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.

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Some Transparency, No Accountability: The Use of Oil Revenues in Angola and Its Impact on Human Rights.

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* Human Rights Watch ( 2005 ).

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" International Human Rights Protection in Situations of Conflict and Post-Conflict, A Case Study of Angola ".

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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.

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.

" 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.

About the importance of making employment opportunities inclusive, Shirley Davis, director of global diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management, said:

“ The new United States government policy allowing business activity in Burma ’ s controversial oil sector with reporting requirements will not adequately prevent new investments from fueling abuses and undermining reform ,” New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

“ By allowing deals with Burma ’ s state-owned oil company, the U. S. looks like it caved to industry pressure and undercut Aung San Suu Kyi and others in Burma who are promoting government accountability ,” HRW ’ s Business and Human Rights Director Arvind Ganesan said.

Steven Fisher, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest advocacy group for gay and lesbian issues in the United States, commenting on the Schrock outing, said he opposed using " sexual orientation as a weapon.

Mahmood's lifelong friend, Parliamentarian Farhatullah Babar, who is currently serving as a spokesperson of President of Pakistan, while talking to media, said: Mahmood predicted in Cosmology and Human Destiny that " the year 2002 was likely to be a year of maximum sunspot activity.

This is said not to be a Human construct, but stemmed from policies originally implemented by the Vulcans, who used the attainment of warp speed as a barometer for making first contact with a civilization.

According to the Macedonian government there was a presence of Albanian National Liberation Army in the village ; however, the Human Rights Watch investigation on the ground in Ljuboten found no evidence of this and said it was a clear violation by Macedonian forces on human rights.

Dr. David Goldstein, a Duke University geneticist and director of the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation, has noted that the Technion and Ramban team confirmed that genetic drift played a major role in shaping Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA, therefore mtDNA studies fail to draw a statistically significant linkage between modern Jews and Middle Eastern populations, however, this differs from the patrilineal case, where Dr. Goldstein said there is no question of a Middle Eastern origin.

In 1974, the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sean MacBride said, in his Nobel Lecture, " To the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights one more might, with relevance, be added.

The Mexican newspaper, The News, reported that “ a tribunal of three circuit court judges ruled that there was not enough proof to link Echeverria to the violent suppression of hundreds of protesting students on Oct. 2, 1968 .” Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

* For an elaborate spoof, see " Nose-picking in the Pongidae and Its Implication for Human Evolution ", said to be from the American Journal of Nasal Anatomy, ( 1987 )

Clarke said in February 2011 that the government intended to scrutinise the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and national parliaments.

The United Nations ' Universal Declaration of Human Rights is said to be an example of moral universalism in practice, but Article 29, Section 3 of that document states, " These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

It was said to be reminiscent of Sunburn and Something Like Human.

In a document requested by the Movement for Justice and Human Rights and the President João Goulart Institute, the Uruguayan Interior Ministry said that " serious and responsible Brazilian sources " talked about an " alleged plot against the former Brazilian president.

Anand was denied an honorary doctorate from University of Hyderabad because of confusion over his citizenship status, however later Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development apologised and said " There is no issue on the matter as Anand has agreed to accept the degree at a convenient time depending on his availability ".< ref >

" U. N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay said that closing down credit lines for donations to WikiLeaks " could be interpreted as an attempt to censor the publication of information, thus potentially violating WikiLeaks ' right to freedom of expression ".< ref >

Lawyers at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights said that the statement of charges " contain no indication that Mr. Neptune directly perpetuated the crimes alleged against him nor is there a clearly defined connection between Mr. Neptune and those who are alleged to have perpetrated the crimes ... The mental and factual elements necessary to establish Mr. Neptune ’ s responsibility … remain entirely unclear .”

Human Rights Watch released a statement which said, " Ramzan Kadyrov is linked to a litany of horrific human rights abuses.

U. S .- based Human Rights Watch said in November 2007 that Uzbek prison authorities routinely beat prisoners and use electric shocks, asphyxiation and sexual humiliation to extract information and confessions.

" Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said, " We are deeply concerned for Rotar's safety.

According to the Agency, the Czech Republic was in 2010 the only EU country to employ a sexual arousal test, which the Agency said could violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia reported that in reaction to the 2008 declaration of Kosovo independence, SPS leader Ivica Dačić said he would call for a ban on all political parties and NGOs in Serbia which recognise Kosovo independence.

He could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes .." When commenting in 2006 on his former pupil's ideas about a " Bill of Rights " to replace the Human Rights Act, however, Professor Bogdanor, himself a Liberal Democrat, said, " I think he is very confused.