Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Democratic Republic of Congo CNDP UN: United Nations RC Huye: Radio Communautaire de Huye TIP: Trafficking In Person US: United States UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund UDHR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights NGO: Non Governmental Organization STD: Sexual Transmissible Disease HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus RDRC: Rwandan Demobilization and Reintegration Commission MIFOTRA: Ministry of Public Serve and Labor 1 INTRODUCTION From the birth of human civilization, human instinct has driven

aNGOs Statement «on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development» February 2006 The enlarged « quadripartite» group, that includes Algeria, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Spain and France, has been working since the beginning of 2004 on propositions for innovative development funding mechanisms, including international taxation mechanisms. . More than 100 countries signed on to the « New York Declaration on Action against Hunger and Poverty », in September 2004 signalling initial support from

FREEDOM OF RELIGION INTRODUCTION Despite freedom of religion and belief being a fundamental principle of international law, there are many violations of this right in today's world. Aucun pays ou communauté de croyants, a un dossier parfait où ce droit est concerné. No country, or faith community, has a perfect record where this right is concerned. C'est aussi une question très complexe, parfois, à savoir l'équilibre entre droits et responsabilités, comme de nombreux autres domaines du droit

Responsibility of Government in Maintaining a Successful 21st Century Family.” Objective: “To propose new concrete ideas that could be the base for government to think about new laws. In particular, I will propose new ideas on how the government could act in a way that benefits the traditional Belgian family of the 21st century from external and/or cultural influences.” Lecturer: D. Daenen Course: Report Writing Executive Summary: In today’s world, a lot of families explode

I know all of you or most of you and I know that you are all interested in the abolition of the death penalty. That’s the reason why, I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, your help is needed! Your help is needed to abolish the death penalty. Whether you are a republican, a democrat, a liberal or a conservative, a right or left winger; I beseech your support, compassion, love and understanding about death penalty. For I believe that, it’ll be

Shambhu Ghatak1 “Concern with human development seems to be moving to centre stage in the 1990s. For too long, the recurrent question was, how much is a nation producing? Increasingly, the question now being asked is, how are its people faring? The main reason for this shift is the growing recognition that the real objective of development is to enlarge people’s options. Income is only one of those options—and an extremely important one—but it is not the sum total of human life. Health, education, physical

A global view of modern slavery Slavery can be described through three elements: control through violence, economic exploitation and the loss of free will. If a person can’t walk away from her situation without fear of violence, she is a slave. If a person is not paid for her work, or at a level that barely keeps her alive from one day to the next, she is a slave. Contemporary slavery shares with the slavery of the past the essentials of violence and exploitation, but today it is not

How does globalization affect human rights? Introduction According to F. Guillen (2001), globalization is “a process increasing cross border flows of goods, services, money, people, information and culture”. So, it is a worldwide phenomenon, including very different aspects such as economics, politics and socials, which has intensively spread just after the World War II. Indeed, after spending several years of fear, countries wanted to prevent those kinds of things from happening again (Levin

“MANDATE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (CESCR)” “…the right to live a dignified life can never be attained unless all basic necessities of life – work, food, housing, health care, education and culture – are adequately and equitably available to everyone1” CRISTINA MEJÍA OCAMPO MASTER 2 HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRES & INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INSTITUTE DES HAUTES ETUDES EUROPÉENNES Strasbourg - 2011 1 Fact Sheet No.16 (Rev.1), CESCR

year, the firs thing that struck me were environmental activists braving the freezing weather to voice their disappointment at being locked out of the largest ever international meeting on climate change. Inside the conference, I realized that Bolivia was in a position similar to that of the protesters outside. We, the representatives of the majority of the world’s peoples, were effectively being left in the cold while a tiny group dominated by a few rich governments met in private to produce an