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    Promotion and protection of human rights

    United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2006
    This document is an interim report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprise.Three broad contextual factors frame the Special Representative’s analysis of the rapidly evolving business and human rights:
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    Training manual on the human rights of persons with disabilities

    Association Amici di Raoul Follereau, 2007
    The adoption by the United Nations of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 13 December 2006 is the result of years of struggles by members of the global community of persons with disabilities for the recognition and respect of their rights. [adapted from author]
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    Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)

    The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organisation.
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    Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR)

    The AOHR carries out field missions in an effort to release political prisoners, in some cases as an observer and in other as a member of the defence panel.
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    Electronic media and human rights

    The Initiative for an Open Arab Internet, 2007
    Censorship in the Arab world is still rife, extending to all forms of media including print, television, radio and internet. However, the internet has also become a tool used to get around this censorship and for freedom of expression to find an outlet.
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    Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders (AHURTOD)

    The Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders (AHURTOD) is a human rights and relief organisation which is non-governmental (NGO), non-political, and non-discriminating.
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    Poverty, inequality and ethnic minorities in Viet Nam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The issue of poverty in Viet Nam cannot be addressed without comparing poverty levels among ethnic groups. Policymakers need to understand how ethnic minorities are disadvantaged. Government policies must seek not only to improve ethnic minority access to such endowments as land and education but also to address the disparities in the returns to these endowments among these groups.
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    Strengthening engagement with the international human rights machinery: a practitioner's guide

    United Nations Development Programme, 2008
    The UN member states’ commitment to actively protect and promote all human rights and support their further mainstreaming throughout the United Nations system requires increasing interaction and strengthened engagement with the existing international human rights machinery.
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    Tackling poverty with minimum wages in Brazil

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Minimum wage legislation aims to tackle poverty by increasing the wages of the lowest-paid and most vulnerable workers. But evidence on the impact of minimum wages in developing countries, both in the public and private sectors, is not always conclusive. What impact is minimum wage legislation having on jobs and wages in Brazil?
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    Balancing humanitarian and human rights needs in Darfur

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Humanitarian agencies responding to the suffering in Darfur have not only provided relief, but also spoken out on the politics of the crisis. In doing so, they have angered the Sudanese Government in Khartoum, which has come to see them as tools of Western interference. Humanitarian agencies risk compromising their commitment to neutrality and jeopardising operations in the field.

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