Legal Weekly Human Rights Roundup
A report by Baroness Casey has revealed that 20% of Metropolitan Police officers facing allegations of sexual misconduct, misogyny, racism and homophobia had more than one complaint raised against them. Only less than 1% of officers facing multiple allegations had been dismissed from the force. Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Continue Reading
UN Passes Long Awaited Report on Uyghur “Serious Human Rights Abuse”
In a historic report on alleged mistreatment in the province of Xinjiang, the UN charged China with “serious human rights abuses.” According to the report by outgoing UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet, researchers looking into allegations of abuse against Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities have found “credible evidence” Continue Reading
U.S. calls on China to release Falun Gong Prisoners
(Source: Minghui.org) After Beijing sentenced 11 local Falun Gong practitioners in mid-January, three weeks before the upcoming Winter Olympics, the U.S. State Department and other government officials, as well as human rights lawyers in Canada, condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the wrongful convictions, and called on it to Continue Reading
Amnesty – When They Are All Free
Amnesty – It Starts With A Letter! Amnesty International was started in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a solicitor who had heard of the arrest of two Portuguese students imprisoned for raising a toast to freedom. It has grown to an international movement – and it all started with putting a pen to Continue Reading
The Justice Lectures by Professor Michael Sandel
Michael J. Sandel (born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and a political philosophy professor at Harvard University. His course “Justice” is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, Continue Reading
UN Secretary General on International Women’s Day 2015
Twenty years ago, when the world convened a landmark conference on women’s human rights, the devastating conflict in the former Yugoslavia prompted deserved attention to rape and other war crimes there against civilians. Two decades later, with girls as young as seven not only targeted but used as weapons by Continue Reading
