Human rights

IHRL  (law)
Interest of	• Philip Alston • Ajamu Baraka • Brian Barder • Steve Biko • Vladimir Bukovsky • T. J. Coles • Federica D'Alessandra • Equality and Human Rights Commission • European Commission of Human Rights • European Convention on Human Rights • Human Rights Watch • Tom Malinowski • Jacob Mchangama • National Council for Civil Liberties • John Ruggie • Rutherford Institute • Phil Shiner • UN/Human Rights Council

International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law. Other international human rights instruments, while not legally binding, contribute to the implementation, understanding and development of IHRL and have been recognised as a source of political obligation.

“Ironically, in light of its long-stated commitment to upholding human rights at home and in its foreign policy, the US government today poses a threat to the universality of human rights.”
Human Rights Watch (1999) 

Official narrative

Problems

Children have a right to be forced to go to school:- "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory."

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Bioethics	The study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology, medicine and technologies. The field was marked by several treaties protecting individual rights, but during COVID-19, bioethical academics surpassed each other in supporting blatantly unethical schemes.
Declaration of Helsinki	A set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation developed originally in 1964 for the medical community by the World Medical Association regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics
Right to a fair trial

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"State of emergency"	“Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away, They're privileges.”	George Carlin
"Strike Hard Campaign"	“The Strike Hard Campaign has shown complete disregard for the rights of Turkic Muslims to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. In Xinjiang, authorities have created a system that considers individuals suspicious based on broad and dubious criteria, and then generates lists of people to be evaluated by officials for detention. Official documents state that individuals “who ought to be taken, should be taken,” suggesting the goal is to maximize the number of people they find “untrustworthy” in detention. Such people are then subjected to police interrogation without basic procedural protections. They have no right to legal counsel, and some are subjected to torture and mistreatment, for which they have no effective redress, as we have documented in our September 2018 report. The result is Chinese authorities, bolstered by technology, arbitrarily and indefinitely detaining Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang en masse for actions and behavior that are not crimes under Chinese law.”		1 May 2019
Harry Ferguson	“Sadly, my advice today to any aspiring recruit who values the defence of human rights would be to stay away and do something better with their lives. The intelligence services are not what they were. Above all, they have forgotten the lessons that we learned during the struggle against Irish terrorism: that brutality and injustice are not the answer, they simply fuel the next generation of terrorists.”	Harry Ferguson
Alex Karp	“Palantir CEO Alex Carp, whose company’s data-mining software helps the IDF killing machine to select targets including 18,000 innocent children, says we need to scrap the First Amendment to target antisemitism in America…🇮🇱🇺🇸”	Alex Karp Pelham	5 September 2024

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:House Negro	book extract	1 March 2012	Denis Rancourt
Document:Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013	report	28 February 2014	China	A report on the Human rights record of the USA through 2013. An official publication of the government of the Peoples Republic of China. A response to the hypocricy of the US government in publishing similar reports on 200 countries and excluding itself - Clearly the US considers itself exempt in such matters.
Document:Severe humanitarian disasters caused by US aggressive wars against foreign countries	report	11 April 2021	The China Society for Human Rights Studies
Document:UK PM Covers Up Crimes Against Humanity – Lectures Sri Lanka on Crimes Against Humanity	article	19 November 2013	Felicity Arbuthnot	A juxtaposition of the sanctimonious posturing of UK PM David Cameron at the opening of the Commonwealth heads of government conference over Sri Lanka's human rights record, with his own machinations to prevent the Chilcot Inquiry publishing papers fundamental to the understanding of how Blair and Bush engineered the Iraq war.
File:EstablishingNewNormal.pdf	report	July 2010	American Civil Liberties Union	Under the Obama Administration
File:ICJ report 16-2-09.pdf	report	2009		This report of the Eminent Jurists Panel, based on one a comprehensive surveys on counter-terrorism and human rights, illustrates how 9-11 has influenced the rollback of civil liberties.
File:The CIA in Western Europe and the Abuse of Human Rights.pdf	paper	October 2006	Daniele Ganser	A paper addressing assertions from the US State Department that US Field Manual FM30-31B was a Soviet forgery.
File:UN-Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.pdf	report	4 January 2011	UN Working Group	The report of the UN Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1.
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights	Wikispooks Page		UNESCO	UNESCO Declaration stating that "Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice."

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