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No Way In or Out - Authoritarian Controls on the Freedom of Movement

19 Aug 2024

Article 13 of the Universal defining features is arbitrariness, which makes challenging Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has mobility controls through legal appeals nearly impossible, the right to freedom of movement and residence within especially in environments where the court system is the borders of each state” and “everyone has the right to beholden to the authorities. [...] Party, which exercises a wide range of mobility controls #FreeThemAll freedomhouse.org 5 NO WAY IN OR OUT Authoritarian Controls on the Freedom of Movement Members of the Belarusian diaspora in Ukraine hold their passports at a rally outside the Belarusian embassy in Kyiv in August 2021 to mark the first anniversary of the fraudulent 2020 presidential election in Belarus. [...] In A sense of powerlessness October 2022, authorities prevented Sanna Irshad Mattoo, a While governments must respect the right to free movement, Kashmiri photojournalist, from traveling to the United States they also have the ability to restrict movement in accordance to receive a Pulitzer Prize for her work.57 Journalists who have with the principles of the rule of law. [...] They should underscore and who are unable to produce a valid national passport due denounce the harms of tactics like citizenship revocation, to the application of mobility controls with fines, obstacles document control, denial of consular services, and the to education or health care, or restrictions on the ability to application of travel bans, including in human rights reports register newborn. [...] They should also use their voice, vote, and should tailor advocacy strategies to the unique influence to limit the ability of Interpol member countries needs and circumstances of each case of political to target critics through the misuse of Red Notices and imprisonment or travel ban.

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