Human rights in Europe : time to honour our pledges : viewpoints by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
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- Data Source
- Monographs
- Material Type
- Book: softcover
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Hammarberg, Thomas
- Corporate Author
- Council of Europe. Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Publisher
- Council of Europe
- Data Source
- Monographs
- Material Type
- Book: softcover
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Hammarberg, Thomas
- Corporate Author
- Council of Europe. Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Publisher
- Council of Europe
- Responsibility
- Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights
- Place
- Strasbourg
- Physical Description
- 175 p.
- Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Contains section titled "Time to recognise that human rights principles also apply to sexual orientation and gender identity".
- Table of Contents
- Foreword ............................................................................................................... 5
- International human rights bodies worldwide need more support and more self-criticism ....................................................... 9
- Aged people are too often ignored and denied their full human rights ............................................................................................. 15
- Time to recognise that human rights principles also apply to sexual orientation and gender identity ............................................. 21
- Strong data protection rules are needed to prevent the emergence of a surveillance society ................................................ 27
- No one should have to be stateless in today’s Europe ..................... 35
- Corruption distorts the system of justice and damages poor people in particular .............................................................................. 41
- Fighting terrorism – learn the lessons from Northern Ireland ...... 49
- Hate crimes – the ugly face of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsyism, Islamophobia and homophobia ................................. 55
- Refugees must be able to reunite with their family members ...... 63
- The shameful history of anti-Gypsyism is forgotten – and repeated ...................................................................................................... 71
- Roma representatives must be welcomed into political decision-making ............................................................................................... 79
- Persons displaced during conflicts have the right to return .......... 85
- It is wrong to criminalise migration ......................................................... 91
- Human rights education is a priority – more concrete action is needed ............................................................................................... 97
- Respect and rights-based action instead of charity for people with disabilities ........................................................................ 103
- Concrete and comprehensive action plans are needed to ensure implementation of human rights ...................................... 109
- In times of economic crisis it is particularly essential to ensure the protection of social rights ............................................. 115
- Arbitrary procedures for terrorist blacklisting must now be changed ................................................................................ 121
- More control is needed of police databases ....................................... 129
- Discrimination against transgender persons must no longer be tolerated ................................................................................ 135
- Europe must open its doors to Guantánamo Bay detainees cleared for release .................................................................... 141
- Children should not be treated as criminals ..................................... 147
- National parliaments can do more to promote human rights ... 153
- Think globally, act locally – for human rights .................................. 159
- After the human rights breakdown during the “war on terror”, the damage must be assessed and corrective action taken ........ 165
- Foreign policy should be based on a principled approach to human rights ............................................................................................ 171
- Call Number
- 4.4 HAM HUM 2009
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2018-080