Human rights

Human rights

International Representative elected to EU panel

Keith Porteous Wood  Europe

IHEU international representative Keith Porteous Wood has been reappointed (in a personal capacity) to the Panel of nine civil society representatives assisting the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna. The Agency advises the European Commission on discrimination and equality matters and has a formal obligation to engage with and receive feedback from civil society.

How Durban II defeated the extremists but failed to tackle racism

Roy Brown (1) UN Geneva  World-wide  United Nations news

The Durban Review Conference on Racism has just finished in Geneva. Roy Brown reviews the results – good, bad and indifferent.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages

UN Geneva

See http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages. The Declaration is the statement of fundamental human rights that apply to every individual and has been widely ratified by states around the world.

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