Urgent action needed to prevent COVID-19 “rampaging through places of detention” – Bachelet - GENEVA (25 March 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health and safety of people in detention and other closed facilities, as part of overall efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. “Covid-19 has begun to strike prisons, jails and […]
Physical, emotional and digital protection while using home as office in times of COVID-19-Front Line Defenders, March 27, 2020 Ideas & tips for human rights defenders A global pandemic is a new situation for all of us. Most of us already are or soon may be forced to start working remotely. Many will use their home as an office. In some places, there is no doubt this […]
Vietnamese Well-known Facebooker Threatened with Heavy Punishment For Disseminating News on Covid-19-Defend the Defenders, March 28, 2020 Vietnam’s communist regime has threatened to impose hard punishment on a well-known Facebooker coded Đ.N.Q for “disseminating fake news on Covid-19 which causes social disorders amid increasing crackdown on online government critics. The Ministry of Public Security has said on its website that the Department of Cyber Security […]
Bộ Công an đã xử lý hơn 300 trường hợp đưa tin sai sự thật về dịch COVID-19-RFA, ngày 26/3/2020 Cục An ninh mạng và Phòng chống Tội phạm Sử dụng Công nghệ cao thuộc Bộ Công an Việt Nam cho biết hơn 300 trên gần 700 trường hợp bị cho đưa tin sai sự thật về dịch bệnh COVID-19 trên mạng xã hội trong 2 tháng qua đã bị cơ […]
CIVICUS: States should put human rights at the centre of all responses to COVID-19-Civicus, Press release March 25, 2020 During the global COVID-19 pandemic states should not impose emergency law as a pretext to restrict civic rights Human rights defenders and political prisoners should be released to curb the spread Governments should be transparent in responding to threats posed by COVID-19 CIVICUS urges states to lift emergency […]
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