Learn about the ways climate change is deeply altering how we live, where we live and the foods we eat -- ultimately threatening some of our most basic human rights.
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About Universal Human Rights In 1948 the United Nations issued a Universal Declaration of Human Rights that laid out a common standard of fundamental rights to be universally protected. But how much do you know about the rights and freedoms everyone, everywhere - including you - is entitled to?
which entered into force on 1 December 2009, starts promisingly: “The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.” (...
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human rights treaties. In other cases, public emergencies can be used as a smokescreen for repressive government policies. Once the necessity for derogation is conceded, it becomes difficult to determine whether the suspension of rights amounts to abuse of power. Serious violations of human rights ...
Besides the UN Human Rights Council, the Trump administration, since its inauguration, has quitted the Paris climate accord, the UN global compact on migration, the UN cultural and educational body UNESCO, as well as the Iran nuclear deal. Neither did it shy away from confronting nations, frie...
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though I always took with me a short list of key points to cover, in case they were forgotten. Also, most people wanted to talk more widely after the interview was over and often to show me records, books and so on, whose future they were concerned for; they were almost always glad ...
For example, in a TED talk with more than 850,000 views, Oscar Schwartz compares poems by poets with generative poetry, and based on his results, claims computers can indeed write poetry (Schwartz, 2015). Here, we extend such previous approaches in two fundamental ways. First, instead of ...