GOLD Human Rights by Nigel Pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j Made with panache en-us 2017-03-07 14:28:50 UTC 2017-03-15 13:28:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png Add examples of human rights violations and how the international institutions have responded to them. Include how UK UPS have been involved. nigel_pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/158344497 Remember to add your name to your entries, minimum of 3 per person.]]> 2017-03-07 14:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/158344497 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39198623 nigel_pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/158582527 This refers to ISIS genocide in Iraq - Nigel]]> 2017-03-08 08:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/158582527 UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39238808 nigel_pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159418322 Nigel]]> 2017-03-11 07:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159418322 Amal Clooney urges UN to back Islamic State probehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39227162 nigel_pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159443651 Nigel]]> 2017-03-11 16:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159443651 Bosnia- NATO-Jonney G https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159930958 Human Right violations occurring in the Bosnia War. NATO intervened in 1992. This was a large scale military operation, including a total of 60,000 troops, including some 12,000 UK personnel. Primary objectives were to help the UN deliver humanitarian relief to those experiencing persecution. Also, to monitor and enforce the UN “no-fly zone” over Bosnia and carrying out air strikes to lift the siege of Sarajevo. Furthermore, this response led to the creation of the UNPROFOR, the name given to the UN Protection Force in Bosnia. Creating this showed a clear intention to remain steadfast in their response to the violations and stick to resolving them, despite increasing military action against them. ]]> 2017-03-14 10:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159930958 UN-JonneyG https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159931414 In February of this year the UN Human Rights Council are already actively trying to tackle Human Rights violations. It is appealing for $253 million to stop growing xenophobia and other forms of discrimination from spreading through the world.

]]> 2017-03-14 10:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159931414 Bosnia-NATO(2)- Jonney G https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159931712 This clearly shows how the UK UPS have been involved. Having thousands of our military personnel posted in Bosnia. Also, in more general terms the UN has authority to move UK forces into war ones for peace keeping missions. Examples of this include Kosovo and Iraq. Demonstrating clear effects on our military who can be randomly posted in malicious war ones with their lives on the line.]]> 2017-03-14 10:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159931712 Well done Jonney first to add your 3 Nigel nigel_pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159934840 2017-03-14 11:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159934840 Emilie- ISIS 1172112 https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159982225 Young girls abducted and raped; girls being used as slaves; thousands of men massacred; death if refused to convert to Islam, and  hundreds of hostages taken. The united nations have said it is genocide and are still allowing it to happen without holding ISIS  to account. ISIS’s crimes are serious enough to act upon; no powerful states should stand in the way and these crimes can be proved they were committed by ISIS.]]> 2017-03-14 14:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159982225 Emilie- ISIS 1172112 https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159982910 Evidence needs to start being collected on the ground because evidence is being lost. Mass graves are being found, some with up to 4,000 bodies in it. The Security Council needs to start an investigation into these crimes caused by ISIS. Getting the United Nations involved was originally Iraq’s idea. ]]> 2017-03-14 14:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159982910 Niamh https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159983456 A joint declaration by 27 United Nations member states expressing concern about Egypt’s repeated use of excessive force against demonstrators turned the international spotlight on Egypt’s human rights abuses. It was the first such action at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva since Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of protesters in dispersing a sit-in at Raba’a Square in Cairo on August 14, 2013. 

A United Nations group is investigating allegations of human rights abuses by North Dakota law enforcement against Native American protesters, with indigenous leaders testifying about “acts of war” they observed during mass arrests at an oil pipeline protest. The pipeline protests have become increasingly intense over the last two weeks as construction has moved closer to the Missouri river and as police have aggressively responded to activists’ demonstrations with arrests, pepper spray, riot gear and army tanks. 

The government of Eritrea is responsible for "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations, forcing hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee the country," according to a United Nations investigation. The United Nations interviewed more than 500 confidential witnesses about the nation in the Horn of Africa, hearing accounts of sexual slavery, extrajudicial killings and forced labor. The report details the specific rights violations and the methods employed by the Eritrean government to control its population. ]]> 2017-03-14 14:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159983456 Well done Emilie and Niamh - Nigel nigel_pumffrey https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159986861 2017-03-14 14:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159986861 Emilie- ISIS 1172112 https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159987302 On the 13th of August 2014, the United Nations declared the Yazidi crisis at the highest level: ‘Level 3 Emergency’. They said the declaration will help mobilization of resources in forms of goods, funds and assets to guarantee a more effective response to the humanitarian needs of the populations affected. On the 19th of March 2015, United Nations panel concluded that ISIL may have committed genocide against the Yazidis, stating the attacks were planned and coordinated and not spontaneous. ]]> 2017-03-14 14:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159987302 Rob - Human Rights Violations from both sides. https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/159991365  1) On 9 August, the Libyan government claimed that 85 civilians were killed in NATO airstrikes on the village of Majer near Zliten. NATO stated they thought they were targetting 9 buildings that had not been checked for actual enemy contacts, the story has been the source of controversy however due to a lack of evidence of several wounded.

2)  The security situation in Mali made headlines in 2013 following French intervention, which arguably exacerbated conditions in the wartorn country. The ongoing armed conflict led to appalling human rights violations fraught with a lack of government accountability. In June, UN investigation revealed countless cases of extrajudicial executions, torture and enforced disappearances of civilians carried out by both Tuareg rebels and the army. Soldiers were accused of torturing Tuaregs while French-led forces attempted to oust Islamist militants.

3) NATO's bombing of Belgrade last year has been referred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for legal scrutiny. 

HRW (Human Rights Watch) is drawing up a detailed report that will be submitted to the war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Among the examples of targeting violations it will cite are electricity grids, oil refineries and radio and television stations.

The report is also expected to attack the use of cluster bombs by US and British aircraft. At least 5 percent of these bombs failed to explode on impact, and many lie unexploded in Kosovo, where HRW say they are still killing or maiming two civilians a day.

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Nige]]> 2017-03-14 18:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160081285 North Korea’s large-scale human rights abuses revealed: 120,000 prisoners held in gulags, citizens starved and publicly executed by firing squad. - Kian Lees https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160106595 The Security Council has been criticised for failing to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court which seems unlikely given North Korea’s long alliance with China.]]> 2017-03-14 20:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160106595 Chemical weapons attacks in Syria - Kian Lees https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160107454 The UN ordered Asaad to destroy the remaining chemical weapons by mid 2014. Which he didn't.]]> 2017-03-14 20:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160107454 LGBT Rights in Russia - Kian Lees https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160109135 The says that Russian citizens found guilty to fines of up to 5,000 rubles and Organisations or businesses will be fined up to 1 million rubles and be forced to stop operations for up to 90 days. People from abroad may be arrested and detained for up to 15 days then deported, as well as fined up to 100,000 rubles. Nothing has been done yet but the UN have said that there is no place for prejudice in the 21th century and if there is any prejudice they will take action. ]]> 2017-03-14 20:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_pumffrey/bhtnho98493j/wish/160109135