UN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES to move towards fixed and predictable reviews of States parties similar to the UPR. This will result in regular country reviews independent of States producing their reports, many of which are years overdue. READ MORE
MIGRANT WORKERS The Qatar government has formally abolished the “Kafala” system, the demand of campaigning by human, labour and migrant rights organisations for over a decade. The Kafala system has been associated with forced labour, modern slavery and some of the worst abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East. Migrant workers in Qatar will no longer need the permission of their “sponsor” to change jobs or leave the country – and are being guaranteed a minimum wage. READ MORE including responses from HUMANITY UNITED, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL and ITUC
WOMEN'S RIGHTS 25 years after the landmark Beijing Women’s Conference and Platform of Action, governments are falling short on commitments to equal rights and freedoms. The Executive Director of UN Women provides a road map for what needs to happen to hold governments to account to make the Platform of Action a reality. READ MORE
MIGRANT WOMEN WORKERS IN GULF have highlighted the lack of accessible complaint and redress mechanisms – and have called on their governments and embassies to do more in new report, including visiting employers. POWER POINT
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Rights International's (IPRI) is calling on the Indonesian President to drop all charges against the six indigenous people arrested for defending their customary forest against the expansion of PT Sawit Mandiri Lestari (PT SML), a palm oil company in Kinipan forest, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. TAKE ACTION
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Rio Tinto apologises and CEO and executives resign amid growing outrage at Rio’s destruction of ancient Australian Indigenous sacred sites and loss to world of cultural heritage. READ MORE
HUMAN RIGHTS, AND RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS IN THE PACIFIC are still being impacted by legacy of Nuclear Tests in the Pacific. OHCHR has highlighted concern about Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands’, impacts of radiation and radioactive waste on health, including cancers, sexual and reproductive health and discriminatory impacts on Indigenous communities. READ MORE
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