Massacres of Armenians were orchestrated and organized by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — which came to power through a military coup — while the Ottoman Empire...
Yazar: Rights Agenda Editor
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
UN human rights chief lists tackling discrimination and impunity among top priorities
The UN’s top human rights official said there were “huge gaps” between the “lofty pledges” made by states and the realities of daily life for many of their inhabitants,...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
“The stigmatising of persons with intellectual disabilities is a neglected human rights crisis” says Commissioner Hammarberg
In these segregated institutions very little, if any, rehabilitation is provided. Not infrequently, persons with intellectual disabilities are placed together with persons having psychiatric problems and unnecessarily given sedatives...
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Democracy And Human Rights
On Sept. 11, Armenian massacres, butterflies, the caliphate and the EU
If Turkey can recover its memory, if Turkey maintains peace with its Muslim identity on the one hand and its long history with Christians on the other, I believe...
A few days ago, I had a strange moment of “enlightenment” that I would like to share with you. All of a sudden, I realized that I have never...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
“Flawed enforcement of court decisions undermines the trust in State justice” says Commissioner Hammarberg
Cases of non-enforcement of domestic judicial decisions are raised in a great number of complaints to the Strasbourg Court of human rights. Among countries with such cases are Albania,...
According to the group of UN independent experts, enforced disappearance is a terrible practice that “affects many people worldwide, and has a particular impact on women and children.” Women...
“We don’t have to be tolerant all the time.” While reading this statement I had an interesting flashback. I remembered the entrance of an interesting nightclub in London. I...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
“Serious implementation of human rights standards requires defined benchmarking indicators” says Commissioner Hammarberg
They make it easier to hold governments accountable for the realisation of human rights and also help highlight success through accurate criteria.” “Disaggregated data based on gender, ethnicity, sexual...
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