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  2. Human rights - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Responsibility to protect - Wikipedia

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    The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

  4. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action - Wikipedia

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    Part II, para 99 The World Conference on Human Rights on Human Rights recommends that the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and other organs and agencies of the United Nations system related to human rights consider ways and means for the full implementation, without delay, of the recommendations contained in the present ...

  5. Civil and political rights - Wikipedia

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    Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right ...

  6. Civil liberties - Wikipedia

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    The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment further protected civil liberties by introducing the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. Human rights within the United States are often called civil rights, which are those rights, privileges and immunities held by all people, in distinction to political ...

  7. Human rights guided Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy, and the ...

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    The bureau today prepares human-rights reports annually for every country to help inform our foreign-policy decisions and human-rights messaging to the world. This marked a real shift.

  8. Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    10 December, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration, is celebrated annually as World Human Rights Day or International Human Rights Day. The commemoration is observed by individuals, community and religious groups, human rights organizations, parliaments, governments, and the United Nations.

  9. To protect society, Israel must root out, destroy Hamas - AOL

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    The truth: Nothing could justify the depravity of the terrorists' actions against innocent people on Oct. 7.