The Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (in Spanish, La Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (APDH)) is an Argentine non-governmental human rights...

Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines...

The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend...

"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...

in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake...

Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent and impartial non-judicial institution established in 1999 by the Strasbourg-based...

rights. On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to replace UNCHR with the UN Human Rights Council. The UNHRC was established in 1946...

Convention on Human Rights). This committee was duly set up, and it produced a draft that was unanimously approved at the OAU's 18th Assembly held in June...

the Commission on Human Rights (before that date) are UN political bodies: composed of states, established by a UN General Assembly resolution and the...

is one of six main committees at the General Assembly of the United Nations. It deals with human rights, humanitarian affairs and social matters. The...

amendments were made by the Commission on Human Rights, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations. Representatives of...

to 9,000. The Asemblea por los Derechos Humanos (APDH or Permanent Assembly for Human Rights) estimated the number of disappeared as 12,261, which included...

A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may...

to the La Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, APDH) and thousands of complaints were submitted to the...

Human Rights and related international organizations. Following Menem's pardons, he resigned his government posts, and joined the Permanent Assembly for...

the Assembly of Heads of State and Government and they will act accordingly. ACHPR was based on the African Charter which is the regional human rights protectors...

in Argentina, and the healthcare and quality of life. The Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Bolivia considers that there are over 3 million Bolivian...

Permanente por los Derechos Humanos de Peñalolén y La Reina (The Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Peñalolen and La Reina) was a community led movement that...

existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of indigenous peoples." As a General Assembly declaration...

belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during the era of...

Foundation Human Rights Internet Human Rights Watch Human Rights Without Frontiers International HURIDOCS IFEX Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission...

of the rights of membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council Resolution 76/262: Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when...

Human rights in Cuba are under the scrutiny of human rights organizations, which accuse the Cuban government of committing systematic human rights abuses...

official, published author and past president (for two years) of Bolivia's Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. Llorenti was born on 13 March 1972. He holds...

discussions, it was decided to file, with the help of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, an action of unconstitutionality against Article 516 of...

The American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), also known as the Pact of San José or by its Spanish name used in most of the signatory nations, Convención...

such as Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This has long been a matter...

Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation; resolution 32/162, by which the Assembly established the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat);...

on human rights. The group pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights...