detention of one of Amnesty International’s founding members in Turkey..
Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachellet, on Russia’s war crimes and serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Ukraine; ECtHR ruling in the case “Karuyev v. Russia” for a criminal conviction for spitting at a portrait of Putin; IACHR pronouncement on detentions and prosecutions of participants of the July 2021 protests in Cuba; and much more here.
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IHR LEGAL Newsletter – October to December 2021
ECtHR condemnation of Georgia for homophobic and transphobic aggression against LGBTIQ+ demonstrators in the “Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group and others” case; African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights statement on coup d’état in Sudan; IACHR follow-up resolution on precautionary measures in favor of protected groups of the Wayúu Indigenous People in Colombia; and much more here.
IHR LEGAL Newsletter – July to September 2021
Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachellet, urging the Taliban to respect the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan; CEDAW Committee statement calling on Turkey to reconsider its withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women; IACHR statement on expulsions of people from the U.S. and Mexico; and much more here.
IHR LEGAL Newsletter – April to June 2021
Joint Statement on the eve of the International Day against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia; Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on the increase of human rights violations and abuses in Mali; Statement by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; and much more here.
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