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By late RIGHT TO EDUCATION ABUSE ABUSE afternoon, at least 150 Guineans lay dead or TORTURE RIGHT TO LIFE TO RIGHT dying, and dozens of women had suffered brutal TORTURE GENOCIDE FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY sexual violence, including individual and gang rape. EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK RIGHTSCULTURAL FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY OF FREEDOM FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK EQUAL FOR PAY EQUAL FREEDOMRIGHT OF RESIDENCE TO LIFE In February 2010, a domestic panel of judges was HUMAN RIGHTS EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK CULTURAL RIGHTS GENOCIDE appointed to investigate the September 28, 2009 ETHINIC CLEANSINGS FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE DISCRIMINATION crimes. The panel has made a number of FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE RIGHT TO FREEDOMEDUCATION OF RESIDENCE FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE The freedoms, immunities, and benefits that, LIFE TO RIGHT important strides, including interviewing more ETHINIC CLEANSINGS TORTURE DISPLACEMENT than 300 victims, Human Rights Watch said. Four FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY EDUCATION TO RIGHT FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY In this Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, a Guinean policeman stands guard years after the crimes, the investigation has yet to according to modern values..., all human beings ABUSE beside the bodies of people killed during an opposition rally in Conakry, be concluded, and lack of political and financial CULTURAL RIGHTS CULTURAL RIGHTS Guinea on Monday, Sept 28, 2009. A U.S.-based human rights group says support is a major challenge. SLAVERY LIFE TO RIGHT RIGHT TO EDUCATION RIGHT TO LIFE the Sept. 28 massacre by Guinean troops of at least 150 people and the should be able to claim as a matter of right in the FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK TORTURE rapes of dozens of women at a pro-democracy rally in Guinea were (Human Rights Watch) RIGHT TO EDUCATION TORTURE FREEDOMDISPLACEMENT OF ASSEMBLY TORTURE ETHINIC CLEANSINGS premeditated, and that rapes of kidnapped women continued for days. ABUSE society in which they live. EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) LIFE TO RIGHT FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY OF FREEDOM EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK TORTURE ABUSE FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE ABUSE FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY Black's Law Dictionary (Bryan A. Garner, editor in chief, 9th ed., West/Thomson Reuters, 2009) RIGHT TO EDUCATION EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY RIGHT TO EDUCATION FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY RIGHT TO EDUCATION ABUSE RIGHT TO EDUCATION TORTURE DISCRIMINATION RIGHT TO EDUCATION FREEDOM OF RESIDENCE FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK COLUMBIA: VICTIMS LAW Since 1985, abuses and violence associated with Colombia’s internal armed conflict have driven more than 4.8 million Colombians from their Universal Declaration of Human Rights homes, generating the world’s largest population of internally displaced people. Article 11 3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration 1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human THE URBAN MORGAN INSTITUTE innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social Abuses targeting displaced families for trying to Preamble which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. protection. Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and 2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act 4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national protection of his interests. return home almost always go unpunished, as do or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and Article 24 heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the the original crimes of forcing them off their land contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable time the penal offence was committed. limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which Article 12 and stealing it. human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom Article 25 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health FOR HUMAN RIGHTS from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, common people, reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the Human Rights Watch documented multiple cases In this photo taken June 22, 2011, Julia Torres sits out a rainstorm in a Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, such interference or attacks. right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human Article 13 widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances neighbor's home at the La Alemania farm in San Onofre, Colombia. Torres' rights should be protected by the rule of law, 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence beyond his control. of killings of displaced land claimants and leaders, within the borders of each State. Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations 2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and 2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and threats against them, as well as cases of new husband was killed ... while trying to reclaim La Alemania, of which 52 between nations, assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall to return to his country. enjoy the same social protection. families were dispossessed a decade ago when a far-right warlord made it \ Article 14 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Article 26 displacement in which restitution claimants fled their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the 1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries 1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least their homes yet again because of abuses related to his headquarters. La Alemania is in foreclosure and activists consider the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have asylum from persecution. in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in 2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall their efforts to reclaim land, or similar activism. case emblematic of the challenges of carrying out a new law that aims to larger freedom, arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes be made generally available and higher education shall be equally Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in and principles of the United Nations. accessible to all on the basis of merit. redress some 4 million victims of Colombia's internal conflict. President cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect Article 15 2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human 1. Everyone has the right to a nationality. for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and Juan Manuel Santos has made the so-called Victims Law law the centerpiece 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance In 1979, the University of Cincinnati College of Law established the first (Human Rights Watch) Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the right to change his nationality.
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