Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards
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Description:
* Combating discrimination against indigenous peoples
* Combating discrimination against migrants
* Combating discrimination against minorities
* Combating discrimination against people with disabilities
* Combating discrimination against women
* Combating racial discrimination
* Combating religious discrimination
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-23
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Discrimination: standards and mechanisms, Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-24
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
Description:
''The statement, delivered during an interactive dialogue with the UN International Fact Finding Mission, read as follows:
“The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has monitored justice and human rights in Myanmar for more than five decades. The ICJ has an established presence in the country supporting justice actors to protect human rights through the rule of law.
With this experience, the ICJ views the Independent International Fact Finding Mission’s conclusions as painting an authoritative picture of the general situation in Myanmar, particularly in its highlighting of the pervasive damage of military impunity upon human rights, rule of law and the nascent democratic process.
The rule of law cannot be established, let alone flourish, without accountability for perpetrators of human rights violations and redress for victims and their families.
The Fact Finding Mission’s findings of crimes under international law, including crimes against humanity in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states, and the identification of alleged perpetrators, necessitate immediate action...''
Source/publisher:
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Date of publication:
2018-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups, Human rights issues, UN human rights bodies and mechanisms, Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards, Human Rights Reporting (global, regional and Myanmar)
Language:
English
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Description:
''On 6 September 2018, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber ruled that the Court could exercise jurisdiction over the alleged deportation (as a crime against humanity) of the Rohingyas from Myanmar into Bangladesh, since one element of the crime (crossing a border) took place in Bangladesh, which is a State party to the Rome Statute.
The Chamber noted that the same rationale could apply to other crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court “if it were established that at least an element of another crime … or part of such a crime is committed on the territory of a State Party,” citing persecution and other inhumane acts as possible examples in this case. The crime of genocide was not directly addressed.
The ruling did not address other crimes allegedly committed against the Rohingya, or crimes against other minorities elsewhere within Myanmar, including in Shan and Kachin States.
The proceeding is still at an early, pre-investigation, phase. If at the conclusion of a preliminary examination the Prosecutor assesses that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation, she must first seek authorization from the Pre-Trial Chamber...''
Source/publisher:
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Date of publication:
2018-09-13
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards, Human rights policies of various actors in Burma/Myanmar, Discrimination against the Rohingya, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies)
Language:
English
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"...The Pali Canon has a very strong and unequivocal teaching that mental attachment is extremely
detrimental – a biased view which asserts that people achieve freedom from suffering in any way other
than their conduct is a distorted and perverted view. It is a mental attitude that leads to a very
detrimental rebirth, and to pain and unhappiness in this life. It can be stated then with some certainty
that in the Pali Canon there is a very strong teaching that any form of discourse that proposes a racist
opinion is a wrong view, it will lead to suffering and, indeed, is dukkha itself.
Those holding such opinions will not only suffer in the future but are themselves an expression of
mental turmoil while holding such views. They are immersed in dukkha not metta."
Dr. Paul Fuller
Source/publisher:
Mizzima
Date of publication:
2012-08-17
Date of entry/update:
2012-08-17
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards, Buddhism and society, Buddhist Ethics, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-24
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/54
Source/publisher:
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-23
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination: standards and mechanisms, Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards
Language:
English
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Description:
Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX)
of 21 December 1965 .....
entry into force 4 January 1969, in accordance with Article 19
Source/publisher:
Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-23
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Racial or ethnic discrimination: ethical and legal standards, Discrimination: standards and mechanisms
Language:
English
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