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People with Disability Australia Incorporated (PWD)'s submission to the National Human Rights Consultation

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This submission reflects the range of views gathered by People with Disability Australia Incorporated (PWD) for the purpose of informing the Australian Government’s National Human Rights Consultation. PWD has been actively engaged in ensuring the voice of people with disability is being included in this consultation process. This submission also includes reference to ‘human rights indicators’.

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

World Press Freedom Day 2010 : Freedom of Information the Right to Know

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Every 3 May World Press Freedom Day represents an opportunity to commemorate the fundamental principles of press freedom around the globe and to pay solemn tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty. UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2010 will be held from 2 to 3 May in Brisbane, Australia. It will highlight the importance of freedom of information as an integral part of freedom of expression and its contribution to democratic governance.

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Chancery Law Chronicles- First Bangladesh Online Case Law Database

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You will be happy and proud to know that my office, Chancery Research andConsultants (CRC-Trust), a socio-legal research organisation has developedthe first ever searchable inter-active Bangladeshi online case law database(www.clcbd.org). This is a unique and innovative initiative in the legalhistory of Bangladesh. Due care has been taken so that this Website benefitspeople from all strata including judges, lawyers, researchers, academics,law enforcement agencies, journalists, human rights more...

Added by Md. Karim on March 10, 2010

Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh

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In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In this emergency report Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) presents new data and documents dire conditions for these persecuted Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. PHR's medical investigators warn that critical levels of acute malnutrition and a surging camp population without access to food aid will cause more deaths from starvation more...

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

UN Special Rapporteur's report on the right to education of persons in detention

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The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, devoted his first annual report to the question of the right to education of persons in detention, 'a group subject to discrimination generally and to discrimination in the provision of education specifically'.

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

International Women's Day (8 March 2010) - Message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

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The fight for women’s right is central to the United Nation’s global mission. Fifteen years ago, in Beijing, Government committed themselves to equality, development and peace for all women, in all countries. The Beijing Declaration was a landmark on the road to women’s empowerment. It has guided policy making. It has inspired women and girls to strive for equality and opportunity and reminded everyone that this is their right.

Added by Zunia on March 09, 2010

HAIDARI: A new chance for women

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 HAIDARI: A new chance for women M. Ashraf Haidari The long agony for Afghanistan's women ended with the fall of the Taliban in 2001. The story of Farida Tarana, for example, is no longer unique and gives Afghan women increased hope for equal rights under Afghanistan's progressive constitution. Miss Tarana was among the first female contestants to appear on "Afghan Star," the local version of "American Idol." She impressed many by her performance of more...

Added by M. Ashraf Haidari on March 08, 2010

Internet access is 'a fundamental right'

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"Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests."The survey - of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries - found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide."Countries such as Finland and Estonia have already ruled that access is a human right for their citizens."International bodies such as the UN are also pushing for universal net access."

Added by John Daly on March 08, 2010

Development Policy Action Plan on Human Rights 2008 – 2010

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The 2008 – 2010 update of the Development Policy Action Plan on Human Rights carries forward the voluntary commitment to systematically integrate the human-rights-based approach into German development policy. With this human rights orientation, the members can better target their contributions to sustain-able development on the structural causes of poverty.

Added by Zunia on March 07, 2010

Making a Statement: A Review of Charges and Prosecutions for Gender-based Crimes Before the International Criminal Court

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The Second Edition of Making a Statement includes an updated chart of all of the charges for gender-based crimes requested by the Prosecutor to date, as well as the charges confirmed and not confirmed by the Pre-Trial Chambers. It includes new statements by the Women’s Initiatives in relation to the commencement of the ICC’s first trial and the Confirmation Decision in the case against Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo. In that same case, the Women’s Initiatives was the first international women’s rights more...

Added by Zunia on March 07, 2010

A New Humanitarian Paradigm for Understanding the Right to Asylum

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A new paradigm is needed in the 21st century for conceptualizing the right to asylum as a basic right of humanity, a right conceptualized by Arendt from her perspective as a mid-century stateless person as the right to have rights. This revised paradigm must include certain features which haven’t been well-articulated in the 20th century right to asylum, historically based in Europe as the right of non refoulement. This paper argues that the right to asylum of those fleeing genocide is based on more...

Added by Zunia on March 04, 2010

Hard Progress and a Long Road Ahead: Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

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The country reports presented in this edition detail how women through - out the Middle East continue to face systematic discrimination in both laws and social customs. Deeply entrenched societal norms, combined with conservative interpretations of Shari‘a (Islamic law), continue to relegate women to a subordinate status. Women in the region are significantly underrepresented in senior positions in politics and the private sector, and in some countries they are completely absent from the more...

Added by Zunia on March 04, 2010

Connecting the Dots: Victim Assistance and Human Rights

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Over the past ten years, the world has seen significant developments in what might at first glance seem unrelated fronts: disarmament and human rights. Two disarmament treaties have come into play – the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty (Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction), and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. In between these treaties came the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which more...

Added by Zunia on March 03, 2010

Colombia: Displaced Women Demand Their Rights

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This report saya that displaced Colombian women and girls are the resilient survivors of the ongoing conflict inside the country. Frustrated by continued neglect from the authorities, displaced women’s organizations successfully petitioned the Constitutional Court, which ordered the Colombian government to bring to justice perpetrators of sexual violence and devise programs attending to the protection and socio-economic needs of displaced women. It is time for the government of Colombia to more...

Added by Zunia on March 01, 2010

Interview with M. Ashraf Haidari on The London Conference: Recommitting to Afghanistan’s Secure Future;

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Inteview with M. Ashraf Haidari, Political Counselor and Acting Defense Attaché of the Embassy of Afghanistan (Washington, DC) International Affairs Forum: Thank you very much for the opportunity to interview you again, and this time on another pivotal event, the London Conference, taking place this Thursday. Please tell us about the significance of this Conference to the government and people of Afghanistan, as well as your nation’s expectations from this international gathering. M. Ashraf more...

Added by M. Ashraf Haidari on February 28, 2010

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