Indivisible Human Rights: The Relationship of Political and Civil Rights to Survival, Subsistence and PovertyHuman Rights Watch, 1992 - 76 pages |
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Page 60 - Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Page 43 - Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level. At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities, including information on hazardous materials and activities in their communities, and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes. States shall facilitate and encourage public awareness and participation by making information widely...
Page 60 - Article 23 1 — Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. 2 — Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. 3 — Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration...
Page 61 - Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress and not to make use of any form of forced or compulsory labour: (a) As a means of political coercion or education or as a punishment for holding or expressing political views or views ideologically opposed to the established political, social or economic system; (b) As a method of mobilising and using labour for purposes of economic development...
Page 23 - All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.
Page 60 - Everyone shall have the right to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Page 10 - ... privately gave Mao a handwritten letter running to 10,000 characters. His mood at the time is evoked in a poem composed in the style of a verse from Beijing opera which is attributed to his pen: The millet is scattered over the ground. The leaves of the sweet potato are withered. The young and old have gone to smelt iron. To harvest the grain there are children and old women. How shall we get through the next year? I shall agitate and speak out on behalf of the people.9 At the Lushan meeting,...
Page 9 - Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom and a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend
Page 2 - The diverse political freedoms that are available in a democratic state, including regular elections, free newspapers and freedom of speech, must be seen as the real force behind the elimination of famines.