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Regional human rights regimes are relatively independently coherent human rights sub-regimes that are nested within the larger frame work of International human rights practice. [1] Three principal regional human rights instruments can be identified, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights (the ...
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 rights.
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.
International human rights instruments are the treaties and other international texts that serve as legal sources for international human rights law and the protection of human rights in general. [1] There are many varying types, but most can be classified into two broad categories: declarations, adopted by bodies such as the United Nations ...
Its advocacy of religious freedom across the Achaemenid Empire has been claimed as the first declaration of human rights. [1] Human rights in the Middle East have been shaped by the legal and political development of international human rights law after the Second World War, and their application to the Middle East.
Overview. International human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch, [4] Amnesty International, [5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science [6] have repeatedly documented and condemned widespread human rights violations in Myanmar. The Freedom in the World 2011 report by Freedom House notes that "The military ...
the twenty-two-member League of Arab States (Arab League)—each of whose members also belongs to the OIC and is majority-Muslim—created its own human rights instruments and institutions (based in Cairo) that set it apart from the international human rights regime. While the term "Arab" denotes an ethnicity and "Muslim" references a religion ...
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights ( AICHR) was inaugurated in October 2009 as a consultative body of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The human rights commission exists to promote and protect human rights, and regional co-operation on human rights in the member states of ( Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia ...