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Manila Bulletin;  May 16, 2006 ;     662 words ... ... the protection and promotion of human rights, as they formally constituted the United Nations Human Rights Council, the new body that would ... upholding the highest standards of human rights.'' United Nations General Assembly President Jan ...

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Peace and Freedom;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... both the Commission on Human Rights, and the treaty bodies ... the request of the Human Rights Committee (HRC which ... its criticism of the United Nations in general and the ... to the Commission on Human Rights as "discredited ...

Article: EDITORIAL: Human Rights: United ...
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  March 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... comes to the United Nations, the United ... Commission on Human Rights. Problem is ... States. Any Human Rights Council would ... goals, but the United Nations should do better by reform and human rights by building a ...

Article: United Nations to observe Human ...
M2 Presswire;  December 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... December 2003-UN: United Nations to observe Human Rights Day at Headquarters ... In his message for Human Rights Day, United Nations Secretary-General ... challenges in the field of human rights. -- A United Nations University (UNU ...

Article: Politics aside ... human rights. (United ...
The Economist (US);  March 29, 1997 ;     700+ words ...GENEVA THE United Nations created the post of high commissioner for human rights three years ago, after ... inter-American court of human rights; and Elizabeth Rehn ... special rapporteur for human rights in ex-Yugoslavia. Mr ...

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The Economist (US);  June 12, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... idea was to give the United Nations more power to promote and protect human rights. Some 5,000 delegates ... cannot even agree on what human rights are. The draft final ... sterile redefinition of human rights. The UN's covenants ...

Article: Assembly adopts declaration on right to development, acts on wide ...
UN Chronicle;  February 1, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... international Covenants on human rights, human rights and scientific and technological ... the effective enjoyment of human rights, torture, mass exoduses ... under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...