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Parent topics
- Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
- International law [r]: The formal conduct of interactions between nation-states, both at the national level and on behalf of their citizens; generally accepted as first formalized by Hugo Grotius. [e]
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights [r]: Declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, consisting of 30 articles with definitions of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. [e]
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Treaties in scope
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Convention against Torture [r]: An international treaty, created in 1984 and at least partially agreed-to by 146 countries, to deny the legality of torture and take steps to abolish its use [e]
- Convention on The Rights of the Child [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance [r]: Add brief definition or description
Commissioners
- Navanethem Pillay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Louise Arbour [r]: President & CEO., International Crisis Group; Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda [e]
- Sergio Vieira de Mello [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mary Robinson [r]: First female President of Ireland (1990 – 1997) and a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997 – 2002); recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom, controversial about views and conference direction about Israel-Palestine Conflict [e]
- Jose Ayala-Lasso [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UN Human Rights Council [r]: A multinational body, supported by but separate from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 [e]
- Human Rights Campaign [r]: A U.S. organization for promoting LGBT rights; rates members of Congress on their pro-gay voting [e]