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Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per year to consider the periodic reports submitted by the 173 States parties to the ICCPR on their compliance with the treaty, and any individual petitions concerning the 116 States parties to the ICCPR's First Optional Protocol. The Committee is one of ten UN human rights treaty bodies, each responsible for overseeing the implementation of a particular treaty. The UN Human Rights Committee should not be confused with the more high-profile UN Human Rights Council (HRC), or the predecessor of the HRC, the UN Commission on Human Rights. Whereas the Human Rights Council (since June 2006) and the Commission on Human Rights (before that date) are ''UN political bodies:'' composed of states, established by a UN General Assembly resolution and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Body
In international law, a treaty body (or treaty-based body) is an internationally established body of independent experts that monitor how States party to a particular international legal instrument are implementing their obligations under it. Definitions The International Law Commission defines an "expert treaty body" as:"a body consisting of experts serving in their personal capacity, which is established under a treaty and is not an organ of an international organization."A research guide published by the UN library lists key characteristics of human rights treaty-based bodies: * They "derive their existence from provisions contained in a specific legal instrument", * They hold more narrow mandates, being often limited to the set of powers codified in the treaty establishing them, * The audiences that treaty bodies address are limited to countries having ratified the legal instrument (as opposed to UN agencies which enjoy a quasi-universal audience), * Their decision-making o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beneš Decrees
The Beneš decrees, sk, Dekréty prezidenta republiky) and the Constitutional Decrees of the President of the Republic ( cz, Ústavní dekrety presidenta republiky, sk, Ústavné dekréty prezidenta republiky) were a series of laws drafted by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in the absence of the Czechoslovak parliament during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. They were issued by President Edvard Beneš from 21 July 1940 to 27 October 1945 and retroactively ratified by the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia on 6 March 1946. The decrees dealt with various aspects of the restoration of Czechoslovakia and its legal system, denazification, and reconstruction of the country. In journalism and political history, the term "Beneš decrees" refer to the decrees of the president and the ordinances of the Slovak National Council (SNR) concerning the status of ethnic Germans, Hungarians and others in postwar Czechoslovakia and represented Czechoslovakia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Faurisson
Robert Faurisson (; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January 1929 – 21 October 2018) was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles published in the ''Journal of Historical Review'' and elsewhere, and by letters to French newspapers, especially ''Le Monde'', which contradicted the history of the Holocaust by denying the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, and the authenticity of ''The Diary of Anne Frank''. After the passing of the Gayssot Act against Holocaust denial in 1990, Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, and in 1991 he was dismissed from his academic post. Early life and education Faurisson is believed to be one of seven children born in Shepperton, Middlesex, England to a French father and a Scottish mother. He studied French, Latin and Greek literature (''Lettres classiques''), and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Polay
Víctor Alfredo Polay Campos (born 6 April 1951) is one of the founders of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a Peruvian Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist terrorist organization that fought in the internal conflict in Peru. He is currently imprisoned in Callao Naval Base with Vladimiro Montesinos. He was arrested in 1992. In 1997, the UN Human Rights Committee has found that the circumstances of his trial and detention violated articles 7, 10 and 14 of the ICCPR. On 22 March 2006 he was found guilty by a Peruvian court on nearly 30 crimes committed during the late 1980s and early 1990 and was sentenced to 32 years imprisonment. Family Polay was the son of Victor Polay-Risco, who was part of the founding generation of the Peruvian Aprista Party. Polay-Risco is half-Chinese Peruvian, Chinese; his father, Po Leysen, was a Chinese coolie who arrived to work in the Trujillo, Peru, Trujillo sugarcane plantations.Look-Lai (2010), p. 166-7 References Bibliography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldman V
Waldman is a surname. People with the surname Notable people with the surname include: *Anne Waldman, American poet * Ariel Waldman, science populariser and author *Ayelet Waldman, author * Danielle Goldstein Waldman (born 1985), American-Israeli show jumper *Eliezer Waldman, Israeli rabbi *H Waldman (born 1972), American-Israeli basketball player * Irwin Waldman, American psychologist * Louis A. Waldman, American art historian and artist *Michael Waldman British palaeontologist * Morris D. Waldman (1879–1963), Hungarian-American rabbi and social worker *Myron Waldman, American animator *Ronnie Waldman, British television executive * Serena Waldman *Steven Waldman, Media advisor at FCC *Suzyn Waldman, American sports broadcaster Fictional characters *Doctor Waldman Dr. Waldman is a fictional character who appears in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' and in its subsequent film versions. He is a professor at Ingolstadt University who speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Ross (school Teacher)
Malcolm Ross (born May 1946) is a Canadian former schoolteacher from Moncton, New Brunswick, who became notable for his antisemitic writings, including Holocaust denial. Early life Malcolm Ross was born in May, 1946, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father was a Presbyterian minister. The family moved to Newcastle, New Brunswick, when Ross was young, and he graduated from high school there. In 1968, he graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a Bachelor of Education."Stephen E. Atkins. ''Holocaust Denial as an International Movement'', ABC-CLIO, 2009, p. 202. In 1976, Ross began teaching at Magnetic Hill School. Published books In 1978, he published his first book titled, ''Web of Deceit''. In the book, Ross attacked the diary of Anne Frank and declared the Holocaust a hoax. In 1983, Ross published a book titled, ''The Real Holocaust: The Attack on Unborn Children and Life Itself'', which combined anti-abortion views with antisemitism and holocaust denial. In 1988, he pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diergaardt V , a zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Diergaardt may refer to: * Floris Diergaardt (born 1980), Namibian football striker * Hans Diergaardt (1927–1998), Namibian politician * Johan Diergaardt, Namibian rugby union coach * Reggie Diergaardt (born 1957), Namibian politician and former member of the National Assembly of Namibia * Theo Diergaardt (1969/70–2020), Namibian politician and Member of Parliament * Diergaarde Blijdorp ( ''Blijdorp Zoo''), officially Rotterdam Zoo, is a zoo located in the northwestern part of Rotterdam. It is one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands, and has been operated by the ("Royal Rotterdam Zoo Foundation"). Divided into several zoogeog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apportionment (politics)
Apportionment is the process by which seats in a legislative body are distributed among administrative divisions, such as states or parties, entitled to representation. This page presents the general principles and issues related to apportionment. The page Apportionment by country describes specific practices used around the world. The page Mathematics of apportionment describes mathematical formulations and properties of apportionment rules. The simplest and most universal principle is that elections should give each voter's intentions equal weight. This is both intuitive and stated in laws such as the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (the Equal Protection Clause). However, there are a variety of historical and technical reasons why this principle is not followed absolutely or, in some cases, as a first priority. Common problems Fundamentally, the representation of a population in the thousands or millions by a reasonable size, thus accountable govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abstention
Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballot willfully made invalid by marking it wrongly or by not marking anything at all. A "blank (or white) voter" has voted, although their vote may be considered a spoilt vote, depending on each legislation, while an abstaining voter has not voted. Both forms (abstention and blank vote) may or may not, depending on the circumstances, be considered to be a protest vote (also known as a "blank vote" or "white vote"). An abstention may be used to indicate the voting individual's ambivalence about the measure, or mild disapproval that does not rise to the level of active opposition. Abstention can also be used when someone has a certain position about an issue, but since the popular sentiment supports th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Zundel
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) South African Film Producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst, Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
