Human rights in the United States

Human rights in the United States - Polsearch

A search engine for serious voters

About us  |  Why use us?  |  Press  |  Contact us

Topic: Human rights in the United States

Ads by Google



United Kingdom - definition of United Kingdom in Encyclopedia

The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power invested in an elected government headed by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or, inaccurately, as Great Britain or Britain.
The Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1603, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/United_Kingdom (2441 words)



United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Latvia

These rights are enshrined in articles 28 and 29 of the Constitutional Law "Rights and Obligations of a Citizen and a Person", which states that every person has the right to freely depart for or emigrate to foreign countries.
The right to vote and to be elected is determined by the Satversme (Constitution), the Constitutional Law "The Rights and Obligations of a Citizen and a Person", the Law "On the Election to Saeima" (Parliament) and the Law "On the Elections to the City, Town and Pagasts (Rural Communities) Councils".
An employee has the right to submit an appeal to a labour committee or court against the decision of the employer.

http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CERD.C.309.Add.1.En?Opendocument (9893 words)



2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the United Kingdom

The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; although there were some problems, the law and judiciary provide effective means of addressing individual instances of abuse.
In the past, human rights groups have stated that available statistics underreported the casualties because many victims were too intimidated to report the attacks.
Some political parties and human rights groups have raised concerns that the Government may seek to limit the public scope of the four inquiries to avoid the exposure of potentially embarrassing information, especially in the Finucane case.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41716.htm (7601 words)



MINELRES - LCHRES: Human Rights in Latvia, 6 months of 2001

Staff lawyer Sandra Garsvane will be leaving the LCHRES in September to pursue a masters degree in human rights at the University of Padua.
The European Court of Human Rights is scheduled to rule in the autumn on a case involving a former candidate for parliament who was barred from running for office in 1998 because of insufficient language proficiency.
The mission, which consisted of the Finnish parliamentary ombudsman, the general secretary of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the director of the Latvian Centre for Human rights and Ethnic Studies, and a representative of the Latvian government, submitted its report to the president on 31 May 2001.

http://www.minelres.lv/count/latvia/LCHRES_HRLatvia_2001_6mon.htm (6426 words)



Presidential Election in Latvia

The President who dedicated her first mandate to winning her country's membership of the EU and NATO ought now to be able to ensure a positive vote in the referendum on the country's European integration that is to take place on 20th September next.
The President represents the State on an international level, he appoints the country's diplomatic representatives and accredits the foreign diplomatic ambassadors.
She was elected President of the Republic on 17th June 1999 and became the first woman to exercise this function in Eastern Europe.

http://www.robert-schuman.org/anglais/oee/lettonie/presidentielles/resultats.htm (712 words)



RPIC: Human Rights in Latvia

The case of Alfreds Rubiks and Ojars Potreki is the obvious violation of paragraph 1, article 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as of paragraph 1, article 7 of the European Convention on the Defense of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Alfreds Rubiks was arrested (in August 1991) while being both the member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia and the Supreme Council of the USSR.
However, two day earlier on August 21,1991, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia adopted a Constitutional Law declaring that all laws and normative acts of the USSR - a foreign state - were of no effect in Latvia.

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/valery/humright/hr9606_1.html (1051 words)



European Court of Human Rights - Chamber judgment in the case of Zdanoka v. Latvia

Consequently, the Court considered that the applicants permanent ineligibility to stand for election to the Latvian parliament was not proportionate to the legitimate aims it pursued, that it curtailed her electoral rights to such an extent as to impair their very essence and that its necessity in a democratic society had not been established.
She was elected to Riga City Council in 1997 and attempted to stand as a candidate in the 1998 parliamentary elections.
The Court noted that there had been interference with the applicants exercise of her right to freedom of association and that this interference had been prescribed by law.

http://press.coe.int/cp/2004/303a(2004).htm (1876 words)



Latvia (05/05)

The United States established diplomatic relations with Latvia on July 28, 1922.
The U.S. Legation in Riga officially was established November 13, 1922, and served as the headquarters for U.S. representation in the Baltics during the interwar era.
Constitution: The law "On the Republic of Latvia Status as a State," passed by Parliament on August 21, 1991, provided for the reinstatement of the 1922 constitution.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5378.htm (4570 words)



Privacy and Human Rights

United Nations Human Rights Committee, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant, Initial reports of States parties due in 1993, Addendum, Lithuania, 1996.
The Supreme Court has ruled that there is a limited constitutional right of privacy based on a number of provisions in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments.
Article 47 states, "Everyone shall have the right to legal protection of his private and family life, of his honor and good reputation and to make decisions about his personal life." Article 51 states, "(1) No one may be obliged, except on the basis of statute, to disclose information concerning his person.

http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/surveylz.html (15078 words)



For Human Rights in United Latvia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā (abbreviated PCTVL, For Human Rights in United Latvia) is an alliance of several political parties in Latvia, supported mainly by Russian-speaking Latvians.
PCTVL was established in May 1998 by three political parties: Tautas Saskaņas Partija (People's Harmony Party), Līdztiesība (Equal Rights) and Latvijas Sociālistiskā Partija (Socialist Party of Latvia), all of which were mainly supported by Russian-speaking voters.
They won 16 out of 100 seats in 1998 elections and 25 seats in 2002 elections and municipal elections in 2001, winning 13 out of 60 seats in Riga city council.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Human_Rights_in_United_Latvia (493 words)



ForHRUL - For Human Rights in United Latvia. « Summary of the article “Citizenship Law Should Be Stricter” by Juris Bojārs, Dr.jur.habil., published in the newspaper Latvijas Avīze on September 12th, 2005 »

The International Recommendations on the Voting Rights for Latvian Non-citizens
On November 11, 2004, the Parliament of Latvia has adopted the amendments to the Law on the self-government elections.
Therefore after the adaptation of Independence Declaration, Supreme Council of the Latvian Republic commissioned me to prepare draft for the Law on Latvian citizenship.

http://www.pctvl.lv/?lang=en&mode=main&submode=&page_id=12&comment=1 (732 words)



Amnesty International - Nobel Lecture

The first step was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 in the belief that "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".
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms the right to life and asserts that no one shall be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
The laws themselves have in some cases constituted appalling violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, making a mockery of justice.

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1977/amnesty-lecture.html (3668 words)



Art3573.txt

"This law is discriminatory and suicidal," the leader of the opposition association For Human Rights in United Latvia, Yakov Pliner told Tass.
The CE human rights commissioner advised the Latvian authorities to establish a dialogue with the Russian- speaking community on the issue of the school reform.
The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Alvaro Gil Robles has advised the Latvian government to let Russian non-citizens elect self-governing bodies, as follows from the commissioner's survey of the situation in this Baltic country.

http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3573.txt (478 words)



Human Rights Watch: Africa

Human Rights Watch today urged President Bill Clinton to raise urgent human rights concerns in his September 23 meeting with General Abdulsalami Abubakar, when the new Nigerian head of state visits New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Human Rights Watch today deplored the failure of the governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to submit official reports on their progress in investigating the 1997 atrocities in Congo.
Human Rights Watch condemns the fatal shooting by soldiers of at least three Ijaw youths holding a peaceful demonstration yesterday in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta.

http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=africa&document_limit=1160,20 (1158 words)



University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990, U.N. Doc.
Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors, Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990, U.N. Doc.
Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990, U.N. Doc.

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ainstls1.htm (3935 words)



Pravda.RU Latvian parliamentarians treated to sour taste of education reform

Students of Russian schools in Latvia along with members of the Latvian parliament faction For Human Rights in a United Latvia presented lemons to members of the Latvian parliament who voted for recent legislation requiring that 60% of upper class instruction be taught in Latvian.
Students of Russian schools in Latvia along with members of the Latvian parliament faction For Human Rights in a United Latvia presented lemons to members of the Latvian parliament who voted for recent legislation requiring that 60% of upper class instruction be taught in Latvian More details...
The United States is concerned about the situation that has arisen around Adzharia, US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles told reporters in Poti (western Georgia) More details...

http://all.newsfromrussia.com/world/2004/03/20/52896.html (1570 words)



MINELRES: Minority issues in Latvia, No. 68

Therefore, the pro-minority parliamentary faction "For Human Rights in United Latvia" has submitted the amendment envisaging to eliminate the word "only" in the Transitional provisions of the Edication law (currently, the clause stioulates that the secondary education after the year 2004 is "only in the state language").
In our view, voting on amendments to the Education Law submitted by the faction "For Human Rights in United Latvia" will demonstrate clearly, whether the government is ready to start a dialogue about the reform, or opponents of the reform will be forced to hold actions of non-violent civil disobedience in order to be heard.
As chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Public Affairs Ina Druviete claims that Mr Dilans has some professional problems, that is why "he took up the cudgels of the opposite camp" (see "Lauku Avize", May 8).

http://lists.delfi.lv/pipermail/minelres/2003-May/002730.html (1721 words)



The Latest News from Human Rights Watch

As the United Nations General Assembly this week begins its annual consideration of human rights in Burma, Human Rights Watch urges U.N. member states to call on the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to immediately and unconditionally release opposition supporters and to ease restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and assembly.
Human Rights Watch today urged all parties to the conflict in East Timor to respect humanitarian law after reported abuses by both the Indonesian army and East Timorese independence supporters near the town of Alas, Manufahi district, East Timor.
Human Rights Watch urged the government to take stronger measures to ensure the safety of independent Iranian writers and critics.

http://www.hrw.org/press98/dec/new-prs1220.htm (2104 words)



Rights of Ethnic Russians Diminished Further in Latvia - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

An opposition MP from the For the Human Rights in the United Latvia group, Yuri Sokolovsky, was quoted by Russian media as saying that he intended to appeal against this ruling.
Non-citizens (or “aliens” as they are recorded in their passports) are already deprived of political and some other rights.
This measure will also be taken against children born in Latvia if one of their parents is a non-citizen and the other a foreigner.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/05/20/latvia.shtml (705 words)



National Harmony Party -

The three parties founded the Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā (For Human Rights in United Latvia) alliance.
Its leader, Jānis Jurkāns, was the first minister of foreign affairs of Latvia from 1990 to 1992, until having to leave the government for too moderate positions in relations with Russia.
At the last legislative elections, 5 october 2002, the alliance won 18.9 % of popular vote and 25 out of 100 seats.

http://www.grohol.com/psypsych/National_Harmony_Party (438 words)



The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background

A stable democracy with regular free elections and a positive human rights record, the country has attracted considerable foreign investment and has earned one of Africa's highest per capita incomes.
In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to liberalize party rule and create "socialism with a human face." Anti-Soviet demonstrations the following year ushered in a period of harsh repression.
On 30 August 1999 a provincial referendum for independence was overwhelmingly approved by the people of Timor Timur.

http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2028.html (15472 words)



Humanitarian Information Center Conakry Guinea - Earlier updates

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, supported by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), is responsible for the overall management of the UN's humanitarian work in Guinea.
While in Conakry, the Security Council also met with the leader of the Liberian rebel movement Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD).
On 17 December the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) suspended the disarmament, demobilization and rehabilitation of an estimated 40,000 former Liberian combatants, which it began on December 7.

http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/guinea/earlierupdates.htm (6782 words)



Human Rights Education: Lesson for Life

In addition, the Office is providing advisory services to the School of Law at the National University and to private law schools for the development of human rights curricula.
Human rights education is conducted on the basis of seminars, workshops and training courses for community leaders, local authorities, teachers and civil society organizations.
This year, the question of human rights education is of particular importance since the international community is commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and promoting awareness of the significance of this document and of the legal instruments and action it has developed.

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/50kit4.htm (14748 words)



Pravda.RU:Viktor Alksnis: Latvia’s Fate Decided in Russia

Another significant figure in the coalition is a famous figure, leader of the Equal Rights Party Tatyana Zhdanok, who has been recently debarred from parliamentary elections for her charismatic character.
You and the majority of your Duma colleagues strictly criticized Latvia for systematic violations of the rights of Latvia’s Russian-speaking population.
At that, Yanis Yurkans is to become the second figure in the Latvian Cabinet and Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/10/01/37547_.html (1362 words)



Human Rights Day: background

Eleanor Roosevelt (Posthumously) (United States) – First Lady; President of the Human Rights Commission
Shulamith Koenig (United States of America) - Executive Director of the People’s Movement for Human Rights Education
The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights was established in 1966 by a resolution of the General Assembly, 19 December 1966.

http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2003/background.html (1221 words)



The New School Commencement

Among his numerous awards are the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award and Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwrighting, and in 1999 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by the President of the United States.
Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg selected Justice Breyer to clerk for him during the 1964 term, during which he helped to draft an important privacy rights opinion.
On November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

http://www.newschool.edu/commencement/2005/honorary.html (1645 words)



HRW Hails U.N. Award to Ugandan Advocate (Human Rights Watch, 10-12-1998)

In April the U.N. Human Rights Commission passed a resolution condemning the abductions and calling on member states to exert all possible pressure on the LRA to release captive children.
The Prizes were awarded this morning by Secretary General Kofi Annan at special plenary meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Atyam was nominated for the prize by Human Rights Watch and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.

http://www.hrw.org/hrw/press98/dec/angel.htm (621 words)



Pravda.RU Riga to host all-Latvian congress of Russian school advocates

Representatives of most Russian public organizations, as well as the political association "For Human Rights in United Latvia" make part of it.
However, the Latvian authorities denied him visa, substantiating their decision by the fact that this well-known Russian politician "repeatedly accused the Latvian government of violating the rights of Russian-speaking people, threatened with economic sanctions," thus demonstrating his unwillingness to "develop constructive dialogue" with the Latvian authorities.
It was supposed that Russian State Duma deputy, deputy head of the PACE political committee Dmitry Rogozin will speak at the congress too.

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2004/03/06/52672.html (1749 words)



UNITED NATIONS: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF DECLARATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Ironically, at the same time that a former U.S. president was being conferred a human rights award by the United Nations, some activists took the United States to task for lagging behind on human rights issues.
United Nations, Dec 10 (IPS/Farhan Haq) -- Human rights activists, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, Thursday urged all nations to continue the fight against impunity.
U.N. officials, however, cautioned that recent successes in the field of human rights - including the decision by governments in Rome last July to create an International Criminal Court to try individuals for genocide and crimes against humanity - should not obscure challenges that still remained.

http://www.sunsonline.org/trade/process/followup/1998/12140498.htm (857 words)



Art - The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis blamed For Human Rights in a United Latvia for the melee.
Members of Latvia’s minorities, including prominent figures in the left-wing For Human Rights in a United Latvia and a new group, Rodina (“motherland” in Russian), lock arms in a human chain to block the procession’s path.
Ella Pamfilova, chairwoman of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s council for the development of human and civil rights, said the march was “sheer barbarity smacking from the Middle Ages,” the RIA Novosti agency reported.

http://www.baltictimes.com/art.php?art_id=12324 (937 words)