States can restrict protests on public health grounds, UN says
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Governments have the right to restrict protests on public health grounds, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Wednesday. The committee stepped in to formulate its legal interpretation having seen a gap in the international norms being tested even before the coronavirus pandemic. Tens of thousands of people walk up 23rd Avenue South […]
Nepal rejects UN call to compensate man in forced labour case
Kathmanudu, NepalThomson Reuters Foundation Nepal on Thursday rejected a United Nations call to compensate an Indigenous man it said was forced to work as a child then tortured by police on escape, since he had not exhausted the legal avenues for redress. The UN Human Rights Committee, a panel of independent experts with no enforcement […]