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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Human Rights Education Association
Introduction
Torture is a serious violation of human rights and is strictly prohibited by international law. As the use of torture strikes at the very heart of civil and political freedoms, it was one of the first issues dealt with by the...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Democracia Participativa
The Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is an international instrument for the protection of the right to defend...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:United Nations
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Text in PDF Format─ Léala en Español
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Jo Becker
UN Human Rights Council: Defeating the Election of Human Rights Abusers [This is a draft chapter for an upcoming book on human rights advocacy; not for distribution or reproduction]
by Jo Becker [Award-winning journalist and currently an...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN (Approved by the Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogotá, Colombia, 1948)
WHEREAS:
The American peoples have acknowledged the dignity of the individual, and their national...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Congress of the United States
THE BILL OF RIGHTS Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution of the United States of America
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:United Nations
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966
Objectives
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was codified into two Covenants, which the General Assembly adopted on 16 December 1966. Together with...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:United Nations
The promotion and protection of human rights has been a major preoccupation for the United Nations since 1945, when the Organization's founding nations resolved that the horrors of The Second World War should never be allowed to...
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Documents in English/Human Rights Documents
Autor:Democracia Participativa
The Press Freedom Index prepared every year by Reporters Without Borders is a highly respected model because of its objectivity. The 2009 Index has just been published. You may find a chart with the first 25 and the last 25 ranked...
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It is a fine thing to be Honest, but it is also very important to be Right.
Winston Churchill