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Article 4 #UDHR: "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." It covers forced labour, trafficking and debt bondage: States must free victims and prosecute exploiters, never punish the trapped. #HumanRights
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We condemn the widespread police brutality and the lack of police neutrality and independence in recent events in France and Spain. Peaceful protest is a human right. Tear gas, batons and rubber bullets against people exercising it are not public order. They are repression.
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In France, student protests over school conditions have involved tear gas, batons and reports of rubber-bullet injuries, including to minors, with official probes into alleged excessive force.
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Civilian protection in armed conflict is a non-negotiable human rights duty. International humanitarian law bans indiscriminate attacks, starvation as a method of warfare and collective punishment. States must uphold the Geneva Conventions and end impunity. #ProtectCivilians
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📜 Article 3 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." It is the foundation of all other rights: no one may be arbitrarily killed, detained or threatened, and States must actively protect people from violence, whoever commits it. #HumanRights
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Article 2 #UDHR: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. #HumanRights
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Kabul: Reports of Pakistani airstrikes on civilian homes in Chogam, Kunar, and Safar, Helmand, are deeply alarming.
Reportedly 9 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed, 11 injured, and 3 homes destroyed.
This follows reported strikes on Kandahar, Paktia, and Khost on Sept 24 that reportedly killed 4 civilians.
Any unlawful or indiscriminate attack on civilians must be independently and impartially investigated. Those responsible, regardless of rank, must be held accountable.
Victims deserve justice, truth, and effective remedies.
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International Human Rights Foundation retweeted
🇵🇰 #Pakistan: I urge the @GovtofPakistan to immediately release human rights lawyers Adv @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali and drop the unfounded criminal and terrorism charges against them. Anti-terrorism laws must not be used to punish legitimate human rights work or intimidate lawyers.
Read the full press release from me, @profbensaul, @AndreaBV_SR_HRD and @Ginitastar: ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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International Human Rights Foundation retweeted
This is what my sons are up against- acid attacks & beatings by goons IN THE UK against outspoken critics of the current Pakistani government / Army. Trial next year.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4…
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HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE NO BORDERS.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, established a common standard for all peoples and all nations.
Its principles are unequivocal:
Article 1: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
Article 2: These rights belong to everyone, without distinction based on nationality, race, religion, political opinion or other status.
Article 3: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
And Article 30 makes clear that nothing in the Declaration gives any State, group or person the right to destroy the rights and freedoms it protects. (United Nations)
The International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF) reiterates a fundamental principle:
A border does not diminish the value of a human life. National security does not extinguish human dignity. And no State should regard the civilian population of another State as expendable.
Governments have a responsibility to respect human dignity and fundamental rights irrespective of nationality, ethnicity, religion or political circumstances.
The promise made after the horrors of the Second World War was universal — human rights belong to human beings because they are human.
They are not privileges granted by governments.
They do not stop at national borders.
They cannot be selectively applied.
Every human life has equal dignity. Every State must respect that principle.
— International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF)
#HumanRights #UDHR #UnitedNations #HumanDignity #RightToLife #InternationalLaw
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IHRF is deeply concerned by reports of civilian casualties following Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan.
Counterterrorism obligations do not diminish the fundamental requirement to protect civilians. Allegations concerning who was targeted, and reports of civilian deaths and injuries, require credible, transparent and independent investigation.
Afghan civilians must never be treated as expendable collateral.
IHRF calls for respect for international law, protection of civilian life, accountability for any violations, and urgent de-escalation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Security cannot be built on civilian suffering.
— International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF)
#HumanRights #Afghanistan #Pakistan #ProtectCivilians
🚨 I CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST TERMS PAKISTAN’S AIRSTRIKES INSIDE AFGHANISTAN.
Islamabad claims its fighter jets killed 28 “terrorists.” Kabul says three civilians were killed and four wounded, including casualties from a family whose home was struck in Kunar. Neither side’s casualty claims have yet been independently verified.
Pakistan’s military establishment cannot simply label people “terrorists” and expect that label to erase the obligation to protect civilians.
Pakistan has every right to defend its citizens from terrorism. But cross-border bombing must not become a substitute for intelligence, accountability, diplomacy and an effective security policy at home.
Afghan civilians are not expendable collateral for Pakistan’s internal security failures.
And there is an alarming precedent: UNAMA reported that Pakistani strikes in eastern Afghanistan in June killed at least 28 civilians and wounded 49, including women and children.
Enough. Afghan civilian lives matter. Pashtun lives matter. Pakistani lives matter.
The region needs accountable counterterrorism and political solutions — not an escalating cycle of bombs, funerals and retaliation.
#Afghanistan #Pakistan #Kunar #Paktika #HumanRights
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London: The International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF) welcomes the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision to grant bail to human rights lawyers and advocates Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, pending the Islamabad High Court’s final determination of their case.
IHRF notes with grave concern the shrinking space for dissent and the intensifying crackdown on human rights defenders in Pakistan, and condemns these practices in the strongest and most unequivocal terms.
The Foundation reiterates that the defence of fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial, must never be criminalised. IHRF calls on the Pakistani authorities to ensure that Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha receive a fair, independent, and expeditious hearing, and to halt the use of vague cybercrime and anti-state provisions to silence lawyers, journalists, and civil society.
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International Human Rights Foundation retweeted
Good news!
Breaking from the #SupremeCourt now @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali order of the trial court has been suspended by a 2 member bench comprising Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan & Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim and the judges have ordered their release on a surety bond of 2 lakh each.
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International Human Rights Foundation retweeted
Primer ministro @andyburnham y secretario de Asuntos Exteriores @Ed_Miliband: ¿cuánto tiempo más permanecerá Gran Bretaña en silencio?**
Durante tres años, el padre de mis dos hijos y ex primer ministro de Pakistán, Imran Khan, ha sido brutalmente castigado por sus adversarios políticos, en una vendetta personal del jefe del Ejército, Asim Munir, que, según la ONU, equivale a tortura y que ahora está cobrándose un precio potencialmente fatal en su salud física y mental.
Ha soportado tres años de aislamiento en régimen de incomunicación. Desde hace casi diez meses su familia no puede contactar con él. Se le ha privado del contacto humano más básico y se le ha denegado el acceso a libros, abogados y médicos.
Los estándares internacionales de derechos humanos son inequívocos. Según las Reglas Nelson Mandela de la ONU, el aislamiento solitario que dura más de 15 días consecutivos está prohibido y equivale a tortura.
Él ha sufrido este trato no durante 15 días, sino durante tres años.
El propio Tribunal Supremo de Pakistán ha intervenido: ha ordenado tratamiento médico integral, acceso a su médico personal, visitas familiares regulares y llamadas dos veces por semana con sus hijos.
Sin embargo, esas órdenes se están desobedeciendo.
Esto ya no es simplemente un asunto político pakistaní. Es una emergencia de derechos humanos.
Tiene lazos profundos y de toda la vida con Gran Bretaña. Estudió en la Universidad de Oxford, capitanó el equipo de cricket de Oxford y pasó años jugando cricket de condado en Inglaterra. Su relación con este país se remonta a más de medio siglo. Sus actividades benéficas fueron reconocidas internacionalmente e incluyen la construcción del único hospital oncológico gratuito de Pakistán, así como una universidad.
Sus hijos, mis dos muchachos, Sulaiman y Kasim, son ciudadanos británicos. Se han visto obligados a ver cómo la salud de su padre se deteriora a miles de kilómetros de distancia, se les ha impedido visitarlo, se les han denegado visados, han sido amenazados públicamente por funcionarios del Gobierno con ser arrestados ellos mismos e incluso se les han denegado las llamadas telefónicas regulares ordenadas por un tribunal.
He apelado reiteradamente al Gobierno del Reino Unido para que intervenga. Los supuestos intentos de canales discretos han fracasado evidentemente. El anterior secretario de Asuntos Exteriores, @DavidLammy, me informó por escrito de que Gran Bretaña no intervendría si mis hijos, ciudadanos británicos, son detenidos cuando viajen a Pakistán a visitar a su padre.
@FCDOGovUK: Gran Bretaña debe hablar ahora de forma pública e inequívoca. Exigir que Pakistán cumpla con su propio Tribunal Supremo; restablecer el acceso médico de Imran Khan, su derecho a ver a su familia, poner fin a su aislamiento prolongado y respetar sus derechos humanos fundamentales.
Pakistán es un país de la Commonwealth. Gran Bretaña tiene una larga y orgullosa tradición de oponerse a la detención arbitraria, al trato inhumano y a la negación de derechos fundamentales. Esos principios significan muy poco si solo los invocamos de forma selectiva y los descuidamos cuando resultan incómodos.
Esta es una apelación al nuevo Gobierno de Burnham para que, por favor, haga ahora lo correcto.
Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?
For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.
He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.
He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.
Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.
Yet those orders are being defied.
This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.
He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.
His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls.
I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father.
@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court; restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.
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International Human Rights Foundation retweeted
🔎 La santé mentale au travail est devenue un des défis majeurs de notre temps
📣 Face à cette urgence, l'@OITinfo appelle à des mesures fortes de protection sociale
🟡 La sécurité et la santé au #travail sont des droits fondamentaux❕
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Barcelona’s public prosecutor has opened proceedings against Rahola over allegations of incitement to hatred and complicity in genocide. #EuropeNews l.euronews.com/Vjo2
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“The NUJ is very concerned at unexplained incidents that have affected NUJ member Adil Raja. We urge the UK government to resist any attempt to extradite Raja and all forms of transnational repression targeting journalists. The government has a duty to protect journalists and ensure their human rights are respected.”
NUJ raises concern over raid on Adil Raja share.google/HNL2hhRKH5cDHey…
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