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An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press — and deservedly so.
But the attention always focuses on the women: where they were when (...)

This booklet addresses the: Benefit of treating sanitation in human rights terms, Legal basis of the right to sanitation, State obligations and standards for differing environments, and Priority actions for governments and other stakeholders.
While there has been some progress on the (...)

ESCR-Net’s Corporate Accountability Working Group is pleased to announce the release of its Collective Report on Business and Human Rights.
Presented directly to Members of the 8th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva during the first week of June 2008, this Collective Report on (...)

A recent judgment of the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) turned more than a few heads when it upheld, in one of the most difficult and hollow decisions in recent years, the legality of the legislative framework governing the imprisonment of "unlawful combatants" from the Gaza Strip. This (...)

The first Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) can be traced back in law to the industrial age, amongst a backdrop of vast improvements in global transportation, rapidly expanding manufacturing industries and emerging notions of free trade. New legal structures were required to accommodate the huge (...)

Tea is the second most popular drink in the world, after water. For a number of developing countries it is an important commodity in terms of jobs and export earnings. Tea production is labour intensive and the industry provides jobs in remote rural areas. Millions of livelihoods around the (...)

When I phoned Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon yesterday, I imagined the path to her door that looks down on Inya Lake. Through ragged palms, a trip-wire is visible, a reminder that this is the prison of a woman whose party was elected by a landslide in 1990, a democratic act extinguished by (...)

World leaders owe an apology for failing to deliver on the promise of justice and equality in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted 60 years ago. In the past six decades, many governments have shown more interest in the abuse of power or in the pursuit of political (...)

Even though both international and South African law protects the human rights of migrants, undocumented migrants, who represent around 500 000 persons in South Africa, are amongst the most exposed to human rights violations.
The report emphasizes the most worrying human rights violations (...)

African Americans sometimes embarrass themselves, often without know it, by assuming that others from the Diaspora see the world in the same way as themselves. Blacks from other nations are also frequently puzzled and confused by U.S. Black behavior, and even the concept of Blackness that (...)

In 2005-2006, while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was seeking to create a “harmonious socialist society,” factory managers withheld wages and forced employees to work excessive overtime for little or no additional pay. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) called for migrant (...)

Coal is the bedrock of China’s economic miracle. Domestic coal production fuels the country’s power stations, which deliver electricity to industrial plants and factories, which in turn produce the “cheap” goods eagerly bought by consumers across the globe.
A major reason why the clothes, bags, (...)

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considered the third periodic report of France on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/FRA/3) at its 3rd, 4th and 5th meetings, held on 29 and 30 April 2008, and adopted, at its (...)

Since the declaration of a State of Emergency in Bangladesh in January 2007, emergency laws have been used to suppress opposition to the government and the freedom of speech, association, assembly and expression of a wide variety of groups.
In recent months, the use of these laws to repress (...)

Despite progress, efforts to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers are too little and too late for many children.
The Child Soldiers Global Report 2008 details how a near global consensus that children should not be used as soldiers and strenuous international efforts have failed to (...)

Qi Yunhui didn’t even graduate from middle school, but on a recent afternoon he addressed the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court with the confidence of a seasoned litigator. When he came to Shenzhen in 2002, the fast talking native of China’s central province of Hubei worked in a leather shoe (...)

Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shackdwellers’ movement reminds us in this statement and call to action that the structures of apartheid are still thriving in South Africa.
On Sunday it will be Freedom Day again. Once again we will be asked to go into stadiums to be told that we are (...)

Nepalgunj: Radha Biswokarma is ecstatic that the former Maoist rebels won a landslide victory in the historic Constituent Assembly (CA) elections held in Nepal on April 10.
“Finally, we will have a lot of Dalits in the government,” said Biswokarma, who, according to the Hindu caste system, is of (...)

World cereal production in 2008 is forecast to increase 2.6 percent to a record 2 164 million tonnes. The bulk of the increase is expected to be in wheat following significant expansion in plantings in major producing countries. Coarse grains output is tentatively forecast to remain around the (...)

The report focuses on working conditions in the production of consumer electronics such as mobile phones and laptops in Poland. Since the majority of workers involved in this production are women, and as the report is prepared by Karat Coalition, a non-governmental organisation focusing on (...)