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NCC supports UN call to close Gitmo
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Arab American News
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March 3, 2006
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Arab American News
03-03-2006
NEW YORK -The National Council of Churches USA has "emphatically supported"
a United Nations report released last week that calls upon the United
States to close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility "without further
delay."
The report of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights of the Economic and
Social Council also recommended that the U.S. refrain from "any practice
amounting to torture" and either bring detainees to trial or "release them
without further delay."
In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, NCC General Secretary,
the Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, also renewed a request to allow the NCC to send "a
small interfaith delegation" to Guantanamo "to monitor the ...
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BURNS H. WESTON NAMED NEW INTERIM DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 26, 2006 ;
446 words
......and UI Center for Human Rights Senior Scholar...the UI Center for Human Rights (UICHR), effective...this spring. "The Executive Board of the Center decided...in international human rights law. Weston has...working on behalf of human rights. In September ...
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Human rights can be manifested differently
China Daily;
December 12, 2005 ;
Tian Dan;
787 words
...A unique outlook on human rights has taken shape in China, the largest...the country's own experience in human rights development over the last two decades...China has also absorbed rational human rights ideas from other cultures. Human...
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A truth not quite self-evident Noel Malcolm considers the unsolved...
The Sunday Telegraph London;
December 23, 2001 ;
Noel Malcolm;
787 words
...Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff Princeton...The decades following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 have seen a remarkable growth of human rights law and human rights institutions. What was once the...
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UN: Economic and Social Council hears calls for human rights dimension to...
M2 Presswire;
July 21, 1998 ;
787 words
......the Commission on Human Rights. All United Nations...must be trained in human rights, said the representative...sensitization to the human rights aspects of the...well as to the human rights implications of...representative of Human Rights Watch said the ...
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Bush's Policy on Human Rights Called Shortsighted; White House `Too Ready...
The Washington Post;
December 29, 1991 ;
Don Shannon;
634 words
...Human rights around the world took a back seat in the Bush White House during 1991, the group Human Rights Watch said in its ninth annual report...administration took a bold line in defense of human rights, the New York-based, independent monitoring...
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Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics
The Middle East Journal;
July 1, 1996 ;
Elahi, Maryam;
787 words
...Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North...paper. Reviewed by Maryam Elahi The human rights movement in the Maghrib has had significant...examining the role played by the Maghribi human rights movement in integrating the notion of...
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PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND NORWEGIAN LAW.
International Journal of Humanities and Peace;
January 1, 2000 ;
787 words
...Human rights are central to the Norwegian Government's policies. With the focus, Human rights start at home, the Norwegian Government has submitted a new Plan of Action for Human Rights, which outlines more than 300 measures and takes a clear stand...
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U.N.: NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL MUST LEAD ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Targeted News Service;
October 3, 2006 ;
615 words
...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: The...must be prepared to speak out publicly against human rights abusers wherever they are found, however powerful they are, Human Rights Watch said today. The Security Council late...
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Human Rights Groups Worldwide Call on UN Members to Reject Belarus'...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 2, 2007 ;
542 words
...Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: Belarus' record on human rights makes the country a supremely unfit candidate for the United Nations Human Rights Council, a coalition of more than 40 national and international human rights...
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Activist Discusses Human Rights in the Middle East
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;
June 30, 2001 ;
Anonymous;
522 words
...ACTIVIST DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST On April 4...Peace hosted a lecture entitled "Human Rights in the Middle East: the Crisis...International and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. The premise of Dr. Hicks' research...
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Beyond the paper tiger: The challenge of a Human Rights Court in Africa
Texas International Law Journal;
July 1, 1997 ;
Anthony, Arthur E;
787 words
...The [African human rights] enforcement mechanism is unsatisfactory...INTRODUCTION The promotion and protection of human rights has long been a universally espoused...galvanized unprecedented interest in human rights, as evidenced by the adoption of...
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Actions focus on guarding human rights
China Daily;
March 16, 2004 ;
Shao Zongwei;
490 words
...Human rights experts and scholars yesterday urged...after the Sunday amendment which adds human rights protection into the Chinese Constitution...amendment as "a milestone" in China's human rights development, they suggested institutional...
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