Miami, Ene.31.– El jefe del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos defendió este lunes un proceso de parole que permite que hasta 30,000 haitianos, cubanos, nicaragüenses y venezolanos vengan mensualmente a Estados Unidos, tras una demanda del gobernador de...
This summary refers to “cases” and number of victims, however, it is, above all, about human beings of flesh and bone. Each life lost is a story of truncated hopes, projects, and plans, of the times stolen from family and...
Geneva, Oct. 2 (DP.net).─ On September 30, 2010, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a Resolution on "The Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association." Sixty-three countries sponsored the landmark human rights resolution on "The Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association," the result of a drawing to an end a hard-fought campaign by civil society groups. The resolution calls upon States to ensure the rights of individuals to assembly and association by taking all necessary measures to abide by obligations under international human rights law. Most importantly, the resolution also calls for the appointment of a UN Special Rapporteur to monitor and study trends, developments, and challenges in relation to the exercise of these rights, and to make recommendations on ways and means to ensure the promotion and protection of these rights. Among other duties, the Special Rapporteur will report on violations and discrimination, as well as threats or use of violence, harassment, persecution, intimidation, or reprisals directed at persons exercising these rights.
The resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council establishes the mandate of a Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and extended the mandates of the Working Group on arbitrary detention, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. The Council also adopted a statement on religious intolerance.
With regard to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the Council decided to appoint, for a period of three years, a Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
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La Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas recibe anualmente alrededor de 400,000 denuncias de violaciones a los derechos humanos, de los que gran parte llegan a través del número de fax de emergencia que funciona las 24 horas del día: (41-22) 917-0092.
Cada año, se reciben por esta vía casi 200,000 comunicaciones informando sobre violaciones. Las denuncias de violaciones de derechos humanos también se pueden hacer a través de la página en Internet del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos. Además, DemocraciaParticipativa.net pone a disposición de todos esta sección para recoger y retrasmitir todo tipo de denuncias e informes.
Hay tres procedimientos básicos para plantear a los organos de derechos humanos las denuncias por las violaciones a las disposiciones de los tratados sobre derechos humanos:
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights receives some 400,000 complaints on human rights violations every year. Many of them are received through the emergency Fax available every day for 24 hours: (41-22) 917-0092.
This fax number receives some 200,000 reports per year. Everyone may also send their complaints through the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In addition, ParticipatoryDemocracy.net has this page available for publishing complaints and other reports on human rights.
There are three main procedures for bringing complaints of violations of the provisions of the human rights treaties before the human rights treaty bodies: