A broad movement campaigning against the violation of human rights.
the aim of the human rights movement would be to achieve genuine integration
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There is also an active international human rights movement monitoring the foreign policy of many major countries.
The trial at Nuremberg gave the nascent human rights movement a powerful impulse.
These ideas bear directly on rights discourse in the international human rights movement.
Top of the agenda of the human rights movement was obtaining concrete answers to its demands.
Over a mere half century, the human rights movement that grew out of the Second World War has become an indelible part of our legal, political and moral landscape.
Today's human rights movement is richly diverse.
Over the half century of the human rights movement, both treaty and customary law have expanded the degree to which duties and responsibilities are directly imposed on individual actors as well as states.
The challenge of the human rights movement in 2005 is to harness the power of civil society to push government to deliver on their promises.
In revealing how abuses of women's human rights have often been neglected, excused or denied, the women's human rights movement has demonstrated that previous understandings of human rights have taken the paradigmatic human to be male.
Increasingly, at the behest of the human rights movement, states are willing to put pressure on an abusive government.