Just a quick update in case you missed it.
 | Released on 19.07.2024 |  |
 | Finland's President confirms controversial deportation law Finnish President, Alexander Stubb, approved the bill for the Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration. The so called deportation law allows the government and the president to jointly decide to temporarily suspend asylum applications at Finland’s 1300 km long eastern border to Russia. When instrumentalised migration is suspected to happen, border authorities can refuse to accept asylum applications. Read more: thebarentsobserver.com |
 | British Court sets new deadline for Investigation into 1989 murder of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane There has been a new twist in the 35-year failure of the British government to properly investigate the 1989 murder of Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane. Last week the Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled that the British government had three weeks to agree on an appropriate investigation (appropriate as in compliant with the Article 2 standards of the European Convention on Human Rights), which also has to be agreed to by the Finucane family. Read more: humanrightsfirst.org |
 | Hijab ban on France Olympic athletes breaches international human rights laws: Amnesty International Amnesty International criticised the French government’s decision to ban women athletes representing France at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from wearing headscarves in a report released Tuesday. The report stated that the prohibition breaches international human rights laws and said the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) response to calls for lifting the ban was “inadequate”. Read more: jurist.org |
 | UN Body to Examine Turkiye’s Record on Torture This week, the United Nations Committee against Torture will review Turkiye’s record on preventing torture and ill-treatment. Human Rights Watch is among numerous civil society groups that have submitted evidence to the committee that Turkiye’s record on torture has deteriorated greatly since the committee’s last review in May 2016. In the aftermath of the 2016 military coup attempt, there was a steep rise in reports of police detaining people en masse and torturing them for allegedly having connections to the Fethullah Gülen movement, which the government accuses of leading the coup attempt Read more: hrw.org |
 | Malta and Libya extend immigration agreement amid human rights concerns Prime Minister Robert Abela of Malta has announced the extension of a controversial immigration agreement with Libya, despite serious concerns about the treatment of migrants in the North African country. The agreement, initially signed in May 2020, has been extended for another three years following bilateral meetings between Abela and Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in Tripoli. Read more: newsbook.com.mt |
 | New UN rights rapporteur for Iran is a highly regarded expert Mai Sato, a Japanese social scientist, who is to become the next UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran at the end of July, is a top-notch expert on criminal law with a high reputation among rights defenders. Ms. Sato was one of eleven candidates for the post, and the preferred choice out of a final shortlist of three presented to the Council. The President of the Human Rights Council, Morocco’s Omar Zniber, has now formally offered the post to Sato, who will take up the role on 1st August (barring the unlikely prospect that she will refuse the post). Read more: iranintl.com |
 | Japan and UN Women Promote Attention at the Borders of Honduras to the Situation of Women in Human Mobility Japan, UN Women, Agua Pura para el Mundo (Pure Water for the World), and the Fundación Alivio para el Sugrimiento (Relief of Suffering Foundation) have inaugurated the Journeys (Trayectos) programme in Honduras. The programme aims to guarantee the rights of women in mobility during their transit through Central America. Funded by the Government of Japan and implemented in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama, Journeys seeks to close critical gaps in women's leadership and ensure their equitable access to protection amidst unprecedented human displacement in the region. Read more: lac.unwomen.org |
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