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Major international human rights organizations include Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. [59] [60] The International Human Rights Arts Movement cannot claim to be a major organization, although it is significant both for its international participation and in that it seeks to highlight human rights issues through the promotion of ...
An annual activity of the organization is the International Human Rights Arts Festival (IHRAF), which formally commenced in 2017 in New York [14] The Festival is timed to coincide with International Human Rights Day on December 10 each year, [15]. and involves live performances, aimed at facilitating discussion on social justice issues, especially involving the rights of ethnic and racial ...
At the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, one of the largest international gatherings on human rights, [95] diplomats and officials representing 100 nations reaffirmed their governments' "commitment to the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and ...
Some notions of righteousness present in ancient law and religion are sometimes retrospectively included under the term "human rights". While Enlightenment philosophers suggest a secular social contract between the rulers and the ruled, ancient traditions derived similar conclusions from notions of divine law, and, in Hellenistic philosophy, natural law.
International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law.
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 ...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights together with other international human rights instruments are sometimes referred to as the "International Bill of Human Rights". International human rights instruments are ...
Although the United Nations had long been active in the field of human rights, [2] the Vienna conference was only the second global conference to focus exclusively on human rights, with the first having been the International Conference on Human Rights held in Teheran, Iran, during April–May 1968 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.