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In Part II, para 63, the VDAP reaffirms that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are universal and thus unreservedly include persons with disabilities. Every person is born equal and has the same rights to life and welfare, education and work, living independently and active participation in all aspects of society. Any direct ...
The list is incomplete; please add known articles or create missing ones. The following is a list of articles on the human rights organizations of the world.It does not include political parties, or academic institutions.
The United Nations General Assembly Third Committee (also known as the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee or SOCHUM or C3) 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 United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [a] is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. [2] The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. [3] The headquarters of the Council are at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland.
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets two times a year in Geneva to consider the reports submitted by 164 UN member states [nb 1] on their compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and to examine individual petitions concerning 94 States Parties [nb 2] to the Optional Protocol.
Monitoring and promoting human rights, assisting victims. These activities, including fact-finding and trial observation missions, research, advocacy and litigation, are implemented by independent human rights experts from all regions. In 1927, the FIDH proposed a “World Declaration of Human Rights”, then an International Criminal Court.
During World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — nicknamed the Six Triple Eight — was the first and only unit of color in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) stationed in Europe.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) states that it is "the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States." [ 1 ] According to its webpage, it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has a national network of chapters [ 2 ] and members in all 50 states.