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Reporters demonstrate outside the Paraguayan Labor Ministry demanding higher salaries, greater job security and improved safety conditions on National Journalists’ Day in Asunción, 26 April 2017, NORBERTO DUARTE/AFP via Getty Images On 5 May, Paraguay will be evaluated within the third cycle of the UPR. IFEX member in Paraguay SPP and the IFEX-ALC network have proposed recommendations regarding freedom of expression in the country. Hear what Santiago Ortiz, José María Costa, Dante Leguizamón, and Flavia Borja have to say about the progress to date, and the potential for change.
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Apr 07, 2021 11:44:07 AM The Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) is calling on government to review its decision amid police denying them to hold march and rallies in Suva on 1 May. FTUC National Secretary Felix Anthony in a statement said the two face approach by government is shameful as their six applications have been denied by the authorities. Anthony said the government clearly has no intention of honouring its commitment to the United Nation Human Rights Council. “The most recent International Labour Organisation report of the committee of experts had also called on government to allow workers the right of assembly and peaceful protest,” he said
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The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) also criticised Datuk Zulkifli Mohamad for trying to ‘rehabilitate’ sexual and gender minorities, pointing out that such conversion therapy is inhumane and detrimental towards one’s mental health and self-esteem. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 A coalition of local civil societies has today slammed religious affairs minister Datuk Zulkifli Mohamad’s insistence to table a law amendment that would provide for harsher punishments against Shariah offences to target the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
CBC Radio s The House: The pandemic, one year later
On this week’s show: National Advisory Committee on Immunization chair Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh discusses the AstraZeneca vaccine rollout in Canada. Then, Conservative deputy leader Candice Bergen previews her party’s upcoming policy convention, Eabametoong First Nation Chief Harvey Yesno and clean water activist Autumn Peltier discuss boil water advisories, and Susan Delacourt and Shachi Kurl talk about how COVID-19 changed politics.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, takes part in a moment of silence on the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
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