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| | Human rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the use of the death penalty, however, in some democracies such as the United States, particularly when the penalty is used against those who were minors when they committed the crime in question. | | | Legally, human rights are defined in international law and covenants, and further, in the domestic laws of many states. | | | Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
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| | Human Rights |
| | These rights are familiar from historic bills of rights such as the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) and the United States Bill of Rights (1791, with subsequent amendments). | | | Another UN agency with jurisdiction in the human rights area is the International Criminal Court (United Nations, 1998). | | | A human right can exist as a shared norm of actual human moralities, as a justified moral norm supported by strong reasons, as a legal right at the national level (here it might be referred to as a "civil" or "constitutional" right), or as a legal right within international law. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human
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| | Human Rights [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Furthermore, human rights may be either claim rights or liberty rights, and have a negative or a positive complexion in respect of the obligations imposed by others in securing the right. | | | Human rights claim validity everywhere and for everyone, irrespective of whether they have received comprehensive legal recognition, and even irrespective of whether everyone is agreement with the claims and principles of human rights. | | | A legal right cannot be said to exist prior to its passing into law and the limits of its validity are set by the jurisdiction of the body which passed the relevant legislation. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hum-rts.htm
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| | OHCHR: English (English) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| | This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. | | | Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. | | | These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
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| | United Nations Agreements on Human Rights |
| | The covenant permits governments to temporarily suspend some of these rights in cases of civil emergency only, and lists those rights which cannot be suspended for any reason. | | | It also restricts the death penalty to the most serious of crimes, guarantees condemned people the right to appeal for commutation to a lesser penalty, and forbids the death penalty entirely for people under 18 years of age. | | | the right to legal recourse when their rights have been violated, even if the violator was acting in an official capacity |
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http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html
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| | ASIL Electronic Resource Guide |
| | It can be defined as "the human rights component of the law of war." The principle legal sources are the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the two later protocols (http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions). | | | The most important human rights instruments are available full-text under the section called International Law (http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/), but they lack complete citations and there is no search mechanism for the treaties separate from the rese of the web site. | | | European Court of Human Rights (general information, basic texts, access to pending cases and judgments) (http://www.echr.coe.int/). |
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http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm
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| | Kurdish Human Rights Project |
| | Of particular importance is the caseload of applications to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and submissions to UN mechanisms on behalf of Kurdish and non-Kurdish applicants, brought by KHRP with the assistance of its partners on the ground. | | | 11th May 2005 : European Human Rights Court To Rule In Ocalan Death Penalty Case | | | Despite BP promises of fair engagement, most villagers have yet to receive compensation... |
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http://www.khrp.org
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| | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights |
| | PCHR is a recipient of the 1996 French Republic Award for Human Rights. | | | Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH), and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. | | | Securing the Wall from International Law: an initial response to the Israeli State Attorney. |
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http://www.pchrgaza.org
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| | Human Rights |
| | The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. | | | Because the promotion of human rights is an important national interest, the United States seeks to: | | | The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr
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| | Women's Human Rights: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
| | Urge the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro to ensure that the country's legal framework is in accordance with the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. | | | While Amnesty International commends the recent measures taken by the Mexican government, the response remains inadequate. | | | The conflict in Darfur has witnessed some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, including systematic and wide-scale ethnic-cleansing, murder, rape, torture, and enslavement. |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/index.do
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| | DIANA |
| | Among other items, the DIANA Project Yale houses a unique collection of litigation documents used in various human rights-related cases in courts in the U. The documents are marked up in HTML. | | | The University of Cincinnati College of Law no longer participates in the DIANA Human Rights Database Project. | | | This site is excellent as a general overview of human rights documentation. |
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http://www.law.uc.edu/Diana
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| | WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net |
| | HITHERTO, the world's worst tyrants have usually managed to avoid being brought to court for their crimes. | | | Women's rights activists in Nepal have hailed a Supreme Court's ruling to scrap a law that allowed men to seek divorce if their partner was infertile. | | | The continuing erosion of human rights in Zimbabwe was highlighted in 2005 by Operation Murambatsvina, the government’s program of mass evictions and demolitions which began in May, and, which, according to the United Nations, deprived 700,000 men, women and children of their homes, their livelihoods, or both throughout the country. |
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http://www.whrnet.org
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| | Human Rights - US Department of State |
| | Inter-American Body Denounces Rights Policies of Venezuela, Cuba | | | In a May 2 statement, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in Venezuela the government of President Hugo Chávez is "maligning" the country's human-rights workers by referring to such workers as "coup plotters" and agents of instability. | | | New report by Organization of American States details human rights abuses |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/human_rights.html
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| | Derechos Human Rights |
| | The question of impunity in Spain and crimes under Franco | | | Our work includes the socialization of human rights related information and analysis through the internet and other media, the promotion of prosecutions of human rights violators and the support of local human rights NGOs and activists. | | | Equipo Nizkor, work for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world. |
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http://www.derechos.org
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| | WITNESS :: See it. Film it. Change it. |
| | Read Case Studies about WITNESS partner videos which have made a difference | | | Watch more videos on human rights issues around the world | | | Urge your Congressional representatives to support House Concurrent Resolution 90 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 16, which express condolences to the victims' families and encourage the State Department to assist Mexico in resolving these murders. |
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http://www.witness.org
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| | University of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
| | Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors amd Lawyers | | | SEARCH for documents on this site and on multiple human rights sites | | | Human Rights Events and Courses in the Twin Cities, Minnesota |
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http://www.umn.edu/humanrts
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| | Human Rights Watch: Children's Rights |
| | Children in the U.S. HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights | | | Children are exposed to other human rights abuses as well. | | | Millions have no access to education, work long hours under hazardous conditions, are forced to become soldiers, or languish in orphanages or detention centers where they endure inhumane conditions and daily assaults on their dignity. |
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http://www.hrw.org/children
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| | HREA - The Global Human Rights Education Network |
| | Summit on U.S. ratification of the Convention on Rights of the Child -- You can help students of The School for Human Rights be heard! | | | Lessons from Katrina: Engaging students in human rights -- Workshop on service learning on May 16th. | | | UN General Assembly elects first members to new Human Rights Council (9.05.06) |
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http://www.hrea.org
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| | Business & Human Rights : Home |
| | 98 companies with a human rights policy statement | | | ES EE.UU.: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo y Cadbury Schweppes están de acuerdo con dejar de vender gaseosas azucaradas en escuelas públicas por motivos de salud | | | The aim of this "online library" is to provide easy access (through links) to a wide range of materials on subjects relating to business and human rights. |
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http://www.business-humanrights.org
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| | Derechos: Human Rights in Nigeria |
| | Democracy has returned to the country, and with it the revocation of military decrees that provided for arbitrary detention and unfair trials. | | | Since the death of Gen. Abacha in June 1998, the human rights situation in Nigeria has improved considerably. | | | Human Rights & the Environment in Nigeria - Sierra club |
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http://www.derechos.org/nigeria/central.html
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| | Human Rights in China |
| | HRIC urges President Bush to raise issues of particular human rights concerns, especially the increasing economic disparities undermining social stability and peaceful and sustainable development,... | | | In the General Assembly elections for the 47-member Human Rights Council today that replaces the Commission on Human Rights, the Peopleâs Republic of China was voted in with 146 out of a possible 191 votes, coming in eighth in the Asian Region. | | | Chinaâs election presents a unique and important opportunity for the promotion of human rights. |
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http://www.hrichina.org
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| | Physicians for Human Rights |
| | Guidelines for Health Professionals to Protect Patients from Rights Violations | | | An Homage to Vaclav Havel: Human Rights and The Arts |
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http://www.phrusa.org
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| | Human Rights |
| | General Assembly creates new UN Human Rights Council >> |
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http://www.un.org/rights
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