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Per la prima volta siamo entrati negli istituti penali per minori. Il nostro Osservatorio sulle condizioni di detenzione in Italia, attivo dal 1998, aveva avuto fin dall’inizio le autorizzazioni ministeriali per visitare gli istituti penitenziari per adulti,
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Sembrerebbe un controsenso ma le rivolte che stanno incendiando diversi Paesi del Medioriente e l'embargo sulla Libia stanno rimettendo in discussione fior di appalti e commesse del comparto bellico.
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La speciale relazione dei popoli indigeni con i loro terrritori e i loro beni naturali, come sostentamento della loro cultura, identità e forma di vita, così come fonte di tutti i loro diritti, è l’asse del documento elaborato dalla Commissione Interamericana dei Diritti Umani dell’Organizzazione degli Stati Americani
Today the United Nations released a much-anticipated set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights…The Guiding Principles seek to provide for the first time an authoritative global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse human rights impacts linked to business activity. The UN Human Rights Council will consider formal endorsement of the text at its June 2011 session. The Guiding Principles are the product of six years of research and
extensive consultations, led by the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Harvard Professor John Ruggie . (…)
The article:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1005021
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative Portal:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/SpecialRepPortal/Home
The UN Guiding Principles:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/SpecialRepPortal/Home/Protect-Respect-Remedy-Framework/GuidingPrinciples
New commentaries about:
Over the past decade, the US Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”)…has generally been viewed as the mechanism with the most
promising potential for holding MNCs to account for human rights violations in developing countries. In recent years, US
public interest lawyers have been at the forefront of developing ATS cases where MNCs are alleged to have been complicit
with states in such violations (…)
The article:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1004892
The Ugandan police Rapid Response Unit frequently operates outside the law, carrying out torture, extortion, and in some cases, extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Ugandan authorities should urgently open an independent investigation into the unit's conduct and activities and hold accountable anyone responsible for human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said. (...)
The article:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/03/23/uganda-torture-extortion-killings-police-unit
The Report:
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/03/23/violence-instead-vigilance-0
Basic information:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda
Human Rights in Uganda:
http://www.amnesty.it/Rapporto-Annuale-2010/Uganda
http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/uganda
http://www.hrw.org/africa/uganda
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