staff of the United Nations serve as human rights defenders even if their ...... defenders, beginning in 1998, have called upon all States to promote and give effect ...
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All human rights for all ..................................... Human rights everywhere ................................. Local, national, regional and international action Collecting and disseminating information on violations .......................................................... Supporting victims of human rights violations .. Action to secure accountability and to end impunity ........................................................... Supporting better governance and government policy ................................................................ Contributing to the implementation of human rights treaties ....................................... Human rights education and training ...............
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Defending human rights through professional activities—paid or voluntary .............................. Defending human rights in a non-professional context .............................................................
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Is a minimum standard required of human rights defenders? ..............................................................
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The situation of women human rights defenders .....
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United Nations protection of human rights defenders and support for their work ....................................................
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The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders ..........................................
Human rights and State sovereignty. 27 ... Determining parliament's role in states of emergency. 94. Chapter 10 ... Joint IPU-OHCHR editorial task force: Rogier Huizenga and Roberto Rodriguez ..... Parliamentarians submit petition to the Latvian Cons
dice to the implementation of each of those rights and freedoms,. Stressing that the .... or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as.
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Jun 27, 2007 - Human Rights Solidarity, P.O. Box: 2441, 1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland .... the country lived under a cloud of fear and the rampage of the security.
o Remediability: ability to restore the right affected. (to the same level as it ...... reported at the end of 2014 that a garment factory ... major labels were using the factory as a supplier, ...... example, it supplied products to Apple, Dell, HP,
Dec 2, 2014 - HRTD Quarterly Newsletter celebrates its 25th issue! I n 2008, the Human ... providing through e-mail news on the sessions of the treaty bodies and ..... Report Template with suggested short, precise, and coordinated reports.
Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch, contact: [email protected] v. National and ... can take to help protect defenders. The European. Court of.
Dec 2, 2014 - HRTD Quarterly Newsletter celebrates its 25th issue! I n 2008, the Human ... providing through e-mail news on the sessions of the treaty bodies and ..... Report Template with suggested short, precise, and coordinated reports.
plaintiffs, Jeppesen assisted in constructing flight plans for ... the extraordinary rendition flights. ..... Google, a global internet company, began its operations.
