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The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room is the meeting room of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in the Palace of Nations in Geneva. The United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC) [a] is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. [3]
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group.It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, including advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.
Human rights and climate change. On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that human rights encompasses a right to effective protection by the State authorities from the serious adverse effects of climate change on lives, health and well-being. Human rights and climate change is a conceptual and legal framework under which ...
First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton during her speech in Beijing, China. " Women's rights are human rights " is a phrase used in the feminist movement. The phrase was first used in the 1980s and early 1990s. Its most prominent usage is as the name of a speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the First Lady of the United ...
A national human rights institution ( NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given country. The growth of such bodies has been encouraged by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which has provided advisory and support ...
The Human Rights Commission ( Māori: Te Kāhui Tika Tangata) is the national human rights institution (NHRI) for New Zealand. It operates as an independent Crown entity, and is independent from direction by the Cabinet.
International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) such as Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) consistently find human rights violations in Muslim-majority countries. Amongst the human rights issues that are frequently under the spotlight are LGBT rights, the right to consensual sex outside of marriage, freedom of speech ...
Human Rights Concern Eritrea. Human Right Concern Eritrea, also known as Human Rights Concern–Eritrea ( HRCE or HRC–E ), is an Eritrean human rights organisation based in the United Kingdom [1] [2] and founded by Elsa Chyrum. [3]