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International Human Rights Documents
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The pursuit of human rights was a central reason for creating the UN. States wanted to create a legal framework for considering and acting on complaints about human rights violations. This led to the comprehensive UN human rights protection system . Read more...
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The Council of Europe embraces the first regional human rights protection system created through the European Convention on Human Rights and its protocols covering 46 countries in Europe. Read more... |
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Apart from the UN and CoE frameworks, 2 important regional human rights documents pertain to countries in the Euro-Mediterranean region: the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the Arab Charter on Human Rights. Read more...
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