Monday, February 11, 2013

UN welcomes mechanism for individuals to report human rights abuses

[JURIST] The UN on Wednesday welcomed [UN News Centre report] the activation of a mechanism to simplify the means to report human rights abuses to the international community. The instrument, called the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [text, PDF], was developed in 2008 by the international body to provide a voice [UN News Centre backgrounder] to victims of rights abuses but had no effect until the Protocol was adopted by 10 participating nation-states....

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/02/un-welcomes-mechanism-for-individuals-to-report-human-rights-abuses.php

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