Commission On Human Rights

Definition: Commission On Human Rights

Commission On Human Rights

Noun

1. The commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights.

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Books

• H. Res. 364, urging the introduction and passage of a resolution on the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China at the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights : markup before the Subcommittee on International Operati (reference)

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Business

Commission on Human Rights (UNHRC). (references)

This case was been brought before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). (references)

Civil Liberties

Argentina

In June a Special Rapporteur for the U.N. Commission on Human Rights visited to study the press situation in the province and a report is expected to be released in March 2002. There was no additional information with respect to reports in 2000 of wiretaps and threats against El Liberal in the province of Santiago del Estero; threats against Cordoba's La Voz del Interior, which had published information about wiretapping and other abuses attributed to the provincial government of Santiago del Estero; or the killing of Ricardo Gangeme in Chubut Province in 1999, which observers believe was not related to his writing. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

The OAS and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visited Haiti in February. (references)

Ghana

The 1992 constitution provided for the establishment of a Commission On Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). (references)

Human Rights

Peru

The IACHR and the U.N. Commission on Human Rights have expressed concern about the large number of unsentenced prisoners. (references)

Colombia

Approximately 80 cases regarding the country were before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) at year's end. (references)

Paraguay

The Director General of Human Rights, located in the Ministry of Justice and Labor, chairs the National Commission on Human Rights. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

In July the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on human rights defenders, Hina Jilani, and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on extrajudical, summary, or arbitrary execution, Asma Jahangir, expressed their deep concern over the murder and disappearance of indigenous leaders in the country. (references)

Political Economy

Guatemala

During the year the Government removed two directors of the Presidential Commission on Human Rights (COPREDEH) in as many months. (references)

Colombia

In her annual report to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Ms. Robinson criticized the Government for failing to fight the paramilitaries. (references)

Political Rights

Costa Rica

In December the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) decided not to accept a complaint against the Government alleging that the ban on presidential reelection constitutes an infringement of citizens' electoral rights. (references)

Women

Brazil

In April the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued its first decision on the issue of violence against women in a case brought by Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes, a woman who in 1983 repeatedly was beaten by her husband and left paraplegic. (references)

India

On February 1, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) continued to recommend an extensive range of legal reform, additional resources, and affirmative government action to eliminate gender inequality. (references)

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