Tanveer Jeewa is a legal and communications consultant at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). She is an LLM candidate in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, was previously a law clerk at the Constitutional Court and prior to that interned at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia.
Today (17 May) is International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia – a day created to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. It is an important day, which should ideally remind us of how far we have come in ensuring the protection of the rights and lives of LGBTI people.
The cry of protest returns to the Colombian streets
The cry of protest returns to the Colombian streets
Bogota, May 15 (Prensa Latina) Several social organizations have called for the largest march in Colombia on Saturday, after another day of riots and repression by the security forces against demonstrators. For this Saturday, Colombians are also organizing a new mobilization of women, which will demand the cessation of gender violence exercised by the police and agents of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (Esmad) in the context of the national strike.
The demonstrators, women, men, students, indigenous people, peasants, politicians, intellectuals, academicians, workers, among others, will demand the cessation of militarization, the dismantling of the Esmad, the reform of the police and the withdrawal of neoliberal measures. According to the call, they will march in favor of peace, for the disappeared youths, for the abused women, for the dozens of murdered and thousands of wounded a
Regional Survey on Evictions of Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela: Analysis of the main impacts and needs
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For government authorities at local, departmental, and national levels
1.1.1 Adopt all administrative and legislative measures necessary to guarantee decent housing conditions for refugees and migrants from Venezuela, facilitating their access to existing state services for access to housing or special subsidy areas adapted to their socioeconomic situation.
1.1.2 Update or adapt domestic legal frameworks to include and recognize the rights of the refugee and migrant population to have access to adequate housing. To improve their access to state housing services, governments should promote the regularization of the migratory status of refugees and migrants and the supply of housing and temporary accommodation should not be limited by their migratory status.
HRB suggests incident not isolated but result of predatory culture; Immigration Dept says matter was investigated
“Someone has to have the courage to bring it to an end”
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Human Rights Bahamas (HRB) yesterday called for the immediate removal of all male officers from the Department of Immigration’s “safe house” and demanded a full investigation into claims of sexual assault of detainees at the facility.
The call follows recent allegations by a 27-year-old Surinamese woman that she was drugged and raped by an immigration officer.
The allegations were outlined in a writ filed in the Supreme Court on May 11, which claimed the woman was unlawfully arrested, falsely imprisoned, assaulted, battered, drugged, sexually assaulted, raped, sodomized and deprived of her constitutional rights.
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