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New IT Rules Fail On International Standards If enforced and maintained in their current form, these rules will govern the big tech companies at the expense of the freedom of expression in the worlds largest democracy. Kumar Kartikeya 26 May 2021, Last Updated at 4:00 pm Kumar Kartikeya 2021-05-26T15:49:34+05:30 New IT Rules Fail On International Standards outlookindia.com 2021-05-26T16:00:16+05:30 According to the newly published study by Freedom House, a ...

( 25 May 2021 ) We, the undersigned international human rights organisations, call on the Cambodian government to immediately stop its assault on freedom…

We, the undersigned international human rights organisations, call on the Cambodian government to immediately stop its assault on freedom of expression in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent months, the government has warned against public criticism of its actions, prevented independent journalists from reporting on the pandemic, prosecuted individuals for criticising the inoculation campaign, and threatened journalists and social media users with legal actions on the spurious groun...

OHCHR The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online eighty-seventh session, electing a new Chairperson and Bureau, and adopting its agenda and programme of work for the session, during which it will review the reports of Luxembourg and Tunisia. The Committee elected its new Chair and Bureau. Mikiko Otani (Japan) was elected as Chair of the Committee. The Vice-Chairs are Velina Todorova (Bulgaria), Philip Jaffe (Switzerland), Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi (Morocco) and Faith Marshall-Ha...

Wed May 5, 2021 If you want to see what having the First Amendment trashed by UN regulations looks like, you can look no further than Facebook and Silicon Valley.  Facebook created an Oversight Board to whom bans can be appealed. The Board judged the case of President Trump. And the outcome was predictable. But what was the Boards metric? The Board analyzed Facebook’s human rights responsibilities in this case by considering human rights standards including: The r...

Children’s rights in a digital society: UN brings in protection for the rights of children Date:22 APR 2021 Kristianna Beta, Paralegal at iFLG In February 2021 the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted General Comment 25. It sets out childrens rights in relation to the digital environment. It requires Member States to adopt measures to combat the risks and hazards which a digitalised reality entails. This article analyses this UN crucially important innovation in the context ...

2021-04-20 11:05:23 GMT2021-04-20 19:05:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Indulging in the superiority as the worlds superpower, the United States habitually claims itself as the "defender of international law", blames unscrupulously other countries and slaps arbitrary sanctions on them under the pretext of safeguarding international rules. However, the United States in fact makes its selfish political gains first and puts its national law above international ...

Article The Return to Balfour: Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Coronavirus Regulations Curbing the Right to Protest April 19, 2021 | The latest judgement in a series of legal challenges to controversial measures adopted by the Israeli government in response to COVID, shows that the Supreme Court still plays an important role in checking government excess and reaffirming basic democratic and human rights values Flash 90 On April 4, the Israeli High Court o...

Protecting children in the age of AI Updated: Updated: April 19, 2021 22:48 IST Their rights, privacy, and well-being must be protected in digital environments just as they are in the physical world Share Article AAA Their rights, privacy, and well-being must be protected in digital environments just as they are in the physical world We are now living among history’s very first “AI” generation. From the Alexas they converse with, to their robot playmates, to the YouTube wormholes they ...

OHCHR The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon suspended its online thirty-second session after adopting its concluding observations on the second periodic report of Chile. Can Ünver, Committee Chairperson, noting that today the Committee had competed the large part of its thirty-second session and hence he would make his concluding remarks, said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed ways of working and this reminded t...