Human Rights
Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent in all human beings", regardless of their age, ethnic origin, location, language, religion, ethnicity, or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone. They are regarded as …
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11 May 2022 English
Gill Bennett, Anthony Glees, Michael Goodman, Matthew Jones, Michael Morgan and Denis Smyth
on international history and the history of human rights. Denis Smyth Denis Smyth is a Professor in …
5 May 2022 English
Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.
actions to be taken against various countries over human rights issues. FCO 28/3106 7-8 Textual A biographical … but it was a riposte to British criticism of human rights and treatment of minorities in the Soviet Union …
5 May 2022 English
List of files retained by the British government that are not available in Cold War Eastern Europe
Union visa1982 Jan 01 - 1982 Dec 31 FCO 28 5146 Human rights in the Soviet Union: general papers 1982 Jan …
4 May 2022 English
Editorial description of the content of Cold War Eastern Europe
Security and Migration ● Dissent, Resistance, and Human Rights ● Domestic Politics ● Economics and Trade ● …
1 January 2017 English
The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …
End of the Cold War: Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972–1990 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019) …
1 January 2017 English
Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …
Act, which included a basket of provisions on human rights, such as freedom of travel and reunification …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
energy problems when they blatantly violate human rights in Eastern Europe; impose martial law in Poland … Afghanistan who are trying to regain their human rights, democracy and national self-determinat- ion … sympathise with your constituent's concern over human rights violations in the USSR. I can assure you that … for an improvement in the deplorable Soviet human rights record. Soviet actions violate both the International … needed improvement in the Soviet performance on human rights. The Soviet Union have also been reminded during …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
document at Madrid covering progress I on CDE and human rights (NATO May Ministerial communiqué - CSCE I … document at Madrid covering progress on CDE and human rights (NATO May M i n i s t e r i a l communiqué - … Madrid covering p r o g r e s s on CDE and human rights (NATO M a y | Ministerial communique - CSCE … the Canadians' proposed experts' meeting on human rights should not lead to separations in this w a y … ) two experts' meetings on security and on human rights. (The security meeting might consider upgrading …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
society. On Human Rights Day, in this Hall, the Soviet Delegate called our human rights concerns a "fuss … understand, as the Final Act clearly directs, that human rights have directly to do with the indivi- dual's … "masses" are attempting to obscure the absence of human rights in their own societies. Large groupings of … no human rights for the many. It is also noteworthy that those states who deny the human rights of … lack of concern and sensitivity for individual human rights. Allow me, Mr. Chairman, to give one vivid …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
They were on religion, journalists and the human rights experts meeting. Various delegations had undertaken … BASIS OF MUCH STRENGTHENED REQUIREMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS (SUCH AS L I K E L Y TO PROVE UNACCEPTABLE … REQUIREMENT WHICH WAS TOO STRONG ON THE RUSSIANS OK HUMAN RIGHTS WOULD BRING A30UT THE COLLAPSE OF THE WHOLE … MANDATE ON OUR TERMS, DECOUPLIfiG IT FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMPONENT OF OUR P O S I T I O N WHICH THEY … APPROACH, I.E., THE WEST TO TABLE A STRONG TEXT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND AGREE TO CONCLUDE 3EF0RE CHRISTMAS. ASKED …
