The rally organiser, the Hindu Rights Action Force, had called the protest over alleged discriminatory policies favouring ethnic Malays.

* Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ( World Conference on Human Rights, 1993 )

The mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

# Implementing the Plan of Action of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, including the development of information and educational materials ;

* Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 1998 ; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1999

* Lyal S. Sunga, " Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq ", in Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations, edited by Daniel A.

* Substantive Equality, Positive Action and Roma Rights in the European Union, Report by Minority Rights Group International

*" One Struggle, One Fight " on Direct Action Animal Rights Compilation ( Compilation LP, 2002 )

In late 2007, 5 members of the Hindu Rights Action Force ( HINDRAF ) were detained without trial under the Internal Security Act ( ISA ), and 12 more arrests occurred in 2008 after individuals objected to the prior arrests.

* Hindu Rights Action Force

* de Torrent, Nicholas: " Humanitarian Action Under Attack: Reflections on the Iraq War " Harvard Human Rights Journal, Volume 17, Spring 2004 Harvard University Retrieved 13 July 2007

( 2004 ) Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development.

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in 1993 by which the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was established.

* Lyal S. Sunga, " Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq ", in Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations, edited by Daniel A.

* Dennis Chong, " Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement ", University of Chicago Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-226-10441-6

Huston in 2005. In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the U. S. Campaign for Burma and Human Rights Action Center.

Dayton received 100 % ratings from the AFL-CIO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action.

In early 2009, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder wrote to UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, ahead of the Durban Review Conference, asking that the clauses stigmatizing Israel in the 2001 Durban Declaration and Program of Action be repealed.

World Conference on Human Rights opposed the distinction between civil and political rights ( negative rights ) and economic, social and cultural rights ( positive rights ) that resulted the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action proclaiming that " all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated ".

HRC is an umbrella group of two separate non-profit organizations and a political action committee: the HRC Foundation, a 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization that focuses on research, advocacy and education ; the Human Rights Campaign, a 501 ( c )( 4 ) organization that focuses on promoting the social welfare of gays and lesbians through lobbying Congress and state and local officials for support of pro-LGBT bills, and mobilizing grassroots action amongst its members ; and the HRC Political Action Committee, which supports candidates that adhere to its positions on LGBT rights.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Based on Defense Ministry statistics that had not been released to the public, the Group of Monitoring Compliance with Human Rights in the Army ( GMCHRA ) has recorded the deaths of 76 soldiers to date in non-combat incidents for 2011, and the injury of 91 others.

It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal.

* Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

Although strongly urged by moderates in Congress to sign the Civil Rights Bill, Johnson broke decisively with them by vetoing it on March 27.

Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

In 2011, she also took a counsel position with the Civil Rights & Employment Practice group of the plaintiffs ' law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.

* IVS – A proprietary version with Digital Rights Management developed by 3D Solar UK Ltd for use in music downloaded from their Tronme Music Store and interactive music and video player.

* m4p – A version of AAC with proprietary Digital Rights Management developed by Apple for use in music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.

Designed with Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) abilities for copy protection.

In 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.

He won the majority of 120 seats in the parliament and agreed partnership with the party of the Muslim minorities-Movement for Rights and Freedoms in opposition against the two previously governing parties-the Socialist Party and the Democratic Forces.

Outcomes based research on quality of life improvements and psychosocial benefits associated with breast reconstruction served as the stimulus in the United States for the 1998 Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, which mandated health care payer coverage for breast and nipple reconstruction, contralateral procedures to achieve symmetry, and treatment for the sequelae of mastectomy.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also defines the communication to include the display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia, as well as written and plain language, human-reader, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology.

Many of these jurisdictions recognise customary law, and in some, such as South Africa the Constitution requires that the common law be developed in accordance with the Bill of Rights.

Cameroon also faces a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human Rights by the Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) and the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation ( SCAPO ) against the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, in which the complainants allege that the Republic of Cameroon is illegally occupying the territory of Southern Cameroons.

As a result, Europe is a continent free of the death penalty in practice, all states but Russia, which has entered a moratorium, having ratified the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, with the sole exception of Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

# Constitutional entrenchment of an otherwise statutory English, British, or Canadian document because of subject matter provisions in the amending formula of the Constitution Act, 1982, such as provisions with regard to the monarchy in the English Bill of Rights 1689 or the Act of Settlement 1701.

* Fundamental Freedoms: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms-Charter of Rights and Freedoms website with video, audio and the Charter in over 20 languages

A fact finding mission of 1985 – sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group and the Washington Office on Latin America, and carried out independently of any Nicaraguan government interference or direction-found that the contras with some frequency deliberately targeted Nicaraguan citizens in acts of terroristic violence.

The 72 signatories and 166 parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognise this rule, under Article 14 ( 7 ): No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which he has already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country.

On 26 August 1789, the Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which comprised a statement of principles rather than a constitution with legal effect.