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Act now to stamp out child labour by 2025: FAO chief

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Effective action and strong leadership are essential to end child labour by 2025, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
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International Shock: A Eugenics Ghost is still alive and kicking around in the Council of Europe

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The Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe over the last years has been preparing a new legal instrument on the use of coercion in psychiatry. The instrument is technically a Protocol to...
Human Rights

Human rights defender launches “Organcide”, a new notion for Chinese organ theft practices

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Falun Gong demonstrating in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington DC. - William Neuheisel, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Andy Vermaut hopes that organcide can especially raise awareness around organ theft among...
America

Religious News From Around the Web November 1, 2021

President Biden “a Good Catholic” Says Pope Francis; Buddhist Reality and Freedom From Illusion; Ásatrú, Viking Religion on Rise in Iceland; Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandates Rejected by Supreme Court; America: An Evolving Identity...
Council of Europe

The European Convention on Human Rights designed to authorize Eugenics caused legislation

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Human rights according to the United Nations, are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings – they are not granted by any state. These universal rights are inherent to us all,...
Council of Europe

The Old World and the selection of those who does not have the rights to liberty and security of person

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The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted by groups and experts within the forming Council of Europe in 1949-1950, based on an earlier draft produced by the European Movement. After extensive debates, the Council...
America

What gift Joe Biden gave to Pope Francis

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US President Joe Biden had an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29, Reuters reported. The agency notes that it took place against the backdrop of the heated debate in...
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Human Rights are basic inalienable rights, but not a static thing

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The European Convention of Human Rights, lists out basic rights and freedoms which can never be breached by the States, that have ratified the Convention. These include such rights as: the right to life...
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An overview of the European Convention on Human Rights

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The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is widely recognized as an important and effective international treaty for human rights protection. It has had an important role in the development and awareness raising of...
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Council of Europe again being urged to promote human rights

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Members of the European Parliament Disability Intergroup and the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing this week addressed the Committee of Bioethics of the Council of Europe with a new demand that the Committee...
Human Rights

Concern rises for Egyptian Coptic Christians who disappeared in Libya

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Since September 30, at least 17 Egyptian Coptic Christians have gone missing in Libya, International Christian Concern (ICC) said.
ECHR

WHO/Europe urges countries to collect gender data through their health information systems

Accurate gender data is critical for building an effective and equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new WHO report launched at this year’s Gender Equality Index conference.
Human Rights

A man sold his wife to buy a phone

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A police team in India responded to a signal from a woman who said she had been sold by her 17-year-old husband. The couple married in July this year, according to the Hindustan Times. The buyer...
America

Mobile Museum of Tolerance

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The Mobile Museum of Tolerance is the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s newest educational initiative, bringing world-class learning experiences to communities across the state of Illinois. The purpose of the MMOT is to inspire people of all...
Education

The museum as a social and educational space for visitors with disabilities and additional needs

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Some museums and cultural institutions around the world are already implementing architectural accessibility projects or special events for visitors with disabilities and additional needs. Trainings are organized to expand the access to the cultural...
ECHR

What is the Synod of Bishops? A Catholic Priest and Theologian Explains, By William Clark

On Oct. 10, 2021, Pope Francis formally opened a two-year process called “a synod on synodality,” officially known as Synod 2021-2023: For a Synodal Church.” In brief, the process involves an expansion of an...
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Bulgarian President: By saving the Bulgarian Jews our people achieved the victory of humanity and courage

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President Rumen Radev, who is taking part today in the Jewish Cultural Center in Sofia in the opening of the "Remembered for Good" initiative, created on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the...
America

The first anti-racist protest in Moscow – a provocation or an organized attack

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In early December 1963, African students occupied Red Square to record the first racial protest in the USSR. It is also the first in Moscow's history since the 1920s. The reason? The death of...
Environment

Putin congratulated Muratov on the Nobel Prize two weeks later

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President Vladimir Putin congratulated Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Putin expressed his congratulations during a speech at the Valdai club, RBC correspondent reports. He noted that he would...
Human Rights

Putin announced the end of capitalism

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Putin also commented on racism, gay rights, transgenderism and global warming The gas crisis in Europe is a consequence of non-functioning capitalism. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the...
America

Bahá’í World Publication: New essays honoring life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá focus on peace and higher education

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The Bahá’í World online publication releases two new articles.
ECHR

WHO announces plan for ‘profound transformation’ following sexual abuse allegations in DR Congo

The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound transformation” of WHO’s culture. 
ECHR

World Polio Day 2021 highlights progress and ongoing commitment to end polio everywhere

In 1988, the world committed to eradicating wild polio. Today, 5 out of 6 WHO regions are certified free of wild polio, including the WHO European Region, which was declared polio free in 2002....
ECHR

Azerbaijan strengthens its health workforce to boost primary health care

In Azerbaijan, a new pilot project shows that when primary health care prioritizes the training of health workers and the empowerment of local communities to take charge of their health, the national health system...
Human Rights

Only ‘real equality’ can end vicious cycle of poverty

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Although poverty and privilege “continue to reproduce themselves in vicious cycles”, it is possible to break the chain and shift the paradigm, an independent UN human rights expert told the General Assembly on Wednesday. 
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