As the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council approaches its sixteenth birthday, this article examines its performance to date. It highlights the Council's achievements, including in upscaling its preventative capabilities, addressing thematic issues of cultural sensitivity and historically divisive ...
Human Rights”;Thomas Buergenthal, “Human Rights”;Lori Fisler Damrosch, “Gross and Systematic Human Rights Violations”;Stephan Hobe, “Human Rights, Role of Non-Governmental Organizations”;Eckart Klein, “Human Rights, Activities of International Organizations”;Dinah Shelton, “Human Rights, ...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled last week inHW v Francethat France’s divorce laws, which recognise a refusal to engage in sexual relations as grounds for fault in a divorce, constitutes a violation of Article 8 ECHR – the right to respect for private and family life. The case ...
Article 1 of the Charter defines one of the objectives of the UN as: “promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.” Secondly, the UNGA adopted theUniversal Declaration of Human Rightson Decemb...
BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- An article by President Xi Jinping on unswervingly following China's human rights development path and advancing the development of China's human rights cause will be published Thursday. The article by Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC...
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The human rights situation in the United States, which has notorious records, worsened in 2021. Political manipulation led to a sharp surge in COVID-19 deaths; Shooting deaths hit a new record; Fake democracy trampled on people's political rights; Violent law enforcement made life harder for ...
70 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt grounded human rights “in small places, close to home (…) the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice and dignity”.1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted on Dec 10, 1948, established a modern human rights foundati...
Neutrophils are frequently studied in mouse models, but the extent to which findings translate to humans remains poorly defined. In an integrative analysis of 11 mouse and 13 human datasets, we find a strong correlation of neutrophil gene expression acro
they need other human rights, above all the rights to education and to information. Participation is recognized as having a central and decisive role in development models. Article 1 of the Declaration on the Right to Development stresses in it that by virtue of their inalienable right to develo...