She is the founder of the The Prizm Project, the first human rights education organization for young women.
Israel has boycotted a regular review by the UN Human Rights Council, the first time any country has done so.
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But it also gives the chance to explain how Edward Morel and Roger Casement launched what was, in effect, the first international human-rights campaign, using the mass media to bring an unstoppable torrent of public criticism to bear on the Belgian authorities.
The UN World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005- ongoing), currently in its first phase, seeks to promote a common understanding of the basic principles and methodologies of human rights education, to provide a concrete framework for action and to strengthen partnerships and cooperation from the international level down to the grass roots level.
On March 14th, Indonesia finally convened the first of its special human-rights courts on the 1999 East Timor violence.
Of course, Hillary wasn't the first secretary of state to advocate for human rights or use the post to raise awareness of abuses or negotiate humanitarian relief or pressure oppressors.
During the first day of Mr Yudhoyono's visit, human rights activist Peter Tatchell was arrested for a breach of the peace after he tried to reach the car of the Indonesian president as he left Westminster Abbey.
It is worth mentioning that the first two principles of the Global Compact itself refer to human rights.
Speakers at the rally included Lord Waheed Alli, the first openly gay peer, Peter Tatchell, Gay and Human Rights Campaigner, co-founder of OutRage!
Only a few months ago ASEAN leaders were talking about setting up a regional human-rights body and adopting a strong new charter that would, for the first time, impose binding decisions on member countries and sanctions against wayward ones.
America's generals, not noticeably keen on humanitarian wars of intervention in the first place, are going to be doubly resentful if human-rights-minded liberals get them into a humanitarian war and then expose American soldiers to prosecution for what they do in that war.
Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
They also contend there has been a breach of her right to a fair trial under Article Six of the European Convention on Human Rights, and "right to peaceful enjoyment of property" under Article One of the First Protocol.
The issuing of the writ is the first time the department has faced a legal challenge under the European Convention of Human Rights.
The case is the first time a former African head of state has been brought to court in another country on human rights charges.
The robust guarantees of the First Amendment are vital for real, live human beings, to ensure their expressive and democratic participative rights are protected.
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At first there seemed to be good news for traditionalist Christians in the judgement from the European Court of Human Rights.
Dr. Benjamin received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 1998, and was elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees in 1995, making her the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be elected.
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