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• Human Rights Glossary
  Commission on Human Rights: Body formed by the Economic and SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC) of the UN to deal with human rights; one of the first and most important international human rights bodies. The majo
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• Gender and the U.N. Secretary-General's Report: In Larger Freedom
  Learn more about the women's human rights organizations that responded to the Secretary- General's report: MADRE --MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership
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  The report identifies the most urgent needs of developing nations -- development, security, human rights, health care, and environmental sustainability, among others - and discusses strategies for me
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• Human Rights Case
  June 20, 2000 - The Women’s Division of the General Board of Global Ministries announced their disappointment today on a Supreme Court decision that holds a lot of significance for human rights advoca
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• Seminar News
  Whether the seminar topic was human rights, peacemaking or homelessness or immigration, participants in many NY seminars this spring examined hate crimes as a major stumbling block in the path of dis
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• "Race in the 21st Century"November 1999
  It explores the stories of racism against American Indians, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Arab Americans. "Racism Violates Human Rights" by Deborah M. Robinson Racism is
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• Women's Division Grants 2000
  The following provides a brief description of the organization, the amount of the grant in 2000, a web link to the organization, a scriptural basis for the grant, and a reference from the United Metho
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• No Place to Call Home: Internally Displaced Persons and the Armed Conflict in Colombia
  † The Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), a Colombian human rights organization, estimates that almost 3 million Colombians have been internally displaced between 1985 and 2003.4†
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• UMWs Promote International Treaty
  March 17, 1998 -- United Methodist Women (UMW) plan to promote an international treaty to end discrimination against women and take their message to United States senators this week. CEDAW, also know
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  4 The most vulnerable elements of Colombian society form the ranks of the internally displaced: women, children, the poor, rural people, indigenous people, and Afro-Colombians. 9 They have been displa
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• Human Rights Case
  The friend-of-the-court brief is asking for the Supreme Court to review the Massachusetts Burma Law, which discourages multi-national corporations from doing business in Burma (Myanmar), a country on
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• Burma Decision
  The Women’s Division is disappointed with the June decision of the United States Supreme Court, which holds a lot of significance for human rights advocates in this country. The Supreme Court ruled th
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• Review of Burma Law in Supreme Court
  The friend-of-the-court brief is asking for the Supreme Court to review the Massachusetts Burma Law, which discourages multi-national corporations from doing business in Burma (Myanmar), a country on
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  More Mayan traditional farmers invaded area ranches and coffee estates demanding land. Land occupied by Muslims had to be "cleansed"--its occupants removed--in order for the Bosnian Serbs to have the
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• Diamond Restrictions
  When Congress reconvened in September after its summer recess, Representative Tony Hall introduced the so-called "Carat Act," a bill that places import restrictions on diamonds. Human rights, r
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• Diamond Restrictions
  When Congress reconvened in September after its summer recess, Representative Tony Hall introduced the so-called "Carat Act," a bill that places import restrictions on diamonds. Human rights, r
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• Cote d'Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act
  In 1990, Houphouet-Boigny, leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), lifted the ban on opposition parties in elections and won Côte d’Ivoire’s first multi- party presidential election. A
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  Contact McDonald's, Burger King, and Subway today to ask that they follow Taco Bell's lead, meet with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), and help end human rights abuses in their supply chain!
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• Social Action
  This book, with stories from around the world, delineates the connection between U.S. prosperity and violations of human rights around the world. Author William F. Schultz builds a case for defending
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• Thousands of Letters Call for End to All Discrimination Against Women
  The United States has not yet ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), also known as the women’s human rights treaty. "The United States is a le
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