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United Nations special experts have a crucial role in upholding international human rights law. These independent specialists hold mandates to report and advise on different areas within human rights as special rapporteurs, independent experts, or members of working groups. But how exactly do these appointments work, and what are the responsibilities, capabilities, and on-the-ground impacts of these experts? In this episode, we hear from our very own co-host, Professor Claudia Flores, member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls and Professor Fionnuala ni Aolain, former UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism. Professors Flores and ni Aolain describe their work as UN mandate holders and how they address the most pressing issues in their areas of expertise. 

Patients flee Khan Younis hospital ahead of Israeli reinvasion https://trtworld.com/middle-east/live-blog-patients-flee-khan-younis-hospital-ahead-of-israeli-reinvasion-18179007 Medical and technical teams have begun evacuating patients from Gaza's European Hospital in Khan Younis city ahead of a possible Israeli reinvasion. The hospital is located in one of the areas where residents received text ultimatums from Israel to flee again to another location. Medical sources say teams moved several patients and wounded people to Nasser Hospital in central Khan Younis. They also moved some medical devices and equipment out of fear that they would be damaged if the Israeli army raided the hospital. *) Türkiye mediating Somalia-Ethiopia talks over Somaliland port deal https://trtworld.com/turkiye/turkiye-mediating-somalia-ethiopia-talks-over-somaliland-port-deal-18179010 Türkiye has begun mediating talks between Somalia and Ethiopia over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year. Türkiye's Foreign Ministry said that top diplomat Hakan Fidan had hosted both his Ethiopian and Somali counterparts in Ankara on Monday. The three had signed a joint statement following "candid, cordial and forward-looking" talks on their differences, according to the Ministry. *) UN rights group demands immediate release of ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan https://www.trtworld.com/asia/un-rights-group-demands-immediate-release-of-ex-pakistani-pm-imran-khan-18178977 Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan's detention is arbitrary and in violation of international law, a UN human rights working group has said. The Geneva-based UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said that the "appropriate remedy would be to release Mr Khan immediately.” The UN working group said Khan's legal woes were part of a "much larger campaign of repression" against him and his party. *) US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official acts, not private https://www.trtworld.com/us-and-canada/trump-has-immunity-for-official-acts-not-private-us-supreme-court-18178928 The US Supreme Court for the first time has recognised that ex-presidents have immunity from prosecution for certain actions taken in office. The court threw out a judicial decision rejecting Donald Trump's bid to shield himself from criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss. The court ruled 6-3 that while former presidents enjoy immunity for actions they take within their constitutional authority, they do not for actions taken in private capacity. Trump hailed it a "big win" for democracy while US President Joe Biden warned that the ruling sets a "dangerous precedent”. And finally… *) Samsung union says will strike after talks breakdown A union representing tens of thousands of workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has said it will hold a three-day strike after negotiations failed. The move follows a one-day walkout in June, the first such collective action at the company, which went decades without unionisation Management at the company, the world's biggest producer of memory chips, has been locked in negotiations with the union since January. Workers with the union previously outlined demands including improvements to annual leave and transparent performance-based bonuses.

UN experts acknowledged that Canada has effective systems to prevent arbitrary detention but expressed significant concerns regarding Indigenous Peoples, racial discrimination, and other vulnerable groups. Despite efforts, these groups are still detained at high rates. Guest: Priya Gopalan, Vice-Chair on Follow-Up of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for the United Nations Special Procedures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seg 1: Does Russia have a nuclear space weapon? Over the past three months, US officials have issued warnings about a potential Russian plan to deploy a new weapon in space: a satellite carrying a nuclear device. Guest: Joshua Keating, Senior Correspondent of Foreign Policy and World News at Vox and Author of “Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood” Seg 2: View From Victoria: No compassion for businesses on Broadway Premier David Eby is defending the construction delays on the Broadway corridor offering no sympathy for business owners along the route. We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer Seg 3: Is Canada's criminal justice system violating human rights? UN experts acknowledged that Canada has effective systems to prevent arbitrary detention but expressed significant concerns regarding Indigenous Peoples, racial discrimination, and other vulnerable groups. Despite efforts, these groups are still detained at high rates. Guest: Priya Gopalan, Vice-Chair on Follow-Up of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for the United Nations Special Procedures Seg 4: Can studying birds help prevent clear-air turbulence? The sky may seem calm, but air is constantly moving, creating turbulence, which is becoming more common due to climate change. Severe turbulence can cause injuries or death, as seen in a recent Singapore Airlines flight incident. Guest: Emily Shepard, Professor of Bioscience and Expert in Bird Flight and Air Flow at Swansea University in Wales Seg 5: How will Canada's anti-scab legislation impact upcoming strikes? A bill banning federal employers from using replacement workers during lockouts or strikes passed unanimously in the House of Commons with a 316-0 vote. Guest: Bonita Zarrillo, NDP MP for Port Moody Seg 6: Should they launch a public inquiry into Vancouver's wastewater treatment plant? Construction on the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant is resuming, now with a significantly higher cost of $3.86 billion, up from the original $700 million estimate when it began in 2018. Guest: Daniel Fontaine, New West City Councillor Seg 7: Are grocery stores lying about the weight of their products? Jacob MacLellan discovered that a 750-gram bag of No Name brand frozen vegetables he purchased weighed significantly less than advertised, only 434 grams.  Guest: Jacob MacLellan, Frozen Vegetable Whistleblower Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether the infamous Wagner continues to exist or not, the problem they created is only growing. There may be more than 30 Russian paramilitary organizations operating across the world, many of them fighting in Ukraine. At least one has a reputation from brutality and criminal conduct rivaling Wagner's. But what do we call them? They do not fulfil the definition of mercenary in some international conventions, and they are not PMSCs as understood in internationally agreed frameworks or by the UN Working Group on Mercenaries. Holding them accountable under law requires proper definition of what they are and the legal regime to hold them accountable. This problem is the subject of this episode of the Ancient Art of Modern Warfare.   Disclaimer: The information in these podcasts is my own opinion and does not represent that of the Department of Defense or any other organization I am or have previously been affiliated with.   Music: Listzt, F. and the USMC Band, Les Preludes (Public Domain) Traditional, The Army Strings, Garryowen (Public Domain) Kiilstofte, P., Mercenaries, Machinamasound (Licensed) References: Article 47, Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/api-1977/article-47#:~:text=Article%2047%20%2D%20Mercenaries,-1.&text=A%20mercenary%20shall%20not%20have,or%20a%20prisoner%20of%20war

We are back for episode two of our series in commemoration of the United Nations International Day for People of African Descent! Listen in as Ikram, Brenda, and I talk with Dr. Barbara G. Reynolds, Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on the importance of the International Day for People of African Descent, the International Decade for People of African Descent, the role of Member States in promoting the Decade, and addressing racial inequality through an intersectional lens. Ms. Reynolds is the Vice-President for Administration, Advancement and Planning at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago. She served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Guyana from August 2014 to September 2019. Prior to this, Ms Reynolds was Head of Education for Save the Children UK, after having spent the previous two decades with UNICEF in programme, management and representational roles at Headquarters and country offices. Ms. Reynolds began her professional career as a teacher and continues to be involved in education. She Co-Chairs the CARICOM Digital Skills Task Force and is a Member of the Independent Technical Advisor Panel for the Global Partnership for Education. She is an active human rights professional, and an experienced human rights and gender mainstreaming facilitator. She holds a BA Education (Caribbean Union College), MA in Curriculum and Teaching (Howard University), the Post-Graduate Diploma in Distance Education (University of London) EdD in International Education Development/Curriculum and Instruction (Columbia University) and the MSt in International Human Rights Law (University of Oxford). Ms Reynolds' second working language is Portuguese. Mandate of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

We are back for episode two of our series in commemoration of the United Nations International Day for People of African Descent! Listen in as Ikram, Brenda, and I talk with Dr. Barbara G. Reynolds, Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on the importance of the International Day for People of African Descent, the International Decade for People of African Descent, the role of Member States in promoting the Decade, and addressing racial inequality through an intersectional lens. Ms. Reynolds is the Vice-President for Administration, Advancement and Planning at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago. She served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Guyana from August 2014 to September 2019. Prior to this, Ms Reynolds was Head of Education for Save the Children UK, after having spent the previous two decades with UNICEF in programme, management and representational roles at Headquarters and country offices. Ms. Reynolds began her professional career as a teacher and continues to be involved in education. She Co-Chairs the CARICOM Digital Skills Task Force and is a Member of the Independent Technical Advisor Panel for the Global Partnership for Education. She is an active human rights professional, and an experienced human rights and gender mainstreaming facilitator. She holds a BA Education (Caribbean Union College), MA in Curriculum and Teaching (Howard University), the Post-Graduate Diploma in Distance Education (University of London) EdD in International Education Development/Curriculum and Instruction (Columbia University) and the MSt in International Human Rights Law (University of Oxford). Ms Reynolds' second working language is Portuguese. Mandate of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Mercenaries are being used more widely in conflicts despite a UN Convention banning them. From the Russian Wagner Group to the former Blackwater, these organisations have been accused of widespread human rights abuses. So, why are states using them? And who's accountable for their actions?  Join Folly Bah Thibault. Guests:  Sorcha MacLeod - Chair of the UN Working Group on the use of Mercenaries. Samuel Ramani - Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Author of 'Putin's War on Ukraine'.  Marieke De Hoon - Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you voices from a virtual press conference on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the recent amicus brief in the Abu-Jamal Case filed by the UN Working Group on people of African descent. The International Body Observes that Racial Bias has tainted the judicial process up to now citing new evidence of innocence and misconduct by Judges and Prosecutors. Mumia Abu-Jamal's lawyers say evidence in boxes discovered in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office by the new DA at the time, Larry Krasner in 2019 that show his trial was tainted by judicial bias and police and prosecutorial misconduct, including: withholding of evidence, and bribing or coercing witnesses to lie. As of the airing of this show, the plea for a new trial in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal went before Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons on Friday December 16th. Judge Clemons asked the commonwealth if they could confirm that there is no new evidence in the 32 boxes that relate to Brady and Bateson claims. The commonwealth did not confirm. So now Mumia's lawyers will be making arrangements to see those boxes and Judge Clemens said she would issue her ruling in 60-90 days. The press conference held on December 13th included: Moderator Associate Professor Johanna Fernandez who has researched Mumia's case at length and is executive producer of the film Justice on Trial: the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ms. Fernandez is presently Associate Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY; the Honorable Wendell Griffen, state court trial judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Arkansas, Dr. Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, New Delhi, and São Paulo; Julia Wright, founder of the Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Committee and Board of the Richard Wright Civil Rights Center in Elaine, AR., Linn Washington, Jr.-- a Philadelphia-based investigative reporter who has covered the Mumia Abu-Jamal matter since Abu-Jamal's arrest on the morning of Dec. 9, 1981, as well as Mumia's grandson Jamal Jr.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you voices from a virtual press conference on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the recent amicus brief in the Abu-Jamal Case filed by the UN Working Group on people of African descent. The International Body Observes that Racial Bias has tainted the judicial process up to now citing new evidence of innocence and misconduct by Judges and Prosecutors. Mumia Abu-Jamal's lawyers say evidence in boxes discovered in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office by the new DA at the time, Larry Krasner in 2019 that show his trial was tainted by judicial bias and police and prosecutorial misconduct, including: withholding of evidence, and bribing or coercing witnesses to lie. As of the airing of this show, the plea for a new trial in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal went before Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons on Friday December 16th. Judge Clemons asked the commonwealth if they could confirm that there is no new evidence in the 32 boxes that relate to Brady and Bateson claims. The commonwealth did not confirm. So now Mumia's lawyers will be making arrangements to see those boxes and Judge Clemens said she would issue her ruling in 60-90 days. The press conference held on December 13th included: Moderator Associate Professor Johanna Fernandez who has researched Mumia's case at length and is executive producer of the film Justice on Trial: the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ms. Fernandez is presently Associate Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY; the Honorable Wendell Griffen, state court trial judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Arkansas, Dr. Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, New Delhi, and São Paulo; Julia Wright, founder of the Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Committee and Board of the Richard Wright Civil Rights Center in Elaine, AR., Linn Washington, Jr.-- a Philadelphia-based investigative reporter who has covered the Mumia Abu-Jamal matter since Abu-Jamal's arrest on the morning of Dec. 9, 1981, as well as Mumia's grandson Jamal Jr.

UN Guiding Principles for Positive Policy. The host for this show is Joshua Cooper. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Pacific Regional Office and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights host the 3rd Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. They bring together bold participants to discuss the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and enable Protect, Respect & Remedy Pillars to defend communities regarding corporate activities. The two-day summit raises awareness and builds capacity of stakeholders around Business and Human Rights standards in the Pacific. The gathering encourages peer-learning among States, National Human Rights Institutions, businesses, industry associations, international organizations, trade unions, civil society organizations and academics in Oceania, facilitating regional exchange of good practices. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6lBAcTYfWa3JsYGYjCulQFi Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com.

Since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine, many European companies have struggled with the challenges of conducting business in the region responsibly. Frankly Speaking has invited Olena Uvarova, Associate Professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, and Anita Ramasastry, Professor at the University of Washington School of Law and former member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. The two leading experts share insights on the role of business in armed conflict, such as how the exit of international companies posed a threat to Ukrainians. They discuss whether there is any justification for business to stay in Russia and the difference human rights due diligence makes in responding to a global crisis, whether it's a pandemic or an armed conflict. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

In 2018, Kazakhstan arrested a group of men for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam and sentenced them to multiple years in prison on fictitious terrorism and incitement-related charges. Last fall, the UN Working Group issued an opinion that their detention was arbitrary and that they should be released. Although the government of Kazakhstan has released a few individuals related to this case, five men still remain imprisoned.Kazakhstan has regularly engaged with the U.S. government about possible religious freedom reforms, but it continues to severely limit this right through its 2011 religion law. USCIRF recommended in its 2022 Annual Report that the State Department place Kazakhstan on its Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom.Freedom Now's Legal Officer, Adam Lhedmat, and Advocacy Director, Matthew Schaaf join us today to discuss the case of the 5 Sunni Muslims who remain imprisoned for discussing their religious beliefs over WhatsApp.Read USCIRF's 2022 Annual Report Chapter on KazakhstanWith Contributions from:Dwight Bashir, Director of Outreach and Policy, USCIRFAdam Lhedmat, Legal Officer, Freedom NowMatthew Schaaf, Advocacy Director, Freedom NowVeronica McCarthy, Public Affairs Associate, USCIRF

On this week's Lid Is On, Conor Lennon speaks to two experts on racism against people of African Descent, on the insidious nature of everyday racism, the importance of reparations, and why an acceptance that the wealth of developed countries is built on the back of oppressed, Black people, is liberating for people of all races. Dominique Day is a human rights lawyer, and the chairperson of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Verene Shepherd is a social historian, and the chairperson of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). This episode was recorded ahead of International Day for People of African Descent, which is marked on 31 August, with support from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Music: Ketsa, Within the Earth

On this week's Lid Is On, Conor Lennon speaks to two experts on racism against people of African Descent, on the insidious nature of everyday racism, the importance of reparations, and why an acceptance that the wealth of developed countries is built on the back of oppressed, Black people, is liberating for people of all races.Dominique Day is a human rights lawyer, and a member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Verene Shepherd is a social historian, and the chairperson of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).This episode was recorded ahead of International Day for People of African Descent, which is marked on 31 August, with support from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).Music: Ketsa, Within the Earth

On this week's Lid Is On, Conor Lennon speaks to two experts on racism against people of African Descent, on the insidious nature of everyday racism, the importance of reparations, and why an acceptance that the wealth of developed countries is built on the back of oppressed, Black people, is liberating for people of all races. Dominique Day is a human rights lawyer, and a member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Verene Shepherd is a social historian, and the chairperson of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). This episode was recorded ahead of International Day for People of African Descent, which is marked on 31 August, with support from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Music: Ketsa, Within the Earth

There are credible allegations that Russia is using Wagner Group mercenaries, who've been accused of war crimes in the past, alongside its troops in Ukraine. The Wagner Group is a private Russian mercenary force believed to be financed by an oligarch with close ties to President Vladimir Putin. Wagner's symbol is a skull and it's named after Hitler's favourite composer. The Group is often called "Putin's shadow army," though the Kremlin has always denied responsibility for, or even knowledge of, its activities. And there are reports the group is fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. The Chair of the UN Working Group on the use of Mercenaries Sorcha MacLeod told Corin Dann why she's so concerned about the group.

Thursday 7th April 2022 marked the 1 year anniversary of Australian citizen Robert Pether's wrongful imprisonment in Iraq. Robert Pether and his colleague, Khalid Radwan were both detained in Baghdad on 7 April 2021 after they went to Iraq to resolve a business dispute between the Iraqi government and their Dubai-based employer, CME Consulting. CME Consulting is an engineering firm that was hired by the Iraqi government to work on the new headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq. The project was hit by delays and increased costs due to the COVID pandemic and a dispute arose whereby the Iraqi government demanded the return of $12 million USD paid to CME Consulting. As a result of this dispute between the Iraqi government and CME Consulting, both Robert Pether and Khalid Radwan who are employees of the company were arrested and put in prison.The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has stated that their detention is arbitrary and has called for their immediate release. The UN Working Group also stated that their detention is being used to “exercise leverage in a commercial transaction, in violation of international law”. Robert, his wife and 3 children live in Ireland. On this episode, we have the honour of speaking to Robert's 18 year old son, Flynn Pether. Flynn talks to us about what happened, his father's background, the conditions he's being held in, his health issues, unfair trial as well as how the family have been coping with this ongoing trauma. We also discuss what the Australian government, CME Consulting, journalists and the public can do to help free Robert Pether. Follow Pod Hostage Diplomacy on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date with our work.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PodHostageDiplo)

The secretive Wagner Group has a history of violence in Africa. In this episode, we ask why leaders are outsourcing security to an unaccountable army accused of murders, rapes and torture. We look into the crimes they're accused of committing, the governments they're keeping in power and the business deals making it all possible. Aanu Adeoye, an Africa expert at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, tells us about the propaganda machine behind Wagner. Keir Giles, a Russia specialist at Chatham House, explains just how intertwined the group is with the Russian state, and Dr Sorcha MacLeod, chair of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries, explains why the presence of groups like Wagner in unstable countries often makes things worse. Presenter: David Reid Editor: Carmel O'Grady Audio for this episode was updated on 31 March 2022. (Photo: Protesters in Mali's capital, Bamako, waved Russian flags during an anti-France demonstration in May 2021. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Lecture summary: The history of corporate human rights abuses is much older than the history of international human rights law. The activities of colonial corporations are a case in point. However, the relation between the state and corporations has changed significantly over the years. Unlike colonial corporations deriving their powers from the Royal Charters, transnational corporations (TNCs) of today are self-generating powers to take decisions affecting people, political outcomes or the planet. For example, decisions made by Facebook or its Oversight Board could impact not only the human rights of billions of people but also shape election outcomes and international crimes. In some cases, remedial mechanisms established by TNCs require affected rights holders to waive their right to seek remedies through state-based judicial or non-judicial mechanisms. What has, however, not changed much is the largely ineffective response of international law to regulate human rights abuses by TNCs. This lecture will critically examine four of such regulatory approaches: (i) the passive approach of international law regulating TNCs through states, seen again in a treaty currently being negotiated at the Human Rights Council, (ii) the peripheral approach of international criminal law to corporate liability for international crimes as reflected in the Rome Statue, (iii) the privileged approach embraced by international investment law to confer only rights on TNCs, and (iv) the pragmatic approach adopted by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to bypass difficult regulatory challenges. To remain relevant, I will argue that international (human rights) law should recognise the emergence of new sovereigns and reimagine both state-centric and non-state-centric regulatory approaches towards TNCs. Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, and a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. His primary research interests lie in business and human rights, India-China constitutional law and sustainable development. Prof Deva has published extensively in these areas, and has advised various UN bodies, governments, multinational corporations and civil society organisations on matters related to business and human rights. Prior to joining Macquarie University, he taught at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, the National Law Institute University Bhopal and the University of Delhi. Prof Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (CUP), and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, the Indian Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2018-22). Some of Prof Deva’s publications are available on SSRN.

Lecture summary: The history of corporate human rights abuses is much older than the history of international human rights law. The activities of colonial corporations are a case in point. However, the relation between the state and corporations has changed significantly over the years. Unlike colonial corporations deriving their powers from the Royal Charters, transnational corporations (TNCs) of today are self-generating powers to take decisions affecting people, political outcomes or the planet. For example, decisions made by Facebook or its Oversight Board could impact not only the human rights of billions of people but also shape election outcomes and international crimes. In some cases, remedial mechanisms established by TNCs require affected rights holders to waive their right to seek remedies through state-based judicial or non-judicial mechanisms. What has, however, not changed much is the largely ineffective response of international law to regulate human rights abuses by TNCs. This lecture will critically examine four of such regulatory approaches: (i) the passive approach of international law regulating TNCs through states, seen again in a treaty currently being negotiated at the Human Rights Council, (ii) the peripheral approach of international criminal law to corporate liability for international crimes as reflected in the Rome Statue, (iii) the privileged approach embraced by international investment law to confer only rights on TNCs, and (iv) the pragmatic approach adopted by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to bypass difficult regulatory challenges. To remain relevant, I will argue that international (human rights) law should recognise the emergence of new sovereigns and reimagine both state-centric and non-state-centric regulatory approaches towards TNCs. Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, and a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. His primary research interests lie in business and human rights, India-China constitutional law and sustainable development. Prof Deva has published extensively in these areas, and has advised various UN bodies, governments, multinational corporations and civil society organisations on matters related to business and human rights. Prior to joining Macquarie University, he taught at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, the National Law Institute University Bhopal and the University of Delhi. Prof Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (CUP), and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, the Indian Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2018-22). Some of Prof Deva’s publications are available on SSRN.

A Book Celebration & Conversation With Author Erika George Professor of Law Erika George's book considers market-based strategies to bring business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect human rights. It also explores how corporate social responsibility initiatives could close a global governance gap that currently places human rights at risk—and that puts commercial actors in the position of becoming complicit in human rights abuses. George examines corporate codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, shareholder activism, and multi-stakeholder initiatives that could become the building blocks of a set of baseline standards for better business practices. To mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a panel of experts will join George for a conversation on overcoming challenges and promoting change. Panelists will take stock of current and emerging efforts to advance accountability and leverage leadership. PANELISTS: Erika George - Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah's College of Humanities. Her research explores the responsibility of corporations to respect international human rights and various efforts to hold business enterprises accountable for alleged abuses. George is chair of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice and is a member of the Fair Labor Association Board. She is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge University Press Business and Human Rights Journal. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was recently elected to the American Law Institute. Before joining Utah, she was a fellow with Human Rights Watch in New York and practiced commercial litigation with Jenner & Block in Chicago. Philip Alston – Special Rapporteur, Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, UN Human Right Council's Office of the High Commissioner Surya Deva – Professor, City University of Hong Kong – Member, Macquarie Law School – Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Bennett Freeman – Principal, Bennett Freeman Associates LLC Ryan Gellert – Chief Executive Office, Patagonia Works and Patagonia, Inc. Fernanda Hopenhaym – Co-Executive Director, Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER) Moderator: Tony Anghie is professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the National University of Singapore. His research interests include public international law, international economic law, human rights and the history and theory of international law, and he has published in each of these areas. He has served as a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Tokyo, the London School of Economics, the American University of Cairo and Harvard Law School. He has also served as a counselor and as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He is a co-editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Third World Approaches (TWAIL) network of scholars.

In this episode of the PRI's human rights podcast series, the PRI's Bettina Reinboth speaks to Surya Deva, Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and John Morrison, CEO of the Institute of Human Rights and Business, on the impact of the UNGPs during the last decade since they were established, and what we should expect for the next decade.   Find the podcast transcript here: https://bit.ly/3Ihzc8K

Sister Dusty talks about her ministry at the United Nations, representing the perspectives of Dominican Sisters across the U.S. on issues such as homelessness, the rights of women and girls, protection of the Amazon region and the digital divide. The perspectives draw on the experience of Dominicans, who minister on every continent in the world, working with local people directly affected by the issues.    (1:40)  The foundations of peace and justice for Sister Dusty: early family life in Michigan. (6:20) An unexpected call to religious life with the Adrian Dominican Sisters. (10:30) The influence of ministry experiences—in education, formation, vocations, and social work—on Sister Dusty's ideas about peace and justice. (16:15) The spirit of the Dominican Family worldwide: preaching, teaching, and  living the gospel.     (21:30) The Dominican Sisters Conference and its role at the United Nations. (26:00) Helping girls and women globally to speak out about their experiences and needs: the UN Working Group on Girls and UN Women. (33:30) Working with indigenous people to protect the Amazon region (37:00) Assisting UN efforts to bridge the digital divide and to address homelessness (42.30) Finding hope in the midst of serious issues (44:45)  The unique contribution that religious sisters make at the United Nations (47:00) Suggested resources for our listeners: Sister Dusty's newsletter  Dominican Leadership Conference  Subscribe to our newsletter  Check out lots more podcasts  Let us know your thoughts about the podcast! Please take this short survey—your input helps us shape the In Good Faith podcasts! Click HERE to take the survey. Thank you!

Prior episodes described what Quasi-mercenary forces are, what they do, how they get their support, and who controls them. The big question is what – if anything -- we can do about them? I am joined by Dr. Deborah Avant of the University of Denver, Dr. Sorcha McLeod of the UN Working Group on Mercenaries, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gary Motsek

Hello Interactors,This has been an eventful week, but also a week of more extreme heat and smoke. Just when climatologists warned of the certainty of more extreme weather patterns. I’m ready for fall and we’re barely halfway through summer. My plants are struggling too. Does anybody out there know how we’re going to adapt?As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…THE RIGHT TURNS LEFT FOR RIGHTSMonday of this week, August 9th, was International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Did you know that? What about Tuesday, August 10th. That was the anniversary of the Pueblo Revolt in what we now call New Mexico. In 1680, the Pueblo people forced 2000 Spanish colonial settlers off their land. Given this was the first example of American people rejecting European rule, some consider this to be America’s first Revolutionary War – nearly 100 years before the more popular version. Oh, and on Wednesday, August 11th my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. But even fewer people know about that historical date.The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was created by the United Nations in 1994. The date honors August 9th, 1982; the first day of meetings for the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations. This group’s mandate was to: Promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous peoples;Give attention to the evolution of international standards concerning Indigenous rights.August 9th celebrates the achievements and contributions Indigenous people have made, and continue to make, to governance, stewardship of the environment, and knowledge systems aimed at improving many of the challenges our world’s environment’s face today.Indigenous people make up 5% of the world’s population and use one quarter of its habitable surface. But, they protect in reciprocity 80% of the world’s biodiversity. The UN defines Indigenous People as: “Inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment.”The United Nations’ recognition of the sovereign rights of Indigenous people stems from the International Indian Treaty Council which grew out of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s and 70s. The United Nations recognized the rights of Indigenous people before the United States did. In fact, when the United Nations put the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to vote in 2007, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia voted against the declaration. They have since reversed this vote, but the American Indian Movement had long recognized the United States was in violation of treaties signed over the last 300 years. So acting as sovereign nations – that happen to reside within a larger, dominant, and controlling nation – they turned to the United Nations for recognition. Much of the legally binding language used in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples comes from the legal language written into the original treaties by the United States. Which is why the conservative originalist from the West, Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorsuch, sided with liberals last year in a landmark ruling over McGirt v. Oklahoma. The Supreme Court determined that much of that state was legally ceded to Indigenous people by the United States Federal government two centuries ago and it was high time the country obeyed their own laws. The year prior, Gorsuch did the same in the state of Wyoming. Oddly, the recently deceased Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a darling of the left, has a mixed record voting in favor of Indigenous people. A 2021 article from Cornell University states,“During Justice Ginsburg’s first 15 years on the court, 38 Indian law cases were argued. The rights of Indigenous nations prevailed in only seven of those cases. Indigenous nations lost in eight of nine Indian law cases for which she wrote the court’s decision.” After the Oklahoma ruling, John Echohawk from the Native American Rights Fund – an organization that has spent 50 years fighting for Indigenous rights – was quoted as saying, “This [case] brings these issues into public consciousness a little bit more…That’s one of the biggest problems we have, is that most people don’t know very much about us.” It seems Ruth Bader Ginsberg was one of those people. John Echohawk is following in the footsteps of those who kicked off the American Indian Movement back in 1968, drawing attention to Indigenous rights. Their focus was on the systematic poverty and police brutality toward Urban Indian’s who had been forced off of their land and into cities for generations. This Indigenous grassroots movement rose out of the city that was recently put the international map for its display of obvious police brutality – Minneapolis, Minnesota.GRANDMA KILLS A CHICKENI was not yet three years old when the American Indian Movement was born. I grew up about 250 miles due south of Minneapolis, in Norwalk, Iowa. It’s a suburb of Des Moines surrounded by farmland – much of which is being converted to housing developments. We didn’t live on a farm, but we always had a garden. I wasn’t that keen on gardening as a kid, but I wasn’t shy about eating the beans, corn, and potatoes that Iowa’s rich soil and climate yielded. My Mom’s surefire way to get me motivated to weed the garden or pick beans was to say, “Ok, you’re going to want to eat these beans once their picked, so maybe you should be the one picking them.”My parents learned to garden from their parents. My Grandma on my Mom’s side always had a big garden. It ran the width of her backyard and was flanked by a dirt alley on one side and a shed on the other. Off to the side of the yard was a rusty barrel I remember being as tall as me. That’s where we’d burn her garbage; now that was a job I enjoyed. I’d haul a bag full of stuff to the barrel, step up on a log nestled next to it, dump in the combustible waste, and drop a fiery wooden match on top of it. Poof. Those trips to the barrel also included carrying a bucket of kitchen scraps into the garden. We’d dig a hole with a shovel, dump the smelly scraps into the hole, and cover it up. Direct injection composting. My grandparents also kept chickens in the backyard. Our trips to grandma’s house on Sundays usually included a fresh chicken from her yard and vegetables from her garden. She’d walk out back, chase down a chicken, wring its neck, chop its head off, and get to pluckin’. Occasionally, my uncle Bud would show up with a pheasant or two (or three) strung out in his trunk, shot with his shotgun on his way to grandma’s house. I was always careful to avoid eating the lead shot dotting the glistening meat like embedded peppercorns. In the summer, dinner ended with a bowl of fresh berries and cream from a cow just down the road. But most of the time, it was pie. My grandma made a pie – using lard for the crust – almost everyday until the day she died. My grandparents on my Dad’s side had a garden and a few apple trees too. My Dad was born in the depression into a family with 11 siblings in the same town my Mom was born. He and his brothers and sisters lived off of the eggs from the chickens they kept. In the dead of winter, they’d hunt squirrels and hang them from the clothesline in the backyard where they’d freeze stiff; more protein to feed hungry mouths during Iowa’s harsh winters. My grandma Weed made a loaf of bread everyday to feed all those hungry tummies.I am one generation removed from that lifestyle and I’m having trouble keeping a single pepper plant alive. My parents were not farmers, and we did not hunt, but they had learned how to grow and hunt enough food to keep a family alive. Sure their childhood tables were also augmented with store-bought foods, but there was a concerted effort to grow, eat, can, and store as much food as possible. That desire and knowledge seems to get lost with every generation. Many of the techniques my parents and grandparents used to grow food was taught to them by their European ancestry – knowledge that was passed down from generation to generation. Settlers settling farms and homesteads across America brought with them agricultural methods taught to them in their European homeland. One such convention are rows of segregated crops; a row of beans, a row of squash, and a row of corn, for example. But that’s not how those crops were being grown by people they found here already farming this land.THREE SISTERS SHAREColonial settlers were clueless as to what to do with corn when they first arrived. The locals did teach them to farm corn, a plant first domesticated 10,000 years ago by the Indigenous people in what we now call Mexico. But, in return, some puritanical settlers thought they could show these folks a thing or two about farming. Dismayed by the untidiness made from the climbing clumps of squash at the base of corn stalks gently strangled by spiraling bean vines, the settlers went about mansplaining how to properly plant plants in neat tidy rows – one for corn, one for beans, and one for squash.But it turns out planting each of these crops to grow alone yields fewer ears of corn, beans, and squash. What the native farmers had learned over those 10,000 years is that when you plant these three plants next to one another, they uniquely help each other above and below ground to grow and prosper. Native people call this method of planting The Three Sisters and it was often planted in waffle-like gardens that create gridded microclimates.The first sister born is corn. It peaks its head out of the soil in the spring and shoots up straight like a pole. With enough growth to stand on its own, sister bean is born. Bean vines quickly start swirling in circles in search of something to cling on to – like a blindfolded kid playing pin the tail on the donkey. It latches onto the knees of it’s older sister, corn, and they grow toward the sun together. Then comes baby sister squash, crawling along the ground eager to choose its own path in the shadows of its older siblings. The baby sister, with its broad abundant leaves, helps shade the soil trapping water destined for the three sister’s roots in its water retaining waffle divot. It also keeps sun from tempting pesky weeds from popping up. All three sisters need nitrogen to grow, but lack the ability to siphon it from the air – despite the fact our atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen gas. What these Indigenous people learned over centuries of ecological observation and experimentation is that beans are the secret to providing the missing nitrogen. And Western science has proved it by providing the tools necessary to observe and understand the microscopic biological mechanisms that allow this genesis to unfold. Indigenous people knew it to be true, and Western science allowed it to be seen and described in consistent, repeatable, mathematical, and physical terms that transcend languages, cultures, and geographical boundaries.What we now know is that nitrogen comes from a fastidious underground bacteria called Rhizobium. It loves to make nitrogen, but only under special conditions. For starters, it needs to be free of oxygen. Given soil is filled with oxygen, it needs to find a suitable host willing to provide an oxygen free environment. As sister bean sends her many roots in all directions it invariably encounters the lingering Rhizobium nodules. Through microscopic chemical communications, the two strike a deal. In exchange for the much needed nitrogen, the bean root provides an oxygen-free nitrogen manufacturing facility for the bacteria; the benefactors of this underground nitrogen source are not only the beans, but her sisters, corn and squash, as well.I learned all this from Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Potawatomi tribal member as well as the Distinguished Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York. She sums up this symphony of familial biological reciprocity in her landmark book, Braiding Sweetgrass, with a lesson for us all – not just plants. A lesson taught and practiced by Indigenous people for generations. She writes,“The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others. Being among the sisters provides a visible manifestation of what a community can become when its members understand and share their gifts. In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies.”There was one more big event this week from another UN organization called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is a team of climate researchers from around the world and they came out this week to report what they’ve been saying all along about climate change, but this time with an unequivocal warning. The extreme weather events we’re experiencing is indisputably caused by humans. Oh, that’s us. Past reports have used words like may and could but scientists have tossed away their gloves and came out swinging this week. We’re in trouble and it may not be reversible.Three years ago I ripped out my lawn and planted drought tolerant succulents. Well, the raccoons had the idea first I just went along with it. When the Northwest had its hottest June on record, the sun sucked the life out of plants that are naturally equipped to withstand prolonged heat. Some of the leaves didn’t just shrivel, they nearly evaporated. My backdoor neighbor’s peppers looked like they had roasted on the vine. On Wednesday night I was talking to a restoration ecologist who works for the City of Kirkland. He organizes teams of volunteers across the city to help eradicate invasive species and plant natives in their place. When I asked him about one park filled with tall lush cedars and firs along Interstate 405 that also features a mining pit at one end where the state dug for gravel to build the freeway, he talked of the struggles getting plants to grow on this compromised soil. He went on to explain how they’ve decided to pick a species that can handle not only the rocky soil, but also the increasing temperatures in Western Washington. So they’re trying a tree more commonly found on the more arid side of Washington state, the ponderosa pine. One of the big takeaways in listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book is that while we humans have a way of beating ourselves up over the damage we’ve caused the environment, we also have the capacity (and the obligation) to help heal it. When we care for the earth, it cares for us in return in a symbiotic act of reciprocity. Indigenous people figured this out eons ago and the hubris of “Enlightened” European colonial settlers regarded their ways as “savage”. I’m not advocating for some romantic pastoral nirvana where we all trade our homes for huts, tend to our own chickens, and live off the land. But I do believe we live among millions of people who possess ancestral knowledge that, when paired with modern science and technology, could yield a more fruitful outcome. Many cultures living together on the same soil exchanging nutrients and knowledge in an act of reciprocity that benefits us all as individuals and as a global community faced with few alternatives for survival. Subscribe at interplace.io

In the tenth episode of our Inuktitut podcast series, we celebrate the anniversary of this podcast, launched a year ago. Our guest is ICC Greenland President Hjalmar Dahl. The discussion is in Kalaallisut, and our host is Inga Hansen.It is also great to drop this podcast today on August 9th, 2021 as it is the United Nations International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. This year's theme is “Leaving No One Behind: Indigenous Peoples and the Call for a New Social Contract”. In the podcast Hjalmar Dahl discusses the most important achievements internationally such as obtaining UN accreditation for ICC in 1983, the 25 years of work to get the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted in 2007. He also covers the creation of the Permanent Forum and UN Working Group on Indigenous Peoples the UN's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), and the establishment of the Arctic Council.We are grateful to the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding support in this special series of Inuktitut language podcasts.For more info, check out our website at inuitcircumpolar.com or find us on Facebook and Twitter.ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑦᑐᓂᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᓂᐱᓕᐅᕆᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑦ ᐹᑦᑳᔅᑯᑦ – Hᐊᔭᓪᒪᕐ ᑕᓪ– ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᑦᖁᓕᐊᓐᓂ ᓴᖅᑭᖅᑕᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᑦᑎᑑᖓᔪᓂᒃ, ᖁᕕᐊᑉᐳᒍᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᐅᙱᑦᑐᒥᑦ ᓴᖅᑮᒐᑦᑕ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒦᖑᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᑲᓛᖡᑦ ᓄᓈᓂ ᐊᖏᔪᖅᑳᖓᓐᓂ ᕼᐊᔭᓪᒪᕐ ᒪᓪ. ᐅᓂᒃᑳᕆᔭᐅᔪᑦ ᑲᓛᖡᓱᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᖓ ᕼᐊᓐᓴᓐ ᐅᖃᖅᑎᐅᓪᓗᓂ.ᐅᓪᓗᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᖅ ᐋᒡᒌᔅᓯ 9, 2021−ᒥ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᕆᒻᒪᒍ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᑐᒥᓂᕐᓄᑦ. ᑕᕝᕙᓂ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᑦᑎᓐᓂ ᑕᑯᔅᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᒐᑦᑕ “ᕿᒪᐃᙱᑦᑎᐊᕐᓗᑕ: ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᑐᒥᓂᕐᓂᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓄᑖᕐᓂᑦ ᓴᖅᑮᖁᔨᓪᓗᑕ ᑳᓐᑐᓛᖑᒐᔭᖅᑐᓄᑦ”. ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖅᑐᑦ ᕼᐊᔭᓪᒪᕐ ᑕᓪ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᒃ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᑲᔪᓯᓯᒪᔭᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᓲᕐᓗ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᐸᐃᑉᐹᖅᑖᖅᑎᑦᑎᓯᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒦᖑᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ 1983−ᒥ, ᐅᑭᐅᓄᑦ 25−ᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᓯᒪᓕᖅᑐᑦ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᑉ ᑲᑐᔾᖃᔨᑎᒌᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᓪᓗᑎᑦ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᐅᑎᖏᑦ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᑖᖅᑐᒥᓂᕐᓂᑦ ᑎᒍᔭᐅᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᑎᑦ 2007−ᒥ. ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᕐᒥᔪᖅ ᑎᒥᐅᔪᒥᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᑦ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᐸᕐᓇᑦᑎᖏᑦ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᑐᒥᓂᕐᓂᑦ ᐱᔨᕆᔨᒻᒪᕆᖏᓐᓂᓪᓗ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᐅᑎᖏᑦᑕ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᑐᒥᓃᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓴᖅᑭᖅᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᓯᒪᓂᖓᓐᓂ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᓐᓂ.ᖁᔭᒋᔭᕗᑦ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᖃᖅᑎᑦᓯᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᑖᒃᑯᓄᖓ ᑕᑯᑦᓴᐅᖃᑦᑕᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑑᖅᓱᑎᒃ ᖃᕆᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᓂᑦᑕᒍᓐᓇᖅᑐᑎᒍᑦ.ᑐᑭᓯᒋᐊᒃᑲᓐᓂᕈᒪᓐᓂᕈᕕᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᓕᒫᒥ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᕐᔪᐊᖏᑕ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᒥᒃᓵᓐᓄᑦ, ᑕᑯᒋᐊᕐᓗᒍ ᐃᑭᐊᖅᑭᕕᕗ ᖃᕆᑕᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᐅᕗᖓ www.inuitcircumpolar.com ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᓇᓂᑎᒍᑦ ᕙᐃᓯᐳᒃᑯᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑐᕕᑐᒃᑯᑦ.Ajjigiinngittunit Inuktitut Nipiliurijausimajut Unikkaat Paatkaaskut – Hajalmar Tal – Silarjuami Katujjiqatigiit KatimajingitQulianni saqqiqtaujunik inuttituungajunik, quviappugut ajjiunngittumit Saqqiigatta Inuit Ukiuqtaqtumiinguqatigiit Kanatami Kalaałiit Nunaani Angijuqqaanganni ᕼajalmar Mal. Unikkaarijaujut Kalaałiisut, ammalu Inga ᕼansan uqaqtiulluni.Ullumi uqausiujuq Aaggiissi 9, 2021−mi Silarjuami Katujjiqatigiit Ullurimmagu ammalu Silarjuami Nunaqaqqaaqtuminirnut. Tavvani arraaguttinni takussautittigatta “Qimainngittiarluta: Nunaqaqqaaqtuminirnit ammalu Nutaarnit Saqqiiqujilluta Kaantulaangugajaqtunut”.Unikkaaqtut ᕼajalmar Tal uqausilik pimmariuninginni kajusisimajaujunik silarjuami suurlu Silarjuami Katujjiqatigiit paippaaqtaaqtittisimaninginni Inuit Ukiuqtaqtumiinguqatigiit Kanatami 1983−mi, ukiunut 25−nut pilirisimaliqtut Silarjuap Katujqajitigiinginnut Nalunaiqtausimallutit Pijunnautingit Nunaqaqqaataaqtuminirnit Tigujaulauqsimallutit 2007−mi. Uqausiqarmijuq Timiujumit ammalu Katujjiqatigiit Silarjuami Parnattingit Nunaqaqqaaqtuminirnit Pijirijimmaringinnillu Pijunnautingitta Nunaqaqqaaqtuminiit, ammalu saqqiqtaulauqsimaninganni ukiuqtaqtumi katimajinginni.Qujagijavut iliqqusilirijikkut Kanatami kiinaujaqaqtitsininginnut taakkununga ajjigiinngittunit Inuktitut uqausilirijunik nipiliurijausimajunit unikkaat Paatkaaskut. Tukisigiakkannirumanniruvit Inuit Ukiuqtaqtumiutauqatigiit Katimajingit Kanatami miksaanut, takugiarlugu ikiaqqivivu qarisaujakkut uvunga www.inuitcircumpolar.com uvvaluunniit nanijaujunnaqtugut qarisaujakkut pulautitigut Vaispukkut, qarasaujakkullu pulautitigut Tuitukkut.

Every year on August 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples marks the ‘first formal meeting' of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, held back in 1982. It is celebrated to bring attention to the 476 million Indigenous Peoples living in 90 countries across the globe. This year's theme is `Leaving no one Behind: Indigenous Peoples and the call for a social contract.” The term social contract in relation to Indigenous Peoples may be confusing as this has not yet been discussed much. In this radio program, Radio Program Producer, Dev Kumar Sunuwar explores what a new social contract means for Indigenous Peoples. Producer : Dev Kumar Sunuwar Interviewees: • Gam A. Shimray, Secretary General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) • Binota Moy Dhamai, Vice-Chair, Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) • Phoolman Chaudhary, Member, UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Music: Remember Your Children by Salidummay, Used by Permission Image: Indigenous Peoples Ceremony

Gender discrimination and intersecting structures of marginalisation mean women and girls experience unique and disproportionate business-related human rights abuses. Recent work on the UNGPs acknowledges the structural gender barriers at play, but much still needs to be done by governments and businesses to translate policies into practices that protect and advance the rights of women and girls. How do business operations both perpetuate and exacerbate gender discrimination? Has the UNGP framework been a useful tool for gender justice - and what opportunities and challenges lie ahead? Your panel for this episode includes: Golda Benjamin, Programme Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Anannya Bhattacharjee, International Coordinator, Asia Floor Wage Alliance Professor Surya Deva, Vice Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Kayla Winarsky Green, Human Rights and Business Adviser, Danish Institute for Human Rights

On the 30th April, a petition was filed by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo Bay internee, against the US, Afghanistan, UK, Poland, Lithuania and Morrocco before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The petition pleads that Abu Zubaydah be released, after 19 years of detention without charge or trial. Human Rights Watch have recently released a report examining the reality of aPARtheid in Palestinian areas where Israeli authorities exercise control. The report investigates whether the threshold of the criteria of apartheid which is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute is met in the case of Israel and Palestine. The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the UN Commission on International Trade Law have published a second version of their Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in International Investment Disputes. This updated version provides guidelines related to impartiality, integrity, and fairness during proceedings. Comments on the drafts are welcomed by ICSID and UNCITRAL. The Cambridge International Law Journal is calling for submissions for Volume 10 Issue 2 on the theme: National Sovereignty and International Cooperation: The Challenges of Navigating Global Crisees'. Articles for Volume 10 Issue 2 must be submitted before 14 May 2021. Submission criteria can be found on the CILJ website.

Elizabeth Broderick AO, Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, the longest serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007-2015) in Australia as well as former partner and board member at Ashurst, reflects on her exceptional career and her decision to move from Law to focus on gender equality.In this special episode, released on International Women’s Day 2021, Paul Jenkins, Global Managing Partner at Ashurst, speaks to Elizabeth about her time at Ashurst, founding the Champions of Change Coalition, her work with the UN and what drives her to continue to work for change and her unwavering commitment to gender equality globally. Discover more from ESG Matters @ Ashurst by visiting ashurst.com/podcasts The information provided is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in the law and practice, or to cover all aspects of those referred to. Listeners should take legal advice before applying it to specific issues or transactions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the recent storming of the Capitol building to his decision to pardon convicted war criminals, Donald Trump's final few weeks in office have been shrouded in controversy. On this episode of The Newsmakers we look at some of the president's more questionable acts of clemency, including the pardoning of four security guards who were found guilty of manslaughter after the Nisour Square massacre in 2007, where more than dozen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed. It took years for the families to get justice, but now the once convicted war criminals are free and they're not the only ones to get a second chance. Several Trump loyalists, many linked to his infamous impeachment saga have also been granted clemency, including Paul Manfort and Roger Stone. So what exactly is Donald Trump basing his pardons on? Guests Kurt Schlichter Lawyer and Retired US Army Colonel Jelena Aparac Chair of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries Robert Gutsche Jr US Politics Expert and Media Lecturer at Lancaster University Subscribe: http://trt.world/TheNewsmakers Livestream: http://trt.world/ytlive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNewsMakersOnTRTWorld Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_Newsmakers Instagram: http://trt.world/instagram Visit our website: http://trt.world

In this episode of the Promise Institute Podcast, Assistant Director Jess Peake interviews Dr. Sorcha MacLeod about the human rights implications of the increased use of private security in the context of Covid-19 and the need for more regulation.Dr. Sorcha MacLeod is an Associate Professor and Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, in the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI).  She is an internationally recognised expert on business, human rights, and security, in particular the regulation and human rights impacts of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC).  In 2018, Dr MacLeod was appointed as an independent human rights expert to the UN Working Group on the use of Mercenaries established under the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures.  She is also an invited expert to the UN Open-ended Inter-governmental Working Group on PMSCs and participated in the drafting of the Montreux Document on Private Military and Security Companies and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. She has Observer Status at the International Code of Conduct Association and advises governments, Civil Society Organizations and industry on human rights.

Anita Ramasastry, Professor of Law at the University of Washington and a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, discusses the importance of company engagement with stakeholders to better understand human rights impacts.

The emergence of Quasi-Mercenary Organizations challenges the concept of State monopoly of violence and the legitimacy of PMCS. Governments and other stakeholders need to work together to meet this threat. Originally intended for presentation to the UN Working Group on Mercenaries.

In this episode of RightsCast, Dr Carla Ferstman is joined in conversation by Richard Ratcliffe, who has been campaigning tirelessly since 2016 for the release of his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from prison in Iran. This discussion was held in advance of a performance of Nazanin’s Story, a play which continually evolves as her case develops. Dr Carla Ferstman is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Essex. She has worked with Richard since Nazanin was arrested, and recently worked with a team of students at the Human Rights Centre Clinic to prepare a report on behalf of family members of dual and foreign nationals detained in Iran, as part of Iran's upcoming Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and countless other UN bodies have called for Nazanin’s immediate release. In March 2019, the UK Government formally agreed to grant Nazanin's claim of diplomatic protection, meaning that the Government recognised that the breach of Nazanin's rights constituted a breach of its own rights, paving the way for it to escalate efforts to secure Nazanin's release. Sadly, she is still detained. The joint submission concerning arbitrarily detained foreign and dual Iranian nationals is available online here: http://en.cshr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/04/CHSR-IHRDC-UPR-submission-detention-of-foreign-and-dual-nationals.pdf

With the rise in ethical consumerism, File on 4 explores the hidden suffering of tea workers in Africa. Attacked because of their tribal identity, reporter Anna Cavell hears harrowing stories of murder, rape and violence and asks whether their employers, Unilever, could or should have done more to protect them from the violence. Update 30 July 2019: The Supreme Court has now refused the tea pluckers leave to appeal against earlier judicial decisions which didn’t go in their favour. This was the last legal avenue open to them in England. Lawyers acting for the workers say they now plan to discuss the case with the UN Working Group for Business and Human Rights. Producer: Nicola Dowling Reporter: Anna Cavell Editors: Gail Champion & Andrew Smith Photo credit:; carefullychosenGetty Images

Slow News tells the story of Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy, the founder of the Association of the Families of the Disappeared in Egypt. He also disappeared September 10, 2017, at Cairo International Airport. He was on his way to address the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearance, but he never boarded the flight. Authors: Alicia Medina and Ramon Royandoyan, www.planetmundus.com

In unserer heutigen Folge von GASPacho Podcast, wollen wir uns mit zwei Themen auseinandersetzen, die beide in ihrer Bedeutung häufigst unterschätzt bzw. hinsichtlich ihrer Tragweite verkannt werden - Die Diplomatie von Klein- und Mittelmächten im VN-Verbund und andererseits der Verantwortung des UN-Sicherheitsrates für den Kampf gegen Massenverbrechen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Kontroverse um die Ausübung des Vetorecht der P5. Beispielhaft am Thema des durch das Fürstentum Liechtenstein vor den Vereinten Nationen vorgestellten "Code of Conduct" für den UN-Sicherheitsrat, der die Handlungsfähigkeit des Sicherheitsrates bei Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit gewährleisten soll, wollen wir mit unserem heutigen Gast - Herrn Botschafter Christian Wenaweser - die Funktionsweise dieses diplomatischen Verhaltenskodexes, sowie die Ziel- und Rahmenbedingungen der Diplomatie von Kleinstaaten in der Weltpolitik erörtern. Unser heutiger Gast: Christian Wenaweser ist seit nunmehr 15 Jahren Botschafter und ständiger Vertreter des Fürstentum Liechtensteins bei den Vereinten Nationen in New York. In seiner Tätigkeit als Diplomat führte er beispielsweise zwischen 2008-2011 den Vorsitz der Versammlung der Vertragsstaaten des International Criminal Court, sowie für mehrere Jahre den Vorsitz der UN Working Group on the Crime of Aggression, wirkte federführend an der Formulierung des genannten Code of Conduct mit, und kann so zweifellos als einer der erfahrensten Experten auf diesem Felde genannt werden. In diesem Sinne freuen wir uns, dass Herr Botschafter Wenaweser sich kürzlich Zeit für dieses Interview mit uns genommen hat und wünschen euch noch eine interessante und spannende Folge.

Please join us for a discussion with Nani Jansen Reventlow, Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, on the topic of regional courts in Africa and freedom of expression cases in particular. As the head of the Media Legal Defence Initiative’s global litigation practice, Reventlow led litigation that resulted in the first freedom of expression judgments at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the East African Court of Justice. She has also led cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and several African regional courts. For more about this event, visit: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2016/11/Jansen%20Reventlow

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Professor Surya Deva, of the City University of Hong Kong, on his recent appointment to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Working Group's current plans for improving access to remedy.

The head of an Egyptian journalists union and two board members have in recent weeks been given suspended two year jail sentences and fined for harbouring fugitives. The charges against Yehia Kalash, president of the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate, Gamal Abdel Rahim and Khaled Elbalshy stem from a police raid on the union’s building in May. Two journalists, wanted by police over protests against the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, had taken refuge at the building. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said the charges against members of the Journalists’ Syndicate was not an issue of freedom of speech. However, press freedom advocates such as the Committee to Protect Journalists have said the journalists union is being punished for working to protect journalists from harassment, threats and arrests. Meanwhile, a number of journalists continue to be held behind bars in Egypt often without charge. One such case is photographer Mahmoud Abu Zeid ‘Shawkan’ who has spent more than 1,000 days in jail following his arrest during the Rabaa protests in 2013. This week’s African Media speaks to an expert on Egyptian media to discuss the significance of the charges against members of the journalists union and a lawyer who is representing Shawkan in Geneva, petitioning to have his case recognised by the UN. Fatima el-Issawi, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, on targeting of Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate "This is unprecedented in the history of Egyptian media, but it’s part of a wider crackdown on civil liberties, civil society groups, lawyers and human rights groups. Definitely the crackdown on journalists is stronger than on other groups, it’s unprecedented. What we used to see under [former President Hosni] Mubarak was form of co-optation, intimidation, but we had a much higher margin of manoeuvre for expressing dissent in media. Since the military coup most of the media are singing the song of the military regime with only very few media and very few journalists who are trying to send a critical message about what's going on now in Egypt. They have to face retaliation - some of them are forbidden from traveling, some of them have seen assets in banks frozen - so it’s really a very fierce attack on journalists." Toby Cadman, international human rights lawyer, on case of detained photojournalist Shawkan "He has been brought before a judge, on the last occasion he was actually allowed to address the judge for the first time. My role has been working in highlight his situation with the United Nations. The UN in Geneva has a number of special rapporteurs and working groups that deal with particular instances of human rights violations. We filed a communication earlier this year with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Egypt declined to respond and the UN working group recently, in the last couple of weeks, issued a ruling upholding our complaint saying that he should be released, he should be offered compensation. The matter has also been referred to the Special Rapporteur on torture because of his deteriorating health situation and the refusal to provide him with adequate medical care or to release him from custody constitutes inhuman, degrading treatment and may constitute torture."

In this month's podcast, we speak to Andrea Carmen of the International Indian Treaty Council and Tupac Enrique Acosta of TONATIERRA about Indigenous Rights, the Doctrine of Discovery, The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, official visit to the Unites States, and the 11th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. We start with a report from the protest of Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina. Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Indian Nation, has been a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council since 1983 and IITC’s Executive Director since 1992. Andrea has had many years of experience working with Indigenous communities from North, Central, South America and the Pacific. International Indian Treaty Council www.treatycouncil.org. Tupac Enrique Acosta is a Judge of the First Nations International Court of Justice, Tupac is a founding member of the community-based organization of Indigenous Peoples TONATIERRA in Phoenix, Arizona. A long time researcher and activist in the field of indigenous international law, he has served as representative of Izkalotlan Pueblo to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva, Switzerland and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. As Yaotachcauh of Tlahtokan Nahuacalli, he serves as custodian and ambassador of the Nahuacalli, Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples in Phoenix, Arizona. As international observer, he has traveled to areas of armed conflict in Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Canada and across the US to monitor and report on the violations of civil, human and territorial rights of the Indigenous Peoples in their ongoing struggles against colonialism. TONATIERRA http://tonatierra.org/

This podcast highlights the work of two organizations as we speak with Tupac Enrique Acosta about TONATIERRA in Phoenix, Arizona and Chris Crass about the Catalyst Project in San Francisco, California. TONATIERRA is continuing the fight against racial profiling and the denial of the right to education for Chicano/Mexicano and Indigenous peoples in Arizona. Tupace Enrique speaks about some of the recent education and campaign initiatives of the organization to resist these human rights violations. For more information on TONATIERRA visit http://cdb-tonatierra.blogspot.com/. The Catalyst Project just released an anti-racist educational manual called "Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit: Anti-Racst Organizing to build the 99% Movement". Catalyst Project co-founder, Chris Crass, speakes about the toolkit and the potentiality of the Occupy or 99% movement. For more information on the Toolkit visit http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2012/02/anti-racist-organizing-to-build-the-99-movement/. Tupac Enrique Acosta is a Judge of the First Nations International Court of Justice, Tupac is a founding member of the community-based organization of Indigenous Peoples TONATIERRA in Phoenix, Arizona. A long time researcher and activist in the field of indigenous international law, he has served as representative of Izkalotlan Pueblo to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva, Switzerland and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. As Yaotachcauh of Tlahtokan Nahuacalli, he serves as custodian and ambassador of the Nahuacalli, Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples in Phoenix, Arizona. As international observer, he has traveled to areas of armed conflict in Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Canada and across the US to monitor and report on the violations of civil, human and territorial rights of the Indigenous Peoples in their ongoing struggles against colonialism. Chris Crass is a longtime organizer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. Throughout the 1990s he was an organizer with Food Not Bombs, an economic justice anti-poverty group, strengthening the direct action-based anti-capitalist Left. As part of the global justice movement, he helped start the Catalyst Project in 2000, and was part of the leadership collective for eleven years. He is now a stay at home Dad, involved in the Occupy movement, and working on his book “Towards Collective Liberation: anti-racist organizing, feminist praxis, and movement building strategy”. He lives in Knoxville, TN with his partner and their son, River.