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The Castan Centre was established in 2000 to meet the need for, and interest in, the study of human rights law globally, regionally and in Australia. [1] The Centre was launched by former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, who said that the Centre would "reach out to the world" and add a "real cutting edge" to human rights research and advocacy.
[3]: 8 They quote Amnesty as finding that torture seems to have declined in Eastern Europe since the death of Stalin. [3]: 8 From this they conclude that the growth of torture which has occurred since then, appears to be "largely a Free World phenomenon", [3]: 8 i.e. occurring in the American sphere of influence.
Women's Economic Rights; Women's Political Rights; Women's Social Rights; Workers' Rights; Most of the CIRI indicators were ratings (as opposed to rankings) on a scale of 0-2 for their respect of human rights, as follows: 0= Frequent violations of this right; 1= Some violations of this right; 2= No reported violations of this right
The Human Rights Data Analysis Group was founded in December, 1991, by Patrick Ball as a part of the Science and Human Rights Program within the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [9] It moved to the non-profit umbrella company Benetech on November 3, 2003. [10]
The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) was a research institute based at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.It was founded in 1986 and promotes human rights awareness, in the field of genocide and mass atrocities by hosting frequent events, publishing policy briefs, engaging in counter activism on the web, and many other programs.
This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies.The specific problem is: both sourced and unsourced criticisms of the country's human rights record (major WP:UNDUE and WP:BALANCE issues; the article should not resemble a database for every possible criticism of the U.S. human rights record found on Google; instead, it should rely on reliable sources, preferably ...
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is an American non-profit non-governmental organization that is part of the worldwide Amnesty International organization.. Amnesty International is an organization of more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in over 150 countries, [1] with complete independence from government, corporate or national interests.
The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights is an academic research and advocacy organization at the New York University Stern School of Business founded in March 2013. It is the first center to focus on human rights as an integral part of business education.