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COVID-19: Human rights monitor

26 April 2020
Issue: 7884 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Profession , Human rights
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A weekly monitor of human rights violations across the globe during the COVID-19 crisis has been launched by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)

The COVID-19 Human Rights Monitor (the Monitor), published online every Wednesday, covers rights risks and violations linked to the pandemic and is designed to be a key resource for legal and human rights professionals. The IBAHRI said it wanted to help ensure measures imposed to contain or prevent the spread of COVID-19 are not used to disguise disproportionate treatment or disregard citizens’ fundamental liberties.

The first edition of the Monitor covers gender-based violence and women’s health, LGBTQI+ rights, prisoners and detainees, refugee camps and asylum procedures. It highlights concerns of reported increases in domestic violence while many jurisdictions are in lockdown mode, and the lack of basic protective measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in many prisons and detention centres.

View the Monitor at: www.ibanet.org/Human_Rights_Institute/Bulletins/1.aspx.

Issue: 7884 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Profession , Human rights
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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