人权的意识很早就有,但是这个概念实际上出现非常晚。第一次出现现代人权(human right)并且进行“定义”是在1948年由联合国在巴黎通过了《Universal Declaration of Human Rights -世界人权宣言》。之后每年的12月10日定为世界人权日。 这个宣言是基于世界不同的法案以及文化背景起草的,具备了通用意义下全世界公认的标准。
One of the founders of the Women in Yellow is activist Ortal Ben Dayan. And this is where the story begins to make sense: About 1-2 weeks ago, Ben Dayan confronted a Border Police officer who was being verbally abusive to a Palestinian family sitting at the cafe. The officer proceeded t...
This paper reports on a literature review of the intersectionality between SGBV, being a refugee and having a communication disability, and a preliminary investigation of the situation of refugee-survivors of SGBV with communication disability, in Rwanda. The project involved 54 participants, including...
In the late 20th century ad hoc international criminal tribunals were convened to prosecute serious human rights violations and other crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The International Criminal Court, which came into existence in 2002, is empowered to prosecute crimes against humanity, ...
Though I keep declaring that this blog “maintains its right to be about astronomy or anything under the sun,” I’d better be cautious about the present horrendous conflict in the Holy Land. I started several letters to newspapers by saying that “Having lived and worked in a Palestinian sc...
Priti Patel, the home secretary, has said the government "will not be deterred from doing the right thing and delivering our plans to control our nation's borders" after the first deportation flight to Rwanda was stopped at the 11th hour on Tuesday.
Rwanda 2009, Vol. 1 No. 12 A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide By Violet K. Dixon “The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of fe...
The United States has distorted the issue of human rights in Venezuela for its own political ends, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said Friday.
of war, women and development, anti-trafficking and demilitarization; (g) a peacebuilding symposium in Rwanda; (h) presentations to examine the impact of war on youth and to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal DeclarationofHuman Rights;(i)workshopsforSomali youth in ...