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Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Without Frontiers International. HURIDOCS. IFEX. Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission. Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense. International Alliance of Women. International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, states that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one's family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care." [111]
Federal judiciary of the United States. The federal judiciary consists of courts established under Article Three of the United States Constitution. These are the. Supreme Court. Circuit Courts of Appeals. District Courts. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Court of International Trade.
The United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC) [a] is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. [3] The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. [4] The headquarters of the Council are at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland .
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
Website. amnesty.org. Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. [1]
H. Helsinki Citizens' Assembly. Helsinki Citizens' Assembly–Vanadzor. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. Helsinki Committee of Armenia. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Hindus for Human Rights. Human Rights Measurement Initiative. Humanist Association of Ghana.
Child protective services ( CPS) is the name of an agency responsible for providing child protection, which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect. Some countries and US states use other names, often attempting to reflect more family-centered (as opposed to child-centered) practices, such as department of children and family ...