Commission on Human Rights
- proper noun
- Formal
- A study on the violence was prepared for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights by Amos Wako and released in 1992.
- U.N. Commission on Human Rights
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Examples
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For example, Asahi Shimbun reported on how a non-governmental organization criticized this public donation at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights because the Japanese government was not admitting responsibility.
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It was not until 2003 that states directly addressed SOGI issues in the Commission on Human Rights.
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In May 2001, the European members on the U.N. Economic and Social Council voted the United States out of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
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In 2003, at the Commission on Human Rights, Brazil proposed the first resolution of its kind entitled "Human Rights and Sexual Orientation."
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The Commission on Human Rights and the HRC are key forums for setting international SOGI standards.
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Despite controversy over the Brazilian draft resolution, at a March 2005 meeting of the Commission on Human Rights, New Zealand delivered a joint statement about sexual orientation and human rights on behalf of thirty-two countries from four UN regions.
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In June 2001, M. Kalliopi K. Koufa, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights, wrote a report called Terrorism and Human Rights.
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A number of human rights activists were harassed and subsequently arrested and convicted of the "crime" of congratulating the U.N. Commission on Human Rights for voting against Cuba.
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Utilizing developments at the Human Rights Council (formerly the Commission on Human Rights) and the General Assembly, as of the time of this writing (2003), the analysis below challenges the suggestion that no progress has been made on SOGI issues at "political" UN forums.
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In 2003, at the Commission on Human Rights, Brazil proposed the first resolution of its kind entitled "Human Rights and Sexual Orientation."
Surface Forms
Morphology
commission + on + human + right
The meaning is compositionally transparent: 'commission' = a formal committee, 'on' = about/regarding, and 'human rights' = people's legal/moral entitlements, so a learner who knows the parts will infer it is a committee concerned with human rights. While the precise institutional link to the UN may not be deduced, the core meaning is directly derivable and follows common cross-linguistic patterns.
Etymology
Commission on Human Rights was named because it was a group, a commission, set up to protect 'human rights', the basic freedoms every person should have. It was a United Nations team that looked into rights problems and made rules, so the name now means the UN body that works to promote and protect people's rights.