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United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Position Papers Palestine calls for the Commission on Human Rights and other relevant organs of the United Nations to cooperate within their respective mandates, and in accordance with international law, to allow for the viable and sustainable return of refugees and displaced persons in post-conflict societies. The United Nations was founded on this diversity of cultures, and it is imperative to remember that these cultures must be taken into consideration when assessing, and continuing to improve, human rights in any nation. Japan reaffirms that trafficking in human beings is an abhorrent humans rights abuse and a serious crime that demands a more comprehensive and coordinated response from the international community, as well as a more coherent and cooperative approach among countries, in particular those of origin, transit, and destination. artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/mun/ewcmun/CHR/chr_position_papers.htm   (14166 words)

United Nations Commission on Human Rights The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), composed of 53 States, meets each year in regular session in March/April for six weeks in Geneva. The links between human rights and development are illustrated by the normative and operational guidance that human rights instruments, and the mechanisms established by the United Nations to monitor their implementation, provide on the right to development, rights-based approaches to development, poverty eradication, human rights mainstreaming, good governance and globalization. International cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is one of the purposes of the United Nations set out in Article 1 of the Charter. artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/mun/ewcmun/unchr.htm   (3070 words)

United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Commission on Human Rights has established 30 special procedures, or mechanisms, that address specific country situations or thematic issues, such as freedom of expression and opinion, torture, the right to food, and the right to education [1]. The Commission on Human Rights aims to examine, monitor and publicly report on human rights situations in specific countries or territories (known as country mechanisms or mandates) as well as on major phenomena of human rights violations worldwide (known as thematic mechanisms or mandates). It is the UN’s principal mechanism and international forum concerned with the promotion and protection of human rights. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Commission_on_Human_Rights   (1258 words)

Memorandum to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Human Rights Situation in Chechnya (March 18, 2002) A Commission resolution should deplore continued abuses, and should note in particular the failure by Russia to establish a national commission of inquiry, and the utter lack of an official public record of violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed in the conflict. Human Rights Watch urges the Commission to adopt a resolution on the Chechnya conflict, calling on Russia to issue invitations to the relevant thematic mechanisms and to invigorate the domestic accountability process. In a letter to Human Rights Watch dated December 17, 2001, Elizaveta Baimutgireeva, Esuev's wife, wrote that she has appealed to numerous officials, including the military commander of the Kurchaloi district, the procurator in Kurchaloi, and an unspecified military procurator, but was unable to obtain any information about his whereabouts. www.hrw.org /un/unchr-chechnya.htm   (6040 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Secretary-General's Representative on Internally Displaced Persons addresses Commission United Nations resolutions regularly referred to indigenous peoples as "people", with a view to denying them their human rights as "peoples", yet it was clear that the draft Declaration largely addressed inherent collective rights. The Commission on Human Rights this afternoon began its consideration of the situation of specific groups and individuals, hearing a presentation from the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons. The indigenous organizations and support organizations called on the Commission not to suspend the work of the Working Group, which would be detrimental to the finalization of the draft Declaration. www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6BDLW3?OpenDocument   (8784 words)

dpi1772e.htm The document also declared that "violations of the human rights of women in situations of armed conflicts are violations of the fundamental principles of international human rights and humanitarian law", and that all violations of this kind -- including murder, systematic rape, sexual slavery and forced pregnancy -- "require a particularly effective response". According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in the 400 cases of domestic violence reported in 1993 in the province of Punjab, nearly half ended with the death of the wife. In the Platform for Action adopted at the Beijing Conference, violence against women and the human rights of women are 2 of the 12 critical areas of concern identified as the main obstacles to the advancement of women. www.un.org /rights/dpi1772e.htm   (4183 words)

Social Welfare and Human Rights (from United Nations) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. The United Nations (UN) is an international association of independent states that was founded by the victorious nations of World War II to keep the peace their efforts had won. The social welfare program of the United Nations embraces a wide variety of activities. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-225054   (914 words)

United States Human Rights Network - United Nations Commission on Human Rights In a statement made today before the Commission on Human Rights, Ejim Dike of the Human Rights Project said "We are heartened to see the US issue a press statement asserting that this year, it would focus on upholding international scrutiny of human rights violators. U.S. NGO participation at this years' commission meeting has increased and mirrors a nationwide movement to hold the US government accountable to human rights violations within their own borders. In December, a nationwide group of US Human Rights activists launched the US Human Rights Network to monitor and react to a wide range of human rights violations in the US, the Human Rights Project is a founding member of this network. www.ushrnetwork.org /page165.cfm   (492 words)

Statement to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Therefore, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers asks the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to condemn the United States death penalty in the strongest terms possible and to call for an immediate moratorium of executions in the United States. Even though The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1958) does not contain specific language prohibiting the death penalty, the conduct of the United States is in clear violation of Articles 2 and 7 of that important proclamation. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is a United States NGO with over 10,000 members. www.criminaljustice.org /TESTIFY/test0020.htm   (1048 words)

United Nations Commission on Human Rights The United Nations system as a whole and the Commission in particular must undertake serious study of the whole question of the former Netherlands and Portuguese colonies in the area and the intentions put forth in the Round Table Conference Agreements and other relevant international instruments. Human rights organizations such as Mena Muria Foundation and others attest that the Moluccans and the "transmigrants" have lived in relative peace for many years, in spite of the aims of the Moluccans for self-rule. A key concern of the Netherlands and the United Nations was the fate of the formerly independent components of the Dutch Empire. hlp.home.igc.org /docs/indonesia.htm   (1256 words)

United Nations Commission On Human Rights The Commission is a Charter-based body of the UN and is the main body of the United Nations for human rights. The Bureau of the Commission is composed of the Chairperson of the Commission, the three Vice-Chairpersons and the Rapporteur. More than one hundred NGOs are present each year at the Commission. un.op.org /background/unhrc.php   (1116 words)

ICMC and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights As a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Campaign for the Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Migrants, ICMC co-sponsored with the High Commissioner for Human Rights a panel presentation held as a parallel event to the 58th Session (March-April 2002) of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The 53-member United Nations Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is the main UN body that deals with human rights. A six-week annual session of the Commission is the occasion for governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to assess, denounce and make recommendations in the field of human rights. www.icmc.net /docs/fr/staff/advocintro   (643 words)

IFEX :: RSF suspended from United Nations Commission on Human Rights for one year Reporters Without Borders' consultative status with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights was suspended on July 24 for one year at the request of Cuba, because activists from the organisation staged a protest during the inauguration of the commission's last session in March against the decision to allow Libya to chair the commission. This suspension of one of the few press freedom organisations to have consultative status with ECOSOC is an unfair decision and a farce of the kind that increasingly characterises the commission on human rights. The organisation has published a report on the commission's accelerating decline, entitled "Wheeling and dealing, incompetence and 'non-action'", in which it recommends a radical overhaul. www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/52656   (423 words)

United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 55th Session, Resolution on the Rights of the Child, Sponsored by the Group of the Latin American and the Caribbean States and the European Union, April 1999 United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 55th Session, Resolution on the Rights of the Child, Sponsored by the Group of the Latin American and the Caribbean States and the European Union, April 1999 UN Commission on Human Rights, 55th Session, Resolution on the Rights of the Child, Sponsored by the Group of the Latin American and the Caribbean States and the European Union, April 1999 Welcoming the rights-based approach adopted by the United Nations Children's Fund and the steps taken to further increase system-wide coordination and cooperation for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, www.eurunion.org /legislat/DeathPenalty/UNResRtsChild.htm   (3465 words)

ipedia.com: High Commissioner Article At the United Nations, a High Commissioner serves a commission composed of representatives of various nations. In the Commonwealth of Nations, a High Commissioner is a diplomatic envoy of one Commonwealth Government to another. From as early as the 1930s, some Commonwealth members have indicated a preference for the title to be replaced with that of ambassador, but over the years whenever the issue has been raised a majority of members has been in favour of keeping the separate title and status of high commissioner. www.ipedia.com /high_commissioner.html   (493 words)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Homepage Geneva, 27 March -- Following is the statement of Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which she delivered today at the Palais des Nations at the last meeting of the Commission on Human Rights: Sixty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights - Commission on Human Rights concludes its sixty-second and last session www.ohchr.org /english   (195 words)

United Nations Housing Rights Programme The establishment of the programme was a direct response to United Nations Commission on Human Settlements resolution 16/7 and United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2001/28 and 2001/34, all of which called upon the two agencies to elaborate a United Nations Housing Rights Programme. Background/Mandate: The United Nations Housing Rights Programme (UNHRP) was launched in April 2002, as a joint initiative by UN-HABITAT and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This review of housing rights in international and national law includes a discussion of housing rights as progressive legal obligations. www.unhabitat.org /programmes/housingrights   (339 words)

U.S. Delegation to the Commission on Human Rights The United States seeks to help the Commission better fulfill its mandate to strengthen human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world. U.S. Delegation to the Commission on Human Rights It is important that the Commission take a strong, unified stand against human rights abuses. www.humanrights-usa.net   (153 words)

Human Rights Watch: Asia : Democratic People's Republic of Korea Pyongyang should engage in a dialogue with a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as was proposed in a similar resolution passed by the commission last year. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights risks being turned into a "who's who" of abusive governments if several candidates for membership are elected later this month, Human Rights Watch warned today. The Commission on Human Rights should adopt a resolution condemning North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) for violations of rights to freedom of the press, speech, movement, and religion. www.hrw.org /asia/dprkorea.php   (1230 words)

60th Session of the United Nations Commission of Human Rights Once again, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights allows itself to be used to discriminate against Israel, by singling it out for special treatment, examination, and condemnation without regard for the full circumstance in the region. 60th Session of the United Nations Commission of Human Rights As human rights organizations, B’nai B’rith International and the Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations are highly disturbed at the statement that the Commission is making by allowing this separate item to continue to exist. www.bnaibrith.org /ppolicy/un/040324_un_israel.cfm   (536 words)

UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS In 1991, Myanmar acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but, today, children continue to be denied their most basic rights and freedoms, and to be subjected to the most serious human rights violations. Human rights abuses, displacement, malnutrition, lack of education and health care seriously hamper the mental and physical development of children in Myanmar. Children from the Rohingya Muslim community in Northern Arakan State are denied the right of citizenship. www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/ASI-item13.htm   (380 words)

United Nations Commission on Human Rights Furthermore, we ask to ensure the implementation of the human rights of people living with a positive "HIV" test results, as outlined in the Geneva Declaration 1998 of People Living with a Positive HIV Test Results, the UNAIDS Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the United States, under the Ryan White Care Act, the States have to show either fifty percent reduction in new borns testing Hiv positive or prove that ninety five percent of pregnant women have been tested. For example, the Child Protection Services of Eugene, Oregon in the United States placed the newborn son of a couple in protective custody unless the parents agreed to administer AZT, a well documented highly toxic pharmaceutical drug claimed to prevent the transmission of "HIV" from mother to child. hlp.home.igc.org /docs/women.htm   (599 words)

International Human Rights Instruments Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO) United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines) www.unhchr.ch /html/intlinst.htm   (1164 words)

UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS  Fifty However, in Burma today, many children are denied their fundamental human rights including their right to education, to health and to life. Anti-Slavery International would like to remind the Commission that the current military regime of Burma, known as the State Peace and Development Council, acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in July 1991. As a result of the ongoing civil war, more than one million people are internally displaced, over 130,000 have taken shelter in refugee camps in Thailand, and another million are found as migrant workers in Thailand, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, etc. Amongst them, the majority are children. www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/chr2002ngo-ASI.child.htm   (467 words)

CHR - 62nd session, Geneva 2006 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was established in 1946 to weave the international legal fabric that protects our fundamental rights and freedoms. It was assisted in this work by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a number of working groups and a network of individual experts, representatives and rapporteurs mandated to report to it on specific issues. On 27 March 2006, the Commission on Human Rights concluded its sixty-second and final session www.ohchr.org /english/bodies/chr   (265 words)

About HRI Report on United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-fifth Session, 22 March to 30 April 1999 Report on United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-seventh Session - 2001 Report on United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-eighth Session - 2002 www.hri.ca /uninfo/hrbodies/unchr.shtml   (268 words)

2005 United Nations Commission on Human Rights The Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada (MHRMC) and EFA-Rainbow were present at the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) that takes place in Geneva. Among distinguished guests and international NGO's, MHRMC and EFA-Rainbow had interesting talks with members of UN Permanent missions, focusing on the issues of human rights, especially for the Macedonians in Greece, Bulgaria and Albania. Recognition of diversity, introduction of minority languages into primary and secondary education to the regions were these languages are spoken and respect of the rights for all minority groups are a "must" but still remain an illusion for Greece, a member state of the European Union. www.florina.org /html/2005/2005_unhcr.html   (205 words)

Eleanor Roosevelt : A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman - Honor 1994 In addition to being a very active First Lady while her husband was President, she continued her active public life after his death, serving as a Delegate to the United Nations and as Chairman of the Human Rights Commission and the Commission on the Status of Women. Her life was devoted to helping others, whether as a teacher, an advocate for equal rights, or serving on governmental Commissions. This book tells the life story of social activist, humanitarian, and crusader for human rights, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt who was known as the First Lady of the World. www.eduscapes.com /newbery/94d.html   (389 words)

JUDGE Christopher Gregory WEERAMANTRY 1987 – Member, Steering Committee, United Nations University Project on turning technology to the service of human rights. ‘The Right to Self-determination’ Prospects for the Establishment of an Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission in the South Pacific, 1985 1984 – Vice-Chairman, United Nations Seminar on the Legal Status of the Apartheid Regime, Lagos (in association with the Government of Nigeria). www.wicper.org /Judge%27s%20CV.htm   (2858 words)

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