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Specific human rights issues

Specific human rights issues

Naturally, I master all human rights issues.

It is easy to get lost in the big picture of human rights abuses.

It is an immoral debt and a profound human rights issue.

Street theater shows were organized in six major cities and addressed the issues discussed in TV talk shows.

The activities focused on issues of concern in the area of human rights.

The intrinsic relationship between human rights and developmental issues was also affirmed.

The creation of the Human Rights Council and the strengthening of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights provided an excellent opportunity to draw lessons from the past and formulate new procedures ensuring the complete depoliticization of human rights issues.

The basic laws deal with topics such as the structure of government or focus on human rights issues.

Consideration of human rights issues should be based on mutual respect, dialogue and cooperation.

All States should cooperate to address those issues through dialogue.

The federalization of the consideration of human rights cases was to be applauded.

Human rights As of 2010, international observers noted issues in several human rights areas.

Myanmar firmly believes that there should not be double standards nor politicization of human rights issues.

A number of methods were being used in order to instil a culture of human rights, including a television programme on human rights issues that would be broadcast nationwide.

ECOWAS needs to build its capacity at headquarters to deal with human rights issues and challenges in the subregion.

NGOs such as LDH and DHD have worked in this area making awareness campaigns on human rights issues through courses, lectures and seminaries.

We therefore support measures that are intended to strengthen the focus on human rights issues including the creation of a new Human Rights Council.

More than two thousand police officers were sensitized on human rights issues and the role of the police in safeguarding human rights and code of conduct of police officials towards the public.

Earthjustice prepared in 2004 an issue paper on human rights and the environment presented to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixtieth session.

6. Reaffirms that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and that the universality, objectivity, impartiality and non selectivity of the consideration of human rights issues must be ensured

Mr. Alfonso Martínez, Mr. Alfredsson, Mr. Bengoa, Mr. Bíró, Mr. Bossuyt, Mr. Casey, Mr. Chen Shiqiu, Mr. Cherif, Ms. Chung, Mr. Decaux, Mr. Dos Santos, Ms. Koufa, Ms. Mbonu, Ms. Motoc, Ms.

Mr. Alfonso Martínez, Mr. Alfredsson, Mr. Bengoa, Mr. Bíró, Mr. Bossuyt, Mr. Cherif, Ms. Chung, Mr. Decaux, Mr. Dos Santos, Ms. Koufa, Ms. Motoc, Ms.

O'Connor, Ms. Rakotoarisoa, Mr. Salama, Mr. Sattar, Mr. Tuñón Veilles, Ms. Warzazi and Mr. Yokota draft decision

specific human rights issues

The organization cooperates with other non governmental organizations (NGOs) on matters related to the defence and promotion of human rights when the objectives of such groups are compatible with its own.

Mr. Degia (Barbados) said that human rights issues must be approached on the basis of dialogue and cooperation.

The Sub Commission should continue to seek ways of mainstreaming human rights into development.

We are yet to agree on other pressing issues, such as the reform of the Security Council and the composition of a new Human Rights Council.

(c) To develop a human rights based strategy addressing, in particular, issues of accountability, transitional justice, a national programme for human rights education, women's rights and the rights of the child

The problems arising in the field of human rights are a result of selectivity, double standards and the misappropriation of the issue of human rights for political ends.

OHCHR will produce an annual thematic global human rights report to be used as a policy and advocacy tool, including by identifying and analysing priority human rights issues, trends and policies.

Human rights questions human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives

She noted that these institutions were often set up too quickly to address human rights issues and that oversight mechanism and training on human rights should accompany the establishment of these new institutions.

In addition, the Mission's field offices facilitated an increased role of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman in round tables and other participatory forums that MINUGUA fostered over the years to address human rights, justice and other peacebuilding problems at the local level.

Markelov, a lawyer, routinely tackled the human rights cases that no one else was willing to take on.

Instead of focusing on country specific situations, the Committee should consider essential human rights issues.

It also provided training for leaders in the field of disability and contributed information and training materials on disability issues from a human rights perspective.

Mr. Saeed (Sudan) stressed the need to respect cultural and religious diversity in dealing with human rights issues.

Specific human rights issues

Expressing its conviction that an unbiased and fair approach to human rights issues contributes to the promotion of international cooperation as well as to the effective promotion, protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Recalling the adoption of resolution 2000 22 of 18 August 2000, on the promotion of dialogue on human rights issues, by the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights at its fifty second session,