Germany join Norway’s protests. World football’s governing body FIFA said on Thursday they would not punish Norway’s players for wearing t-shirts which said ‘Human rights – on and off the pitch’. FIFA says it believes in freedom of speech and that the power of football is a force for good. The squad were protesting about…
As we are at the cusp of technological change, history shifts its pace when touched with scientific vision. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one such technical field that is transforming human society into one of robots and machines. AI includes machine learning, natural language processing, big data analytics, algorithms, and much more. However, as human intelligence…
The year 2020 marks 20 years since the adoption of the year 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Protocol). The implementation of the Palermo Protocol has resulted in the development of a range of domestic and regional…
Governments around the world are taking decisive action to contain the spread of a novel coronavirus, (COVID-19), with heavy implications for human rights. Commentators have assessed containment measures in blogs on preventive duties, State responsibility, and the UK’s draft emergency legislation. Several States have now derogated from the ECHR to address COVID-19. This blog post…
The U.N. Secretary-General said Tuesday that there is still “an enormous gap” between what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls for and the situation in countries around the world. “Human rights violations, misogyny and exclusion are widespread and systematic. Inequality is growing, and hate speech is poisoning public debate,” António Guterres told a U.N.…
