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    Climate change and human rights: a rough guide

    International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva, 2008
    This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it.
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    Freedom of association in the Euro-Mediterranean region

    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2007
    Since the September 2001 attacks, many states in the Mediterranean region have been implementing repressive strategies aimed at restricting freedom of association, of assembly and of expression. Human rights violations and denials of justice are common practice along with multiple types of harassment, intimidation, abductions, and violence towards all demonstrations of protest and dissidence.
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    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network

    The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network consists of more than 80 human rights organisations, institutions and individuals based in 30 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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    Conservation and human rights

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007
    This paper presents a collection of articles exploring the key issues surrounding the relationship between human rights and conservation. It looks at what human rights are and what do they have to do with conservation.
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    Explaining China’s continued resistance towards international human rights norms: a historical legal analysis

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, 2008
    This article examines why China is wary of international human rights law and why it has difficulties complying with international human rights norms. It particularly focuses on establishing why the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is antagonistic towards human rights law, while it has been welcoming of other forms of legal reform, institutional development, and foreign cooperation.
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    El Salvador uses gang violence to justify authoritarian ‘Iron Fist’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Violent crime has plagued El Salvador since the 1990s. The Government has responded with a zero tolerance strategy, under which even having gang-related tattoos can mean immediate imprisonment. But homicide rates have actually risen since the introduction of the ‘Mano Dura’ policy in 2003.
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    Separating traditional and state power to prevent ethnic conflict in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Ghana is often seen as an oasis of stability exempt from the ethnic conflict that plagues much of Africa. Yet in the 1990s, thousands died during violence between different ethnic groups in the Northern Region. Preventing future conflict will require the clarification of the roles of political and traditional leaders.
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    CEDAW benchbook framework

    United Nations [UN] Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 2008
    The Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was ratified by the Philippines in 1981. This benchbook seeks to contribute to the clarification of how jurisprudence has helped in the realisation of women’s human rights and how it can further so do, using State obligations under the CEDAW as the standard.
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    Need for a national law for prevention of torture

    Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007
    Despite the widespread use of torture by the police and armed forces in India, the country has no laws to address the problem. Furthermore, under the Indian legal system, there is no enforceable right to compensation for persons claiming to be victims of unlawful arrest or detention.
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    Universal periodic review toolkit

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    The Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism adopted by the UN Human Rights Council, monitors individual state fulfilment of human rights obligations and commitment through a reporting process.

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