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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 Watchwhich subsequently became part of Human Rights Watch – accused the Contras of:
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.
" A Human Rights Watch report found that the Contras were guilty of targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination ; kidnapping civilians ; torturing and executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat ; raping women ; indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian homes ; seizing civilian property ; and burning civilian houses in captured towns.

Human and released
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.
Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, a follow-up to Fantastic Voyage, was released on April 28, 2009 and Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, is scheduled for release on November 13, 2012.
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.
Evidence of widespread torture and abuse was found on released prisoners and was gathered in numerous interviews recorded by Human Rights Watch.
* November 2007: Human induced pluripotent stem cells: Two similar papers released by their respective journals prior to formal publication: in Cell by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka, " Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors ", and in Science by Junying Yu, et al., from the research group of James Thomson, " Induced pluripotent stem cell lines derived from human somatic cells ": pluripotent stem cells generated from mature human fibroblasts.
Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.
The 2008 NIPCC document titled Nature, Not Human Activity Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel of Climate Change, published by The Heartland Institute, was released in February – March 2008.
* February 11 – Human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the Soviet Union and leaves the country.
His last film, an adaptation of the Graham Greene espionage novel The Human Factor ( 1979 ), had financial problems and was barely released.
In 1991, Numan ventured into film-scoring by co-composing the music for The Unborn with Michael R. Smith ( the score was later released as an instrumental album in 1995, Human ).
On March 9, 1960 an Atlanta University Center group of students released An Appeal for Human Rights as a full page advertisement in newspapers, including the Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal, and Atlanta Daily World.
" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.
There are some disputed areas between land owners and stakeholders, which has resulted in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank requesting the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement ( MOWHS ) to resolve the issues through a process of the agreement, before further funds are released.
* Growth hormone ( also referred to as ' Human Growth Hormone ', ' HGH ' or ' GH ' or somatotropin ), released under influence of hypothalamic Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone ( GHRH ); inhibited by hypothalamic Somatostatin
Since the social platform was released to the public in early 2012, significant communities have developed around groups for fans of Supernatural ( TV_Series ), Being Human, X-Files, Darren Criss, Carrie Underwood, Tom Felton, and Austin Mahone, among others.
Bausch & Lomb received a 100 % rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2003, the second year of the report.
To celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11, 2002, Human Rights Campaign released an album bearing the same title as that year's theme: Being Out Rocks.
Following a short break, the group released " Being Nobody ", a mash-up of Chaka Khan's " Ain't Nobody " and The Human League's " Being Boiled ".
Whilst the album is yet to materialise, on 9 December 2009, the band released the song " Chase the Tear " for Human Rights Day to raise money for Amnesty International UK.
The American Journal of Human Genetics released an article in 2007 stating " Here we show, by using 86 complete mitochondrial genomes, that all Indigenous American haplogroups, including Haplogroup X ( mtDNA ), were part of a single founding population.
Milligan and Brett Ewins's Skreemer, written for DC pre-Vertigo ( 1989 ) was subsequently collected by Vertigo, while his work on the DC character Human Target was released entirely by Vertigo as a four-issue miniseries ( 1999 ), an original graphic novel ( 2002 ), and an ongoing series ( 2003 – 2005 ).
Her latest studio album, Human ( 2008 ), was her first effort to be released on the Epic label after a label change in 2005.
Norwood's fifth studio album Human was released in December 2008, involving production by Toby Gad, Brian Kennedy, and RedOne.

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