2005 Human rights and mass exodus

This painting captures the mass exodus of Filipino workers.

Monitoring the human rights of persons in mass exodus

The internally displaced constitute a specific category of people affected by mass exodus.

Recent examples of mass exodus, both as a result of armed conflict and as a consequence of massive natural disasters, have highlighted the need to address comprehensively the human rights of victims of mass exodus.

Human rights violations are most often the root as well as immediate cause of mass exodus.

To be fully understood, the phenomena of mass exodus and displacement must also be viewed within this framework.

Alongside the traditional causes of mass exodus, the Secretary General identified a number of specific environmental issues that had the potential to provoke mass exoduses in the future.

Interethnic violence which many feared has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.

At each of these stages, persons in mass exodus have specific human rights entitlements under international law, arising from a variety of sources.

National human rights institutions also play an important role in promoting national responsibility and reinforcing protection of the rights of persons in mass exodus.

Fear of major fighting has already sent many Palestinians into Egypt, leading to the deployment of Egyptian troops on the border to control any mass exodus.

As recognized by the Commission in its resolution 2003 52, conflict and persecution are only two among a number of causes for mass exodus and displacement.

There's this large, consolidated farming that's led to what we eat in America, and it's really been since around 1980, after the oil crisis, when, you know, mass consolidation, mass exodus of small farmers in this country.

At the same time, human rights treaty bodies have worked to have persons in mass exodus recognized within the overall framework of the rights established in the treaties.

The four previous reports to the General Assembly on human rights and mass exoduses (A 52 494, A 54 360, A 56 334 and A 58 186) demonstrated the profound connection between human rights and mass exodus and forced displacement.

Taking note of the work in progress of the United Nations system to clarify the role of the United Nations in post conflict transition situations, including mass exodus situations,

Their forced mass exodus in 1999 and NATO s subsequent intervention, which ended Serbia s rule and established a quasi state under UN administration, has made anything other than independence intolerable.

The Agony and the Exodus

The respective capacities and competencies of all such bodies must be integrated into a comprehensive response to a situation of mass exodus in order that prompt and complete relief may be provided.

Given the regional repercussions of many situations of mass exodus and displacement, regional bodies also have an important role to play in protecting the human rights of persons caught up in such situations.

Further cooperation among States, the United Nations and other international partners will be required to overcome these obstacles and to ensure that the rights of persons in situations of mass exodus are respected, protected and fulfilled.

Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights and mass exoduses (E CN.4 2005 80 and Add.1), and stresses that the themes identified in the addendum reflect those issues that continue to require particular attention by States in references to mass exodus situations

The narratives here are mostly in Exodus 1 14 and 32.

Human rights treaty bodies have also advanced their understanding of the situation of persons in mass exodus and displacement as being one of particular vulnerability, with corresponding needs and sensitivities that may often differ from those of other rights holders.

I am sorry for this legacy I am sorry for this exodus

When Puerto Rico had begun its transformation from an impoverished sugar plantation into a modern industrial centre, it had been decided that there were too many Puerto Ricans on the island consequently, a mass exodus to the United States had taken place.

Some sources state that hundreds of thousands of others died during the exodus.

Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights and mass exoduses (E CN.4 2005 80) and the addendum thereto (E CN.4 2005 80 Add.1), and stresses that the themes identified in the addendum reflect those issues that continue to require particular attention by States in references to mass exodus situations

After the 1948 Palestinian exodus, poetry was transformed into a vehicle for political activism.

After the 1948 Palestinian exodus, poetry was transformed into a vehicle for political activism.

For the most part, it matters little whether the persons in or affected by mass exodus are citizens of that State, for with the exception of a few rights such as the political rights to vote and take part in public affairs, human rights extend to everyone.

During the reporting period, UNHCR and UNICEF shared their observations in relation to the preparation of a general comment on the administration of justice under consideration by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, raising issues of particular importance to child victims of mass exodus.

Elderly Yazidis were particularly vulnerable during the exodus to Mount Sinjar and neighboring Kurdish controlled areas.

The continuing exodus of young people has been a concern to the Islanders for many years.

The text of the Ten Commandments combines parts of the version from Exodus with parts from Deuteronomy .

Moses (Mūsā موسى) In the Bible, the narratives of Moses are in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

At the international level, the human rights treaty bodies and the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights play equally important roles in monitoring and assessing the human rights dimensions of situations of mass exodus in States where such movements take place or which are affected by such movements.

European emigrants used to contribute to the glory of their homelands now, their exodus is contributing to Europe s decline.

If it is not applied, the argument goes, there will be a massive exodus of Muslims to other faiths.

Likewise, common European banking supervision will not suffice to prevent the continuing exodus of funds from the afflicted countries.

Exodus 1947 was a ship that carried Jewish emigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine on July 11, 1947.

Bumped into Eurasia around 16 million years ago, and then we had the first African exodus, as we call it.

After the creation of the State of Israel, the exodus of 1948, and more so after the exodus of 1967, the term came to signify not only a place of origin, but also the sense of a shared past and future in the form of a Palestinian state.

Critical Mass.