Uganda's Museveni faces challenging new term

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Multiple Challenges

Significance Beyond the new health crisis, the new government faces multiple challenges that should make for a difficult term in office. Impacts Youth politics will remain a key area of government-opposition contestation, but Bobi Wine will hold more appeal among youth than Museveni. International criticism of Uganda’s human rights record is unlikely to translate into significantly tougher action, but nor will it abate. Museveni may face challenges obtaining funding for development projects from both traditional and non-traditional donors.

Poor policies could reverse Maoist decline in India

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Single Operation ◽  
Maoist Insurgency ◽  
Armed Resistance ◽  
Maoist Movement

Subject Outlook for the Maoist insurgency. Significance An attack on April 24, which killed 25 police officers in Chhattisgarh state, was the largest single operation conducted by Maoist guerrillas for seven years. However, it belies a situation where Maoist influence has been in steady decline since its peak in 2010. Impacts Changes to land and environment laws could revive the Maoist movement. Development projects are key to containing the armed resistance. The security crackdown will fuel allegations of human rights violations.

Privacy will test development actors using 'big data'

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Test Development ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Mobile Phone Data ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Government

Subject Use of 'big data' for welfare projects. Significance Development actors within and outside the government are harnessing ‘big data’ for welfare projects but they face multiple challenges. Impacts Development projects will continue to rely heavily on mobile phone data. Traditional on-the-ground data gathering and surveys remain important. More advanced uses of big data require greater coordination between owners of individual tranches of information.

Undocumented in the time of pandemic: exploring legal violence, health care and human rights of irregular Filipino migrants in Italy and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Bridget T. Vilog ◽  
Carlos M. Piocos III
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Undocumented Workers ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Filipino Migrants ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of states’ pandemic responses to the conditions and vulnerabilities of undocumented Filipino migrants in Italy and the UK. It also explores the role and strategies of migrant organisations in addressing the issues and concerns of undocumented workers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative approaches are used to collect and analyse the narratives of the migrants and migrant organisations. This paper used government reports, policy briefs and documents from international organisations in analysing the socio-political vulnerabilities of undocumented migrants in the context of the global pandemic. In addition, we interviewed leaders of migrant organisations, which are involved in supporting irregular migrants. Findings The study reveals that states have exercised a regime of legitimate violence against undocumented workers in Italy and the UK. This regime is imposed not only by the stringent laws and policies that directly and indirectly cause economic, social and even cultural suffering to the migrants but also by the “symbolic violence” manifested in structural and social inequalities, and the exploitative economic order amid the pandemic. Responding to the “regime of fear”, migrant organisations provide immediate relief and “safe spaces” for the undocumented workers. Originality/value The paper contributes to the ongoing conversation on state practices in regulating migration by framing the conditions of undocumentation as legal violence that structurally deprives irregular migrants access to health care and human rights amid global health crisis.

Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 1-181
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Oil Exploitation

1Human rights — Obligation of States to protect rights of persons under their jurisdiction — American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Scope of obligation under Article 1(1) — Right to property — Right to life — Right to freedom of movement and residence — Right to personal integrity — Obligation to adopt domestic legal measures — Whether Ecuador’s oil exploitation project in Sarayaku territory violating indigenous peoples’ rights under American ConventionEnvironment — Natural resources — Oil exploitation — State obligation to consult indigenous peoples on development projects impacting their territory — Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (ILO Convention No 169) — Whether obligation to consult applying to contract concluded before ratification of ILO Convention No 169 — Whether obligation to consult a treaty obligation or general principle of international law

scholarly journals Populism, pestilence and plague in the time of coronavirus

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Mannion ◽  
Ewen Speed
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Initial Denial

Purpose This paper aims to explore right wing populist government responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a narrative overview of right-wing populist policies and strategies, which is loosely structured around fascistic themes set out in Albert Camus’ allegorical novel, The Plague. Findings Although individual responses to the coronavirus pandemic among right-wing populists differ, they appear to coalesce around four central themes: initial denial and then mismanagement of the pandemic; the disease being framed as primarily an economic rather than a public health crisis; a contempt for scientific and professional expertise; and the “othering” of marginal groups for political ends. Populist responses to the pandemic have given rise to increased levels of xenophobia, the violation of human rights and the denigration of scientific expertise. Research limitations/implications This is a narrative overview from a personal viewpoint. Originality/value Drawing on themes in Camus' novel The Plague, this is a personal perspective on right wing populist government responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Populist responses to the pandemic have given rise to increased levels of intolerance and xenophobia and the violation of human rights and civil liberties.

Human rights-based conceptions of deservingness: health and precarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Sarah Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Dominant Negative ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Health Related

Purpose Ideas of health-related deservingness in theory and practise have largely been attached to humanitarian notions of compassion and care for vulnerable persons, in contrast to rights-based approaches involving a moral-legal obligation to care based on universal citizenship principles. This paper aims to provide an alternative to these frames, seeking to explore ideas of a human rights-based deservingness framework to understand health care access and entitlement amongst precarious status persons in Canada. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from theoretical conceptualizations of deservingness, this paper aims to bring deservingness frameworks into the language of human rights discourses as these ideas relate to inequalities based on noncitizenship. Findings Deservingness frameworks have been used in public discourses to both perpetuate and diminish health-related inequalities around access and entitlement. Although, movements based on human rights have the potential to be co-opted and used to re-frame precarious status migrants as “undeserving”, movements driven by frames of human rights-based deservingness can subvert these dominant, negative discourses. Originality/value To date, deservingness theory has primarily been used to speak to issues relating to deservingness to welfare services. In relation to deservingness and precarious status migrants, much of the literature focuses on humanitarian notions of the “deserving” migrant. Health-related deservingness based on human rights has been under-theorized in the literature and the authors can learn from activist movements, precarious status migrants and health care providers that have taken on this approach to mobilize for rights based on being “human”.

Statements alone will not improve Egypt human rights

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Type

Headline EGYPT: Statements alone will not improve human rights

The Impact of COVID-19: Democracy in the Time of a Pandemic

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-482
Author(s):  
Zoya Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The recent spread of the delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries, though uneven, has once again set alarm bells ringing throughout the world. Nearly two years have passed since the onset of this pandemic: vaccines have been developed and vaccination is underway, but the end of the campaign against the pandemic is nowhere in sight. This drive has merely attempted to adjust and readjust, with or without success, to the various fresh challenges that have kept emerging from time to time. The pandemic’s persistence and its handling by the governments both have had implications for citizens’/peoples’ rights as well as for the systems which were in place before the pandemic. In this symposium domain experts investigate, with a sharp focus on India, the interface between the COVID-19 pandemic and democracy, health, education and social sciences. These contributions are notable for their nuanced and insightful examination of the impact of the pandemic on crucial social development issues with special attention to the exacerbated plight of society’s marginalised sections. In India, as in several other countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected democracy. The health crisis came at a moment when India was already experiencing democratic backsliding. The pandemic came in handy in imposing greater restrictions on democratic rights, public discussion and political opposition. This note provides an analysis and commentary on how the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted governance, at times undermining human rights and democratic processes, and posing a range of new challenges to democracy.

Human rights of people with mental illness diagnosis: perceptions among service users, family members and health professionals in Tunisia

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayssa Rekhis ◽  
Sami Ouanes ◽  
Abir Ben Hamouda ◽  
Rym Rafrafi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Content Type ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
Main Factor

Purpose This study aims to assess the awareness about the rights of people with mental illness in the main psychiatric hospital in Tunisia among the service users, the family members and the staff. Design/methodology/approach The Convention of Rights of People with Disabilities mandates that State Parties initiate and maintain campaigns and human rights training to promote understanding of the rights of people with mental illnesses, considered as a main factor for their fulfillment. Service users, family members and staff evaluated, through a survey, the importance of ten rights for persons with mental illness, stated in the convention. Findings Disparities were found in the perception of the different rights by and between the three groups. The highest levels of awareness were associated with the freedom from torture or degrading treatment and the right to live with dignity and respect, whereas the lower importance were assigned to the right to participation in recovery plans, to give consent and to exercise legal capacity. Originality/value The lack of awareness and the poor perception of rights of people with mental illness is one of the barriers to their achievement. More training and awareness raising is necessary.

State Obligations in Relation to Gender Identity and Rights of Same-Sex Couples

2021 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 277-462
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Name Change ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
State Obligations ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
And Gender

277Human rights — Gender identity — Rights of same-sex couples — State obligations concerning recognition of gender identity and rights of same-sex couples — American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Right to equality and non-discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons — Article 1(1) of American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Whether sexual orientation and gender identity protected categories under Article 1(1) — Right to gender identity — Right to a name — Whether States under obligation to facilitate name change based on gender identity — Whether failure to establish administrative procedures for name change violating American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Whether name change procedure under Article 54 of Civil Code of Costa Rica complying with American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Right to equality and non-discrimination — Right to protection of private and family life — Right to family — Whether States obliged to recognize patrimonial rights arising from a same-sex relationship — Whether States required to establish legal institution to regulate same-sex relationshipsInternational tribunals — Jurisdiction — Inter-American Court of Human Rights — Advisory jurisdiction — Whether advisory jurisdiction restricted by related petitions before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — Admissibility — Whether request meeting formal and substantive requirements — Whether Court having jurisdiction

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