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  2. National Human Rights Commission of India - Wikipedia

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    The National Human Rights Commission of India (abbreviated as NHRC) is a statutory body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance of 28 September 1993. [1] It was given a statutory basis by the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (PHRA). [ 2 ]

  3. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 are examples of human rights that were enumerated by Congress well after the Constitution's writing. The scope of the legal protections of human rights afforded by the US government is defined by case law, particularly by the precedent of the Supreme Court of the ...

  4. European Convention on Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) [1] is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the newly formed Council of Europe, [2] the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953.

  5. NHRC - Wikipedia

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    National Human Rights Commission of India, a statutory body established in 1993, under the provisions of The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (TPHRA) Naval Health Research Center, a military research center that is operated by the U.S Department of Defense on San Diego, California

  6. International human rights law - Wikipedia

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    International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law.

  7. American Convention on Human Rights - Wikipedia

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    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 Americana sobre Derechos Humanos, is an international human rights instrument. [1]

  8. Human rights - Wikipedia

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    The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...

  9. Human rights in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    and to provide human rights training to security forces. [4]: ¶¶ 85.18, 85.21 page 14 In its 2013 human rights report, the United States State Department said, During the year[,] there were several reports that agents of the government (specifically police and other security units) committed unlawful killings.