Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rightsprovides that everyone has the (qualified) right to freedom of expression, which includes the freedom to receive and impart information. And section 12(4) of the Human Rights Act 1998 requires a court: i) to have regard to the importance ...
I think the Israeli government’s announcement shutting off water, food and fuel to Gaza was an inflection point. It was a crime against humanity that everyone could see, and solidified people’s sympathies for the civilians mistreated by that government’s nasty, right-wing, racist apartheid po...
scheme infringed Article 6(2) of the Convention, which provides that “Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law”. Although the ECtHR noted “the potentially devastating impact of a wrongful conviction” it also held that the UK was...
My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did. —Yoweri Museveni 65 The DRC is neither democratic, nor a republic. It ...
Chen Xu, permanent representative of China to the United Nations Office in Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland, stated that safeguarding human rights for everyone is a shared duty of the global community at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council. ...
And the reason is crystal clear – they oppose that work. They oppose anti-racism. They oppose the rights of Black women and LGBTQ people to better treatment. They are against everyone but a perceived white, male, heteronormative majority that doesn’t even really exist. ...
In the Enlightenment era, through the thinking of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, the idea of human dignity came to mean that individuals should be treated as ends and not simply as means to an end. In other words, humans have dignity to the extent that they are recognized as ...
437] put it, “in theory you have equipotential individuals (that is, everyone can potentially participate in a project), but in practice what one gets is concentrated capital and centralised governance.” The 2015 block-size debate (and subsequent revision to the Bitcoin protocol) revealed the ...
Opt Out requests (called “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” and “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” in California) are available to everyone in the US, regardless of state of residence. You may opt out of the processing, disclosure, sale, and sharing of you...
There is no list that shareholders can access to see everyone who is invested in the company. Many websites will list the biggest shareholders, but that’s it. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a company must provide shareholders with the means to contact other shareho...