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Changes made to the textbooks include removal of lessons on Mahatma Gandhi, Dr BR Ambedkar and inclusion of essays by RSS ideologues Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and KB Hedgewar. Why are progressive groups in Karnataka agitating against the school textbooks drafted by the committee headed by controversial rightwing orator Rohith Chakrathirtha? What sections have been twisted…
Image: Shuttestock/Yupa Watchanakit THE FIRST ANTI-TRAFFICKING report from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has made several recommendations to the government for improving its methods of supporting victims of human trafficking. The commission found that gender-specific shelter is urgently needed for victims, as they are currently placed into the Direct Provision system. The report referred…
21 June 2022 Business and Human Rights Manager, Chloe Cranston, explains the impact of a new US law on Uyghur forced labour in global supply chains. Image by Olena Yakobchuk, via Shutterstock. Today, 21 June 2022, a historic new law will come into effect in the United States, which takes sweeping measures to address corporate…
Lhasa [Tibet], June 21 (ANI): Tibetans on the occasion of World Refugee Day urged the international community to support them and collectively stand together against China, and not to forget Tibet. Benedict Rogers a human rights activist and writer highlighted the Chinese repressions of Tibet and said that for many years Tibet was a cause…
This week, a U.K. high court judge rejected requests from three Sudanese victims of trafficking and torture, who had been threatened with removal to Rwanda, to be released from immigration […]
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Geneva – International Migrants Day this year falls almost exactly 70 years after the Brussels conference that led to the establishment of the International Organization for Migration. Over these seven decades we have provided assistance to millions of migrants worldwide and worked tirelessly with our member states to ensure migration is managed in a safe,…
Author(s): Luminița Monica Alexandru Subject(s): Social Sciences, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Welfare services, Labour and Social Security Law Published by: Editions IARSIC Keywords: exploitation; forced labour; children’s rights; Summary/Abstract: The exploitation of children through work is a real problem that Romanian society faces and violates the fundamental principles of human rights. The low standard…
The United Nations Children’s Fund, in collaboration with a non-governmental organization, Value Female Network (VFN) and the Ministry of Women, Children & Social Affairs in Osun State have sensitised about 600 children in the state to dangers of female genital mutilation and child marriage. The organisations asked children to report violators of their fundamental human…
The United Nations Children’s Fund, in collaboration with a non-governmental organisation; Value Female Network (VFN) and the Ministry of Women, Children & Social Affairs in Osun State have organised a concert for about 600 Osun children in commemoration of the Internation Day of The African Child. UNICEF gathered about 600 children at Freedom Park, Osogbo,…
On June 8, the Sindh High Court disposed of the petition for the recovery of Dua Zehra in her favour and allowed her to decide whom she intended to reside or go with, sparking much outrage, concern and debate on several issues ranging from age of consent to agency of adolescents, fear and coercion to…
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