Human Rights in a sentence

Human Rights Watch publishes research reports on violations of international human rights norms as set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what it perceives to be other internationally accepted, human-rights norms.

Last September, the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor launched a new reporting tool, the Human Rights Reporting Gateway, that enables the public to alert the government of serious human rights violations.

In addition and as applicable, the principle also binds states under human rights law (e.g., see of the Convention Against Torture, expert opinions of the Human Rights Committee jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights).

South Africa welcomes references to human rights in preambular paragraphs 17 to 20, however, we wish to reiterate that there is a need for a formal human rights mandate to strengthen the monitoring of possible human rights violations on all sides.

Under Duterte’s open encouragement, these agencies have heightened their violation of human rights, as substantiated by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Commission of Human Rights.

At the conference, human rights ambassador Bianca Jagger warned Brexit could pose a threat to human rights but welcomed an announcement by the First Minister to launch a human rights taskforce.

Canton, who is of Argentinian origin, has previously worked on human rights abuses in Latin America and was the director of RFK Partners for Human Rights at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

Every year on 10th December the world commemorates the International Human Rights Day and this year’s Human Rights Day is under the theme ‘Stand Up for Human Rights’.

Human Rights Centre Memorial is a frontline human rights group in Russia, and particularly in the North Caucasus, which focuses on past and ongoing human rights violations.

The Human Rights Training of Trainers led by Amnesty International Ukraine aimed at promoting an intersectional and intergenerational approach to human rights while encouraging an activist-led approach to activism and human rights education.

Amnesty International raised concerns about the ratification record of the Laos Government on human rights standards, and its lack of co-operation with the UN human rights mechanisms and legislative measures—both impact negatively upon human rights.

Human rights Bahrain 's pro-democracy protesters killed by military, February 2011 The human rights approach is based on the obligations of states to respect, protect and fulfill human rights and therefore to prevent, eradicate and punish violence.

International human rights instruments are treaties and other international documents relevant to international human rights law and the protection of human rights in general.

Interest theory argues that the principal function of human rights is to protect and promote certain essential human interests, while will theory attempts to establish the validity of human rights based on the unique human capacity for freedom.

Over the next 40-odd years, Lauper became queen of the outsiders, an advocate, an ally, a messenger whether it was women’s rights, gay rights, human rights or fundamental rights.

As the continent marks the global observance of International Human Rights Day under the theme, "Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now," FAJ emphasises the devastating impact these abuses have on democracy, development, and the human rights of all Africans.

This year's theme for Human Rights Day is: "Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now" which reinforces how human rights affect people everywhere, every day.

This focus on the effects of terrorism on human rights distracts from violations of human rights in counterterrorism committed by states, which have the primary legal responsibility to protect those rights.

She stressed that the initiative is based on combating human rights violations committed by the government, based on Article 27 contained in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution and Article 142 of the National Human Rights Commission.

The fundamental Rights Chapter of the Constitution of Sri Lanka includes some of the key human rights spelt out in the UN Charter on Human Rights.