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OHCHR | Sri Lanka: Experts dismayed by regressive steps, call for renewed UN scrutiny and efforts to ensure accountability

GENEVA (5 February 2021) – UN human rights experts have urged the Sri Lankan authorities to stop rolling back hard fought progress made in recent years on rebuilding democratic institutions, and to press for accountability for past crimes and deliver justice for victims and promote reconciliation between communities. The independent experts published today an assessment of the government’s follow up to some 400 recommendations made following 10 official visits from 2015 to 2019. They called on the Human Rights Council to continue its efforts to increase independent human rights monitoring in the country and to ensure accountability for past crimes. “We are dismayed at the emerging trends setting back the promotion of reconciliation, accountability and human rights, reducing civic space and eroding important institutional safeguards for the protection of human rights, issues also raised in the High Commissioner’s report,” they said, pointing to th

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Vietnam: National Party Congress begins amid escalating crackdown on internet freedom

6 minute read Media persons wait in line for a security check before the start of the opening session of the National Party Congress, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 26 January 2021, MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images In the weeks leading up to the Congress, courts handed down several lengthy sentences to individuals based on their online activities. This statement was originally published on article19.org on 25 January 2021. Vietnam has escalated its attack on online freedom of expression in advance of the national Communist Party Congress, which opens today, said ARTICLE 19. In recent weeks the Vietnamese government has imprisoned individuals for online activities and in recent years has enacted new laws and policies restricting online freedoms. Any new leadership emerging from the Congress should take immediate steps to reverse this trend.

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Australia urged by 31 countries at UN meeting to raise age of criminal responsibility

Children as young as 10 can be convicted and sentenced for crimes in Australia. Dozens of countries have used a UN meeting to call for the age of criminal responsibility to be increased to 14.

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Is B Tselem Israel s Leading Human Rights Organization ?

125SHARES What makes a human rights organization successful? Its ability to bring about human rights advancements or its ability to capture extensive, uncritical media coverage abroad? Some international media outlets covering the publication of B’Tselem’s vitriolic report last week outrageously demonizing Israel with apartheid and “Jewish supremacy” have inflated the credibility of the controversial organization by labeling it Israel’s “leading human rights organization.” Yet, a close examination of the organization’s activity and successes in advancing rights of Palestinians, or more accurately lack thereof, exposes the falsity of the title. The Associated Press’ initial article, republished in media outlets around the world, carried the headline “Leading human rights calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state.” AP’s Joseph Krauss opened his Jan. 12 article referring to B’Tselem as, “a leading human right group.” In the ensuing days, AP upped the ante, p

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