by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 16, 2020 | Know Your Rights, Latest
More than half of the world’s refugees are children. An estimated 150+ million children are exploited as child labourers globally – that’s one in ten children. Millions of children are trafficked every year, exploited for sex, labour, or forced into marriages....
by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 9, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The freedom from slavery is one of our absolute human rights that cannot be restricted, yet the practice of modern-day slavery is widespread and hidden in plain sight. Many workers leave home when they are given false promises of a decent salary and good working...
by GC Asia Pacific | Oct 2, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted after the Holocaust, a genocide of Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War 2. Structural violence and state-sponsored hatred built the foundation upon which the genocide of European Jewish people and other...
by GC Asia Pacific | Sep 25, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, often referred to as CEDAW, is a bill of women’s rights. To date, the convention has been ratified by 189 countries and is one of the most widely signed UN treaties. States that have...
by GC Asia Pacific | Aug 17, 2020 | Know Your Rights
We’ve previously discussed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and socio-economic and cultural rights (ICESCR) – now we’ll discuss the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ). Many human rights that are on the UDHR are also in the...
by GC Asia Pacific | Aug 10, 2020 | Know Your Rights
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is an important treaty – what does it protect? You are likely to have heard of socioeconomic status which refers to a number of factors that include our level of education, occupation,...
