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20 Mar 2024, 5:55 am by Victor Kattan
But in the meantime, a consensus has developed across global civil society that ‘the apartheid crime’ continues to occur in another place: Palestine. [read post]
Secretary Blinken wrote: The United States remains deeply concerned about the Ortega-Murillo regime’s unjust detentions of political prisoners and ongoing abuses against members of civil society. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 4:59 am by Matthew Flinn
As Michael Cholbi of the University of New York has described in his article discussing felon disenfranchisement in the United States, “A Felon’s Right to Vote”, the strong conviction held by some that criminals should not enjoy the benefit of human rights is founded upon a basic intuition that “criminal acts alter the moral status of wrongdoers, permitting us to do to them what is otherwise unjust”. [read post]
8 Nov 2023, 1:13 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and formed in 2004 as a separate lobbying affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
23 May 2022, 6:05 am by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
The process is tailored to Taiwan’s circumstances as a non-member state of the U.N. that has nonetheless incorporated several key U.N. human rights conventions into its domestic law, even though it is not recognized as a state party to these instruments. [read post]
29 May 2007, 5:39 am
Statement by Physicians for Human RightsPhysician Participation in the Death Penalty[physiciansforhumanrights.org]Society entrusts physicians to work for the benefit of their patientsand the public. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 6:18 am
Gallen) has issued a call for papers directed at junior scholars for a conference on "The United Nations Security Council: Contemporary Threats to Its Legitimacy and Performance," to take place May 22-25, 2016. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am
The state system was once based, to some important extent, on the notion of the primacy and centrality of the state as an autonomous unit. [read post]
18 May 2024, 11:49 am
Throughout the next three decades the United Nations and some of its affiliated organizations prepared a series of reports on the feasibility of national institutions as instruments for protection and promotion of human rights. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 10:49 am
The adoption of the UN Global Compact, ensued by the process leading towards the endorsement by the Human Rights Council of the Protect, Respect and Remedy United Nations Framework and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, have contributed to clarifying the scope of corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and its interaction with the State’s duty to protect those rights. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 11:10 am
  It requires a vocabulary that shifts the emphasis of discourse (and thus the way that terms are understood and applied as policy and rules and norms) from the language and vocabularies of human rights (of the individual) to that of  development (of society and collective institutions). [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 12:00 am by Poppy Weston-Davies
The United States National Federation of Independent Business et al v Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in March 2010. [read post]
23 May 2024, 6:05 am by Kelly Adams
South Africa advocated to include girls as potential victims of forced pregnancy, and the United Kingdom advocated for the removal of the caveat regarding national laws. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 9:53 am
This past year, however, the Obama administration acknowledged that it has obligations for ESCR, both in its reports to the UN Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review, as well as in a speech by Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, before the American Society of International Law in March 2011. [read post]
10 Oct 2012, 6:52 pm by Larry Catá Backer
This includes embedding the Guiding Principles across the activities of United Nations system entities and building capacity both inside the United Nations and among relevant external actors, including States, business enterprises and civil society organizations. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by Brian L. Cox
One umbrella group involved in these advocacy pursuits is InterAction, which describes itself as “the largest alliance of international [nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)] in the United States. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 2:25 pm
The basic rights system established by the Constitution should be open, which should actively absorb new human rights according to the development of economy and culture of the society.3. [read post]