D3. STATE DEPARTMENT, COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 2003: ““ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES,”” WASHINGTON, 25 FEBRUARY 2004 (EXCERPTS).

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-187
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Web Site ◽  
State Department ◽  
The State ◽  
Full Report ◽  
Occupied Territories

The excerpt below is an overall assessment of Israel's and the PA's human rights record in the occupied territories from the introduction to the report's section dealing specifically with those areas. The full report is available on the State Department Web site at www.state.gov.

scholarly journals PREVENTION OF TORTURE ON THE TEMPORARILY OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Kh. Yamelska
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The State ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
European Court ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Pressure ◽  
The Impact

The article reveals the content of armed aggression and the legal status of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Russia's aggression against Ukraine is considered in historical retrospect. Cases of torture and other ill-treatment on the temporarily occupied territories have been demonstrated in specific cases. The article examines the state of human rights on the temporarily occupied territories, namely the prevention of torture and other ill-treatment. Ways to prevent torture and ill-treatment in order to respect human rights and maintain the rule of law have been identified. The author determined that system of counteraction to aggression of Russia, which consists the political, legal and economic means, includes the prevention of torture and ill-treatment.The author notes that the adoption of UN GA resolutions and other documents of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe are new elements of increasing legal pressure on Russia. The submission of interstate applications by the Government of Ukraine to the European Court of Human Rights against the Russian Federation is one of the effective means of preventing torture. The article reveals the impact of expert and advocacy activities of non-governmental human rights organizations on the prevention of torture and the state of human rights on the temporarily occupied territories. It is noted that maintaining contacts with the citizens of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, constant informing, as well as obtaining information by the Ukrainian side on the state of human rights in the temporarily occupied territory provides an opportunity to partially prevent such violations and allow future reintegration of these territories. Keywords: prevention of torture, temporarily occupied territories, armed aggression, observance of human rights.

Human Rights for Tibetan Americans: No Small Questions

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 35-36
Author(s):  
Tinley Nyandak Akar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Internal Policy

A few months ago President Carter's human rights stature took a dive when the Department of State rejected the requests of a group of American citizens to have “Tibet,” instead of China, listed as their birthplace on their U.S. passports. The decision came on the heels of an announcement that Zbigniew Brzezinski would be visiting China a few weeks later.Despite the president's repeated assertions about his impartial application of human rights to all nations, the administration has been silent when it comes to human rights violations by the People's Republic of China. Evidently Washington does not want to offend Peking and thus lets China dictate, at least indirectly, an internal policy decision of the United States. The action by the State Department regarding American citizens of Tibetan origin has carried this unequal application of human rights principles to an absurd degree.

The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and us Human Rights Policy in a Changing World

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 238-260
Author(s):  
Philip C. Aka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Economic System ◽  
State Department ◽  
The State ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
International Human ◽  
Changing World

To stem its diminishing dominance in the international political and economic system, the us must re-establish its leadership in international human rights. A starting point in that journey will be to streamline the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices published annually by the State Department. This article presents several avenues for such improvement, but posits that lasting improvement will come only if the us abandons the national arrogance of exceptionalism that, even in the age of Obama, still drives its human rights policy.

C2. Talia Sasson, Findings and Conclusions of the Investigation of Israel's Unauthorized Outposts in the Occupied Territories, Jerusalem, 8 March 2005 (excerts).

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
West Bank ◽  
The West ◽  
Full Report ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
The Web

Prime Minister Sharon commissioned the report in June 2004, largely in response to U.S. accusations that Israel was not keeping its promise to freeze settlement activity and dismantle illegal outposts in the West bank. The seven-month investigation——complicated by the dispersion of information among various government bodies and the stonewalling of many officials——was conducted by Talia Sasson, a former chief state prosecutor. Sasson also wrote the report (the ““Opinion Concerning Unauthorized Outposts””) and the fifty-page summary of the ““findings, conclusions, and recommendations”” from which the excerpts below are taken. Bolding, italicization, and underlining are as in the original. The full report and summary are available on the Web site of the Prime Minister's Office at www.pmo.gov.il.

Cambodia—an Outlaw Nation

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 12-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
State Department ◽  
Central Intelligence Agency ◽  
The State ◽  
Justice Department ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence

The following are excerpts from Jack Anderson's extraordinary report on the ABC Television Network's morning news show, “Good Morning America” in early March. David Hartman is host of the show.For two and a half years I have been haunted by a story that I pieced together from scattered reports. The story was disputed and denied when I first published it in 1975. But I now have overwhelming evidence from the secret files of the State Department, Justice Department, and Central Intelligence Agency. This is the most important human rights story of the decade. It is a stark, cruel story of mass slaughter in Cambodia under the Communist dictator Pol Pot.I want you to remember that name, Pol Pot. It belongs in the hall of infamy alongside the names of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. The Communists took over Cambodia in April of 1975. Pol Pot wanted to build a new Communist society.

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