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	Sudan: Danforth Peace Initiative Progress (Human Rights Watch, May 15, 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Human Rights Watch welcomed the report’s implicit recognition that human rights violations are central to the causes of the nineteen-year civil war in Sudan, and that recently concluded agreements will require continued international monitoring to be successful.
		Human Rights Watch also agreed with the report's stress on constant vigilance and international monitoring of compliance with recent agreements between the government and rebel forces.
		Human Rights Watch called for the verification mission in the south to be deployed as soon as possible, and to be strengthened from its planned membership of fifteen in order to be able to cover the vast geographical area of the south, where transportation and communications infrastructure is primitive to nonexistent.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2002/05/15/sudan3932_txt.htm (895 words)

	Peace
		Initiative for Peace and Human Rights The Initiative for Peace and Human Rights (Alliance 90.
		Peace Peace is generally defined as a state of quiet or tranquillity, as an absence of disturbance or agitation (Latin d...
		Peace Arch Peace Arch is a gateway-type monument situated on the border between the B.C. Highway 99, in the grass median...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/peace.html (2534 words)

	Human Rights (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Examples of human rights are the right to freedom of religion, the right to a fair trial when charged with a crime, the right not to be tortured, and the right to engage in political activity.
		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.
		Rawls says that human rights "specify limits to a regime's internal autonomy" and that "their fulfillment is sufficient to exclude justified and forceful intervention by other peoples, for example, by diplomatic and economic sanctions, or in grave cases by military force" (Rawls 1999, 79-80).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/rights-human (15567 words)

	Initiative for Peace and Human Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Initiative for Peace and Human Rights (German: Initiative für Frieden und Menschenrechte) was the oldest opposition group in East Germany.
		People involved in the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights included Bärbel Bohley, Ulrike Poppe and Ibrahim Böhme.
		Initiative for Peace and Human Rights from chronik der wende
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Initiative_for_Peace_and_Human_Rights (127 words)

	Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies - University of Bradford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The aim of the project is to promote human rights principles, peace education and democratic governance education and training as a sustainable foundation for the evolving peacetime role of the military and security forces in post-war societies in Africa.
		To develop a human rights education curriculum at the military and police training colleges as a means to mainstream human rights education as part of the training and standard operating procedure for the military and security forces in Africa.
		Human Rights, Justice and Peace (University for Peace).
	www.bradford.ac.uk /acad/peace/tmp/africa (3617 words)

	Nobel Women's Initiative Calls for Peace between, Human Rights within, Iran and the US \| Peacework Magazine
		We call upon the government of Iran to respect human rights, especially those of women, and respond to the needs of the diverse cultural, ethnic and religious communities of the country, thereby preventing justification for such interference.
		A peaceful demonstration of Iranian women on June 12th in Tehran, held to call for an end to discriminatory laws against women, turned violent as police used force to disperse the gathering.
		We women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates condemn this act of violence carried out by the police force, particularly the attacks of policewomen, against citizens who had merely gathered together peacefully to call for their legal rights.
	www.peaceworkmagazine.org /node/211 (764 words)

	WAPHA-Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan
		Within the peace initiative set by the United Nations, the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan not only must be realized and abuses remedied, but Afghan women need to be incorporated in the peace process from the onset.
		These human rights include women's full and equal enjoyment of their rights in access to education, health, work and elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.
		The Afghan women must be involved in the peace process and must have the right to be effective participants in the internal and external affairs of their country and society.
	www.wapha.org /peace.html (814 words)

	Human Rights and Peacemaking
		Peace efforts create important opportunities for dialogue, organizing and action on a range of human rights issues that can ultimately advance the struggle for human rights in countries suffering internal conflict.
		Peace and human rights groups share the goal of establishing a stable environment within which human dignity and fundamental freedoms are respected.
		The goal is to facilitate greater collaboration among human rights and peace organizations, as part of an overall strategy to overcome the barriers to greater popular legitimacy for human rights.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/humanrts01.htm (1219 words)

	• UNIFEM - A Portal on Women, Peace & Security •
		Their responsibilities range from protecting and delivering humanitarian assistance, to helping former opponents carry out complicated peace agreements; from assisting with the demobilization of former fighters and their return to normal life, to supervising and conducting elections; from training civilian police, to monitoring respect for human rights and investigating alleged violations.
		Peace operations are based on voluntary contribution of resources, personnel and equipment by the member states.
		In missions which involve human rights monitoring, electoral assistance and establishing civil administrations, it is critical to identify and address the gender perspectives in these areas, especially in the light of particular local norms and customs that obstruct women’s participation.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /issues/peacekeeping/peacekeeping.htm (10393 words)

	Partnerships for Peace, Human Rights, and Development
		The focus of the Democracy Caucus is to advance democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in UN programs and policies.
		We initiated a Democracy Caucus this spring at the Commission on Human Rights, and we saw it bear fruit.
		Human rights—abusing countries couldn’t stop a resolution calling on the UN to establish a focal point for its democracy work.
	www.state.gov /p/io/rls/rm/2004/36725.htm (3739 words)

	OJPCR 5.1 -- From Violence to Peace: Terrorism and Human Rights in Sri Lanka
		Much of the debate and discussion on human rights focuses primarily on human rights concerns associated with the response of states to activities of nonstate actors.
		Furthermore, the conceptual linkage between human rights and terrorism on the one hand and human rights and conflict resolution and transformation on the other, is an important one to make.
		Finally, human rights activists must actively advocate the pivotal importance of human rights in processes of conflict transformation and constitutional reform, cautioning governments against easy solutions that ignore or undermine the central role of human rights within the space of democratic governance.
	www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/5_1hattotuwa.htm (2389 words)

	Op-eds & Viewpoints on World Peace & Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is hard to know who is using whom more: the Christian Right for offering secular power in the expectation that the Jewish state will be destroyed by a greater spiritual one; or the Israeli Right for accepting their offer.
		It simply can not be right that Darryl Dent died in the service of his country leaving a hole in the heart of his family, while Halliburton stock shares increased by 50 percent and the company reported tens of millions of dollars in profits during the past three months-all from the war.
		We all have a responsibility to ensure that crimes against humanity is not condoned irrespective of the nationality of the instigators and participants.
	www.peaceworldwide.org /op-ed.htm (2736 words)

	Hague Appeal for Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems; have the skills to resolve conflict constructively; know and live by international standards of human rights, gender and racial equality; appreciate cultural diversity; and respect the integrity of the Earth.
		The urgency and necessity of such education was acknowledged by the member states of UNESCO in 1974 and reaffirmed in the Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy in 1995.
		A campaign to facilitate the introduction of peace and human rights education into all educational institutions was called for by the Hague Appeal for Peace Civil Society Conference in May 1999.
	www.haguepeace.org /index.php?action=pe (263 words)

	Think Tanks
		Initiated and funded by ANSER's Board of Trustees in October 1999 and formally established in April 2001, the Institute believes that preparing for these new challenges will require a determined, integrated effort at every stage of the process: deterrence, prevention, preemption, crisis management, consequence management, attribution and response.
		The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, founded in 1919, is a center for advanced study in domestic and international affairs.
		Named for the philosopher and political theorist John Locke (1632-1704), the Institute ascribes to his theory that society is based on natural law and that the individual is the ultimate source of political sovereignty.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~rjb3v/T-tanks.html (4353 words)

	Women's Human Rights
		Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and adds an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse.
		Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
		WomenWatch is a joint initiative of: DAW, UNIFEM and INSTRAW The Caucus is a network of groups and individuals, advocating for women's human rights to be applied in the International Criminal Court, CEDAW and other mechanisms of justice.
	www.amnestyusa.org /women/links.html (1472 words)

	Religious Nationalism and Human Rights: Religion and Peacemaking: U.S. Institute of Peace
		As "mighty warriors," "just kings," or "righteous judges," they are believed to exercise their authority so as to control and punish all unjust and unlawful use of force, along with other forms of unrighteousness and disobedience.
		It is true that the human rights approach proposes a "secular" or "neutral" reference point for organizing and legitimating the modern nation-state.
		Still, the unmistakable assumption of the human rights approach is that trying to approximate the ideal is a meaningful exercise and well worth the effort.
	www.usip.org /religionpeace/rehr/relignat.html (2870 words)

	CHRI: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
		One such event was the Commonwealth Human Rights Forum that was organised by CHRI, the Legal Resources Consortium and the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria, and supported by the CIDA, the Commonwealth Foundation and British Council.
		It brought together human rights organisations from around the Commonwealth and was held from 3-4 December in Abuja.
		Media being a key partner in human rights advocacy, CHRI focused much attention on working with the media to ensure that human rights issues were included in the coverage of CHOGM.
	www.humanrightsinitiative.org /advocacy/chogm/chogm2003.htm (627 words)

	Global Watch
		Human rights, whether we live in a developed nation or a developing nation, are constantly violated by corrupt regimes or abusive political or power interests...
		The UN was created after World War II to ensure peace, rights and a better standard of life in general.
		People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) work to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.
	www.zmag.org /GlobalWatch/HumanRights.html (797 words)

	Links Page
		Peace University (TPU), the world’s first ever on-line global peace university for policy makers, practitioners, scholars, students, UN staff and others working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, post-war reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation, development, human rights, and other related fields.
		The work of the Gulf Peace Team, in setting up a peace camp between Iraq and Saudi Arabia shortly before the Gulf war began, is documented in a Spokesman book, 'War and Peace in the Gulf: Testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team'.
		Iraq Occupation Focus was formed in the spring of 2004 by a group of activists from across the anti-war movement who were spurred into action by the revelations of human rights abuses coming out of Iraq, the growing evidence of plunder by US corporations and the appaling death toll inflicted by the occupying military forces.
	www.russfound.org /links.htm (1764 words)

	Human Rights: UNESCO SHS
		With regard to the advancement of human rights, action is concentrated in areas where UNESCO has a special mandate: generating and sharing knowledge, protecting human rights, renewing and reinforcing commitment to human rights education and providing advisory services and technical assistance to Member States.
		In the struggle against discrimination, UNESCO tries to identify the obstacles hampering the full exercise of human rights: the impact of nationalism, religious intolerance, discrimination against minorities, and forms of discrimination arising from scientific progress or from illness such as HIV/Aids.
		UNESCO encourages and advances research on new forms of violence and develops regional plans for human security by improving links with local initiatives to prevent conflicts at their source, through respect for human rights and policies for sustainable development and for alleviating poverty.
	portal.unesco.org /shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1827&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (590 words)

	The International Initiative on Human Rights and the Peace Process
		The Conference provided the opportunity for lawyers, human rights defenders and academics from the Occupied Territories (OT) and Israel to meet with their counterparts from around the world to consider legal and human rights aspects of the Final Status Negotiations (FSN).
		The achievement of a comprehensive, just, and lasting settlement of this conflict will constitute a significant contribution to strengthening international peace and security, and is a critical condition for the advancement of human rights in the region.
		Despite the current frustration of the peace process and the many unanswered questions awaiting full discussion, a final consensus can be reached by creating a climate of trust amongst all concerned parties and shedding the fear of change.
	www.pchrgaza.ps /files/S&r/English/study11/1.htm (633 words)

	Encyclopedia: Initiative for Peace and Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Other descriptions of Initiative for Peace and Human Rights
		BÃ¤rbel Bohley (born 24 May 1945) was an East German opposition figure and artist.
		Ulrike Poppe (born 26 January 1953) was a member of the East German opposition.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Initiative-for-Peace-and-Human-Rights (522 words)

	UN Foundation: Programs–Peace, Security & Human Rights
		The United Nations promotes and protects human rights and fundamental freedoms based on their "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."
		The UN Foundation is working with the UN to build a universal respect for human rights, necessary for the creation of capable societies, distinguished by representative governance, market economies, a robust civil society and a system based on the rule of law for all people.
		UN and Global Security,” an initiative with a number of partners worldwide that aims both to support fresh intellectual contributions to the dialogue surrounding the challenges facing the UN and to enlarge the circles of informed citizens who actively follow and contribute to that debate.
	www.unfoundation.org /programs/pshr/priorities.asp (694 words)

	CHRI: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
		The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan, international NGO working for the practical realisation of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth.
		The Right to Information (RTI) is fundamental to the realisation of rights as well as effective democracy, which requires informed participation by all.
		They highlight violations of human rights in specific Commonwealth countries and contribute to repairing the situation and restoring peace, the rule of law and human rights.
	www.humanrightsinitiative.org (476 words)

	Peace Tasmania - Human Rights
		Although the promotion and protection of human rights is the responsibility of governments, the active participation of civil society is vital.
		Human rights and the US/UK illegal attack on Iraq - Johan Galtung, 24 June 2005.
		FIDH’s mandate is to act effectively and practically to ensure the respect of all the rights laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the civil and political rights, but also the economic, social and cultural rights.
	www.peacetasmania.org /humanrights/rights.htm (1580 words)

	South Asia's Regional Initiative on Human Rights
		Many human rights organizations in individual countries are working hard to improve the living situation of their respective peoples.
		The NGOs of South Asia, particularly the ones who are involved in regional initiatives, believe in the concept of universal human rights, but it is very difficult to protect human dignity, an essential goal of human rights, in the face of the massive poverty that exists in every South Asian country.
		If concerned human rights organizations in South Asia continue to unite their efforts, SAFHR has the potential to act as a powerful watchdog that could effectively pressure individual governments to implement policies respectful of internationally accepted rights.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/v4i2/saarc42.htm (1246 words)

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