In mid-September, thousands of people marched in Istanbul to demand that the Turkish government legislate to ban what the protestors term LGBTI ‘propaganda’, for example in the arts.
Eighteen months after Myanmar’s military seized control and arrested then-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, alongside other members of the democratically-elected National Unity Government (NUG), the international community grapples with how to treat the country. As things stand, there’s no sign of an end to the junta’s bloody and contentious rule.
The role of the legal profession in implementing the Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (the Méndez Principles), which aim to prevent torture, ill-treatment and resulting miscarriages of justice caused by coercive interrogation techniques and forced confessions, was the focus of a recently held panel discussion in support of the wide adoption of the Principles.
The digital world has made it all too easy for repellent and unedited use of language to offend many people. But regulating at the expense of important rights to express even the most challenging ideas is not necessarily the way forward.
This IBA Human Rights Law Committee podcast series looks at both obvious and overlooked aspects of litigating and documenting torture, in an ‘A-Z’ format.