More: Human Rights
An anatomy of U.S. human rights diplomacy
Authors: Zhou Dong-chen & Paul Wang
Over the past
two weeks, the United States Congress has successively passed two acts
concerning with Hong Kong human rights and...
Two Cases, Minor and Major
News stories have Donald Trump being
mocked by France's Macron at a Buckingham Palace reception for the NATO leaders
meeting. A nearby open mic caught the...
A microcosm of Iran’s domestic problems, port city bears brunt of crackdown
The Iranian port city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr has emerged as the scene of some of the
worst violence in Iran’s brutal crackdown on recent anti-government protests.
Located...
Vienna Discussion Forum 2019 on ending violence against women
The first Vienna Discussion Forum, a platform to discuss and call for
action on gender equality within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),...
Religious Hatred & International Law
Racism has
climbed the political agenda at national, and international levels. Reports
from national and international non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) and
inter-governmental organisations have focused considerable attention on...
A staggering one-in-three women, experience physical, sexual abuse
Violence against women and girls is among the most
widespread, and devastating human rights violations in the world, but much of
it is often unreported due...
Will December 2019 represent the nadir of multilateralism and Human Rights?
Human Rights Day is observed by the
international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in
1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted...
ICC gives greenlight for probe into violent crimes against Rohingya
Judges of
the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into alleged
crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000
and one million Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar, into neighboring
Bangladesh since 2016.
The pre-trial judges...
UNICEF reports uneven progress in 30 years of child rights treaty
Although the world has made historic gains over the past three decades
in improving children’s lives, urgent action is required if the poorest
children are to...
Validity of Reservations of Bangladesh against Article 2 of CEDAW
One of the greatest victories for the
post-modern feminist movement in the arena of International Law was the Convention
on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...