Rights Agenda Editor – Sayfa 12 – Human Rights Agenda Association

2009 Press Releases Press Releases

Turkey: ARTICLE 19 Concerned about Continuous Threats to Freedom of Expression in Turkey

22 Ekim 200914 Şubat 2019

Article 301 makes it a crime to insult “Turkishness” as well as the Turkish Republic and its institutions, carrying sentences of up to four years. Since it came into...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Bloody Turk (2)

22 Ekim 20094 Şubat 2019

On the one hand we have Turks who do not remember anything, and on the other are Armenians who live as if the events of 1915 happened just 15...

2009 Press Releases Press Releases

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

20 Ekim 200914 Şubat 2019

Social protection should not be seen as an optional act of charity. It is, in fact, an obligation enshrined in international human rights law. It is essential that global...

2009 Press Releases Press Releases

“Climate change is also a human rights concern” says Commissioner Hammarberg

20 Ekim 200914 Şubat 2019

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which their rights and freedoms can be fully realised. This order...

2009 Press Releases Press Releases

High Commissioner opens first ever UN Human Rights office in European Union

14 Ekim 200914 Şubat 2019

“OHCHR was only founded 16 years ago, so it is still a young organization,” Pillay said. “We already have 10 other regional offices in Africa, the Middle East, Latin...

Articles Balkans

Srebrenica: The search for a terrible truth goes on

14 Ekim 20094 Şubat 2019

14.10.2009 Hasan’s father Ibro, mother Nasiha and 18-year-old brother Muhamed were all killed in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s largest act of genocide since the second world war. It is...

Articles Minority Rights

Protestants, collective unconsciousness, fundamentalist

9 Ekim 20094 Şubat 2019

They are the scapegoats for Turkish elites who are trying to escape from the burdens of our history. Without knowing history, we can never understand how this handful of...

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With and for the poor,” the planning key to protect urban dwellers from climate change, says UN expert on World Habitat Day

6 Ekim 200914 Şubat 2019

Low income dwellers are often located in the most hazard prone areas within cities. They lack the basic infrastructure and services necessary to protect them from environmental disasters. “Cities...

2009 Press Releases Press Releases

Turkey: Commissioner Hammarberg recommends further efforts to protect human rights for minorities, asylum seekers and refugees

2 Ekim 200914 Şubat 2019

The Commissioner is concerned that the authorities do not officially recognise the existence of any minority groups other than those of Armenians, Greeks and Jews and recommends efforts to...

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Uncertainty and injustice for minority refugees from Iraq – new report

28 Eylül 200915 Şubat 2019

A disproportionate number of those fleeing Iraq – somewhere between 15-64 per cent, depending on the country of refuge – are minorities, including Christians, Circassians, Sabian Mandaeans, Shabaks, Turkmen...

Yazar: Rights Agenda Editor

Turkey: ARTICLE 19 Concerned about Continuous Threats to Freedom of Expression in Turkey

Bloody Turk (2)

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

“Climate change is also a human rights concern” says Commissioner Hammarberg

High Commissioner opens first ever UN Human Rights office in European Union

Srebrenica: The search for a terrible truth goes on

Protestants, collective unconsciousness, fundamentalist

With and for the poor,” the planning key to protect urban dwellers from climate change, says UN expert on World Habitat Day

Turkey: Commissioner Hammarberg recommends further efforts to protect human rights for minorities, asylum seekers and refugees

Uncertainty and injustice for minority refugees from Iraq – new report

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