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	<title>Training and Education for Human Rights</title>
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		<title>How to masters public administration</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to masters public administration? First, you must understand what public administration is. Public administration is a discussion of social science that studies the three essential elements of statehood, including the legislative, judicial, and executive as well as matters relating to the public, including public policy, state goals, and ethics that govern the state administrators. <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/business-products-services/169-how-to-masters-public-administration.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to masters public administration? First, you must understand what public administration is. Public administration is a discussion of social science that studies the three essential elements of statehood, including the legislative, judicial, and executive as well as matters relating to the public, including public policy, state goals, and ethics that govern the state administrators. The locus of the science of public administration is: the public interest and public affairs. The focus of discussion is what is important in the study of the science of public administration which became the focus of science is a theory of public administration organization and management science. Public administration is always in contact with the bureaucracy. Learn to be <a href="http://onlineprograms.ndnu.edu/mpa/master-of-public-administration-online-degree-program" target="_blank">master of public administration</a> for your business necessary.</p>
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<p>Here is the brief history. Science of <a href="http://onlineprograms.ndnu.edu/mpa/master-of-public-administration-online-degree-program" target="_blank">Masters Public Administration</a> and Policy Analysis the study related to their origins can be traced back since the 1930&#8242;s. The classic doctrine of dichotomy originated with the political administration. If traced, the idea comes from Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s essay, entitled &#8220;Introduction to Study Administration&#8221; (1887). In these essays, Wilson actually wanted to focus the study of political science rather than maximize the evolving political beliefs at the time. Wilson argued &#8220;It&#8217;s getting harder to run a constitution than to frame one&#8221;. Desire Wilson is focusing not just a matter of personal but also organizational and management issues in general. This view is a step forward in order to conduct an investigation into the administration office in the country, the United States.</p>
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		<title>UN bodies &#8211; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) works to offer the best expertise and support to the different human rights monitoring mechanisms in the United Nations system : UN Charter-based bodies, including the Human Rights Council, and bodies created under the international human rights treaties and made up of independent experts mandated <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/organizations/124-un-bodies-office-of-the-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-ohchr.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) works to offer the best expertise and support to the different human rights monitoring mechanisms in the United Nations system : UN Charter-based bodies, including the Human Rights Council, and bodies created under the international human rights treaties and made up of independent experts mandated to monitor State parties&#8217; compliance with their treaty obligations. Most of these bodies receive secretariat support from the Human Rights Council and Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).</p>
<p><em>Charter-based bodies</p>
<p>- Human Rights Council<br />
- Universal Periodic Review<br />
- Commission on Human Rights (replaced by the Human Rights Council)<br />
- Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council</p>
<p>Treaty-based bodies: There are nine human rights treaty bodies that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties :</p>
<p>- Human Rights Committee (CCPR)<br />
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)<br />
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)<br />
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)<br />
- Committee against Torture (CAT) &amp; Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) &#8211; Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)<br />
- Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)<br />
- Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)<br />
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)<br />
- Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED)</em></p>
<p><strong>Charter-based bodies</strong></p>
<p>Charter bodies include the former Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council , and Special Procedures. The Human Rights Council, which replaced the Commission on Human Rights, held its first meeting on 19 June 2006. This intergovernmental body, which meets in Geneva 10 weeks a year, is composed of 47 elected United Nations Member States who serve for an initial period of 3 years, and cannot be elected for more than two consecutive terms. The Human Rights Council is a forum empowered to prevent abuses, inequity and discrimination, protect the most vulnerable, and expose perpetrators.</p>
<p>The Human Rights Council is a separate entity from OHCHR. This distinction originates from the separate mandates they were given by the General Assembly. Nevertheless, OHCHR provides substantive support for the meetings of the Human Rights Council, and follow-up to the Council&#8217;s deliberations.</p>
<p>Special Procedures is the general name given to the mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights and assumed by the Human Rights Council to address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures are either an individual –a special rapporteur or representative, or independent expert—or a working group. They are prominent, independent experts working on a voluntary basis, appointed by the Human Rights Council.</p>
<p>Special Procedures&#8217; mandates usually call on mandate-holders to examine, monitor, advise and publicly report on human rights situations in specific countries or territories, known as country mandates, or on major phenomena of human rights violations worldwide, known as thematic mandates. There are 30 thematic mandates and 8 country mandates. All report to the Human Rights Council on their findings and recommendations. They are sometimes the only mechanism that will alert the international community on certain human rights issues.</p>
<p>OHCHR supports the work of rapporteurs, representatives and working groups through its Special Procedures Division (SPD) which services 27 thematic mandates; and the Research and Right to Development Division (RRDD) which aims to improve the integration of human rights standards and principles, including the rights to development; while the Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD) supports the work of country-mandates.</p>
<p><strong>Treaty-based bodies</strong></p>
<p>There are nine core international human rights treaties, one of which &#8212; on enforced disappearance&#8211; has not yet entered into force. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, all UN Member States have ratified at least one core international human rights treaty, and 80 percent have ratified four or more.</p>
<p>There are eight human rights treaty bodies, which are committees of independent experts that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties . They are created in accordance with the provisions of the treaty that they monitor. OHCHR assists treaty bodies in harmonizing their working methods and reporting requirements through their secretariats.</p>
<p>There are other United Nations bodies and entities involved in the promotion and protection of human rights ?</p>
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		<title>UN bodies &#8211; The Human Rights Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.  The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/organizations/119-un-bodies-the-human-rights-council.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.  The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them.</p>
<p>One year after holding its first meeting, on 18 June 2007, the Council adopted its “Institution-building package” providing elements to guide it in its future work.  Among the elements is the new Universal Periodic Review mechanism which will assess the human rights situations in all 192 UN Member States.  Other features include a new Advisory Committee which serves as the Council’s “think tank” providing it with expertise and advice on thematic human rights issues and the revised Complaints Procedure mechanism which allows individuals and organizations to bring complaints about human rights violations to the attention of the Council.  The Human Rights Council also continues to work closely with the UN Special Procedures established by the former Commission on Human Rights and assumed by the Council.</p>
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		<title>UN bodies &#8211; Social, Humanitarian &amp; Cultural (Third Committee)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Social, Humanitarian Cultural Affairs Commitee (Third Committee) of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, is chaired by H.E. Mr. Michel Tommo Monthe of Cameroon. Year after year, the General Assembly allocates to its Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs Committee, commonly referred to as the &#8220;Third Committee&#8221;, agenda items relating to a range of <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/organizations/116-un-bodies-social-humanitarian-cultural-third-committee.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Social, Humanitarian Cultural Affairs Commitee (Third Committee) of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, is chaired by H.E. Mr. Michel Tommo Monthe of Cameroon.</p>
<p>Year after year, the General Assembly allocates to its Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs Committee, commonly referred to as the &#8220;Third Committee&#8221;, agenda items relating to a range of social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues that affect people all over the world.</p>
<p>As in previous sessions, an important part of the Committee&#8217;s work this year will focus on the examination of human rights questions, including reports of the special procedures of the recently established Human Rights Council. In October 2010, the Committee will hear and interact with 36 such special rapporteurs, independent experts, and chairpersons of working groups of the Human Rights Council.</p>
<p>The Committee also discusses the advancement of women, the protection of children, indigenous issues, the treatment of refugees, the promotion of fundamental freedoms through the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, and the promotion of the right to self- determination.  The Committee also addresses important social development questions such as issues related to youth, family, ageing, persons with disabilities, crime prevention, criminal justice, and drug control.</p>
<p>At the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, the Third Committee considered 64 draft resolutions, more than half of which were submitted under the human rights agenda item alone.  These included a number of so-called country-specific resolutions on human rights situations.</p>
<p>Under the chairmanship of  H.E. Mr. Michel Tommo Monthe, the Permanent Representative of Cameroon to the United Nations, the Third Committee is expected to consider a similar number of draft resolutions.</p>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Education Reform In Like Daydreaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, the education department to make China&#8217;s education quality education gradually step on the track, christian louboutin outlet earnestly alleviate the burden of student, lets the student to learn for future development. But the education reform, daydreaming is part of the education department of bureaucracy is changed, the only change, the worse. Change quickly morer, <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/education-in-rights/79-chinas-education-reform-in-like-daydreaming.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>Admittedly, the education department to make China&#8217;s education quality education gradually step on the track, christian louboutin outlet earnestly alleviate the burden of student, lets the student to learn for future development.  But the education reform, daydreaming is part of the education department of bureaucracy is changed, the only change, the worse.  Change quickly morer, students will aggravate burden to the education quality, and went away too far.  Sometimes I just feel strange, the competent education bureaucrats size is always a character, are they really don&#8217;t understand education law? In today&#8217;s China&#8217;s education really nothing situation? What did we Chinese have real education reform.  The education reform, just before some education bureaucrats temporary heat and instant gratification of the JiaoTongYiJiao chuckling engineering.  black christian louboutin pump These from under the reform, in addition to win people a smile, more time is in them.  Every reform tide, &#8220;screamed the thing north and south, Hui ashdod, don&#8217;t put on&#8221; on a school JiQuanBuNing triumphantly.  &#8220;The prophets,&#8221; moonlight plumbing duck real education, school teachers and students of the illness is the most clearly, but every time the reform for the teachers and students have? Listen to them in the bottom of QiXie cry? Students will not acted upon, because they will say, &#8220;entrance employment education implementation of main body, teachers, not only the right reward, and various rights to vote, supervision, even completely deprived teach what, what this one also teach right disappeared without trace.  No guarantee of teachers education subject status,christian louboutin glitter shoes sheet is to play some dragon-slaying volley of such education reform, this is destined to be no way and never! China&#8217;s education reform is an integral system engineering, or barking up the reform JiaoTongYiJiao instant gratification or, in vain.  If not, the education evaluation system reform of various bureaucratic will claim the education as a plot, If not for running schools, and the great freedom to make education of school, resolutely abandoned administrative levels and government bureaucracy, it will still be liked the education the retained, If the country&#8217;s expansion, the ways to improve the employment channels, give each full of dreams, talented or success of young people can have a bright way, then the parents and students will also have an army against the exam-oriented education only wooden bridge, will increasingly fierce, the quality education of spring will be difficult to come.  This series of education reform, if not a system of social engineering, not a comprehensive reform,christian louboutin online store I think it is difficult to achieve.  So the education reform, daydreaming hovering also can.</p>
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		<title>Lynching Prejudice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The method of justice through human lynching has existed since ancient times. We now live in a civil society. Justice comes through the court and if mob choose to give justice, the procedure is very unfair because the victim is given no chance to prove innocence. Why do people take law into their hands and <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/concepts-critiques/78-lynching-prejudice.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>The method of justice through human lynching has existed since ancient times.  We now live in a civil society.  Justice comes through the court and if mob choose to give justice, the procedure is very unfair because the victim is given no chance to prove innocence.  Why do people take law into their hands and persecute.  It is believed lynching occurs when bad times over-shadow good times and frustrations run high.  Overt violence against the weak minority by the mob gives some measure of relief to the perpetuator.  Those who enact such barbaric acts were once children.  Children manifest the racial attitude of the parents, teachers and peers.  This is topped up by their own experience with the minority group.  The less prejudiced the adults the better it for the children to maintain some extent of neutrality and restraint right from school days.  They do not react with aggression on such issues like the superiority of races.  Lynching is execution of mob on racially weaker section of society without judicial system.  The end result of lynching could be beheading, hanging or death by beating.  It is mostly the attack by superior class on the under-privileged class.  These vigilante group act like criminals even though they are law abiding in other spheres of life.  In USA lynching prejudice was at its peak in 1892.  During World War II Nazis officially carried out such execution against Jews killing six million of them; the next generation carried stereotype image of this race and discriminated against them.  The whole concept is understood well in terms of historical perspective.  The mob which is an unruly crowd is together for a short term goal.  Once the execution is completed all disperse in their own spheres of life.  Crowd behaviour is crude with a sadist outlook.  There are many international organizations which mediate to prevent such holocaust.</p>
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		<title>Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LGBT rights are rights that relate to sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. In 77 countries, homosexuality remains a criminal offense, punishable by execution in seven countries. The decriminalization of private, consensual, adult sexual relations, especially in countries where corporal or capital punishment is involved, remains one of the primary concerns of LGBT human <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/currently-debated-rights/75-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-lgbt-rights.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>LGBT rights are rights that relate to sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. In 77 countries, homosexuality remains a criminal offense, punishable by execution in seven countries. The decriminalization of private, consensual, adult sexual relations, especially in countries where corporal or capital punishment is involved, remains one of the primary concerns of LGBT human rights advocates. Other issues include but are not limited to: government recognition of same-sex relationships, LGBT adoption, sexual orientation and military service, immigration equality, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws regarding violence against LGBT people, sodomy laws, anti-lesbianism laws, and equal age of consent for same-sex activity.</p>
<p>A global charter for LGBT rights has been proposed in the form of the &#8216;Yogyakarta Principles&#8217;, a set of 29 principles whose authors say apply International Human Rights Law statutes and precedent to situations relevant to LGBT people&#8217;s experience. The principles were presented at a United Nations event in New York on November 7, 2007, co-sponsored by Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.</p>
<p>The principles have been acknowledged with influencing the French proposed UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity, which focuses on ending violence, criminalization and capital punishment and does not include dialogue about same-sex marriage or right to start a family. The proposal was supported by 67 of the United Nations&#8217; 192 member countries, including all EU nations and the United States. An alternative statement opposing the proposal was initiated by Syria and signed by 57 member nations, including all 27 nations of the Arab League as well as Iran and North Korea.</p>
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		<title>Future generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1997 UNESCO adopted the Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generation Towards the Future Generation. The Declaration opens with the words: “     Mindful of the will of the peoples, set out solemnly in the Charter of the United Nations, to &#8216;save succeeding generations from the scourge of war&#8217; and to safeguard the <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/currently-debated-rights/72-future-generations.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>In 1997 UNESCO adopted the Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generation Towards the Future Generation. The Declaration opens with the words:</p>
<p>“     Mindful of the will of the peoples, set out solemnly in the Charter of the United Nations, to &#8216;save succeeding generations from the scourge of war&#8217; and to safeguard the values and principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and all other relevant instruments of international law.     ” —Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generation Towards the Future Generation</p>
<p>Article 1 of the declaration states &#8220;the present generations have the responsibility of ensuring that the needs and interests of present and future generations are fully safeguarded.&#8221; The preamble to the declaration states that &#8220;at this point in history, the very existence of humankind and its environment are threatened&#8221; and the declaration covers a variety of issues including protection of the environment, the human genome, biodiversity, cultural heritage, peace, development, and education. The preamble recalls that the responsibilities of the present generations towards future generations has been referred to in various international instruments, including the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (UNESCO 1972), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN Conference on Environment and Development, 1992), the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (World Conference on Human Rights, 1993) and a number of UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the protection of the global climate for present and future generations adopted since 1990.</p>
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		<title>Environmental rights</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two basic conceptions of environmental human rights in the current human rights system. The first is that the right to a healthy or adequate environment is itself a human right (as seen in both Article 21 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights, and Article 11 of the San Salvador Protocol <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/currently-debated-rights/69-environmental-rights.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>There are two basic conceptions of environmental human rights in the current human rights system. The first is that the right to a healthy or adequate environment is itself a human right (as seen in both Article 21 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights, and Article 11 of the San Salvador Protocol to the American Charter of Human Rights). The second conception is the idea that environmental human rights can be derived from other human rights, usually – the right to life, the right to health, the right to private family life and the right to property (among many others). This second theory enjoys much more widespread use in human rights courts around the world, as those rights are contained in many human rights documents.</p>
<p>The onset of various environmental issues, especially climate change, has created potential conflicts between different human rights. Human rights ultimately require a working ecosystem and healthy environment, but the granting of certain rights to individuals may damage these. Such as the conflict between right to decide number of offspring and the common need for a healthy environment, as noted in the tragedy of the commons. In the area of environmental rights, the responsibilities of multinational corporations, so far relatively unaddressed by human rights legislation, is of paramount consideration. Environmental Rights revolve largely around the idea of a right to a livable environment both for the present and the future generations.</p>
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		<title>Human rights violations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human rights violations occur when any state or non-state actor breaches any part of the UDHR treaty or other international human rights or humanitarian law. In regard to human rights violations of United Nations laws. Article 39 of the United Nations Charter designates the UN Security Council (or an appointed authority) as the only tribunal <a href='http://www.humana-global.org/education-in-rights/66-human-rights-violations.html'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>Human rights violations occur when any state or non-state actor breaches any part of the UDHR treaty or other international human rights or humanitarian law. In regard to human rights violations of United Nations laws. Article 39 of the United Nations Charter designates the UN Security Council (or an appointed authority) as the only tribunal that may determine UN human rights violations.</p>
<p>Human rights abuses are monitored by United Nations committees, national institutions and governments and by many independent non-governmental organizations, such as Amnesty International, International Federation of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, World Organisation Against Torture, Freedom House, International Freedom of Expression Exchange and Anti-Slavery International. These organisations collect evidence and documentation of alleged human rights abuses and apply pressure to enforce human rights laws. Only a very few countries do not commit significant human rights violations, according to Amnesty International. In their 2004 human rights report (covering 2003), the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Costa Rica are the only (mappable) countries that did not (in the opinion of Amnesty International) violate at least some human rights significantly.</p>
<p>There are a wide variety of databases available which attempt to measure, in a rigorous fashion, exactly what violations governments commit against those within their territorial jurisdiction. An example of this is the list created and maintained by Prof. Christian Davenport at the Kroc Institute – University of Notre Dame. Wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, are breaches of International humanitarian law and represent the most serious of human rights violations. When a government closes a geographical region to journalists, it raises suspicions of human rights violations. Seven regions are currently closed to foreign journalists:</p>
<p>* Chechnya, Russia<br />
* Myanmar (Burma)<br />
* North Korea<br />
* Papua, Indonesia<br />
* Peshawar, Pakistan<br />
* Jaffna Peninsula, Srilanka<br />
* Eritrea</p>
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