Human Rights

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Human Rights is written by Great Britain: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Staff and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0101560125 (ISBN 10) and 9780101560122 (ISBN 13).

This report presents information on the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) during July 2001 to July 2002 to promote human rights around the world. It incorporates comments and recommendations received from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and a number of human rights non-governmental organisations. The report provides an overview of the main challenges to human rights, and explains the Governments policies and activities to address those challenges, in both multilateral and bilateral contexts. Specific examples are used to illustrate each theme. Individual chapters are included on: challenges and progress; multilateral actions; conflict; the economy and society; justice; democracy and discrimination; womens and child rights. A number of annexes contain the texts of key Government speeches on the topic; FCO funding to promote human rights issues; a guide to multilateral organisations; details of ratifications of the main international human rights treaties; and information on other sources of human rights information.