Questions tagged [human-rights]
Questions related to a right or rights which is believed to belong to every person in the particular context of the question.
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Did the countries which vote on July 12th against the UNHRC resolution condemning religious hatred and bigotry vote for the same reason?
UN motion after Sweden Quran burning: How did your country vote?
The motion called for countries to review their laws and plug gaps
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Why did Chile and Mexico abstain from voting, on the July 12th UNHRC resolution condemning religious hatred and bigotry?
UN motion after Sweden Quran burning: How did your country vote?
The motion called for countries to review their laws and plug gaps
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Why did India vote in favor, on the July 12th UNHRC resolution condemning religious hatred and bigotry?
UN motion after Sweden Quran burning: How did your country vote?
The motion called for countries to review their laws and plug gaps
that may “impede the prevention and prosecution of acts and ...
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How does the logic work for no prosecution exceptions to the right to not self incriminate in the presence of different jurisdictions?
In many democratic countries there is some sort of a right for an accused to not have to answer police questions to prevent people being forced to incriminate themselves. In the USA this is in the ...
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Are there PRC plans for the people of Taiwan following a successful reunification?
I know that the range of possibilities is broad, but some officials, such as the Chinese ambassador to France already spoke about unspecified re-education:
https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
Medical staff consisting of doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, etc...
The reason for asking is because there doesn't seem to be any theoretical explanations reconciling these competing rights. (At ...
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How does France compare to other countries with respect to police brutality?
Recently France has seen some massive protests against Macron’s pension law. Most of these protests are peaceful, but unavoidably there was some violence, especially since Macron decided to bypass ...
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What does "morality" and "General welfare in a democratic society" mean in the UDHR?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) permits restriction on human rights based on these reasons (Article 29):
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to ...
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To what extent is "right to privacy" related to "right to good name / reputation"?
There is a detail in Article 12 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights that I find interesting:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence, ...
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Why did Ukraine abstain from the UNHRC vote on China?
After reading the answers to this question, I noticed something odd: Ukraine appears to have abstained in the recent vote over China's policy towards the Uyghurs.
However, given the context of the ...
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Does any country consider housing and food a right?
Are there any countries that have formally codified in their law books that access to housing and food is an inherent right?
In other words, safety from violence is seen as something unconditional to ...
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What is the implicit meaning of abstaining from voting at the UN? [closed]
Recently, India abstained from voting against China regarding the Uyghur persecution question.
What does it imply when a country abstains from voting at any of the UN councils?
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What was the exact vote of the UN Human Rights Council on Xinjiang?
There just was a vote in the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council, and it is really easy to find quotes like this:
The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council has rejected a resolution to hold a debate ...
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Does EU Charter regarding prohibition of age-based discrimination conflict with age-based voting restriction within member states?
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Title III, Article 21:
Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, ...
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Would a Russian visa ban be compliant with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says:
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to
return to his country.
Would it therefore be legal to implement a Russian visa ...
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When was the last time the US Supreme Court limited rights with a decision?
The Supreme Court has now officially overruled Roe v Wade, allowing states to restrict the rights of pregnant people. When was the last time the Supreme Court came to a decision that reduced the ...
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How do Western democracies justify censorship of foreign media outlets?
One of the features of a democracy is freedom of speech and media, but in the last few months Russian media outlets were closed and blocked online. Such censorship happened for example in the EU and ...
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Does Israel offer relocation or compensation to evicted Palestinians?
The state of Israel frequently evicts Palestinians from areas it occupies, in particular in East Jerusalem or in the West Bank, usually on the basis of laws which favour Jewish settlers.
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What is the targeted audience for the US Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for a specific country?
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I cannot find the source, but I have read or heard that the Romanian mass media virtually ignored the worrying US Department State Country Report on Human Rights Practices:
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Why hasn't any country condemned the human right abuses of Chinese government for their Zero-COVID policies (cf. Hong Kong and Xinjiang issues)?
In history, the human right abuses in China were often condemned internationally, for example the forced labors in Xijiang camps and the crackdown of Hong Kong protests.
But it seems to me that the ...
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What is the meaning of the term "Genocide" as opposed to "Crimes against Humanity"? [closed]
Genocide as a term came into being relatively after World War 2. There used to be a term earlier called Crimes against Humanity which used to be used to describe similar events. This use of this term ...
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Are families with trans teens who leave Texas counted as Internally Displaced Persons?
Internally displaced persons are defined as,
"Persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a ...
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Do the sanctions on the leaders of China actually help them to deepen their autocracy?
Recently Mike Rogers et al introduced a bill to sanction senior leaders of CCP, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party must be held accountable for their egregious and disturbing human rights abuse....
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How exactly can keeping chips using EUV technology "pre-empt many worst-case human rights... scenarios in the coming decades?"
note: for background see Which "critical technologies" does Russia dependent upon the United States and its allies for, that "China does not have access to?"
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Penal labour in United States
Penal labour is banned in most if not all of the United Kingdom. Perhaps because of
No prisoner shall be employed, in the service of the institution, in any disciplinary capacity
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Does "freedom of speech" only refer to safety from the government? [closed]
If people in a country can say whatever they want and not be arrested by the government, but some other organization arrests/imprisons/tortures people who say things they don't like, should we say ...
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On which basis does Israel designate NGOs as terrorist organizations?
Recently Israel designated several human rights NGOs as terrorist organizations. The six organizations are alleged to have links to the PFLP:
The Israeli defence ministry said they were linked to the ...
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Why is the media concerned about the sharia and the treatment of women in Afghanistan, but not in Saudi Arabia?
The media and Western leaders are talking a lot about the treatment of the women in Afghanistan [1, 2, 3] and the country's move towards the Sharia law [4]. They are described as issues raising ...
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Is there any international reaction on police violence in France?
On those holidays another round of anti-Covid protests took place in France:
Protests were suppressed rudely, with police violence and water cannons.
Is there any reaction from international ...
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How does German law define "human dignity" in concrete terms?
The German Basic Law (i.e. de facto Constitution) begins with the bold statement in Article 1, (1):
Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be
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Biden's stance on Saudi Arabia's human right issues
In 2021, Saudi Arabia announced that Mustafa al-Darwish had been executed.
He was arrested in 2015, and many of the offenses he was charged with occurred when he was 17 years old; see here and here.
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What can US senators do against diversity trainings in the US Army?
Recently, I've read about Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw launching a campaign against diversity training in the US Army:
We won’t let our military fall to woke ideology,
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Why there is nearly no international community response to Colombia protests?
Protests in Colombia are going on since 27 April 2021. There is even an wiki article about it, showing widespread police violence and many victims:
The protesters want the riot police to be disbanded ...
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Why didn't the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporate the European Convention of Human Rights?
My Politics teacher wrote on her PowerPoint:
The Human Rights Act 1998 doesn't explicitly say that anyone has any rights. The HRA merely requires certain bodies to do certain things in relation to
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How many constitutions refer to the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
I'm curious how many countries cite the document in their own constitution, as I'm aware that some do (Senegal, for example).
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Why is the USA so much concerned about the human rights violations in Xinjiang, but less so about Kashmir?
Kashmir is a disputed territory between India and Pakistan. Xinjiang is controlled by China (it might be worth noting that India also claims ownership, but has no power there).
Kashmiris want ...
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Why don't countries revoke an IS fighter's citizenship arguing they have become citizens of IS?
Recently the UK supreme court ruled against IS bride Shamina Begum's attempt to return to the UK to fight her citizenship being revoked.
As I understand it, what happened here was that the UK wanted ...
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What is the stance of the current Japanese government on conversion therapy and why?
Do Japanese governments support conversion therapy?
I wasn't able to find any information online. This site states the majority of Japanese support legalization of same-sex marriage. Wikipedia and ...
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How does the international community differentiate between a "rights activist" and a separatist? [closed]
This has been my personal observation for a long time that in some countries, when the government says that they are cracking down on separatism, the so-called "free world" come forward and ...
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When was the idea of universal adult suffrage first conceived, and by whom?
I understand that universal adult suffrage has its basis in universal manhood suffrage (1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen). It was then extended to include all adult women, ...
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Is "corruption of blood" contravening the UDHR?
It's been mentioned in a recent question here that in Guatemala offspring can be disqualified from running for office for the deeds of their parents, specifically for [parental] insurrection. (As ...
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Has Pakistan's Federal Ministry for Human Rights condemned the treatment of Muslims in China?
In the latest round of verbal slaps between France and Muslim countries:
France’s foreign ministry has demanded Pakistan authorities withdraw comments made by one of its ministers that President ...
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If the justifications for informed consent are questionable, then why would it be a legal requirement?
The article Informed Consent (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) lists some main arguments for informed consent. They are: "protection", "autonomy", "prevention of abusive ...
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Does freedom of speech mean freedom to mock everything? [closed]
It's widely known that in most western countries, it's allowed to mock religion - because of freedom of speech.
Does freedom of speech allow one to mock everything, or are there taboo subjects that ...
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Why were China, Russia and Cuba allowed to join the UN human rights council?
China, Cuba, Russia elected to UN Human Rights Council
The UN General Assembly voted Tuesday to elect a new tranche of 15 Human Rights Council (HRC) members, including China, Cuba and Russia.
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Why, according to the UN, "gender-biased abortion" is against human rights but "abortion in general" is not?
The UN Population Fund, in their latest report about violence against women, states:
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Is there a list of human rights organizations monitoring the current use of force by police in the US?
During the law enforcing in the US, more press attacks happen:
DW group shot at Minnesota
CNN reporter was arrested
Reuters crew hit with rubber bullets
According to that obvious excessive use of ...
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What is Blue and White's policy on the Arab rights in the (future) West Bank?
I'm interested in the Israeli party Blue and White's positions on the
Palestinian freedom of movement
Palestian freedom to vote to Knesset
state subventions to Israeli settlements
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In most U.S. states, female genital mutilation is illegal. So why is male circumcision legal?
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Which right has priority in a shut down in states of emergency: the emergency law or the asylum law (international refugee law)?
Refugee law is the branch of international law which deals with the rights and duties States have vis-a-vis refugees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_law
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