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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 15 January 2022 |
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and
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India: Laws Rescinded, Farmers Win |
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By :Harish Damodaran, The Indian Express |
| 20 November 2021 |
In burying farm laws, Govt may have held off demand for right to MSP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s announcement on repealing the farm laws may have helped stave off the elephant in the room – making minimum support prices (MSP) a legal right.
“The farm laws are dead, long live the farm laws!”
This
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Copping-out at CoP26 |
| 14 November 2021 |
The 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) ended in grave disappointment at the state delegations who weakened the needed commitments to save the planet from multiple climate disasters. This CoP, the supreme governing body of international agreements on climate change action, finally took place in Glasgow, Scotland, on 31 October–13 November
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Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 18 October 2021 |
HLRN has produced a new publication on the occasion of World Human Rights Habitat Day 2021 and the ensuing month of related activities. The study Conflict, Occupation and War disaggregates data from the HLRN Violation Database to focus on the gross violations of the human rights to adequate housing and
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India: Violent Eviction Drive in Assam |
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By :Niha Masih and Sadiq Naqvi, The Washington Post |
| 17 October 2021 |
Violent eviction drive in India’s Assam revives tensions over undocumented migrants
DHALPUR, India — Dozens of armed police officers surrounded the grove as tear gas filled the air. A young man wielding a long stick ran toward the officers. Within seconds, he was shot. They then beat him with sticks before
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“Climate Justice IS a Human Right” |
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By :HIC President Adriana Allen |
| 04 October 2021 |
The following is the statement by HIC President Adriana Allen on the occasion of World Habitat Day, 4 October 2021.
Back in 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted for the first time a resolution (Resolution 7/231) that explicitly recognised the implications of climate change for the fulfilment of human
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USA: Bill to Let HHS Halt Evictions |
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By :Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY |
| 29 September 2021 |
Lawmakers Cori Bush, Elizabeth Warren will introduce bill to give HHS power to impose eviction moratoriums
WASHINGTON –Liberal lawmakers will introduce legislation this week that would give the Department of Health and Human Services the authority to create federal eviction moratoriums – pushing back against a ruling by the Supreme Court that the agency does
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227 Land Defenders Murdered in a Year |
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By :Global Witness |
| 13 September 2021 |
227 land and environmental activists murdered in a single year, the worst figure on record
As the climate crisis intensifies, violence against defenders of the earth is escalating.
A report released today reveals that 227 land and environmental activists were murdered in 2020 for defending their land and the planet. That constitutes the highest
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India: Forced Eviction in 2020 |
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By :HLRN - India |
| 12 September 2021 |
Housing and Land Rights Network- India is pleased to announce the launch of a new report – Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic. The report reveals that during the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 to July 2021, the Indian government demolished,
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Displaced for Dangote: Women, Land and Housing Rights: Assessing the Impacts of Dispossession |
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By :CCHHZ and HIC-HLRN |
| 30 August 2021 |
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