World Report 2019 by Human Rights Watch

Author:Human Rights Watch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: human rights, justice, political science, social justice, genocide, government, geopolitics, political philosophy, civil rights, comparative politics, injustice, politics, world politics, political books, international politics, war and genocide, civil disobedience, international human rights, civil rights movement, political science books, law, terrorism, sociology, war, journalism, crime, torture, military, education, globalization, immigration, reference, gentrification, social science, security, prison, activism
ISBN: 9781609808853
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2018-01-25T18:00:00+00:00

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

In July, a court convicted an ethnic Kazakh Chinese citizen, Sayragul Sauytbai, a primary school teacher who spoke publicly about China’s abusive “political re-education” camps in Xinjiang, of illegal border crossing, but did not deport her to China. Sauytbai had fled China in early 2018. In October, Kazakhstan denied her asylum.

Key International Actors

In January, President Nursultan Nazarbaev met US President Donald Trump in Washington. Public readouts of the meeting indicate there was no discussion of human rights by either president. In its 2017 annual human rights report, published in April, the US identified arbitrary arrest and detention, and restrictive trade union registration requirements among Kazakhstan’s notable human rights problems.

In December 2017, the European Parliament ratified the EU-Kazakhstan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, signed in December 2015, and called on Kazakhstan to end harassment of journalists, activists, trade union leaders, and human rights defenders, release those unfairly jailed, and revise its Trade Union Law and Labour Code.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a coalition of governments, companies, and nongovernmental groups, granted Kazakhstan “meaningful progress” status in February, missing the opportunity to push for improvements in the restrictive space for civil society.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.