Governance And Institutions

Human rights outlook 2023

While society and business continue to navigate an unsettled global risk environment, the future human rights situation is not all bleak. Social risks are no longer being drowned out by the historically larger E-focus on emissions and climate change. Instead, the Outlook highlights that these issues are converging in many ways.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2023
Verisk Maplecroft
Tags:
Human Rights, Environment, India, Global
People

Order of the Supreme Court regarding night shelters in Delhi, 28/03/2023

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of E R Kumar & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 28/03/2023.

The matter related to night shelters in Delhi.

Judgement Date: 
28/03/2023
Tags:
Urban Habitat, Poverty, Delhi, Supreme Court, Human Rights
Governance And Institutions

Amnesty International Report 2022/23: the state of the world’s human rights

Amnesty International’s Annual Report for 2022 highlights double standards throughout the world on human rights and the failure of the international community to unite around consistently-applied human rights and universal values.

Publication Date: 
28/03/2023
Amnesty International
Tags:
Human Rights, Conflicts, India, Global, Africa, Women
People

Gender equality and international law in Africa: the role of regional economic communities

The baseline study presents findings on the current status of ratification, domestication, implementation, and reporting of global and regional instruments on women’s rights and gender equality in the four Regional Economic Communities (RECs).

Publication Date: 
27/03/2023
UNDP
Tags:
Women, Human Rights, Economy, Politics, Africa
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding implementation of Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, 22/02/2023

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Dr. Balram Singh Vs Union of India & Others dated 22/02/2023.

The matter related to the implementation of the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 and the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.

Judgement Date: 
22/02/2023
Tags:
Scavengers, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Supreme Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Human Rights
Environment

State of global environmental governance 2022

With the pent-up need for countries to agree how to address climate finance, plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and other pressing environmental issues, a tidal wave of in-person negotiations swept through 2022.

Publication Date: 
15/02/2023
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Tags:
Environment, Governance, Global, Human Rights, Conflicts
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding migrant and unorganised workers in India, 31/01/2023

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of 'In Re Problems and Miseries of Migrant Labourers' dated 31/01/2023.

The SC was informed that out of the estimated 38.37 crores  migrants to be registered on  e-Shram portal - a total of 28.55 crores migrants are already registered. Further, those 28.55 crore migrants who are already registered on the e-Shram portal would be entitled to the schemes floated by the Central Government and concerned state governments and also under National Food Security Act.

Judgement Date: 
31/01/2023
Tags:
Workers, Human Rights, Food Security, Government Of India (GOI), Supreme Court, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India
People

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding rights of children with disabilities, 13/01/2023

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Seema Girija Lal & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 13/01/2023.

The petitioners are members of a forum for parents, professionals and other stake holders dealing with the rights of children with disabilities. The petitioners have highlighted that the diverse provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 have not been implemented by the states.

Judgement Date: 
13/01/2023
Tags:
Physical Disability, Legislation, Children, India, Government Of India (GOI), Human Rights
Environment

What is the right to a healthy environment?

The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution is increasingly affecting the human rights of people across the globe.

Publication Date: 
10/01/2023
UNEP
Tags:
Environment, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Pollution, Human Rights
People

We wanted workers, but human beings came: human rights and temporary labour migration programme in and from Asia and the Pacific

No one should have to surrender their human right to migrate in order to find a living wage, the UN human rights office, OHCHR said in this new report, highlighting the importance of temporary migratory labour programmes.

Publication Date: 
16/12/2022
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
Tags:
Migration, Workers, Human Rights, India, Asia

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