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by Alana Meier and Amita Dhiman This week’s stories in focus: The Continued Plight of Rohingya Refugees On July 27 Malaysian authorities found twenty-six Rohingya refugees, including women and children, hiding on the northern islet off of Langkawi, Malaysia. The people were feared drowned and believed to have been transported by local fishermen from […]
by Patrick Lawrance May 2020 was reportedly the joint hottest month on record and it is estimated that we now have only 6 months to prevent a post lockdown emissions rebound, which will result in a climate catastrophe. Even with aggressive mitigation tactics, there are increasing fears that we will overshoot our 1.5ºC warming target, […]
by Pauline Canham and Lauren Ng This week’s stories in focus: Authoritarian police tactics threaten democracy in the US The Mayor of Portland, Oregon, has called the strong-arm tactics of federal agents in his city as a “direct threat to democracy” and warns other officials that their cities could be next. Mayor Ted […]
Each month, the HRC Blog features a significant figure from the Human Rights community to go under the Spotlight, answering questions put by students from the University of Essex. This month, we feature Louise Melling. About Louise Louise Melling is a Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU and the Director of its Center for […]
by Ritwik Prakash Srivastava Introduction In the wake of COVID-19, the Indian government came up with a contact-tracing application Aarogya Setu (application). The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation on 14 April 2020, urged the citizens to download the application to supplement the State’s struggle against the contagion. What […]
by Pauline Canham & Amita Dhiman This week’s stories in focus: BREAKING: Shamima Begum wins the right to return to Britain to fight her citizenship case The Court of Appeal has ruled that Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria in 2015 and married a Dutch ISIS recruit, could not make her citizenship case […]
by Alana Meier Last week the 12th annual Human Rights in Asia Conference took place in the form of two virtual panel discussions. Originally scheduled to happen in person at the University of Essex 21 March, the event was postponed due to the sudden COVID-19 outbreak. However, the students pushed through to find a new […]
by Tushar Behl and Medha Patil Sunset Park, in southwest Brooklyn, houses New York City’s largest Chinese community. Chinese immigrants have settled and built their lives for more than two decades after being moved from Manhattan’s Chinatown due to the overflowing population. People from all over the city visit Sunset Park to buy fresh meat […]
by Sinéad Coakley All around the world, we are seeing the removal or modification of tangible cultural heritage, either by forceful means or by government action. This global debate was triggered by the abrupt and harrowing murder of George Floyd in the USA at the hands of a man employed by the state to protect […]
by Rohit Sharma India’s ‘Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Scheme’ (The Scheme) is a big step forward in recognising the right to health and implementing a rights-based approach to ensuring adequate healthcare, one that maximizes the capabilities of individuals; but it is not without its flaws. The ‘right to health’ is enshrined in Article […]
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