The law gave authorities broad surveillance powers that could be misused to curtail the rights to freedom of expression, association and privacy, without sufficient safeguards.
Critics accused the magazine of Islamophobia and racism, while the cartoonists and supporters defended the right to freedom of expression and the liberty to satirize subjects that included religion and politics.
The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the outcome document of the Durban Review Conference affirm the positive role of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in combating racial hatred.
The new ILO C190 is the first international standard that aims to put an end to violence and harassment at work, and that recognizes that everyone has the right to freedom from violence and harassment in their working lives.
The right to freedoms of expression, assembly and association, and the principle of non-discrimination are afforded to citizens only in Singapore's Constitution, thus effectively excluding migrant workers from these provisions.
Fully respect the right to freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, which involves ensuring human rights defenders and journalists can carry out their legitimate activities free of harassment and without fear of reprisals.
Workers are also protesting against the lack of pay rises in 2017 and 2018, the violations of their right to freedom of association, and the threats made against union leaders.
These shortcomings were highlighted recently by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Frank La Rue, who has held consultations with OMC.
However, governments struck out reference to the rights of freedomof association and assembly, said Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and CIEL.
The religious conversion bill will enable the state to regulate religious profession and conversion, a wholly unjustified state interference in the right to freedom of conscience and religion.
In exercising or supervising policing functions, the USA and the UK must ensure that the rights of freedomof expression and assembly are not arbitrarily restricted.
The Government in Ankara should put an end to state violence against peaceful demonstrators and ensure that the right of freedomof expression and assembly is guaranteed in all public areas of Turkey.
The religious conversion law enables the state to regulate religious profession and conversion, a wholly unjustified state interference in the right to freedom of conscience and religion.
Palestinian human rights defenders Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro face charges in an Israeli military court relating totheir rights to freedom of expression and assembly.
In a recent press release, the Organization of American States said that the law could“severely hinder the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and have a serious chilling effect that is incompatible with a democratic society.”.
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, presented their reports on Tuesday, 19 June, and a summary of their statements is available here.
The Serbian authorities, as they did in 2009, have bowed to pressure from right-wing groups who have failed to understand or respect the rights to freedom of expression set out in the Serbian constitution and law,” said Sian Jones, Balkans Researcher at Amnesty International.
The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with Professor Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and with Koumbou Boly Barry, Special Rapporteur on the right to education.
Two years after the uprising in Bahrain, and beneath the fanfare of subsequent reform, prisoners of conscience, including some arrested during the protests, remain behind bars and the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly continue to be suppressed.
English
中文
عربى
Български
বাংলা
Český
Dansk
Deutsch
Ελληνικά
Español
Suomi
Français
עִברִית
हिंदी
Hrvatski
Magyar
Bahasa indonesia
Italiano
Қазақ
한국어
മലയാളം
मराठी
Bahasa malay
Nederlands
Norsk
Polski
Português
Română
Русский
Slovenský
Slovenski
Српски
Svenska
தமிழ்
తెలుగు
ไทย
Tagalog
Turkce
Українська
اردو
Tiếng việt