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.

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Human rights or civil liberties form a crucial part of a country's constitution and govern the rights of the individual against the state.

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.

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 ....

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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.

Human rights organisations have raised concerns over the well-being of some of these prisoners.

The European Convention on Human Rights ( ECHR ) ( formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ) is an international treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe.

First, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the convention, drawing on the inspiration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be seen as part of a wider response of the Allied Powers in delivering a human rights agenda through which it was believed that the most serious human rights violations which had occurred during the Second World War ( most notably, the Holocaust ) could be avoided in the future.

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.

Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which reads, " Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed the highest aspiration of the common people ,...."

Human rights activists and other civil society advocates, as well as some Parliamentarians, became more outspoken during a period referred to as " Damascus Spring " ( July 2000-February 2001 ).

A dollar from every ticket sold was earmarked for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Human “ dog and pony show ” type events ( organized by advocates of eugenics ), where men and women appeared on stage in swimsuits in eugenic competitions ( only Nordic Aryans were allowed to enter ) to be evaluated for their physical and mental qualities as marriage partners were common throughout Europe and North America in the 1920s.

The Human Potential Movement ( HPM ) arose out of the milieu of the 1960s and formed around the concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people.

Human rights advocates say hundreds or thousands of them went missing.

Hood was also one of the first advocates of and is a key player in the Human Genome Project -- the quest to decipher the sequence of the human DNA.

Albert Low a Zen master and author of The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution ( 2008 ) opposes neo-Darwinism and the selfish gene as he claims they are materialistic, he also opposes creationism for being dogmatic, instead he advocates spiritual evolution.

His award-winning book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space inspired a generation of space exploration advocates.

On July 11, 2011 in response to the detention of law-abiding democracy advocates by the government of the United Arab Emirates and Sexton's suggestion that such detention was appropriate to the UAE's " security concerns ," Human Rights Watch asked Sexton to publicly retract his statements on the matter.

There were a number of riots and escapes, as well as accusations of human rights abuses from groups as diverse as refugee advocates, Amnesty International, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, ChilOut, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations, although no charges have ever been laid against any person against such public accusations.

There have been a number of riots and escapes, as well as accusations of human rights abuses from mainly far-left organisations and groups, such as refugee advocates, Amnesty International, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations.

John Tooby, past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, insists that MacDonald is not an evolutionary psychologist, and that he advocates models incorporating " group-selection theory ", a generally discredited view of natural selection.

In a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2011, human rights advocates raise several instances where MINUSTAH troops allegedly violated human rights law, including the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols.

Human rights advocates such as Human Rights Watch and media groups such as Reporters Without Borders speculate that if companies stopped contributing to the authorities ' censorship efforts, the government could be forced to change.

Human rights advocates and others called for his release saying the charges were groundless.

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights ( SPHR ) is a non-profit, student-based organization that advocates on a strong social justice platform to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people.

Human rights groups claim that during Banzer's 1971-78 tenure ( known as the Banzerato ) several thousand Bolivians sought asylum in foreign countries, 3, 000 political opponents were arrested, 200 were killed, and many more were tortured.

As documented in the so-called DRC Mapping Exercise Report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the success of the invasion led to revenge killings by the Tutsi Banyarwanda against their opponents.

Her opponents for the Democratic nomination included Louisville mayor Harvey Sloane and Grady Stumbo, the former secretary of the state's Department of Human Resources.

Human players can play against up to four CPU or human opponents in a " pass and play " game.

In an editorial endorsement of the law, the Los Angeles Times touted then-Governor Gray Davis's support, while limiting its comments on opponents to mentioning that the Citizens Commission on Human Rights which opposes virtually all psychiatric treatments, sponsored a rally at the Capitol against Laura's law.

Human Rights Watch criticised the Sudanese government for refusing to provide any information on their whereabouts.

Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Iroquois system is one of the six major kinship systems ( Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese ).

Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Eskimo system was one of six major kinship systems ( Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese ).

Identified by Louis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Hawaiian system is one of the six major kinship systems ( Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese ).

Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Crow system is one of the six major kinship systems ( Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese ).

Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Omaha system is one of the six major kinship systems ( Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese ) which he identified internationally.

Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Sudanese system is one of the six major kinship systems ( Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha and Sudanese ).

In 1994 a report issued by Human Rights Watch / Africa, conducted by Gaspar Biro, a Hungarian law professor and the United Nations ' special envoy to Sudan in 1993 found the Sudanese government to be practicing " widespread and systematic torture " of political detainees. Once uncommon in the Sudan, torture was now widespread, especially in the south.