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Kris Gledhill
Opinion - With most Covid-19 restrictions now lifted in England, the world is watching to see what this so-called freedom day will bring.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street for PMQs at the House of Commons.
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Some scepticism is warranted, given Britain s approach throughout the pandemic has hardly been a success. By 19 July there had been 128,985 deaths from Covid-19, and the death rate per million of population of about 1900.
True, there are countries with worse rates, including Hungary, Italy and the Czech Republic in Europe. But countries that have taken a different approach have vastly better figures: for example, 35.8 deaths per million of population in Australia, and 5.39 in New Zealand.
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ECUADOR VIOLATED THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ROBERTO AND WILLAM ISAIAS AND THE UNITED NATIONS ORDERS FULL REPARATION Friday, May 7, 2021 12:49 AM UTC
The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations at its 116th session held from 7 to 31 March 2016 in Communication No. 2244/2013, established a historic precedent for the protection of human rights and due process with the opinion declaring that the State of Ecuador violated the rights of Ecuadorian citizens Roberto Isaías Dassum and William Isaiah Dassum under article 14(1) of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to a process with due guarantees .
The Committee s Decision also determined that under article 2 paragraph 3(a) of the Covenant, the State party has an obligation to provide those affected with an effective remedy and that In compliance with this obligation the State of Ecuador must give full reparation to persons whose rights recognized by the Covenant
OSMAN: The Commission calls upon Government to ensure that all those persons who were recently sentenced to death and are on death row, should have their sentences commuted to life
The Malawi Human Rights Commission(MHRC) has commended the Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda’s led Supreme Court of Malawi for abolishing death sentence in country as right step towards restoring dignity to human rights especially right to life.
On 28th of April, 2021 the Supreme Court ruled that death sentence is unconstitutional and illegal on Khoviwa vs Republic case.
“For the past two sessions of the Universal Periodic Review, the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has recommended to the Malawi Government to consider abolishing the death penalty by signing the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states that every person has the inherent right to life and that the right m