Derecho internacional de los derechos humanos y aborto en América Latina

América Latina presenta algunas de las leyes más restrictivas del mundo en materia de aborto. Si bien sólo tres países—Chile, El Salvador y República Dominicana—no contemplan ningún tipo de excepción o rebaja de la pena por la realización de abortos, en la mayoría de los países y jurisdicciones la ley incluye excepciones a la pena sólo cuando resulta necesario para salvar la vida de una mujer embarazada y en otras circunstancias puntuales específicamente definidas. Aún en los casos donde el aborto no está penalizado por ley, las mujeres suelen tener un acceso severamente limitado al mismo como consecuencia de la ausencia de regulaciones adecuadas y de la voluntad política necesaria. El acceso al aborto seguro y legal puede salvar la vida y facilitar la igualdad de las mujeres. Las decisiones de las mujeres en materia de aborto no tienen que ver solamente con sus cuerpos en términos abstractos, sino que, en términos más amplios, se encuentran relacionadas con sus derechos humanos inherentes a su condición de persona, a su dignidad y privacidad. Los obstáculos existentes para este tipo de decisiones en América Latina interfieren con la capacidad de las mujeres de ejercer sus derechos, dando lugar a prácticas clandestinas e inseguras que constituyen una de las principales causas de mortalidad materna en gran parte de la región

UN: Integrate human rights into security council work

Document collected by the University of Texas Libraries from the web-site of the Reseau Documentaire International Sur La Region Des Grands Lacs Africains (International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region). The Reseau distributes "gray literature", non-published or limited distribution government or NGO documents regarding the Great Lakes area of central Africa including Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.UT Librarie

Congo: U.N. Should deploy a rapid reaction force in Ituri

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Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions

Terrorism entails horrifying acts, often resulting in terrible losses of human life. Governments have a duty under international human rights law to take reasonable measures to protect people within their jurisdictions from acts of violence. When crimes are committed, governments also have a duty to carry out impartial investigations, to identify those responsible, and to prosecute suspects before independent courts. These obligations require ensuring fairness and due process in investigations and prosecutions, as well as humane treatment of those in custody

From Victims of Trafficking to Freedom Fighters: Rethinking Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East

Throughout the Middle East migrant women are employed to work in people’s homes. While some experience good working relations with employers, others experience forms of abuse and labour coercion. This chapter evaluates critically different ways that system of unfree labour has been variously described and analysed as a form of ‘contract slavery’, ‘debt bondage’ and ‘trafficking’. It also shows how migrant women who describe themselves as ‘freelancers’ exit their original employer’s home both to escape that relation and in hopes of securing a better situation outside of the regular system of employment. Freelancing is more than simply a form of resistance. Rather, women who work as freelance migrant domestic workers challenge directly that state enforced control over their mobility and are on the vanguard of those migrants who are seeking through their own actions to effect social change

Profile - Human Rights Watch

Rooftops Project Profile - Human Rights Watch - Every day, not-for-profit organizations face “stay or move” choices when they approach the end of their leases. Making predictions about space, and making space work, can be challenging. How did one such organization assess its choices as a tenant in one of the most iconic buildings in Manhattan? The Rooftops Project’s Mehgan Gallagher speaks with David Bragg at Human Rights Watch.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/rooftops_project/1001/thumbnail.jp

U.S. Workers’ Rights Are Being Abused

[Excerpt] The 200-page Human Rights Watch report is based on case studies across a range of industries, occupations and regions of the United States. The report recognizes that U.S. workers generally do not confront gross human rights violations where death squads assassinate union activists or collective bargaining is outlawed. But the absence of systematic government repression does not mean that workers have effective exercise of the right to freedom of association. The case studies in the Human Rights Watch report uncover a distressing pattern of threats, harassment, spying, firings and other reprisals against worker activists and a labor law system that is failing to deter such violations