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Introduction

What are human rights?

The human rights system

A rights-based perspective on ESC

Monitoring, enforcement and protection

Values in a human rights organisation

Assignments

Resource centre

Glossary

Affirmative Action

African Peer Review Mechanism

Civil and Political Rights

Codification, Codify

Collective Rights

Commission on Human Rights

Convention

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Women's Convention)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (Children's Convention)

Covenant

Customary International Law

Declaration

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Economic, Social, Cultural Rights

Environmental, Cultural, and Developmental Rights

Genocide

Human Rights

Implementation

Impunity

Inalienable

Indivisible

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Member States

NEPAD

Non-derogable rights

Nonbinding

Political Rights

Protocol

Ratification, Ratify

Self-Determination

Signing, Sign

State

Treaty

United Nations Charter

United Nations General Assembly

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

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Customary International Law

Law that becomes binding on states although it is not written, but rather adhered to out of custom; when enough states have begun to behave as though something is law, it becomes law "by use"; this is one of the main sources of international law.

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