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Dinanath Tiwari

Dinanath Tiwari took the case of the victims of 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings to the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission and ensured employment and payment of compensations along with interest to them.

Teimumu Kepa

Ro Teimumu Kepa is the widow of Sailosi Kepa, a former high commissioner to London, minister of justice and attorney general (1988–1992) who went on to become a High Court judge, Ombudsman, and first chairman of Fiji's Human Rights Commission.


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Asma Jahangir

On November 5, 2007, The Economist reported that "Over 500 lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights activists have been arrested. They include Asma Jahangir, boss of the country’s human-rights commission and a former UN special rapporteur. In an e-mail from her house arrest, where she has been placed for 90 days, Ms Jahangir regretted that General Musharraf had "lost his marbles".

Catherine Bertini

Earlier in her career, Ms. Bertini was appointed by Illinois Governor James R. Thompson as a member of the Illinois Human Rights Commission, and as a member of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission.

Emilio Alvarez

Emilio Álvarez Icaza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican Federal District

Gaétan Cousineau

He was the mayor of Gatineau from 1983 to 1988 and is now president of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (known in English as the Quebec Human Rights Commission).

Gregory Floyd

He also serves as a Commissioner of the Board of the IBT Human Rights Commission (he was appointed by IBT General President James P. Hoffa), while also holding a seat on the Board of Group Health Insurance (GHI), and the Health Insurance Plan of New York (HIP).

Hong Kong Canadian

Mary-Woo Sims - social justice activist, former Chief Commissioner of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission

Indirasagar Dam

Indian National Human Rights commission takes complaint of Salem-News.com’s Human Rights Ambassador complain into note regarding Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar Dams.Complaints cited by our Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes, over water levels being raised to the point that they literally drowned a local community, have been recognized by the National Human Rights Commission in India.

International human rights law

The Paris Principles were defined at the first International Workshop on National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Paris from October 7 to 9, 1991, and adopted by UN Human Rights Commission Resolution 1992/54 of 1992 and General Assembly Resolution 48/134 of 1993.

Jane Campbell

Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (born 1959), Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

John Hall Buchanan, Jr.

He was a member of the U. S. delegation to the U. N. Human Rights Commission (1978–1980), was ranking Republican to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Belgrade Conference on the Helsinki Accords.

Lin Farley

In April 1975 she testified before the New York City Human Rights Commission Hearings on Women and Work, led by Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Manitoba Human Rights Commission

The Manitoba Human Rights Commission is a quasi-judicial arms-length agency of the Government of Manitoba that is responsible for enforcing The Human Rights Code (Manitoba).

NHRC

Myanmar National Human Rights Commission, Burma's (Myanmar) independent national human rights commission

University Law College, Bangalore

Hon'ble Mr. Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India; former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) (1996–1998); former Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee (1999); and a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan (2004).