Category Archives: Right to human dignity

India’s Lockdown: A key to Modi’s tyranny

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 21. September 2020 by

India’s President Modi surprised the entire country on 24 March 2020. At 8 pm, he announced on a government owned news channel that a nationwide lockdown would be enforced from midnight. All workplaces, schools, shops and hotels were shut down. Flights, trains, buses, private vehicles and other transport systems were halted. People were only allowed to leave their homes to pick up essentials and faced a year in jail if they did not have a valid excuse for being outside. India had one of the harshest lockdowns in the world in March, according to Oxford University’s Stringency Index.

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Covid 19: Why Hindi belt is not asking any questions?

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 14. June 2020 by

We are being told that everything is being done as per the guidelines of the WHO. Why are we not asking how credible the WHO is? Isn’t it true that WHO has been charged with protecting the interests of Big Pharma? After lockdown ruining the economies of many countries, the WHO is now saying that it had never advised lockdowns! Countries like Sweden, Japan, Tanzania, Belarus, Nicaragua and Yemen either did not go for lockdown at all or imposed restrictions that had the least impact on the liberty of the people. Why India did not tread this path?

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Introducing the Dzhokhar Doctrine of Nullity from Mismatch

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 7. June 2020 by

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a US citizen on Death Row in Colorado’s maximum-security federal prison. He was wrongly convicted as accomplice in the Boston Marathon bombings of 15 April 2013. According to human rights norms he should be freed, apologized to and all other legitimate remedies. In the present article Mary W Maxwell, J.D. , who has for years stood by Jahar’s innocence, introduces a new legal doctrine.

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Empowerment of victims of economic sanctions

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 21. January 2019 by

An approach to economic sanctions based on the principle of solidarity with the victims and on norms of human rights may include humanitarian dimensions but should equally include elements of empowerment, such as asserting the rights of the victims. Among such rights figure particularly an entitlement to effective remedies for the unjustified harm they have suffered and which was caused by others.

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MI5 can authorise agents to commit crimes, tribunal told

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 15. October 2018 by

MI5 has refused to answer the claimants’ questions about the scope of the policy, including whether it could in principle authorise murder, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, rape, kidnapping or false imprisonment. The security service’s lawyers said to answer such questions of law would reveal the facts of conduct they wish to keep secret.

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Greece: Truth Committee on Public Debt – Preliminary Report

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 13. July 2015 by

All the evidence we present in this report shows that Greece not only does not have the ability to pay this debt, but also should not pay this debt first and foremost because the debt emerging from the Troika’s arrangements is a direct infringement on the fundamental human rights of the residents of Greece. Hence, we came to the conclusion that Greece should not pay this debt because it is illegal, illegitimate, and odious.

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U.S. Treatment of Homeless Persons Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Say UN Experts

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 14. March 2014 by

On Thursday, March 13, the U.N. Human Rights Committee reviewed U.S. compliance with a major human rights treaty, raising concerns of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment for the practice of criminalizing homeless people for performing necessary life functions such as sleeping and eating in public when they have no private alternatives.

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Surveilling UK Muslims ‘cradle to grave’

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 6. March 2014 by

In a report published this month into the UK government’s Prevent counter-terrorism strategy, CAGE warned that Muslim communities were being subjected to “cradle-to-grave” levels of surveillance and discrimination that go beyond the policies used against suspected communist sympathisers in the United States at the height of the Cold War.

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Criminalization of Poverty in Canada

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 14. August 2010 by

Criminalization of Poverty in Canada by OWJN, July 2008 http://www.owjn.org/owjn_2009/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=67    What is Poverty? In Canada, poverty is commonly defined by the low income cut-offs (LICOs) established by Statistics Canada. LICOs represent the poverty line in Canada and “convey the … Read more . . .