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    Human rights are codified in the Dutch constitution. Together with other European states, the Netherlands is often at or near the head in international...
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    (LGBTQ) rights in the Netherlands are among the most advanced in the world. Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1811 after France invaded the country...
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    Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General...
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  • The Netherlands ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in July 2005. According to the United States Department of State, human trafficking in the Netherlands...
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  • Human rights in the Philippines are protected by the Constitution of the Philippines, to make sure that people in the Philippines are able to live peacefully...
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    Human rights in the United Kingdom concern the fundamental rights in law of every person in the United Kingdom. An integral part of the UK constitution...
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    "All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...
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  • The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it...
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    The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international...
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  • A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists...
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  • A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may refer...
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  • Human rights in Europe are generally upheld. However, several human rights infringements exist, ranging from the treatment of asylum seekers to police...
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    constitutional monarchy. The Human Rights Scores Dataverse ranked Japan somewhere in the middle among G7 countries on its human rights performance, below Germany...
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  • list of murdered political dissidents and human rights activists. The list is chronological. "Pakistan rights group to protest killing of activist". Aljazeera...
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    and human rights defenders. In 2019, Human Rights Watch called the situation of human rights in Azerbaijan "appalling", citing "rigid control" by the government...
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    Human rights in Syria are effectively non-existent. The country's human rights record is considered one of the worst in the world. As a result, Syria...
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  • The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant...
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    on human rights. The group pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights...
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    The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the...
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    Sex workers in the Netherlands have set up various organisations in order to guard their interests, including human rights, labour rights, healthcare...
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  • Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in The Hague, Netherlands. GHRD focuses specifically...
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    According to the U.S. Department of State's human rights report for 2022, there exists "significant human rights issues" in Ethiopia. In addition to extrajudicial...
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  • national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given...
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  • The European Commission of Human Rights was a special body of the Council of Europe. From 1954 to the 1998 entry into force of Protocol 11 to the European...
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  • Human rights in India is an issue complicated by the country's large size and population as well as its diverse culture, despite its status as the world's...
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  • concerning human rights in Albania include domestic violence, isolated cases of torture, and police brutality, the general condition of prisons, human and sex...
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    Human rights in the Kingdom of Denmark are protected by the state's Constitution of the Realm (Danmarks Riges Grundlov); applying equally in Denmark proper...
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  • United Nations in 1999. It is party to two of the nine core human rights treaties - the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the International...
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    national museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, adjacent to The Forks. The purpose of the museum is to "explore the subject of human rights with a special but...
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    was endangering the human rights of Dutch citizens as set by national and European Union laws. The initial ruling in 2015, requiring the government to meet...
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