Human rights as women's rights, human rights as gay rights, human rights as worker rights, human rights as voting rights, human rights across the board for every single American.
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights delivers the RFK Human Rights Award and supports human rights advocates.
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Dooley is Director, Human Rights Defenders at Human Rights First.
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He is Poland's commissioner of human rights; he is no longer the human rights ombudsman at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
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Distinguished human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and UNHCR have accused Australia of human rights violations on many occasions.
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Because, as she knew, human rights are human rights for all.
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Dooley is director of human rights defenders at Human Rights First.
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One can be either for human rights or against human rights.
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" Human Rights Watch called Duterte's drug war "a human rights calamity.
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The UN Human Rights Council The UN's 47-nation human rights group gets to point the finger at countries for their human rights violations.
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Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit human rights organization, sees authoritarian populists as demagogues who exploit voters' xenophobia to oppose immigration and erode human rights.
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In 2010, Human Rights Watch described Mortazavi as a "serial human rights abuser".
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Human Rights Watch asked Argentine prosecutors to investigate him for human rights abuses.
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Human Rights Watch said the punishment "constitutes torture under international human rights law".
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And you can't have human rights for women unless you have human rights.
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" Echoing her famous 1995 "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" speech in Beijing, Clinton later launched into a powerful riff that drew thunderous applause from the crowd: "I believe so strongly that we have to keep up, with every fiber of our being, the argument for, the campaign for human rights," she said, "human rights as women's rights, human rights as gay rights, human rights as worker rights, human rights as voting rights, human rights across the board for every single American.
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Experts and human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch have heavily disputed his words.
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Trump's only explicit mention of human rights was to condemn — without naming names — the "governments with egregious human rights records" that sit on the UN Human Rights Council.
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Nongovernmental organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights, have denounced these egregious human rights violations.
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"The inclusion of the concept of 'development promoting human rights' into the international human rights system signifies a major shift in the global human rights conversation," the paper said.
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The Human Rights Council was established in 2006 to replace the United Nations' beleaguered Human Rights Commission, which was largely discredited for allowing human rights abusers to be members.
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For human rights observers including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, her sentence raises serious human rights concerns about Israel's treatment of Palestinian activists, many of whom are minors.
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Has the Human Rights Council undermined its ability to promote human rights around the world?
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And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
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They're on advocating for human rights for everyone, and expanding the definition of human rights.
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Human rights issues are growing, said Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch.
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Komala Ramachandra is a senior researcher in business and human rights at Human Rights Watch.
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Human Rights Watch says Eritrea has one of the world's worst records on human rights.
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It goes without saying, but I will state it now: Sexual harassment is a human rights violation, sexual assault is a human rights violation, rape is a human rights violation.
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"We will fight so that the Human Rights Council is really a human rights council, not one infiltrated by states that flout human rights," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Another target was Human Rights Watch's Tara Sepehri Far who researches human rights abuses in Iran.
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Human Rights Watch said it was committed to prioritizing work on the environment and human rights.
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Upholding internationally recognized human rights, as reported in the State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights.
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The High Commissioner for Human Rights is the principal human rights official of the United Nations.
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Memorial Human Rights Center, Russia's leading human rights foundation, lists Aleksey Pichugin as the longest-serving.
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It is the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, not the Human Rights Council.
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It was the New York City Commission on Human Rights, not the state's Human Rights Division.
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He is accused by the United Nations and human rights advocates of widespread human rights violations.
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Kagame's regime has been long criticized by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for its attacks on the political opposition, human rights defenders and the press.
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From the beginning, the Human Rights Council exhibited blatant bias against Israel, included human rights abusers among its membership, and was unable to confront serious human rights abuses in powerful or influential states – the very same flaws that discredited its predecessor, the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
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These included creating a stand-alone human rights policy, publishing periodic human rights updates to the public, and conducting an annual public briefing on Facebook's human rights strategy and actions in Myanmar.
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"Bolton seems to spend more time and energy criticizing the individuals and institutions protecting human rights, rather than the human rights violators themselves," said Sarah Margon, Washington director of Human Rights Watch.
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In fact, their argument is circular and nonsensical: granting a robot human rights would violate human rights.
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If you think about human rights, human rights are a fictional story just like God and heaven.
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The UN Human Rights Council was created 13 years ago to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission.
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She who told the world that women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights!
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But human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have long believed shouting is effective.
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The app has also faced condemnation from human rights advocacy groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
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Among the 2202 founders of the coalition were Amnesty International, Human Rights First and Human Rights Watch.
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Melissa Hooper is a lawyer and Director of Human Rights and Civil Society at Human Rights First.
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Human Rights Violators Unit and the Human Rights Law Section—as well as the FBI, the Justice
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A human-rights violation, whether committed by Moses or Abraham, is still a violation of human rights.
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Brian Dooley is senior advisor at Human Rights First, a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization.
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The United Nations human rights chief said on Monday that the ban violated international human rights law.
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"Human rights are the essence of democracy and democracy is an extension of human rights," wrote Han.
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"The U.S., 'guardian of democracy' and 'human rights champion', is kicking up the human rights racket but it can never camouflage its true identity as the gross violator of human rights," it says.
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The sanctions Tuesday were among a round of targets implemented under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuses and corruption, marking International Human Rights Day.
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The State Department specifically named Jamal Khashoggi in their human rights report on Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses.
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Since then, human rights groups, U.S. politicians, and Google employees have raised concerns around privacy and human rights.
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Leaving the Human Rights Council does not mean that the U.S. is abandoning its support for human rights.
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Previously Britons pursuing human-rights cases had to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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The world and America Accused human rights abuser Venezuela won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
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He served on the International Council of Human Rights Foundation and participated in other human rights-based projects.
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The Human Rights Council exists separately from Zeid's human rights office, but nonetheless supplies some of its mandates.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council has also adopted by consensus a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights record.
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The European Court of Human Rights is one of the staunchest defenders of human rights in the world.
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The human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is seeking Ms. Ismayilova's release before the European Court of Human Rights.
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Saudi Arabia is not the only country on the Human Rights Council with a questionable human rights record.
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President Moon, a former human rights lawyer, campaigned for office as a champion of civil and human rights.
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The arrests drew sharp criticism from the European Court of Human Rights and business and human rights groups.
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The leaks reinforce allegations from former detainees and human rights organizations of widespread human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
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Human Rights Watch said Cambodia's close relationship with China had led it to ride roughshod over human rights.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council passed its first resolution establishing L.G.B.T. rights as human rights in 2014.
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Trump, who has opposed a strong human rights policy and repeatedly praises foreign dictators who abuse human rights, offered repeated praise of Kim Jong Un while failing to strongly condemn his human rights abuses.
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During the late 85033s, his administration had linked foreign policy with human rights by strengthening institutional human rights management structures and devising better mechanisms for applying human rights considerations to economic and military aid.
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In 2015 Mansoor received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, an annual prize awarded by a panel of international human rights NGOs, for his work documenting the human rights situation in the UAE.
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The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued its first ever report on Kashmir, recommending that the United Nations Human Rights Council establish a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into human rights violations.
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Last week, the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, Tom Malinowski, met with human rights leaders and government officials in Hanoi for a final human rights assessment before the Obama visit.
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Both the U.N. human rights office and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have reported human rights violations against Nicaraguans who have participated in anti-government protests and those who have helped them.
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" "The U.N. Human Rights Council is headed up by some of the worst human rights violators in the world.
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" Hillary Clinton's perhaps most well-known line is: "Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
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The United Nations and human rights groups have condemned Australia's immigration policy, citing human rights abuses in the centers.
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The North Korean human rights issue offers another area of commonality with Moon, who was a human rights lawyer.
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The UN's top human rights body, the Human Rights Council, ordered the compilation of the database in March 2016.
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Claims alleging human rights violations by ECHR Contracting States can be brought before the European Court of Human Rights.
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We must fight for their human rights, and in so doing, defend the very idea of human rights itself.
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Many human rights organizations are against it, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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S. human rights diplomacy has been reduced to rhetoric, which, no surprise, has not improved China's human rights situation.
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His remarks, before the United Nations Human Rights Council, came in a review of the kingdom's human rights record.
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Human rights groups are demanding Mr. Trump put human rights on his agenda when he meets with Mr. Kim.
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The Commission on Human Rights has the power to open investigations into the violation of the human rights laws.
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The message is equally clear to Oyub Titiev, a human rights activist with Memorial Human Rights Center in Chechnya.
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A Human Rights Watch article details a United Nations Human Rights Council report that reads like a horror story.
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Amnesty's State of the World's Human Rights report, published Thursday, assessed human rights violations in 159 countries in 2017.
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Human rights have been a foreign policy priority for Norway, and in particular support for champions of human rights.
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"For all of the Obama administration's rhetoric on the importance of human rights, when it came to the UAE, the United States went silent," said Brian Dooley, Director of Human Rights Defenders at Human Rights First.
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On March 85033, Six human rights groups with consultative status to the United Nations human rights body joined together to issue a statement to the current session of the Human Rights Council condemning the 1988 massacre.
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"The only way to improve Egypt's human rights image is to improve the human rights situation, not to create more committees," Gamal Eid, founder and director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, told Reuters.
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Qatar could also use the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, but then this would leave Qatar bound by this document in the future — allowing human rights advocates to raise issue about Qatar's own human rights record.
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The U.N.'s Human Rights architecture plays a very important role in the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called them cruel and inhumane punishments that breach international human rights law.
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Apple and Google have been criticised for hosting the Absher app by human rights groups for facilitating human rights abuses.
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Venezuela has become the latest accused human rights abuser to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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They must keep human rights in perspective: Human rights depend on majority support if they are to be taken seriously.
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The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba says there were over 6,000 arbitrary detentions of human rights activists in 2013.
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The human rights of women and religious freedom operate in concert with all other human rights – universal, indivisible and interdependent.
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The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba says there were over 6,000 arbitrary detentions of human rights activists in 2013.
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These trends are a threat, not only to our human rights, but to the very systems that protect human rights.
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At the same time, ARSA committed "serious human rights abuses...including unlawful killings and abductions," the human rights group said.
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North Korea has perpetuated human rights abuses for decades, according to watchdog agencies, human rights groups and the US government.
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Let us hope that this step by the Human Rights Council is a harbinger of tangible human rights advances worldwide.
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Human rights activists say that security officials trying to suppress the insurgency have committed human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings.
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Human rights groups have long called for the establishment of a special human rights prosecution unit to investigate war crimes.
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Many human rights groups and progressives say Israel's occupation is illegal, and Palestinians are subject to rampant human rights abuses.
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"Human rights are, in essence, an international agreement," said John Sifton, the director of Asia advocacy for Human Rights Watch.
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Matthew Smith is the founder of Fortify Rights, a nonprofit human rights organization that investigates and documents human rights abuses.
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The year before, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed 115 killings of human rights activists.
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Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Human Rights Commission have called on the government to halt its lawless crackdown.
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U.S. Embassy personnel often attend high-profile human rights hearings in Guatemala and tweet their support of human rights cases.
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The conference table was packed with fellow human rights defenders, including the United Nations commissioner for human rights in Mexico.
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More aggressive new sanctions targeting Iranian officials responsible for human rights abuses can highlight Iran's poor record on human rights.
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It referenced Turkey's crackdown on journalists, political activists and human rights defenders as examples of the Ankara's human rights abuses.
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In 2015 Mansoor received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, an annual prize awarded in Geneva by a panel of international human rights organizations, for his work documenting the human rights situation in the UAE.
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"I thought that Jokowi missed the golden moment to strengthen the human rights regime that has been enshrined in the Constitution and other human rights laws," said Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, a human rights lawyer and women's rights advocate.
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Even European governments and human rights groups have opposed the U.S. reform effort out of fear that countries hostile to human rights would seize the opportunity to weaken the Human Rights Council further – if that was even possible.
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"To me, an Egyptian living in Egypt, I see no improvement in the human rights situation," said Mohamed Zaree of the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies, winner of the 28503 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.
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The Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights and Salam for Democracy and Human Rights accused the NSA of employing excessive force from its predecessor agency's founding in 1966 to the present.
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" Video "The Human Rights Council has long been the foe of those who truly care about human rights around the world.
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Human Rights Watch wants Cameroon to give independent monitors and the United Nations human rights office access to the troubled regions.
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If women's rights are human rights, and some sex workers are women, doesn't that mean sex worker rights are human rights?
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"When you threaten or kill a leader or human rights defender, you attack democracy," said human rights ombudsman Carlos Alfonso Negret.
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It would be naïve, and even counterproductive, to insist that all Human Rights Council members should have glittering human rights records.
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We regularly raise our concerns with the Saudi Government about human rights issues, including the recent arrests of human rights defenders.
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Pressure businesses, as Human Rights Watch puts it, to "comply with their own human rights responsibilities by ceasing settlement-related activities."
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Kyrgyzstan has come under fire for its poor human rights record despite holding a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Human rights groups warned the law could open the door to abuses by the military, already accused of human rights violations.
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Human Rights Watch is a global nonprofit, nongovernment group that does research and reports on human rights conditions in 90 countries.
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It also cites NSO's use in Bahrain, a country where the human rights situation was deemed "dire" by Human Rights Watch.
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Roth told the AP that the "role of the human rights movement is to raise the cost" of human rights violations.
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International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Council, demanded a thorough investigation of the case.
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This year alone, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, at least eight human rights activists have been killed.
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Haley accused the NGO's of "undermining" attempts to improve the Human Rights Council and playing a "deconstructive" role for human rights.
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Khawaja and Riddell are human rights lawyers and senior advisers to the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
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Many of the human rights laws passed by Congress include conditions that impose sanctions or restrict aid to human rights abusers.
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Activists should partner with human rights organizations to bring these abuses before international bodies like the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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In addition to its corporate founders, the organization's members include human rights groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Glaad.
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"This is a serious deterioration of the human rights climate in Morocco," said Ahmed Benchemsi, a spokesman for Human Rights Watch.
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The Human Rights Council, created by the General Assembly in 2006, is responsible for strengthening promotion and protection of human rights.
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"Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights once and for all," the Democratic presidential front-runner said.
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Disability rights are human rights, and the core of State's mission is to advance the human rights of all people worldwide.
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Neil Hicks is the director of human rights promotion at Human Rights First, which is an independent advocacy and action organization.
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"Human rights have been discarded in favour of economic opportunities," Samah Hadid, a Beirut-based human rights advocate, told al-Jazeera.
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A director of Human Rights Watch suggested that the Philippines should be removed from the United Nations' top human rights body.
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Maldonado, meanwhile, has been recognized by Amnesty International and the Human Rights Foundation as a leading human rights activist in Cuba.
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The letter was signed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Center for Civilians in Conflict, Center for Constitutional Rights, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Open Society Foundations and Reprieve.
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Silence on human rights The secretary of state touched upon the issue of religious freedom, but a broader discussion of human rights was notably absent from his address -- he did not use the phrase "human rights" in his remarks.
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"By choosing a major violator as Iran's voice on human rights," it said in a statement, "Iran is also making a mockery of the Human Rights Council and showing contempt for the U.N. human rights system as a whole."
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The brutal approach required a consistent and blatant disregard for human rights and international law, and the countless warnings from the international community, the U.N., Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and over 200 other human rights groups and NGOs.
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International human-rights norms, including the European Convention on Human Rights, affirm the right to manifest one's beliefs, in public and private.
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Photo: GettyThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled this week that the United Kingdom government's surveillance regime violated human rights laws.
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In recent years, human rights lawyers have used it to seek damages against companies in U.S. courts for human rights violations abroad.
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Unfortunately, Donald Trump seems dedicated to undermining our traditional leadership role on human rights by withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.
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In 2015, the U.N. Human Rights Council made her its first-ever Independent Expert on the human rights of people with albinism.
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The move to legalize abortion in Argentina is a "public health and human rights imperative," said New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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It is widely recognised in the human-rights community that the great post-1945 human-rights project is in "crisis," she says.
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Ongoing allegations of widespread human rights abuse made by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights continue to infuriate North Korean leadership.
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that signatories of the American Convention on Human Rights must recognise same-sex marriages.
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"She went to Beijing in 903 and said that women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights," he said.
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"International human rights law is clear on the absolute prohibition on torture," U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing.
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Their case was first brought to the attention of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 1998 by human rights groups.
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Rubenstein is the director of the Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights.
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Continued U.S. membership in the HRC merely legitimizes HRC's global human rights grandstanding and window-dressing in promoting and defending human rights.
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The U.N. and Human Rights Watch have accused Azov, as well as other Kiev battalions, of a litany of human rights abuses.
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As many foreign policy experts, religious leaders, and human rights advocates have pointed out, human rights and weapons proliferation are inextricably linked.
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Human rights activist Yahya Assiri and comedian Ghanim al-Masarir are among those targeted in recent years, according to Human Rights Watch.
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The more the Human Rights Council does this, the less effective it becomes as an advocate against the world's human rights abusers.
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He noted that the United Nations' human rights "architecture" plays an important role in the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide.
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"These designations underscore our support for international human rights, and promoting accountability for gross violators of human rights," a department statement reads.
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A 2014 UN report on human rights found that human rights violations -- including murder, enslavement and torture -- were prevalent in the country.
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We invited both the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights and Human Rights Watch to observe the situation on the ground.
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I want to do work on human rights, and I realized it's hypocritical for me to prioritize certain human rights over others.
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UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on April 1 described the laws as "draconian" and a setback for human rights.
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They will be implemented under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuses and corruption.
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In the years since then, the body — alongside its annual review of the human rights records of all UN members — has launched inquiries into human rights abuses in North Korea and Syria and has affirmed LGBT rights as human rights.
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In March, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet presented a report on human rights around the world to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, and raised the issue of "enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions" in Xinjiang.
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In 2015 Mansoor received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, an annual prize awarded in Geneva by a panel of international human rights organizations, for his work documenting the human rights situation in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state.
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"By leaving human rights out of the final statement, the Trump administration effectively told North Korea that human rights are not a U.S. priority," Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch&aposs Asia division, wrote on the group&aposs website.
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Claiming to be a champion of human rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) continues to act in complete contradiction of its mandate to protect human rights and reflects the cronyism and corruption of many of its member governments.
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" The impact: Human rights officials are concerned that such a designation could embolden el-Sisi's suppression in Egypt, which has seen thousands jailed and Human Rights Watch said is in the midst of its "worst human rights crisis ... in recent decades.
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In international law, this principle can be found in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and 1969 American Convention on Human Rights, to name a few.
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Her response illustrated the administration's deepening impatience with United Nations human rights mechanisms that Ms. Haley has accused of "chronic bias" against Israel and of overlooking the abuses major human rights violators — even allowing them to become Human Rights Council members.
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Diplomats and human rights groups saw the Human Rights Council vote as demonstrating its ability to deliver meaningful action on critical human rights issues soon after the United States decided to pull out on the grounds that it was ineffective.
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"This internet shutdown is a human rights violation," said Irfan Mehraj, a researcher at the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a federation of human rights organizations in Kashmir that releases an annual report of Kashmir's human rights situation each year.
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Jehanne Henry, a Human Rights Watch researcher who closely monitors Sudan, said that among those freed were Amjed Farid, a human-rights activist; Salih Mahmoud Osman, a human rights lawyer; Mohieldeen Aljalad, a communist activist; and Dr. Sidiq Kaballo, an economist.
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The new human rights policy includes: Commitments to align business policies with the International Bill of Human Rights, the International Labor Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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The complaint was filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which studies alleged human rights abuses in North and South America.
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The group also smacked his human rights record, labeling his legacy of mass surveillance and drone strikes as a human rights failure. 4.
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The U.N. High Commission on Human Rights has called on Algeria to stop the mass expulsions, saying they violate international human rights law.
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The European Court of Human Rights has a strong track record of ensuring that intelligence agencies act in compliance with human rights law.
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Human Rights Watch has accused him and other high-level officials of failing to take steps to prevent or punish human rights violations.
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Human Rights Foundation issued a public statement condemning the Atlantic Council for celebrating Bongo despite his human rights violations, election fraud, and kleptocracy.
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The measures are serious human rights violations, Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri, head of Qatar's National Human Rights Committee, told reporters in Washington.
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For each item purchased, Everlane donates $5 to one of three human rights organizations: the ACLU, Equality Now, and the Human Rights Campaign.
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The UN's Human Rights Council voted Thursday to investigate human rights abuses in the Philippines' war on drugs, championed by President Rodrigo Duterte.
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" The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has warned the bill could be used to "sanction the work of human rights defenders.
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Those parties include El Paso County in Texas and the Border Network for Human Rights, an immigration reform and human rights advocacy group.
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Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch, called the decision "inexplicable" and said there had been no progress on human rights.
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"[A] wide variety of serious human rights concerns persist," Tom Lantos of the Human Rights Commission said in announcing the Tuesday afternoon hearing.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein accused Bulgaria on Thursday of committing systematic human rights violations by criminalising migrants.
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"We've seen many legislative proposals in the last couple of years that trample on human rights," explains César Muñoz of Human Rights Watch.
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The UN Human Rights Office accused the Nicaraguan government of violating international and human rights laws in a scathing report published on Wednesday.
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Opposition critics and human rights groups say that if Trudeau is serious about standing up for human rights, he should cancel the deal.
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That month, the Netherlands floated a resolution at the Human Rights Council in Geneva to create a human rights mission in the country.
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In the last Human Rights Council session in March, the European Union statement pointed to China's detention of lawyers and human rights defenders.
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"You can't have directives coming from Washington that are distinctly anti-human rights and then say you're championing human rights at the U.N."
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Last month, South Korea's own human rights watchdog, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), said that the current law was unconstitutional.
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Human rights activists and national governments rely on this soft law to "name and shame" countries and businesses over their human rights records.
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Daniel Bekele, a former political prisoner and Africa director at New York-based Human Rights Watch, now heads the government's human rights commission.
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Tuesday's announcement coincides with Human Rights Day, observed globally to mark the United Nations' 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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On Tuesday, the United Nations human rights office urged an immediate halt to the practice, saying it violates human rights and international law.
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In this vein, the Declaration of Independence can serve as a reference point for the international community, which is evaluating a human rights system that is fast becoming a global technocracy; for human rights experts, who may have forgotten the roots of the human rights movement; and for oppressed people, who seek to hold accountable leaders who abuse their basic human rights.
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At the international level, United Nations Commissions on Human Rights, civil rights groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued condemnations against fatal force being used against rock throwers.
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Washington (CNN)Nearly 20 human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have pushed back on claims by US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that they are responsible for the US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council.
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"Amnesty speaks out for human rights and calls out governments abusing human rights—this attack fits a growing pattern of hostility towards organizations and individuals working on human rights," Danna Ingleton, research and policy advisor at Amnesty, told Motherboard in an email.
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GENEVA — When a senior diplomat from Myanmar told a gathering of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday that his country was "committed to the defense of human rights," he drew an outraged rebuttal from the United Nations' top human rights official.
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Human rights organizations raised concerns about a tribunal that will be set up to try people accused of war crimes or human rights violations.
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It is the first time a human-rights commission has heard evidence on whether large emitters violate basic human rights by causing climate change.
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The Human Rights Council also has convened 28 special sessions devoted to human rights and other abuses, with eight (29 percent) focused on Israel.
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Human rights as a foreign policy priority For successive administrations, the cause of human rights has been at the center of American foreign policy.
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"At the time, the [human rights] organizations weren't convinced that Kirchner really was something different," said Luciana Bertoia, a journalist specializing in human rights.
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Human Rights Watch, an NGO, says that it poses "a huge threat to human rights, the rule of law and the country's democratic future".
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He is a founding member of the Board of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, and on the board of the Human Rights Association.
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Last July, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy's failure to recognize same-sex unions violated the European Convention on Human Rights.
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There have been at least 168 arrests of human-rights campaigners from July 2014 to July 2018, says Amnesty International, a human-rights organisation.
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However, Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez welcomed the report and the recommendation for a commission of inquiry by the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Miriam Hernandez of the Sinaloa state Commission for Human Rights said it had opened an investigation into whether the killings involved human rights abuses.
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" Shakir added that the denial of his work permit "comes amid increasing pressure on human rights groups and human rights defenders in Israel/Palestine.
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A Qatar semi-government human rights body said the demands were a violation of human rights conventions and should not be accepted by Qatar.
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Lu said China fully safeguards human rights and that the United States should take a hard look at its own domestic human rights record.
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Mick Gooda, an aboriginal official at the Australian Human Rights Commission, calls it "one of the most challenging human-rights issues facing our country".
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It is in our [national] interest to defend human rights," he tweeted, arguing that looking past Saudi human rights abuses would "help extremism flourish.
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A collection of 14 human rights organizations, journalists and privacy groups had told the court that the practices were in violation of human rights.
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But the human rights side of the equation remains problematic for a country Human Rights Watch describes as one of the world's most repressive.
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The Interior Ministry has denied allegations by human rights groups that police commit widespread human rights violations and has vowed to punish any violations.
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These figures scarcely change, no matter how many reports come out from Human Rights Watch, the United Nations or Australia's own Human Rights Commission.
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By couching prejudice and fear in the language of Article 9 exceptions, the court in effect uses human rights laws to limit human rights.
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Protests and armed clashes occur in response to human-rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and rape, by Indian security forces, Human Rights Watch reports.
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Troops on both sides committed human rights abuses against civilians on a devastating scale, United Nations human rights officials and other groups have found.
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"There is work to be done to improve the Human Rights Council," Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch wrote earlier this year.
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The human rights group said South Korea's military code "does not comply with the international human rights obligations the state has signed on to".
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Human rights groups have vigorously criticized Erdogan's post-coup purge, arguing it enables impunity and has led to a widespread breach of human rights.
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Human rights advocates and legal scholars say that what Chinese officials are doing amounts to the worst human rights abuse in China in decades.
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Mr. Kashua does harm to human rights and the prospects for peaceful coexistence by suggesting that the human rights of both peoples are incompatible.
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Google has a responsibility to respect human rights that exists independently of a state's ability or willingness to fulfil its own human rights obligations.
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"Doing nothing... will undermine the credibility of all of our efforts to reinforce human rights and human rights standards around the world," he said.
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And despite claiming to be a champion of human rights, she has been oddly selective about the human-rights issues that elicit her outrage.
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The writer, former U.N. special representative for business and human rights, is a professor of human rights and international affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School.
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During that purge, hundreds were persecuted here in Palu, according to a local human rights group, Solidarity for the Victims of Human Rights Violations.
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Groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Council, which opens its main annual session on Feb.
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The administration's vendetta against the international human rights system, ironically, could end up reaffirming for Americans how important "human rights" are for them, too.
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The new Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act requires the president to impose sanctions on people who violate human rights in Hong Kong.
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"The arrest of Kem Sokha is a disastrous setback for Cambodia's human rights situation," said John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.
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Several months before Facebook hired Sissons, Twitter brought on Cynthia Wong, a former researcher at Human Rights Watch, to be its human rights director.
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Those resigning were Navi Pillay, a former United Nations high commissioner for human rights, and the corporate human rights expert Ron Popper, FIFA said.
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"These human rights violations have no place in a democratic society and contravene the fundamental tenets of international human rights standards," the statement said.
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Actress and activist Amber Heard in conversation with Rebecca Ruiz in defense of human rights In her emotional appeal onstage, actress, activist, and human rights champion Amber Heard extolled the virtues of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and why it's so important today.
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The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, and other international organizations have documented serious human rights violations against native Crimeans in shocking numbers, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, forced deportation to Russia, torture, and conscription into the Russian armed forces.
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And given that human rights remain a cause for concern in many of the UN's own member states it seems a pretty safe bet to expect the state of human rights online to continue to reflect the mixed bag state of human rights offline.
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In a scathing appraisal, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the high commissioner for human rights, said he was appalled at what he called attempts to "block or evade human rights scrutiny" by the United Nations member states that created the Human Rights Council a decade ago.
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Ms. Hernández worked on behalf of human rights in Mexico for 15 years, six of them at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juarez Human Rights Center in Mexico City and four as deputy director of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center in the state of Guerrero.
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"With increasingly dangerous conditions for human rights defenders on the ground, online spaces enable us to safely and widely disseminate information about the human rights situation in the Philippines," Nymia Pimentel-Simbulan, executive director of the Philippine Human Rights Information Center, told VICE News.
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Human rights groups have criticized the rare instances when the United States has forcibly repatriated detainees to countries that have questionable records on human rights.
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports on the state of human rights in the Caribbean nation the day after Castro died at 90.
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International human rights organizations and investigative reportershave also sounded the alarm, emphasizing serious human rights concerns and repeatedly calling on Google to cancel the project.
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Particularly when you're the member of a minority, you begin to realize just how important it is to human rights and the human rights angle.
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His sentence is "a reminder that Xi Jinping&aposs brutal crackdown on human rights continues," said Frances Eve, a researcher with Chinese Human Rights Defenders.
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Saudi Arabia trumpeted this reform in its 2018 report to the UN Human Rights Council during its comprehensive review of the country's human rights record.
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"Major blow to human rights" By removing itself from the ICC, South Africa could soon become home to many unsavory characters, human rights groups worry.
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" Löning recommended that WWF train its staff more, consider "setting up a human rights department," and "report more proactively and transparently on human rights issues.
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But he has also been criticized by Rwandans in the diaspora and human rights activists for ruling like an authoritarian and blatantly ignoring human rights.
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" On the withdrawal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said "we need to be honest, the Human Rights Council is a poor defender of human rights.
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Lao authorities have remained silent on the teacher and activist's disappearance, drawing the concern of human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
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The Council of Europe is the guardian of the European Convention on Human Rights and creator of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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Advocacy group Human Rights Watch urged the Obama administration to object to human rights violations in countries such as Cambodia and Thailand during the summit.
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The Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson, said in a statement Ozcelik's deportation was "a clear violation of international human rights law".
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Human Rights Watch published a report on the Chechen campaign in 2000 entitled "Welcome to Hell" and accusing Russian forces of egregious human rights violations.
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The International Federation of Human Rights Societies and Center of Human Rights Advocate also issued separate statements condemning the execution of Sunni prisoners in Iran.
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The United Nations Human Rights Committee found Tuesday that France's ban on the niqab, the full-body Islamic veil, is a violation of human rights.
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Uzbekistan presented its third human rights report at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, the first one since the leadership change.
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China on Thursday knocked the human rights record of the U.S. one day after the State Department slammed China over its own human rights record.
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The State Department's "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," released Wednesday, detailed human rights abuses in Iran, South Sudan and Nicaragua in addition to China.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council is famous for the human-rights violators who have figured among its rotating membership, which currently includes Saudi Arabia.
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We cannot think of any better way to celebrate Human Rights Day and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this Monday.
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" 'Deeply disappointed' "For too long," Haley said, "the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers, and a cesspool of political bias.
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Egypt receives an average of $1.6 billion annually, though Human Rights Watch has named Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a chronic human-rights abuser.
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Some of the changes also came about because of the 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.
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Miriam Hernandez of the Sinaloa state Commission for Human Rights said the organization had opened an investigation into whether the killings involved human rights abuses.
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Human rights advocates, including the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, have called for his conviction to be overturned, as well.
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On Tuesday, United Nations human rights officials issued a statement expressing "profound concern" about the intervention, which they warned could lead to human rights violations.
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In 1995, he spoke before the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva and a human rights subcommittee of the House of Representatives in Washington.
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Still, human rights groups saw Wednesday's meeting as a chance to build momentum for a stronger response by Human Rights Council members later this year.
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Conditioning arms sales based on countries' human rights records also ensures that the United States is not complicit in human rights abuses or war crimes.
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A female president of the U.S., particularly one who has said "Women's rights are human rights, human rights are women's rights," presents a serious threat.
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The deaths have raised pressure on Añez's interim government, with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission visiting the country to investigate potential human rights violations.
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The crackdown at first targeted Islamists, including Brotherhood members, but spread to encompass political dissidents, human rights lawyers, journalists and others, says Human Rights Watch.
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"This is not some abstract human rights issue," said Laila Alodaat, a Syrian human rights lawyer at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Mr. Patrón is the executive director of the Miguel Augustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, perhaps the most highly respected human rights group in Mexico.
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By that summer, after United Nations investigators chronicled human rights abuses "on a massive scale," Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International backed an arms embargo.
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" He added, "We view access to internet in China as a human rights issue, and I would expect Apple to value human rights over profits.
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Human Rights Watch's Turkey director Emma Sinclair-Webb told VICE News that the new system raised huge concerns for democracy and human rights in Turkey.
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The group Human Rights Watch mentioned both Trump and Le Pen in a report warning that the rise of populist leaders threatens global human rights.
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" - Human Rights Watch said: "Today's action is a clear indication of the significant backsliding on human rights we've seen in Myanmar since the 2015 election.
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Yet justice and compassion lie at the heart of human rights; by judiciously extending rights in a case like this, we in turn deepen human rights.
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For us, it's looking very closely at how we develop the policy framework, focusing on human rights, making sure we're not adversely impacting people's human rights.
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International human rights groups also urge the kingdom to improve its treatment of human rights advocates, stop executions and cancel its pervasive system of male guardianship.
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Previous administrations allowed the Human Rights Commission at the United Nations to be occupied by some of the most grotesque human rights abusers in the world.
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Rwanda&aposs National Commission for Human Rights has disputed the allegations, saying some of the people Human Rights Watch has reported as killed are still alive.
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Facebook is hiring a human rights policy director If you are good at human rights than do I have an important job for you to consider!
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"Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abuses — and the very Administration directing these human rights abuses — is not a solution," Omar said.
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The conduct of security and related personnel to ensure the human rights of those arrested or suspected fully complies with international obligations and human-rights treaties.
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Han is one of thousands of victims of what human rights groups call one of the most shameful human rights abuses in recent South Korean history.
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"We believe it's very important that we talk about human rights, and the administration has been very supportive of me talking about human rights," she said.
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Russia is committing "grave" human rights violations in Crimea, including its imposition of citizenship and by deporting prisoners, a U.N. human rights report said on Monday.
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Iran rejects criticism of its human rights record by international human rights bodies as politically motivated and based on a lack of understanding of Islamic laws.
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Australia has no Charter of Human Rights which would require the Parliament or the courts to consider whether counter-terrorism laws comply with human rights principles.
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Kaye, an independent expert, was appointed by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in 2014 to examine and report on specific situations or human rights issues.
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"The company has already retained a human rights expert and former U.S. ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper to advise the company regarding human rights compliance," it added.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council's unfortunate targeting of Israel has detracted from the council's ability to credibly speak out against human rights violators and eradicate injustices.
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Aviva Raz Shechter, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council that her country had always stood up for human rights.
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"Afghanistan's national unity government squandered important opportunities to tackle serious human rights problems," Patricia Gossman, senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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The London-based Burma Human Rights Network has been advocating among the international community for human rights in Myanmar since 2012, it says on its website.
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" 'Non-existent human rights issue' The official added that the US had been deliberately provocative with last week's sanctions on the "non-existent 'human rights issue.
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The European Court of Human Rights has issued not one but two judgments calling his conviction and imprisonment contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights.
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"Apps like this can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women," Rothna Begum, a senior women's rights researcher with Human Rights Watch, told The Hill.
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Most recently, the State Department's annual Human Rights Report stripped language related to women's reproductive rights, disregarding the indisputable truth that women's rights are human rights.
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"Apps like this can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women," Rothna Begum, a senior women's rights researcher with Human Rights Watch, told The Hill.
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Whether in autocratic or democratic societies, suppressing human rights and expression of artists anywhere is an attack on freedom of speech, human rights, and artists everywhere.
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The practice came under fire again this week after Human Rights Watch called attention to a report released by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).
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We're at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a conference sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation that's designed to promote and protect human rights all over the world.
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International human rights groups say Facebook should be doing more to prevent the hateful speech, focusing as much on global human rights as on its business.
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These are exactly the types of actions that human rights experts have been warning about: states of emergency cannot be used to curtail fundamental human rights.
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In addition to his work as a journalist, Mr. Timerman was also a human-rights activist and a founder of the human rights group Americas Watch.
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Multiple human rights organizations, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, had pressed the Egyptian government to release Mr. Abd El Fattah, calling his sentence politically motivated.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, taking a powerful stand against China in defending Hong Kong human rights.
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Among its goals will be to respond to human rights allegations against Egypt and to monitor and address human rights problems raised at the international level.
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" Xing called the achievement one of the great human rights successes and adding that his government has made "every effort to advance human rights in China.
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The government commissioner for human rights, Baerbel Kofler, voted against the bill, telling Reuters there were "proven and documented human rights violations" in those three countries.
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Mr. Trump has lavished praise on Mr. Sisi, praising him as a "fantastic guy," despite criticism from human rights groups about Egypt's dismal human rights record.
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"He has not been a champion for civil and human rights or been on the battle front fighting for civil and human rights," Mr. Simelton said.
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Tunggal Pawestri, an Indonesian human rights activist, told CNN it was "crystal clear" police had violated the human rights of the transgender women in Sunday's raids.
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Human rights group Amnesty International welcomed the release of the prisoner of conscience, but noted that Aliyev has paid dearly for his frontline human rights work.
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I confronted him about human rights violations and cases of torture that have been reported by Human Rights Watch, and with the existence of political prisoners.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council must set up a commission of inquiry into Myanmar's human rights record, as it has done for North Korea and Eritrea, and not spare its leader because of her iconic status, a former U.S. human rights envoy said on Monday.
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Expenditure cap, a breach on human rights Plans to slash public spending are incompatible with Brazil's human rights obligations and place the country in a "socially retrogressive category of its own," according to Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
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"LACERA strongly values human rights and expects all investment partners to ensure robust human rights practices," a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association emailed BuzzFeed News, noting that the organization does due diligence on external money managers on topics including human rights violations.
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"Local organizations working on human rights issues are home alone, and their governments know it — dictators are taking opportunities to achieve gains because the biggest voice in the human rights community isn't there," said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch.
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"We urge the Government of Saudi Arabia to unconditionally release all human rights defenders and activists who have been detained for their peaceful human rights work, including their decades-long campaigns for the lifting of the driving ban for women," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said.
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" In 2015 alone, Egyptian human rights organizations have documented 1,840 cases of forced disappearances, and the US State Department's 2015 report on human rights said that in most cases the Egyptian government "did not comprehensively investigate human rights abuses, including most incidents of violence by security forces.
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A group of experts, including human rights advocates from large organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as well as human rights lawyers and journalists, were surveyed to produce the first-of-its-kind examination of safety from the state and empowerment for 19 countries.
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"My main message today is that any advancement on the security dialogue should be accompanied by a parallel expansion on the human rights dialogue," Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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A U.N. human rights report said on Monday that Russia had committed grave human rights violations in Crimea, including its imposition of citizenship and by deporting prisoners.
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Human rights are a huge issue in the industry The cocoa industry has struggled with reports of human rights violations like hazardous working conditions and child labor.
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The disturbing video is one of a handful that have emerged from northern Rakhine State, in Myanmar, where human rights groups warn of widespread human rights abuses.
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One of the city's most famous crosses belongs to prominent human rights activist, Norma Corona Sapién, 38, the president of the independent Human Rights Commission of Sinaloa.
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"Within the context of the renewed crackdown on Egyptian human rights organizations, he has become a leading figure in Egypt's human rights movement," the awards jury said.
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The Human Rights Council was the U.N.'s cure for the Human Rights Commission – presided over by Muammar Qaddafi's Libya shortly before somebody noticed it lacked credibility.
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Virtually all human-rights lawyers consider the commissions, in the recent words of Human Rights Watch, a New York-based monitor, to have been "an absolute disaster".
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"Don't play Israel until Palestinians' human rights are respected," the BDS movement had said, calling the match an attempt to draw attention away from human rights abuses.
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"The people feel now that there is no hope and no need for all of this human rights work and this human rights documentation," Mr. Ghany said.
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Many have voiced opposition to the ban and The League of Human Rights (LDH), a human rights NGO in France, said it would challenge it in court.
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"US capacity-building efforts to help West African security forces better respect human rights is very important," said Corinne Dufka, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
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Attacks on human rights leaders Forst called for an inquiry into government attempts to "intimidate" and harass the Australian Human Rights Commission and its president, Gillian Triggs.
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Human Rights Watch says that neither it nor Shakir, a U.S. citizen, support boycotts and accuses Israel of trying to muzzle criticism of its human rights record.
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Macri's human rights chief, Claudio Avruj, said the government is committed to defending human rights and that perpetrators of dictatorship-era crimes would continue to face trial.
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She has chosen to defend the army's actions, to deny human-rights violations and to ban human-rights investigators from entering the country, so she is complicit.
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Human Rights Campaign: As advocates of LGBTQ equality, Human Rights Campaign is also insisting that the Senate wait until after the midterm elections for a confirmation vote.
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He said the European Court of Human rights had ruled that the right to gay marriage was not a right under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Last July, the European Court of Human Rights found that Italy's failure to recognize same-sex unions represented a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Costa Rica's government gave it in 22012 to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), established 22012 years earlier, to show its commitment to human rights.
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However, human rights groups say he failed to put an end to arbitrary arrests of political and human rights activists, and mistreatment and torture of the prisoners.
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The contradiction: Trump is imposing these limits due to human rights concerns but his administration has previously said it won't discuss other countries' human rights issues publicly.
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United Nations human rights experts on Monday described the shutdown, which has affected humanitarian operations in the country, as a clear violation of international human rights law.
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Andrew Gilmour, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, told the council that there has "been no improvement in the appalling human rights violations" in North Korea.
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Charlie's parents argued that the UK courts gave insufficient weight to their own human rights, and some of Charlie's human rights, in their decision-making, Wilson said.
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Antonio Panzeri, the chairman of the European Parliament subcommittee on human rights, said the country should "bring its penal code into full compliance with human rights obligations".
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"We have told international governments and human rights groups including the U.N. that the current government is committed to protecting and promoting human rights," said Zaw Htay.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned earlier this month that widespread human rights violations by the government "endanger the credibility of the electoral process".
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The report, by the U.N. Human Rights Council, says that arbitrary detentions during search operations by Indian troops are leading to a range of human rights violations.
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Nowhere is the human rights' community moral inversion more blatant than at the United Nations, where China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia sit on the Human Rights Council.
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Instead of staying silent on human rights violations, President Trump could strengthen his credibility as a global leader by pressing Kim Jong Un to protect human rights.
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The United Nations and human rights groups have for years criticised Australia's policy, citing human rights abuses in the offshore detention centres and called for their closure.
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In January, Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar embarked on a 12-day trip to investigate human rights conditions in the country.
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More sinister still, the original compromises that elevated these rights to the status of human rights have enabled totalitarian regimes to sit at the human-rights table.
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In 2012, Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic called for a preëmptive, international ban on the development of fully autonomous weapons.
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Even with reform, the Human Rights Council, which is composed of elected governments, is not, and likely will never be, the decisive enforcer of human rights standards.
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The UNHRC works closely and somewhat overlaps with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which also promotes human rights and investigates abuses.
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The prison has undermined America's standing as a champion of human rights and set a deplorable example for other governments inclined to violate international human rights law.
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Haley has called for other reforms to the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying the group should make it easier to expel states with poor human rights records.
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A recent spate of arrests of human rights lawyers and activists in China has created cause for diplomatic concern and incurred widespread condemnation from human rights groups.
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He is leaving behind a police force with "a sordid human rights record", according to Carlos Conde, a researcher for the New York based Human Rights Watch.
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In contrast to the current wave of skepticism about human rights, I have seen nothing but a growing appetite for justice and human rights to be realized.
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The Philippines has been "undergoing a human rights crisis" that could amount to crimes against humanity, said Louis Charbonneau, Human Rights Watch's director at the United Nations.
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When the diplomat told the U.N. Human Rights Council that his country was "committed to the defense of human rights," it was too much for Mr. Hussein.
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"She had a poor record on human rights," said Ricky Gunawan, a lawyer for the Community Legal Aid Institute in Jakarta, which specializes in human rights cases.
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China's State Council, or Cabinet, said the United States was a self-styled "human rights defender," that has a human rights record which is "flawed and lackluster".
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He lodged a complaint on Wednesday with the Australian Human Rights Commission, accusing the Australian government of human rights violations and negligence stemming from systemic racial discrimination.
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"What this decision does is yank us all back to the Dark Ages of human rights and women's human rights and the conceptualization of it," she said.
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Human rights advocates and legal scholars say the mass detentions in the northwest region of Xinjiang are the worst collective human rights abuse in China in decades.
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Human rights groups warn that the choke hold on communication could effectively prevent the international community from learning of, and responding to, any human rights abuses. 5.
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Designed by the Turkish artist Metin Yurdanur, the sculpture is known as the Human Rights Monument, and the woman is reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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The U.S. withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council — the world's most important human rights body — in protest of its frequent criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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Human rights officers from the German Embassy are in regular contact with Vietnamese political dissidents, and the embassy regularly posts about human rights issues on social media.
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A U.N. human rights report said last month that Russia had committed grave human rights violations in Crimea, including its imposition of citizenship and deporting of prisoners.
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The Trump administration should expand and strengthen cooperation with the United Nations' human rights bodies and pursue other multilateral diplomatic efforts to engage on human rights concerns.
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Ragia Omran, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist, said she had been repeatedly warned by researchers with human rights groups that her communications had been targeted.
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Rights groups long have accused Duterte of human rights violations in his anti-drug campaign, which Human Rights Watch estimates has killed 12,000 people since June 2016.
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She used her address to deliver a pointed attack on the United Nations Human Rights Council, the main international body meant to promote and defend human rights.
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"As human rights experts, we are right now saying this process has been arbitrary and discriminatory," Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told me.
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Rights groups — including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International — urged the U.N. Human Rights Council to formally investigate China's mass detention of Muslims in the western region.
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All of these policies can be read off the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and every other international human rights resolution and treaty since the late 1940s.
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The GAO report found that the human rights vetting has significant "weaknesses" and "gaps," raising the possibility that US is directly funding human rights abuses in Egypt.
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"We are gravely concerned that anyone extradited to China will be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and other grave human rights violations," Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor wrote in an open letter to Carrie Lam, the city's leader, on Sunday.
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"The resolution will be a litmus test of the Human Rights Council and its capacity to engage meaningfully and effectively to meet the real needs of civilians on the ground faced with potential war crimes and violations of international human rights law," said John Fisher of Human Rights Watch.
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"The U.N. human rights office is going to be able to harness the potential of technology to tackle human rights abuse more effectively, and at the same time will be better placed to respond to the new human rights challenges that may be posed by technology," she said.
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" Calling for "a heightened due diligence process" from Qantas in particular, a signed statement from ACCR wields the UN's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, noting that "the corporate responsibility to respect human rights means taking measures to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts.
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"The Council of Europe, a human rights monitoring organization that oversees the European Court of Human Rights, dubbed Mosquito devices in violation of international law banning "inhuman and degrading treatment" in 2010, adding that they were "neither politically acceptable nor consistent with the safeguard of fundamental human rights.
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GENEVA — A group of United Nations human rights experts called on Friday for an international inquiry into the state of human rights in the Philippines because of the "staggering number" of unlawful killings by the security services and official attacks on people and institutions who defend human rights there.
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Also this week, more than a dozen international human rights groups sent a letter to United Nations member states calling on them to take "clear and concrete actions to denounce China's current rollback (of) human rights" at the UN Human Rights Council, which opened its session in Geneva Monday.
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" On Twitter, Human Rights Watch executive director Sarah Whitson tweeted that Airbnb's decision came "on eve of @HRW report of human rights harms of #Airbnb business in settlements.
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Moreover, Clinton administration actions against the Haitian boat people was condemned as a human rights violation when reviewed in 1997 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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Duterte, who brooks no criticism of his human rights record and war on drugs, offered a comment on what he would tell Trump if he raised human rights.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities must let in human rights monitors, end repression of protesters and restore the internet connection, U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet said on Monday.
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"Google has a responsibility to respect human rights that exists independently of a state's ability or willingness to fulfill its own human rights obligations," the open letter says.
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Last week, a group of petitioners filed a complaint against the US at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violating migrants' human rights by separating families.
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Human rights and environmental groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, are calling for an investigation into whether Mr. Siregar was murdered in retaliation for his work.
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One of the youngest of the group, 29-year old Acu works for the Human Rights Agenda Association, for whom he monitors human rights violations throughout the country.
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JF: You know the U.S. pulling out of the Human Rights Council it seems appropriate because they don't seem to be prioritizing human rights to say the least.
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"The use of criminal proceedings against human-rights defenders...is unfortunately an increasingly frequent phenomenon" in Turkey, says Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights.
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Human rights lawyers and activists, including the group Human Rights Watch, have called on the new government to amend or repeal the law saying it stifles free speech.
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Ben Emmerson is the UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights and an international lawyer, and he specializes in European human rights law and international criminal law.
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Human-rights violations are still depressingly common across the country, peace has not yet returned to the mutinous south—and human-rights groups urged Washington to maintain sanctions.
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If we can't guarantee the basic human rights of migrants currently under our care, potentially adding more to the mix is a human rights disaster waiting to happen.
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Human rights activists targeted Among those believed to have been targeted via WhatsApp is a London-based human rights lawyer, who is advising on a case against NSO.
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It also includes gross violations of international human rights against people who seek to expose illegal government activity, or those trying to obtain or promote international human rights.
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"The responsibility for the human rights violations we are recording lies at the highest levels of government," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said.
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Otherwise, said Thorbjorn Jagland, Turkey may be challenged in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which is tasked with enforcing the European Convention of Human Rights.
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The group includes the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Prodh), human rights advocacy group Article 19, Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity and digital rights group R3D.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia is committing "grave" human rights violations in Crimea, including its imposition of citizenship and by deporting prisoners, a U.N. human rights report said on Monday.
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Ruiz Cabanas said that Mexico had just signed an agreement with the U.N. human rights office, testifying to "our cooperation and our openness to international human rights mechanisms".
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The United Nations' human rights bodies, the International Criminal Court and regional human rights bodies are being undermined by governments attempting to evade oversight of their domestic records.
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Qatar's National Human Rights Committee said some of the demands violate international human rights conventions, according to a Qatar News Agency story tweeted Friday by the foreign ministry.
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Supporters expressed appreciation for Trump's emphasis on human rights in Cuba, despite his lack of interest in the human rights situation in other countries, such as Saudi Arabia.
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"These 186 presumed rebels risk being subjected to grave violations of human rights," Florent Geel, Africa director for Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), told Reuters.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein condemned the Syrian government on Tuesday, in a wide-ranging speech cataloguing human rights abuses around the world.
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The center has shared older posts on the human rights violations as well as pieces arguing for human rights to be included in future talks with North Korea.
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"[The State Department] is dedicated to promoting human rights & dignity through our actions, policies & annual reports, including reports on Human Rights, Trafficking in Persons & Religious Freedom," she added.
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During his imprisonment, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, the wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney, championed his cause and helped expose alleged human rights violations by Yameen's administration.
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The move caused concern among human rights advocates, the Post reported, who are interpreting his absence as a sign of Tillerson's lack of commitment to human rights issues.
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Cordillera Human Rights Alliance, alongside other rights groups, submitted a policy paper to a US human rights caucus in 2015 on threats made against activists in the region.
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According to groups like Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, Egypt's human rights have steadily declined during the four-year rule of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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In 85033, Congress directly tackled what was perceived as insufficient State Department interest in human rights by mandating the creation of a human rights bureau in the department.
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Human rights groups have documented numerous abuses, including the imprisonment of journalists and political dissidents, the disbarment of human rights lawyers and a crackdown on civil society groups.
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Even after the Bill of Rights added basic human rights, the vast majority of people–as much as 85033% of the post-Revolutionary population — were denied human rights.
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"The question was whether the Human Rights Council actually supports human rights or is merely a showcase for dictatorships that use their membership to whitewash brutality," Haley wrote.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council recently called on agencies to develop effective and accessible offices as part of a government's duty to prevent and address human rights abuses.
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On Friday the United Nations' Human Rights Council passed a resolution which brings offline human rights online by condemning the practice of internet censorship in all its forms.
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Haddad also intends to relaunch previously ignored federal human rights divisions devoted to Women's Rights and Racial Equality and to integrate Brazil into the International Human Rights System.
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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission described the system as a "severe violation of human rights" in 2015 because of the time it took to process applications.
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"I think the human rights issues are very important issues, and I think that the United States needs to play a leadership role on human rights," he said.
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President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights When I started working in human rights in the early 1980s, all of Latin America was under right-wing military dictatorships.
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Mr. Berezowsky (left), 32, is a human rights specialist and communications strategist at Shift, an organization in New York that seeks to resolve business and human rights issues.
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While other human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, have been covering the situation in Chechnya since the spring, this report is the most detailed and comprehensive yet.
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The United Nations, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have all described my detention as arbitrary and called for my release.
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That refusal to cooperate with a panel created by the Human Rights Council flouted a core requirement for membership in the group, the world's top human rights body.
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