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Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai

In this book he showed his political views by writing about issues such as constitutional rule and national independence, rule of law and human rights from different aspects of Islam.

Ashif Shaikh

He participated in various campaigns for fighting against violation of Human Rights at the state, national and international level.

Azucena Villaflor

Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924, Avellaneda –- 10 December 1977) was an Argentine social activist, and one of the founders of the human rights association called Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which looked for desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance during Argentina's Dirty War).

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee is an independent non-governmental organization for human rights founded on July 14, 1992 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Canadian Race Relations Foundation

The agency was formed as a result of an agreement between the federal government and the National Association of Japanese Canadians called the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement which acknowledged that the treatment of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II was unjust and violated principles of human rights.

Christina Haverkamp

Christina Haverkamp (* 6 september 1958 in Nordhorn, Germany) is a German based human rights activist with special focus on the Yanomami people living in Venezuela and Brazil.

Erwin Friedlander

In 1978 Friedlander became actively involved in the worldwide human rights movement known as SOS — Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Sharansky.

European Human Rights Prize

The European Human Rights Prize, also known as the Council of Europe Human Rights Prize, was a human rights prize awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in recognition of outstanding contributions to the cause of human rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Felix Varela High School

The school was named for Father Félix Varela (November 20, 1788 – February 27, 1853), a Cuban Roman Catholic Priest, human rights advocate, teacher, and an admired figure throughout the Cuban American exile community.

Free South Africa Movement

The movement began when Randall Robinson, Executive Director of TransAfrica, Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, D.C. Congressman Walter Fauntroy and Georgetown University law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton met with South African Ambassador at his embassy to highlight human rights abuses in South Africa.

Global Witness

This is intended to shape global policy and change international thinking about the extraction and trading of natural resources and the impacts that corrupt and unsustainable exploitation can have upon development, human rights and geopolitical and economic stability.

Hilaria Supa

Hilaria Supa Huamán (born 1957, in Wayllaqocha, Anta Province, Cusco Region), is a human rights activist, an active member of several Indigenous women organizations in Peru and the world and a Peruvian politician.

Indian Council of Education

Democracy, Human Rights and Social Development April 30, 2007 Himachal Pradesh,University India.

International Association of Genocide Scholars

Charny, Helen Fein (who also served as its first president), Robert Melson, and Roger Smith, meets to consider comparative research, important new work, case studies, the links between genocide and other human rights violations, and prevention and punishment of genocide.

Jaago Re

In addition, JaagoRe launch a pledge drive in partnership with Breakthrough - an NGO credited for creating the Bell Bajao Campaign - driving individuals towards making pledges to eradicate gender stereotypes.

Johan D. van der Vyver

He served as a fellow in the Human Rights Program at the Carter Center from 1995 to March 1998 before becoming a professor of law at Emory University School of Law.

Kamiar and Arash Alaei incident

Various human rights groups, including PHR, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Human Rights Watch, and the International AIDS Society endorsed a petition called for the Alaeis’ release.

Kopalasingham Sritharan

Kopalasingham Sritharan is a Tamil Human Rights activist who along with Rajan Hoole ran the University Teachers for Human Rights while affiliated to the Department of Mathematics, University of Jaffna.

Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo Bay

The Associated Press reported that Rola Dashti, a member of a human rights delegation which met with Bush in Jerusalem, said Bush said two of the remaining four Kuwaitis would face charges before Guantanamo military commissions.

Lavabit

Lavabit received media attention in July 2013 when it was revealed that Edward Snowden was using the Lavabit email address edsnowden@lavabit.com to invite human rights lawyers and activists to a press conference during his confinement at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow.

Leandro Despouy

Leandro Despouy (April 4th, 1947. San Luis, Argentina) is an Argentine human rights lawyer.

Left Ecology Freedom

The party argues that the existing system has increasingly worsened the plight of migrants by establishing the crime of illegal immigration and violating fundamental human rights through indefinite detention in the centers for identification and expulsion.

Lev Timofeev

In the late 1980s, Timofeev published Referendum magazine and served as the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, a human rights watchdog.

Lidia Yusupova

Lidia Muhtarovna Yusupova (Лидия Мухтаровна Юсупова) (born September 15, 1961 in Grozny, Soviet Union) is the Coordinator of the law office of the Moscow-based human rights organization Memorial.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond

She also holds a certificate in the international and comparative law of human rights from the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

Mother's Right Foundation

The Mother’s Right Foundation (Interregional Charitable Public Foundation ‘Pravo Materi’) is a Russian, non-profit, non-government human rights organization which works to protect the rights of families whose sons died in military service as a result of hazing, criminal actions, unsanitary living conditions, unhealthy psychological environment, etc.

National Association of Arab-Americans

It opposed military occupation of Palestine, Lebanon and the Golan Heights and was involved in Arab-Israeli conflict issues, including Jerusalem, Middle East peace negotiations and regional security, as well as issues of democracy and human rights, the reconstruction of Lebanon and U.S. foreign aid.

Ngawang Sangdrol

As a result of intense international pressures from various Human Rights and Tibetan political organizations, as well as John Kamm, director of the Dui Hua Foundation, her sentence was commuted to 11 years from her original 23-year sentence.

Norman Academy

The Norman Academy or L'Accademia Normanna is a non-profit association established for the promotion of the Arts and Letters, Humanities and Human rights defence throughout the world.

Pannella List

When the Radical Party was transformed into Transnational Radical Party, a NGO working at the UN level and coordinating the efforts of several national parties and groupings mainly in support of human rights, in 1989, the Italian Radicals were free to join the party of their choice.

Peter F. Krogh

The Digital Archives cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign affairs ranging in date from the late 20th century to the early 21st century, including the Cold War, Terrorism, International Diplomacy, Energy, Human Rights, Immigration, Conflict Resolution, Democracy, Defense and National Security, Environment, Technology, United States Role in the World, and several others.

Pyotr Gannushkin

Gannushkin's granddaughter, Svetlana Gannushkina (born 1943), is a mathematician and human rights activist who was reported to have been a serious contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Rabble.ca

Later rabble contributors look back at the events as defining the role of rabble.ca as a medium for advocacy of human rights, freedom of expression, and peaceful protest.

Rafik Schami

If the fiction set in Syria presents a positive view of Arab family and social structures, it frequently contains critical comment on Damascene politics, on corruption, censorship, issues of civil and human rights.

Rehabilitation counseling

Rehabilitation counselors can be found in the leadership of many prominent organizations that support human rights and civil rights for people with disabilities such as American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, National Black Deaf Advocates, etc.

Road of the Revolution Front

Amongst its 152 founding members were many well-known personalities such as political activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, novelist Ahdaf Soueif, April 6 Youth Movement co-founder Ahmed Maher, labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain of the Revolutionary Socialists, economist Wael Gamal, leftist activist Wael Khalil and Human Rights lawyer Gamal Eid.

Savivanh Savang

She went into exile in the city of Nice, France, where continued to politically pressure the communist government to provide human rights for women in Laos.

Signa Vianen

The Moiwana case was one in a wide range of publications, if not regular news reports, in a time when reports about violations of basic human rights were still somewhat considered a taboo in this democratic country.

Solaris Pictures

It produces films that go beyond mere entertainment, to emotionally engage the audience and initiate dialogues about underserved issues like health and sexuality, human rights, gay and transgender issues.

Stephen Toope

A scholar specializing in human rights, public international law and international relations, Toope is the 12th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia, succeeding Martha Piper, after nine years of service.

Theodore W. Kheel

He was also widely involved with such philanthropic organizations as the Gandhi Society for Human Rights, and in the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s where he served as Executive Director of the National Urban League during the term of NUL President Lester Granger.

Thuli Madonsela

Thuli Madonsela, less commonly referred to by her birth name, Thulisile Madonsela, is a human rights lawyer, equality expert, and Public Protector of South Africa.

Uganda–United States relations

Relations with successor governments were cordial, although Obote and his administration rejected strong U.S. criticism of Uganda's human rights situation.

Zbigniew Romaszewski

Zbigniew Romaszewski (born 2 January 1940 in Warsaw) is a Polish conservative politician, a Polish senator since 1989, and a human rights activist.


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Abdel Basset Turki

He condemned human rights violations by US and allied troops in the Combined Joint Task Force 7.

Acid Survivors Foundation

For her dedication, in 2005, Monira Rahman the Executive Director of ASF was awarded the Human Rights Award by Amnesty International.

Administrative detention

Some of these political prisoners, such as Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, have become known worldwide due to the detention, and their cause is championed by human rights organizations.

Afshar Operation

According to a Human Rights Watch report, "credible and consistent" accounts from several officials who worked in Shura-e-Nazar (the informal politico-military organization headed by Rabbani's defense minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud) and the Rabbani interim government reveal that a military campaign against Hizb-i Wahdat was planned and approved by officials at the "highest levels" of the Rabbani government.

Azimzhan Askarov

Askarov was tried along with other human rights activists before a court in the Nooken District of the Jalal-Abad Province.

Berenice Celeyta

Celeyta attributes the beginning of her activism in human rights to the 1985 Palace of Justice siege, in which M-19 guerrillas took the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia hostage, killing 11 of its 25 justices.

Carlos Mendoza Davis

He earned a law degree with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, for which he wrote the thesis Human rights and their protection in Mexican constitutional law. In 1994 he attended the Institute of International and Comparative Law summer school in France, sponsored by the Cornell Law School and the University of Paris.

Charles Hector

Charles Hector (full name Charles Hector Fernandez, born in Temerloh on 4 July 1961) is a Malaysian Human Rights advocate and activist.

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011

He also had threatened to boycott the 2013 CHOGM summit, scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka, if allegations of human rights abuses against the country's Tamil minority were not investigated.

David Hardingham

He was an outspoken critic of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s human rights record during his thirty year presidency, a record he maintains is confirmed by the many examples of torture undergone by Mohamed Nasheed and many others he had met during the time many opposition activists stayed at Salisbury.

Delphine Djiraibe

BBC News has described her as "one of Chad's most prominent human rights lawyers".

Dianne Hiles

In this year she also completed her Masters in Human Rights at the University of Sydney.

Emilio Alvarez

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

Florence Benoît-Rohmer

Her academic interest is focused on mechanism for the preservation of human rights both within the European Union and the Council of Europe, especially the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter.

She is also keen in the development of the protection of human rights within the European Union, including through the proclamation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and adherence of the Union to the European Convention on human rights, writing a regular column on human rights in the European Union to the quarterly Journal of European Law.

Frivolous litigation

In July 2013, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismissed a complaint laid by a man posing as Gloria Dawn Ironbox, a fictional feminist attorney on popular television series Family Guy.

Fundamental Rights Agency

Brian Klug argues that this definition proscribed legitimate criticism of the human rights record of the Israeli Government by attempting to bring criticism of Israel into the category of antisemitism, and does not sufficiently distinguish between criticism of Israeli actions and criticism of Zionism as a political ideology, on the one hand, and racially based violence towards, discrimination against, or abuse of, Jews.

Gerry Moynihan

Moynihan has an extensive practice in Human Rights and Administrative Law, and is instructed on behalf of public bodies including the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, for whom he acted in recovering records from the Lord Advocate.

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

GO Campaign

Past recipients have included Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes Lauren Bush-Lauren and Ellen Gustafson, founders of FEED Projects, and UN Human Rights Advocate Chris Mburu from the HBO documentary "A Small Act".

HaMoked

HaMoked also operates an Emergency Human Rights Hotline in order to attempt to offer real time solutions by working vis-a-vis relevant authorities in the field.

Hassan Kettani

He was imprisoned for alleged connections to the 2003 Casablanca bombings, Kettani was pardoned vy Mohammed VI eight years later after efforts by his lawyer, human rights groups and Islamists success in Morocco's parliament.

Human rights in Poland

Human rights in Poland are guaranteed by the second chapter of the Constitution of Poland.

Human Rights Party Malaysia

P.Waytha Moorthy - Human Rights Lawyer and Chairperson of HINDRAF.

Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

Ezra Levant, a lawyer and former publisher of the Western Standard who was himself a target of a human rights complaint in the past, said the court ruling is more evidence that Canada’s human rights commissions are “out of control,” and argued that “Every single aspect of this ruling is discreditable...Overturning the tribunal’s order isn’t enough. The tribunal itself should be disbanded.”

Human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War

In a 23 October 2012 statement, Human Rights Watch said that Syrian military denials notwithstanding, HRW had "evidence of ongoing cluster bomb attacks" by Syria’s air force.

IJM

International Justice Mission, a Christian non-profit human rights organization

International Foundation for Civil Liberties

As part of its campaign to highlight violations of human rights in Chechnya, jointly with Amnesty International and the International Helsinki Federation, IFCL sponsored screening of documentaries on the Chechen War around the world.

James Haven

Since 2006, Haven has been the executive board director of Artivist, a festival in Los Angeles that highlights films addressing human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues.

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

In 1977, after the Carter administration published a report critical of the human rights situation in Guatemala, Laugerud announced that the country would no longer accept US military aid.

Law Against Racism 2010

The first draft of the law was proposed by the Human Rights Committee of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies on 24 May 2010, the anniversary of an incident of racist violence in Sucre in 2008.

Laws regarding child pornography

Nina Karpachova, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said in June 2011 that a significant amount of child pornography available on the Internet originates in Ukraine.

Marc Galanter

He is an honorary professor of the National Law School of India, served as advisor to the Ford Foundation on legal services and human rights programs in India, and was retained as an expert by the government of India in the litigation arising from the Bhopal disaster.

Merab Ratishvili

In April 2011, Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, visited Merab Ratishvili in Rustavi prison No.6 as part of a visit to Georgia to report on the administration of justice and level of protection of human rights in the justice system of Georgia.

Minhaj-ul-Quran

MQI started its education, welfare and human rights work in the United Kingdom in 1986 and held its first international conference at Wembley Arena, London.

NHRC

National Human Rights Commission of India, a statutory body established in 1993, under the provisions of The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (TPHRA)

Nihal Jayawickrama

He was the former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice (1970–1977), Professor of Law at University of Hong Kong (1984-1997), Ariel F Sallows Professor of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1992-1993), and Executive Director of Transparency International (1997-2000).

Not On Our Watch Project

The organization was established by Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub in 2008, to bring global attention to human rights violations in Darfur and beyond, while providing resources to assist in putting an end to mass atrocities around the world.

Operation Umeed-e-Nuh

The Pakistani diplomats were renowned human rights activist and former Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney and Governor of Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan.

Politics of Malaysia

On 11 November, the Malaysian government briefly detained de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday and arrested a human rights lawyer and about a dozen opposition leaders, amid growing complaints the government is cracking down on dissent.

Samir Kassir

He recognised courage and determination in others and took under his wing leading young pro-democracy and human rights activists such as Wissam Tarif, with whom Kassir developed a warm and close friendship.

Society for Threatened Peoples

In Kosovo the STP-Germany paid for a team that, under the direction of the human rights worker Paul Polansky, worked for the interests of the Roma.

Suzanne Scholte

The Seoul Peace Prize award, instituted in 1990 and given biennially, was declared at the Korea Press Center to honor Suzanne for the contributions she made to the cause of North Korean peoples' freedom and human rights and the refugees of Western Sahara.

Tony Cunningham

On leaving Strasbourg and Brussels in 1999 he became the Chief Executive of Human Rights NGO INDICT where he remained until his election to Westminster.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.

Vladimiro

(Vladimiro) Ariel Dorfman (born 1942), a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist

Volkstum

The term was coined by German nationalists in the context of Germany's "Freedom Wars", in marked and conscious opposition to the ideals of the French Revolution such as universal human rights.

War of aggression

Lyal S. Sunga Individual Responsibility in International Law for Serious Human Rights Violations, Nijhoff (1992) 252 p.

Witeck Communications, Inc.

Witeck-Combs Communications helped openly gay (and lesbian) actors Amanda Bearse and Dan Butler to communicate honestly to celebrate and promote National Coming Out Day by serving as the first celebrity spokespersons for the Human Rights Campaign Fund (since renamed the Human Rights Campaign (www.hrc.org).

Youth for Exchange and Understanding

Seminars, it's a one-week open to maximum 40 participants to exchange ideas and opinions on a particular theme (e.g. environment, active participation in society, Human Rights Education, Racism and Xenophobia, Equality, Culture of Peace, Inclusion, etc.