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| | Human rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Human rights are inherent, universal, indivisible and inalienable. | | | Positive rights have been codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in many 20th-century constitutions. | | | Mission and Justice – Human Rights, Justice and Peace news from the Asia Pacific region. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
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| | Human Rights |
| | Its main documents are: The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (Organization of American States, 1948) and The American Convention on Human Rights (Organization of American States 1969). | | | Its bodies are the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (established 1960) and The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (established 1979). | | | The most obvious way in which human rights exist is as norms of national and international law created by enactment and judicial decisions. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human
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| | OHCHR: English (English) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| | All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. | | | Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. | | | Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
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| | Human Rights [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | These are as follows: rights to life; rights to freedom; rights to political participation; rights to the protection of the rule of law; rights to fundamental social, economic, and cultural goods. | | | Natural rights were thereby similarly presented as rights individuals possessed independently of society or polity. | | | This is no small measure of the contemporary moral and political significance of the doctrine of human rights. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hum-rts.htm
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| | ASIL Electronic Resource Guide |
| | European Court of Human Rights Portal, HUDOC (a searchable database of the case-law of the European Convention on Human Rights) (http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/). | | | Inter-American Court on Human Rights Advisory Opinions and Contentious Cases (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html). | | | International Women‘s Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Women‘s Human Rights in the Context of International Law Research. |
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http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm
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| | United Nations Agreements on Human Rights |
| | The protocol adds legal force to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by allowing the Human Rights Commission to investigate and judge complaints of human rights violations from individuals from signator countries. | | | This covenant details the basic civil and political rights of individuals and nations. | | | the right to liberty and freedom of movement |
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http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html
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| | University of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
| | Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors amd Lawyers | | | Human Rights Events and Courses in the Twin Cities, Minnesota | | | The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. |
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http://www.umn.edu/humanrts
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| | Kurdish Human Rights Project |
| | KHRP,BHRC and FEDBIR (Federation of Kurdish Associations in Britain) are organising a dinner in honour of two distinguished academics from Turkey Professors Oran and Kaboglu are former members of the Human Rights Advisory Council (IHDK) to the Prime Minister's Office. | | | 9th November 2005 : Human rights defender sentenced for ‘incitement to enmity and hatred’ | | | 21st January 2005 : KHRP case establishes violation of right to life in Turkey |
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http://www.khrp.org
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| | DIANA |
| | This site is excellent as a general overview of human rights documentation. | | | The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library contains a wide-ranging collection of human rights documents and web links. | | | The University of Cincinnati College of Law no longer participates in the DIANA Human Rights Database Project. |
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http://www.law.uc.edu/Diana
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| | Human Rights Watch: Children's Rights |
| | Children in the U.S. HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights | | | © Copyright 2006, Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA | | | In its investigations of human rights abuses against children, Human Rights Watch has found that in every region of the world, in almost every aspect of their lives, children are subject to unconscionable violence, most often perpetrated by the very individuals charged with their safety and well-being. |
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http://www.hrw.org/children
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| | Human Rights in China |
| | In the General Assembly elections for the 47-member Human Rights Council today that replaces the Commission on Human Rights, the Peopleâs Republic of China was voted in with 146 out of a possible 191 votes, coming in eighth in the Asian Region. | | | Chinaâs Election to the Human Rights Council: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead | | | HRIC urges President Bush to raise issues of particular human rights concerns, especially the increasing economic disparities undermining social stability and peaceful and sustainable development,... |
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http://www.hrichina.org
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| | WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net |
| | Women's rights activists in Nepal have hailed a Supreme Court's ruling to scrap a law that allowed men to seek divorce if their partner was infertile. | | | Amnesty International will today launch a new website enabling states voting in next month's election of the first 47 members of the new UN Human Rights Council to assess the human rights records of candidate states. | | | This report documents the discussions and analyses of violations and abuses committed against women human rights defenders through a framework of four key sources of violations: state actors, non-state actors, family and community, sex and sexuality-based attacks. |
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http://www.whrnet.org
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| | HREA - The Global Human Rights Education Network |
| | UN General Assembly elects first members to new Human Rights Council (9.05.06) | | | Summit on U.S. ratification of the Convention on Rights of the Child -- You can help students of The School for Human Rights be heard! | | | Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. |
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http://www.hrea.org
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| | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights |
| | 1991 RFK Human Rights Award Winner, Raji Sourani, blocked from visiting Washington, DC by the US Administration | | | Securing the Wall from International Law: an initial response to the Israeli State Attorney. | | | The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is an independent legal body based in Gaza City dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law and upholding democratic principles in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. |
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http://www.pchrgaza.org
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| | Human Rights |
| | The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. | | | Because the promotion of human rights is an important national interest, the United States seeks to: | | | The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr
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| | Human Rights - US Department of State |
| | In a May 2 statement, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in Venezuela the government of President Hugo Chávez is "maligning" the country's human-rights workers by referring to such workers as "coup plotters" and agents of instability. | | | U.S. Wants U.N. Human Rights Council to Work, State's Lagon Says | | | New report by Organization of American States details human rights abuses |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/human_rights.html
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| | Women's Human Rights: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
| | Urge the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro to ensure that the country's legal framework is in accordance with the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. | | | While Amnesty International commends the recent measures taken by the Mexican government, the response remains inadequate. | | | Women's Human Rights: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/index.do
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| | Business & Human Rights : Home |
| | Netherlands tries Dutch businessman for alleged involvement of his timber companies in human rights abuses in Liberia | | | 98 companies with a human rights policy statement | | | Report of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on business & human rights - Feb 2005 (English-Español-Français) |
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http://www.business-humanrights.org
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| | Derechos: Human Rights in Nigeria |
| | Democracy has returned to the country, and with it the revocation of military decrees that provided for arbitrary detention and unfair trials. | | | Since the death of Gen. Abacha in June 1998, the human rights situation in Nigeria has improved considerably. | | | Prison conditions remain extremely poor, inter-ethnic violence has lead to many deaths, and corruption continues to be a large problem. |
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http://www.derechos.org/nigeria/central.html
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| | WITNESS :: See it. Film it. Change it. |
| | Urge your Congressional representatives to support House Concurrent Resolution 90 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 16, which express condolences to the victims' families and encourage the State Department to assist Mexico in resolving these murders. | | | Read Case Studies about WITNESS partner videos which have made a difference | | | Between Two Fires: Torture and Displacement in Northern Uganda Human Rights Focus (HURIFO), Uganda |
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http://www.witness.org
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| | Derechos Human Rights |
| | Equipo Nizkor, work for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world. | | | Our work includes the socialization of human rights related information and analysis through the internet and other media, the promotion of prosecutions of human rights violators and the support of local human rights NGOs and activists. | | | erechos Human Rights, together with our sister organization |
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http://www.derechos.org
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| | Human Rights |
| | General Assembly creates new UN Human Rights Council >> |
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http://www.un.org/rights
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| | Physicians for Human Rights |
| | Guidelines for Health Professionals to Protect Patients from Rights Violations | | | An Homage to Vaclav Havel: Human Rights and The Arts |
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http://www.phrusa.org
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