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Women's Rights Organizations and Human Trafficking

Social Science Quarterly, 2017
ObjectivesThis article examines the impact of women's rights organizations (WROs) in preventing human trafficking and improving state policies on trafficking. WROs, through their knowledge and experience working with governments, and the services they provide to women, are in a strong position to influence trafficking outcomes and policies ...
Sam R. Bell, Victoria Banks
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Human Rights Organizations in Turkey

2020
This chapter analyzes the origins and the development of human rights organizations in Turkey since 1945. It first offers an overview of the limited number of elite organizations established between 1946 and 1974 and the initial skepticism toward human rights activism in the country in the 1960s and 1970s among grass-roots political movements.
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Dealing With Human Rights in International Organizations

Journal of Human Rights, 2015
Over time human rights have gained prominence in international organizations. At the same time, dealing with them has proved difficult and contentious. The present article focuses on the way in which the United Nations have addressed human rights issues, especially through the Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) and its successor the Human Rights ...
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A human rights approach to Human Trafficking for Organ Removal

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2013
Human trafficking for organ removal (HTOR) should not be reduced to a problem of supply and demand of organs for transplantation, a problem of organized crime and criminal justice, or a problem of voiceless, abandoned victims. Rather, HTOR is at once an egregious human rights abuse and a form of human trafficking.
Debra, Budiani-Saberi, Seán, Columb
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Organization for Human Rights and Development

Human Rights Quarterly, 1981
To be human is to be more than a mere mineral, plant, or animal. It is to be a rational and free person endowed with an intrinsic inalienable dignity and corresponding rights. Each and every human being has his or her own unique identity and potential for full and authentic development in the context of a given community, country, world, and universe ...
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Workers’ rights are human rights: organizing the psychology of labor movements

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020
A surprisingly small body of research in psychology documents the costs and benefits of labor unions on an individual's psyche. However, the importance of labor unions - so critical it was codified in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights - requires a renewed examination of labor movements beyond the individual differences that predict labor ...
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The Arab Organization for Human Rights

Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2008
The Arab Organization for Human Rights was founded in 1983, at a time when the legal, political and cultural environment in the Arab world was not at all amenable to human rights. On the legal level and when present, societies’ laws ranged between banning outright and imposing restrictions, and the very concept of human rights was deeply misunderstood.
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