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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. Impunity - Wikipedia

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    Impunity is the ability to act with exemption from punishments, losses, or other negative consequences. [1] In the international law of human rights, impunity is failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice and, as such, itself constitutes a denial of the victims' right to justice and redress.

  4. Dignity - Wikipedia

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    Human dignity can be violated in multiple ways. The main categories of violations are: [9] Humiliation Violations of human dignity in terms of humiliation refer to acts that humiliate or diminish the self-worth of a person or a group. Acts of humiliation are context dependent but we normally have an intuitive understanding where such a ...

  5. Crimes against humanity - Wikipedia

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    The Commission was mandated to investigate the systematic, widespread, and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (i.e. North Korea), with a view to ensuring full accountability, in particular for violations that may amount to crimes against humanity. [51]

  6. Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), one of the oldest human rights organizations, has as its core mandate the promotion of the respect for all rights set out in the Declaration, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

  7. Bodily integrity - Wikipedia

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    Bodily integrity is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. In the field of human rights, violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as an unethical infringement, intrusive, and possibly criminal.

  8. US implicates 5 Israeli units in rights violations before ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...

  9. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The NGO Human Rights Watch has stated that there are human rights issues created by the current sex offender registration laws, and that they believe that the burden of being publicly listed as a sex offender, combined with the restrictions placed on former offenders and their family members, are human rights violations.