The Responsibility to Protect as a principle of humanitarian intervention is being side-lined in favour of geopolitics in the Myanmar crisis, calling its future application into question.
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Universally revered human rights lawyers are gathering momentum to make the destruction of ecosystems an internationally-recognised crime.
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Based on the UK’s record on LGBT+ rights, its exit from the European Union may result in a backsliding of the protection of rights for this vulnerable group.
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The Sri Lankan government’s policy to cremate every person who dies from COVID-19 is, at best, careless with the rights of the Muslim community and, at worst, deliberately discriminatory.
Read moreDevelopment and human rights: irrefutable links, questionable praxis
The emerging praxis of a human rights-based approach to development must be centred on the essential principle of protecting human dignity.
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