International News -- Civil Rights And Profiling international News. Cross Reference civil rights and Profiling with USauthorities, the federal attorney general s office confirmed Friday. http://www.pluralism.org/news/intl/index.php?xref=Civil Rights and Profiling&sor
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Extractions: About the GAER Council 25 April 2005: United Nations Commission on Human Rights 25 April 2005: International Criminal Court - cooperation and assistance agreement (item approved) 16 March 2005: Human rights - Council conclusions (item approved) 13 December 2004: Human Rights EU Guidelines (item approved) 13 September 2004: EU Annual Report on Human Rights - 2004 (item approved) 14 June 2004: European Union guidelines on human rights defenders - Council conclusions 22 March 2004: UN Commission on Human Rights - Council Conclusions 23 February 2004: Human rights and democratisation in third countries - Council conclusions (item approved without debate) 13 October 2003: Iran - Human Rights - Council Conclusions (item debated) 13 October 2003: Western Balkans: "International Criminal Tribunal"
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Extractions: Security See what they're doing to help SEIU health care locals are sending medical supplies donated by employers to the affected areas. SEIU Local 1199W/UP nurses traveling to Baton Rogue took over 50 boxes of medical supplies donated from employers, including a desperately needed shipment of refrigerated tetanus vaccine. SEIU Local 1199NY recently worked with their major employer, the Greater NY Hospital Association, to deliver 5,000 additional doses of the tetanus vaccine. (Read about these badly-needed doses in nurse Cathy Stoddart's story Read the story Information for New Orleans employees How You Can Help: Click here
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Extractions: Conversations with History blog After World War II, in the wake of the holocaust, human rights issues became an increasingly important component of the global agenda. Many forces combined to shape this new consciousness. In this gallery, journalists and writers, lawyers and judges, activists and government officials talk about their lives and the ideas that forged a new awareness of human rights both social and civil. Kritaya Archavanitkul ; Thai human rights activist: "Emerging Issues in Human Rights in Southeast Asia,"
International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights (1966) Selected articles of the Covenant on civil and Political rights that are relevantto the United Nations general Assembly Resolution 2200A XX1. http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-covenant/
Extractions: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 16 December 1966. The ICCPR was to take effect ten years later in all nations that had become state parties. A sufficient number of states had become parties so the ICCPR took effect as planned in 1976. The United States Senate ratified the ICCPR in June 1992. The Senate took exceptions to this treaty. Amongst those exceptions are the provision that the human rights recognized by this treaty shall not be enforcable in courts in the United States. Thus the United States Senate denied Americans the legal power to secure and enforce the human rights recognized by this international covenant. CIRP presents selected articles. The full unabridged text is available elsewhere on the World Wide Web. The ICCPR contains important articles which appear to protect the child from involuntary circumcision. Article 24 provides a right of every child to special protection. This is to be applied without regard to race, color, sex, religion, social orgin or birth. The right is universal and protects every child without exception. Article 9 provides a right of security of person. Article 7 provides a right to freedom from torture, and cruel or degrading treatment. Article 26 provides a right to the equal protection of the law for all persons. Read together it appears that a child would have a right to special protection of the security of his body, freedom from torture, and cruel and degrading treatment. The special protection of the law is to be applied universally for all persons. This would seem to mean that the child is entitled to protection from circumcision by law.
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Extractions: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER From: abirdson@next19pg2.wam.umd.edu (abirdson) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african Subject: Text of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Date: 5 Jun 1994 23:03:25 GMT Message-ID: Keywords: Human Rights INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS Part 1 ARTICLE 1 1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. 2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence. 3. The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the United Nations. Part 2 ARTICLE 2 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
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Extractions: The demolitions in Mumbai rendered thousands of people homeless and became a significant commentary on the Indian state. Here lies an example of a state that prides in being democratic and just but acts just opposite to the detriment of the basic civil rights, liberties and interests of its citizens that it is bound to preserve and protect under the law of the land. By Dr. Pushkar Raj
Extractions: The USA could not risk so many African, South American and Asian countries unshackling from Colonialism in the 1960s, only to choose Communism over Democracy as their new form of government. Democratic countries were too important to America in terms of international trade and natural resources. So American diplomats desperately sought sympathetic ears within the United Nations when they pushed themes concerning the "Merits of Democracy" and "Land of the Free." But whenever US diplomats made those hypocritical statements in the UN General Assembly, the Soviet Union countered in stark rebuttal by referring to pictures from Birmingham news events. With so many news reports and Black leaders calling out the racial crisis in America, even European leaders, to protect their foreign interests, began putting pressure on American diplomats. Each day America, or specifically, President John F Kennedy, allowed such "cuts-deep-because-its-true" criticism without taking action only played into the Soviet Union's hand to attract nations to Communism. JFK also had plenty of geo-political motivation from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 , which amply demonstrated that third world countries can rapidly become staging grounds for the Cold War to escalate into a Hot War.
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Extractions: Miami, FL, Dec. 21 (UPI) The South is still trying to heal wounds opened by segregation and the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. The latest effort at closure focuses on solving the killings of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss., in 1964, depicted in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." Many of the villains in other cases have been convicted, or died, or both. Bobby Frank Cherry was the last of four suspects in the deaths of four black girls at a church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2002 and died last month. Medgar Evers, a civil-rights leader, was shot at his home in Hinds County, Miss., also in 1963. In a third trial in 1994, 31 years after the slaying, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted and sentenced to life. De La Beckwith died unrepentant in prison in 2001. James Earl Ray died of liver failure in 1998 while serving a 99-year sentence for the slaying of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 30 years earlier in Memphis. He was still trying to prove his innocence at the time of his death.
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Extractions: PART IV Article 28 1. There shall be established a Human Rights Committee (hereafter referred to in the present Covenant as the Committee). It shall consist of eighteen members and shall carry out the functions hereinafter provided. 2. The Committee shall be composed of nationals of the States Parties to the present Covenant who shall be persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights, consideration being given to the usefulness of the participation of some persons having legal experience. 3. The members of the Committee shall be elected and shall serve in their personal capacity. Article 29 1 . The members of the Committee shall be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons possessing the qualifications prescribed in article 28 and nominated for the purpose by the States Parties to the present Covenant. 2. Each State Party to the present Covenant may nominate not more than two persons. These persons shall be nationals of the nominating State. 3. A person shall be eligible for renomination.
Human Rights Program international Covenant on civil and Political rights. Adopted by general Assemblyresolution 2200 A (XXI) of December 16, 1966. http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/docs/iccpr/cn1_e.cfm
Extractions: Minister's page Minister of State (Sport) Minister of State (Multiculturalism) Location: Home - Human Rights Program Subjects A-Z Index Arts and Culture Citizenship and Identity ... print version Adopted by General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI) of December 16, 1966. Entry into force on March 23, 1976, in accordance with Article 49. Preamble The States Parties to the present Covenant, Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person, Recognizing that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying civil and political freedom and freedom from fear and want can only be achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his civil and political rights, as well as his economic, social and cultural rights, Considering the obligation of States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and freedoms
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Extractions: At the dawn of the 21st century, the death penalty is considered by most civilized nations as a cruel and inhuman punishment. It has been abolished de jure or de facto by 106 nations, 30 countries have abolished it since 1990. However, the death penalty continues to be commonly applied in other nations. China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States and Iran are the most prolific executioners in the world. Indeed, the US is one of six countries (including also Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) which executes people who were under 18 years-old at the time they committed their crimes. While international documents have restricted and in some cases even banned the death penalty, its application is still not against customary international law. Much debate continues in the US as to whether it constitutes an appropriate punishment, at least to the most heinous crimes. In recent years, the debate has been further fueled by the use of new technologies which have shown that a large proportion of people sentenced to death are, indeed, innocent. News Facts Law General Websites ... Videos
Extractions: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (16 December 1966) The right to return is most clearly enshrined in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) under its provisions on the right to freedom of movement (Article 12). Freedom of movement has two main components: an internal aspect, relating to freedom of movement within a country (Article 12 (1)); and an external aspect comprising freedom of movement between States. The latter includes the right to leave one's country (Article 12 (2)), and the right to enter one's "own country" (Article 12 (4)). Article 12 of the ICCPR states: The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order (ordre public), public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others, and are consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant.