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The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 was awarded jointly to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"
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The UN Working Group strongly encourages all States to develop, enact and update periodically a national action plan on business and human rights. Such plans are part of the responsibility of States to disseminate and implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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Access to Archives Empowers People
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As the world faces multiple mounting crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine War, and the severe e...
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The Schengen Agreement signed on June 14, 1985, is a treaty that led most of the European countries towards the abolishment of their national borders, to build a Europe without borders known as the “Schengen Area”.
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The project Archives and Dealing with the Past provides support to actors in the field of transitional justice and dealing with the past related to the protection, preservation, and management of human rights archives.
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In the framework of the Mandate “Archives and Dealing with the Past” by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), swisspeace initiated a policy debate on the topic of Safe Havens for Archives at Risk in 2015. This process resulted in the development and the endorsement of Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk by the International Council on Archives (ICA) in autumn 2018. The work of the international working group “Safe Havens for Archives at Risk” is still...
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An Historical Record of the Drafting Process of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights The Drafting Committee on an International Bill of Human Right was established by the Commission on Human Rights. Its members were Eleanor Roosevelt, Pen-Chun Chang, Charles Malik, John Humphrey, William Hodgson, Hernán Santa Cruz, René Cassin, Alexander
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The most generally accepted way of classifying these rights is by distinguishing “first, second, and third generation” rights, so we will go that way for now, although we will soon see that this classification can be applied with reservations, and sometimes simply misleading.
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In many countries around the world, women’s property rights are limited by social norms, customs and legislation hampering their economic status and opportunities to overcome poverty. Even in countrie
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Society first acknowledges a child’s existence and identity through birth registration. The right to be recognized as a person before the law is a critical step in ensuring lifelong protection and is a prerequisite for exercising all other rights. Yet the births of one fourth of children under age 5 worldwide have never been officially recorded. A dedicated target (16.9) under Goal 16 of the SDGs aims to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030. Functioning civil...
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The General Assembly , Considering that , in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations and other international instruments, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
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