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NAME: RISHAB PATIL

ROLL NO. 7967
CLASS: TYBMM [ ADVERTISING]
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
SUBJECT: CONTEMPORARY ISSUE
HANDED TO: YVETTE MAAM
TOPIC: HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATION CASE STUDY
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HUMAN RIGHTS VILOATION IN INDIA

Violation of basic human right i.e. freedom of speech and expression.
FACTUAL MATRIX – On September 13th 2020, Akhil Gogoi, an RTI activist and president of
the anti-corruption association namely Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, was arrested in Assam
for sedition just a day after he delivered a speech criticizing different policies of the ruling
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Moreover, Gogoi was named a Maoist by the government. This case
proceeded at year’s end.
Akhil Gogoi is a Human Rights defender, he has been vocal against the debasement or
corruption in the open arena of public sphere.
WHY THIS IS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION
This limitation on the right to speak freely of any resident might be forced as much by an activity
of the State as by its inaction. Subsequently, disappointment or failure of the state to ensure its
citizen the crucial fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression and articulation would
like wise establish an infringement of article 19 (1) (a).
Article 19 of the universal declaration, embraced in 1948, states that: Everyone has the option to
freedom of speech and expression; this privilege incorporate opportunity to hold sentiments
without impedance and to seek, receive and bestow data ad thoughts through any media and little
mind to out skirt regardless of frontiers.
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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION WORLDWIDE

Human Rights violation at work place discriminating between race, gender, status etc.
FACTUAL MATRIX – Christine Goodwin v. United Kingdom is a case chosen by the
European court of Human Rights on 11 July 2002. The candidate, Christine Goodwin, a United
Kingdom public brought into the world in 1937, was a trans lady. She guaranteed that she had
issues and confronted inappropriate behavior at work duration and following her sexual
orientation reassignment. She additionally claimed that the way she keeps a similar NI number
has implied that her manager has had the option to find that she recently worked for them under
another name and gender to avoid shame and mortification.
HOW TO KNOW IF ONE’S HUMAN RIGHTS ARE VIOLATED
Different treatment – You aren’t hired, now no longer promoted, discipline or fired particularly
due to the fact your boss things you are lesbian, bi-sexual or instantly etc. This is going fast
sincerely being yelled at for displaying up late. Being neglected for a promotion, wrongful
termination, receiving a write-up without a basis, and different critical terrible employment
moves might also additionally qualify as exclusive treatment. Some organizations have
regulations that explicitly discriminate in opposition to lesbian, homosexual and bisexual
employees, whilst in different organizations the discrimination is extra diffused however no
much less real.
Harassment - You are compelled to revel in feedback approximately your mannerisms or sexual
activity, sexual jokes, requests for sexual favors, stress for dates, touching or grabbing, leering,
gestures, opposed feedback, photographs or drawings negatively portraying a particular sexual
orientation, or sexual attack or rape. Your harasser can be an employer, supervisor, co-worker, or
customer, and can be of the other or identical intercourse.
Judgement - Sexual orientation discrimination is something where a person is treated in another
way entirely due to his or her actual or perceived sexual orientation: lesbian, gay (homosexual),
bisexual, asexual, pansexual, or straight (heterosexual). This way that discrimination can also
additionally arise due to others' notion of a person's orientation, whether or not that notion is
accurate or not. It may additionally arise primarily based totally on an individual's affiliation
with a person of an extraordinary sexual orientation. Someone who's discriminated towards on
the premise of sexual orientation will also be discriminated towards or burdened on the premise
of sex, gender identity, disability (which include real or perceived HIV status) or marital status.
Sexual orientation discrimination has been a part of the place of work GLOBALLY for
decades and at the same time as federal, kingdom and near by laws, in addition to
accelerate social consciousness have step forward the scenario dramatically, many
individuals who aren’t heterosexual nonetheless face barriers at paintings associated with
being gay, bisexual, asexual or pansexual.
It is vital for personnel to have the proper data approximately that constitutes
discrimination primarily based totally on sexual orientation, harassment and the way it can
tie in with different prohibited sorts of discrimination like sex, disability and marital status.