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GENEVA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Continued armed violence has pushed Haiti into the worst human rights and humanitarian situation it has seen in decades, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday. Urgent solutions to this "protracted, multifaceted crisis" must be found, Turk...
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According to reports on Twitter yesterday, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in Haiti, Michel Forst has resigned for "personal reasons," even though his mandate was supposed to continue for another year. In one of his last acts, Forst's report for the U.N....
UNITED NATIONS, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) should not be too much involved in the domestic human rights issues of the country, said a Chinese envoy on Friday. China believes that the Security Council bears the primary responsibility for main...
Noun1.human right- (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law) ...
them—at least not in the case of “a consistent pattern of gross violations,” as in the Security Council’s imposition of a mandatory arms embargo againstSouth Africain 1977 and its authorization of the use of military force to end human rights abuses in Somalia and Haiti in the early ...
them—at least not in the case of “a consistent pattern of gross violations,” as in the Security Council’s imposition of a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa in 1977 and its authorization of the use of military force to end human rights abuses in Somalia and Haiti in the ...
Human rights, as described in documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are a set of moral and legal principles that apply to all human beings irrespective of their age, sex, religion, nationality, and other such characteristics. Yet they can only ever be claimed and applied...
human rights pl.n. The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, often held to include the rights to life, liberty, equality, and a fair trial, freedom from slavery and torture, and freedom of thought and expression. ...