What are some common human rights violations that international organizations focus on?
International organisations focus on a wide range of human rights violations. Some common issues include:
1. **Torture and Inhumane Treatment**: This includes physical or psychological torture, cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment, often in detention facilities.
2. **Extrajudicial Killings**: Instances where individuals are killed without due process of law, often carried out by state security forces or armed groups.
3. **Enforced Disappearances**: The abduction of individuals by state agents or others, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the fate or whereabouts of the persons.
4. **Freedom of Expression Violations**: Restrictions on the freedom of speech, including censorship, harassment of journalists, and suppression of dissenting voices.
5. **Political Repression**: The targeting of political opponents, activists, and dissidents through intimidation, arbitrary detention, or violence.
6. **Discrimination**: Violations based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or other grounds, which can manifest in various forms including unequal treatment under the law.
7. **Violence Against Women**: Gender-based violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and harmful practices like female genital mutilation.
8. **Child Rights Violations**: Issues such as child labor, child trafficking, recruitment of child soldiers, and denial of access to education and healthcare.
9. **Refugee and Migrant Rights Violations**: Mistreatment of refugees and migrants, including lack of access to asylum, detention under inhumane conditions, and deportation without due process.
10. **Rights of Indigenous Peoples**: Disregard for the rights of indigenous communities, including land rights, cultural rights, and protection from exploitation.
11. **Right to Life and Security**: Violations that threaten the right to life, such as armed conflict, violence, and lack of protection from harm.
12. **Freedom of Assembly and Association**: Restrictions on the rights to peaceful assembly and association, including crackdowns on protests and the dissolution of civil society organisations.
International organisations work to document these violations, advocate for victims, and promote accountability and justice. They also aim to strengthen legal frameworks and support efforts for prevention and redress.
