Louise Arbour,is a Canadian lawyer,prosecutor and jurist.
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is an interdenominational organization of evangelical Christian churches,serving more than 600 million evangelicals,founded in 1846 in London,England,United Kingdom to unite evangelicals worldwide. WEA is the largest international organization of evangelical churches. It has offices in at the UN in New York City,Geneva,and Bonn. It brings together 9 regional and 143 national evangelical alliances of churches,and over one hundred member organizations. Moreover,a number of international evangelical Christian denominations are members of the WEA. As of March 2021,the Secretary General of the WEA is German theologian Thomas Schirrmacher.
The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments".
Blood quantum laws or Indian blood laws are laws in the United States that define Native American status by fractions of Native American ancestry. These laws were enacted by the federal government and state governments as a way to establish legally defined racial population groups. By contrast,many tribes do not include blood quantum as part of their own enrollment criteria.
Chellie MariePingree is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 1st congressional district since 2009. Her district includes most of the southern part of the state,including Portland and Augusta.
Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women,Peace and Security at Georgetown University. She is a founding partner of Seneca Point Global,a worldwide women's strategy firm,and a co-founder of Seneca Women. Melanne Verveer co-authored the book Fast Forward:How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose with Kim Azzarelli.
The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) is a Belarusian professional association of journalists from independent media,created in 1995 to protect freedom of speech,freedom of information,promote the professional standards of journalism,conduct monitoring of Belarusian press,and offer legal support to all media workers.
Human rights in Kazakhstan are uniformly described as poor by independent observers. Human Rights Watch says that "Kazakhstan heavily restricts freedom of assembly,speech,and religion. In 2014,authorities closed newspapers,jailed or fined dozens of people after peaceful but unsanctioned protests,and fined or detained worshipers for practicing religion outside state controls. Government critics,including opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov,remained in detention after unfair trials. Torture remains common in places of detention."
The Republic of Artsakh was a republic with limited recognition in the South Caucasus region. The Republic of Artsakh controlled most of the territory of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. It was recognized only by three other non-UN member states,Abkhazia,South Ossetia and Transnistria. The rest of the international community recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan. In November 2012,a member of Uruguay's foreign relations committee stated that his country could recognize Nagorno-Karabakh's independence. In 2012,Armenia and Tuvalu established diplomatic relations,which led to speculation of possible recognition of Artsakh by Tuvalu. In October 2012,the Australian state of New South Wales recognized Nagorno-Karabakh. In September 2014,the Basque Parliament in Spain adopted a motion supporting Artsakh's right to self-determination and in November 2014,the Parliament of Navarre,also in Spain,issued a statement supporting Artsakh's inclusion in taking part in settlement negotiations.
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the president and CEO of the International Peace Institute. He also served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018. He played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court,and was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in September 2002. He also served as a political affairs officer in UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996.
Ahmed Shaheed is a Maldivian diplomat,politician and professor. On 24 March 2016,he was appointed for the sixth year running as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Shaheed is also the Chairperson of the Geneva-based international human rights think-tank,Universal Rights Group,which was launched in January 2014. He now lives in England,as Visiting Professor of Human Rights Practice at the University of Essex.
Shane David Jett is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma,who is the state senator from Senate District 17,which includes northern Pottawatomie County and eastern Oklahoma County. He was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010,representing House District 27. He also serves as chairman of the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund Community Development Advisory Board.
The ethics of artificial intelligence is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems. It is sometimes divided into a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design,make,use and treat artificially intelligent systems,and a concern with the behavior of machines, in machine ethics.
In the United States,black conservatism is a political and social movement rooted in African-American communities that aligns largely with the American conservative movement,including the Christian right. Black conservatism emphasizes social conservatism,traditionalism,patriotism,capitalism,and free markets. What characterizes a "black conservative" has changed over time,and proponents do not necessarily share the same political philosophy.
Seneca is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County,Maryland,United States. It is located near the intersection of River Road and Seneca Creek,not far from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Potomac River. Its history goes back before the American Revolutionary War and it thrived when the canal was operating—having several warehouses,mills,a store,a hotel,and a school. Fighting occurred in the area on more than one occasion during the American Civil War. The community declined as the C&O Canal declined.
In 2022,Freedom House rated Burundi's human rights at 14 out 100.
On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861,a significant number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas had been relocated from the Southeastern United States to Indian Territory,west of the Mississippi. The inhabitants of the eastern part of the Indian Territory,the Five Civilized Tribes,were suzerain nations with established tribal governments,well established cultures,and legal systems that allowed for slavery. Before European Contact these tribes were generally matriarchial societies,with agriculture being the primary economic pursuit. The bulk of the tribes lived in towns with planned streets,residential and public areas. The people were ruled by complex hereditary chiefdoms of varying size and complexity with high levels of military organization.
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics,such as chromosomes,gonads,or genitals,that,according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,"do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies."
Tomasz "Tom" P. Malinowski is an American politician and diplomat who was the U.S. representative from New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 2019 to 2023. A Democrat,he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy,Human Rights,and Labor in the Obama administration.
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics,such as chromosomes,gonads,or genitals that,according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,"do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". "Because their bodies are seen as different,intersex children and adults are often stigmatized and subjected to multiple human rights violations".
