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HUMAN
WRONGS
HUMAN
RIGHTS
A
GUIDE TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS MACHINERY
OF
THE UNITED NATIONS (3rd Edition)
Published
by British Irish Rights Watch and
Northern
Ireland Human Rights Commission
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Most
people associate the United Nations with its peace-keeping role, seeing it
as the body that tries-and often fails-to deal with problems such as those
that have arisen in Kosovo. What
they are aware of is the UN’s political role.
However, people are much less aware of the UN’s role in setting
international human rights standards and monitoring governments’
adhering to them. Because
people have knowledge of what their human rights are, they do not know how
to enforce their rights if things go wrong.
The UN has a whole array of mechanisms for helping people to obtain
their rights and redress their wrongs, but lawyers, advice agencies and
voluntary and community groups usually know very little about them. This
guide sets out to change all that. It
explains where to find out about human rights, how the UN human rights
machinery works, and how to make effective use of it. |
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BIRW April 2002
For Peace Justice & Human Rights
