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human rights activist for the Aboke abductions: Dick Oosting: 1946 Netherlands: human rights lawyer and activist Dana Beal: 1947 United States: pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiator Saïd Bouziri: 1947 2009 France: Tunisian human rights and immigrant rights activist; co- founder of several human rights groups [6] Ashok Row Kavi: 1947 ...
Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959) – Guatemalan indigenous rights advocate, anti-war activist, and co-founder of Nobel Women's Initiative; Chico Mendes (1944–1988) – Brazilian environmentalist, trade union leader, and human rights advocate of peasants and indigenous peoples; assassinated in 1988
The term human rights defender (HRD) became commonly used within the international human rights community after the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (A/RES/53/144, 1998), commonly known as the Declaration on Human Rights ...
The Council investigates allegations of breaches of human rights in United Nations member states and addresses thematic human rights issues like freedom of association and assembly, [4] freedom of expression, [5] freedom of belief and religion, [6] women's rights, [7] LGBT rights, [8] and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities. [b]
Amnesty reports disproportionately on relatively more democratic and open countries, [127] arguing that its intention is not to produce a range of reports which statistically represents the world's human rights abuses, but rather to apply the pressure of public opinion to encourage improvements.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday raised concerns over China's human rights issues in a meeting with senior Chinese official Liu Jianchao in Washington, the ...
The United States Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. The U.S. delegation to the Human Rights Council is a part of the U.S. Mission Geneva, and other U.S. ambassadors stationed in Geneva are the United States ambassador to United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva (head of the overall mission, and not to be confused with the more ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States issued sanctions against a Russian judge on Tuesday for her role in the detention of human-rights activist Alexei Gorinov over his opposition to Russia's ...