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Human and Rights
The basic goal finds partial expression in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a statement initiated and endorsed by individuals and organizations of many religious and philosophical traditions.
The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.
* Human Rights Watch ( 2004 ).
Some Transparency, No Accountability: The Use of Oil Revenues in Angola and Its Impact on Human Rights.
New York, Human Rights Watch.
* Human Rights Watch ( 2005 ).
New York, Human Rights Watch.
" International Human Rights Protection in Situations of Conflict and Post-Conflict, A Case Study of Angola ".
New York and London, UK, Human Rights Watch.
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.
This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.
These influences washed into municipal politics during the early and mid-1970s when three members of the Human Rights Party ( HRP ) won city council seats on the strength of the student vote.
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.
* Afghan Human Rights Activist and Former Member of Parliament
Indeed, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Article 6 requires these features in the legal systems of its signatory states.
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.
The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at Brandeis University in 1993, are now housed at Harvard University.
* The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at Brandeis University in 1993, will soon cease to exist unless Congress and university officials act to save it.
* Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights.
* Sakharov Museum and Public Center: Peace, Progress and Human Rights ( Russian )
The " Ligue des droits de l ' homme " ( Human Rights League ) announced they were considering similar legal proceedings.
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.

Human and Watch
Among non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are noted for their opposition to capital punishment.
Americas Watch – which subsequently became part of Human Rights Watch – accused the Contras of:
Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in 1989, which stated: " contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.
Similarly, Human Rights Watch pointed out that " the Contras systematically engage in violent abuses ... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war " in a 1989 report.
It alleged that Americas Watch gave too much credence to alleged Contra abuses and systematically tried to discredit Nicaraguan human rights groups such as the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, which blamed the major human rights abuses on the Sandinistas.
One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.
Human Rights Watch, the umbrella organization of Americas Watch, replied to these allegations: " Almost invariably, U. S. pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the U. S .- supported insurgents, known as the contras ....
Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.
Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 100, 000 people may have been killed in the countryside alone by government troops.
According to Human Rights Watch:
According to Human Rights Watch, numerous Iranian agents were assisting the Shia Hezb-i Wahdat forces of Abdul Ali Mazari, as Iran was attempting to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence.
Atrocities were committed by individuals of the different factions while Kabul descended into lawlessness and chaos as described in reports by Human Rights Watch and the Afghanistan Justice Project.
Again, Human Rights Watch writes:
According to Human Rights Watch in 1997 Taliban soldiers were summarily executed in and around Mazar-i Sharif by Dostum's Junbish forces.
Human Rights Watch cites no human rights crimes for the forces under direct control of Massoud for the period from October 1996 until the assassination of Massoud in September 2001.
Human Rights Watch has cited a number of summary executions as particular examples of violations of the rules of warfare, including the case of Muhammad Swairki, 28, a cook for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, who was thrown to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.

Human and report
At SRI, Engelbart gradually obtained over a dozen patents ( some resulting from his graduate work ), and by 1962 produced a report about his vision and proposed research agenda titled Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.
With his help, French former minister and Resistance fighter Pierre-Henri Teitgen submitted a report to the Assembly proposing a list of rights to be protected, selecting a number from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights just agreed to in New York, and defining how the enforcing judicial mechanism might operate.
The National Academy of Sciences had previously sponsored the Enhancing Human Performance report on mental development programs, which was critical of parapsychology.
Singer prepared an NIPCC report called " Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate ," published in March 2008 by the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank.
* Hate Crime Survey, annual Human Rights First report on the prevalence of hate crimes in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe region.
In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.
In May 2006, the United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ) released a report: “ Human Rights in Liberia ’ s Rubber Plantations: Tapping into the Future ” which detailed the results of its investigation into the conditions on the Firestone plantation in Liberia.
* Funding the " Final War " A Human Rights Watch report on LTTE's fund raising strategies
* Trapped and Mistreated Human rights violations of LTTE, a Human Rights Watch report
Licklider ( see his 1960 paper Man-Computer Symbiosis ), Douglas Engelbart ( see his 1962 report Augmenting Human Intellect ), and also led to Ted Nelson's groundbreaking work in concepts of hypermedia and hypertext.
In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.
The conduct of U. S. forces was criticised in a report entitled Enduring Freedom-Abuses by U. S. Forces in Afghanistan by U. S .- based human rights group, Human Rights Watch in 2004.
One recent report released by Human Rights Watch in 2012 describes a situation where women are punished by the judicial system for attempting to escape from domestic abuse and also occasionally for being victims of rape.
A February 2005 report from the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned that, during 2004, " FARC-EP continued to commit grave breaches human rights such as murders of protected persons, torture and hostage-taking, which affected many civilians, including women, returnees, boys and girls, and ethnic groups.
A 2001 Human Rights Watch report considered FARC-EP's refusal to admit children under fifteen years old into their forces to be " encouraging " but added that there is " little evidence that this rule is being strictly applied " and called on the group to demobilize all existing child soldiers and cease this practice in the future.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR ) in a 1981 report found evidence for mass executions in the period following the revolution.
Human Rights Watch also stated in its 1989 report on Nicaragua that: " Under the Reagan administration, U. S. policy toward Nicaragua's Sandinista government was marked by constant hostility.
The CIIR report also questioned the independence of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, referring to an article in the Washington Post which claims that the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization funded by the US government, allocated a concession of US $ 50, 000 for assistance in the translation and distribution outside Nicaragua of its monthly report, and that these funds were administered by Prodemca, a US-based organization which later published full-page adverisments in the Washington Post and New York Times supporting military aid to the Contras.

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