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Submission from PVCHR to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding India for Universal Periodic Review 13th session

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...Read this document to: Understand activist methods that will further your activism. Discover practical animal rights activities you can do. Know what animal rights means and how it differs from other outlooks. Be aware of potential conflict with the law and how you can handle it. Find inspiration from biographies of a selection of an...

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...About This Guide 5 Author & Email 5 Animal Rights Motto 6 1 Introduction 1.1 The Broad Setting 7 - the big problem. 1.2 Mass Extinction 9 - we live in the Sixth Extinction. 1.3 Animal Holocaust 11 - we live in an enduring and worsening Animal Holocaust. 1.4 ...

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The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

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...egates assembled on October 2. They spent less than two weeks in discussion and at their final meeting on October 19, 1765 adopted the Declaration of Rights and approved its use in petitions to the King and two letters to Parliament. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances raised thirteen points of colonial protest. (Summary from Wikipedia.org)...

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...The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of individuals, and exhorts all governments to protect these rights. The UN has translated the document into over three hun...

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Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robinson)

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Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1856 and 1948.

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... dignity, rightful share in the resources and decision making. The critique records how the innocent victims of custodial-torture become active human rights defenders or freedom of bonded-labourers is snatched from the confinement of feudal and capitalist oppressors, and the change of weavers’ nightmares transformed into dreams, optimism and motivation. The discourse woul...

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"To all those who have struggled for human rights, justice and equality . . . and dreamt of a loving, caring and egalitarian society . . ."

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... 1 2 From Praxis to Practice 32 3 From Being Led to Lead 62 4 From Hunger Deaths to Healthy Living 90 5 Surviving Torture and Defending Human Rights 118 6 Weaving Hope with Yarns of Hardship 152 7 From Bondage to Liberation 184 8 Nurturing Little Change Agents and Leaders 212 9 Seeing the Change and Being the Change 240 REFERENCES 256...

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...The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the Most Translated Document in the world. It c...

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...The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declarati...

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...tional Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corr... ...ed to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly befor... ...all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, a... ..., in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen: Articles: 1 Men are born an... ... of the citizen: Articles: 1 Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general goo... ...political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and res... ...o do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the ot... ...e which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law. 5. Law can o... ... free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and pri...

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... at times I have gone overboard like in one particular opinion on Aarushi murder, where emotions and logic intermingled in an expanded narrative. Rights, especially privacy and equality, are my area of focus; therefore most of my opinions herein; i.e., the ones discussing Brain Research, NCTC, Sting Operations, LGBTs, Prostitution, SC/ST quotas, and AADHAR/NPR; are foc...

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...Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagined ...

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...First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (First Speech) at the Church of the Puritans, New York City on May 9, 1867. Published in the New York Tribute, 10 May 1867: 8. Truth's Speech has also been called, "Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are...

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Issues in ethics: the right to life, cloning, abortion, animal rights and other controversial topics.

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...s take place within states. They have tragic feature in common, women and children suffer their impact disproportionately. The concept of children’s rights has widened and the international mandate to reinforce the rights of the child has grown over the years, with the mounting evidence of hardship and abuse suffered by the children. The principles outlined in the inte...