https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8 Made with wonder en-us 2018-12-10 14:26:43 UTC 2018-12-10 15:04:37 UTC hello@padlet.com aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312944348 Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery. They are refused access to education and political participation, and some are trapped in conflicts where rape is perpetrated as a weapon of war.]]> 2018-12-10 14:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312944348 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312947916 Many urgent arms-related challenges should be addressed to protect civilians affected by conflict and its deadly legacy.  Antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions have been prohibited outright, but the ban treaties need to be universalized and complied with fully.  Militaries use a wide-range of explosive weapons—artillery, rockets, mortars, air-delivered bombs and more—in populated areas, frequently causing indiscriminate harm to civilians.]]> 2018-12-10 14:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312947916 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312948859 Human Rights Watch investigates human rights abuses linked to the economic activities of businesses, governments and key international institutions like the World Bank. We expose harmful practices by multinational corporations that can devastate vulnerable communities. We push tech companies to avoid complicity in government efforts to censor and persecute activists.]]> 2018-12-10 14:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312948859 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312949233 Millions of children have no access to education, work long hours under hazardous conditions and are forced to serve as soldiers in armed conflict. They suffer targeted attacks on their schools and teachers or languish in institutions or detention centers, where they endure inhumane conditions and assaults on their dignity. ]]> 2018-12-10 14:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312949233 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312949655 Worldwide one billion individuals have a disability. Many people with disabilities live in conflict settings or in developing countries, where they experience a range of barriers to education, health care and other basic services. In many countries, they are subjected to violence and discrimination. People with disabilities are also often deprived of their right to live independently, as many are locked up in institutions, shackled, or cycled through the criminal justice system.]]> 2018-12-10 14:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312949655 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312950096 As the world urbanizes and industrializes, and as effects of climate change intensify, environmental crises will increasingly devastate the lives, health, and livelihoods of people around the globe. A lack of legal regulation and enforcement of industrial and artisanal mining, large-scale dams, deforestation, domestic water and sanitation systems, and heavily polluting industries can lead to host of human rights violations. ]]> 2018-12-10 14:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312950096 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312950692 Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.  In international law, access to information and free expression are two sides of the same coin, and both have found tremendous accelerators in the Internet and other forms of digital communication.  At the same time, efforts to control speech and information are also accelerating, by both governments and private actors in the form of censorship, restrictions on access, and violent acts directed against those whose views or queries are seen as somehow dangerous or wrong.]]> 2018-12-10 14:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312950692 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312951135 Every country in the world is now party to at least one human rights treaty that addresses health-related rights. Yet, harmful laws, policies and practices routinely interfere with access to health care and increase vulnerability to ill health, particularly for poor, marginalized or criminalized populations. Our work examines the right to health and a healthy environment, the right to be free from discrimination and arbitrary detention, and the right to information, free speech, expression and assembly as critical means of achieving health. ]]> 2018-12-10 14:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312951135 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312951635 Human Rights Watch considers international justice—accountability for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity—to be an essential element of building respect for human rights. The International Justice Program works to shape investigations, bring about arrest and cooperation, and advocate for effective justice mechanisms. We actively engage with the work of the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals as well as the efforts of national courts, including in Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Bosnia, to bring perpetrators of the worst crimes to justice.]]> 2018-12-10 14:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312951635 aviladav000 https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312954511 In June 2017, during an argument about their daughter’s education, the husband of Dong Fang (a pseudonym) severely beat her and their daughter. Dong sought and obtained a protection order. Five months later, she filed for divorce. After a hearing, Judge Zhang denied Dong’s application, citing marriage’s “traditional value.” The judge also said that because the beating was not “chronic,” he did not view it as constituting domestic violence. ]]> 2018-12-10 15:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aviladav000/c61aokim1yr8/wish/312954511