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Equitable Development A conditio sine qua non for a world where people are treated with due respect and humanity starts with equitable development. This means that everyone, everywhere has a chance to live a life of human dignity without some few people disproportionately exploiting their environment and other people. In part is is just about not being selfish, being willing to share and being willing to cooperate with other people. Simple principles you would think and definitely principles we have all ascribed to, even in equally biding treaties, but no always so easily respected. At IL.Org we work with our partner (Nord-Sud XXI) striving to raise the voices of justice for peoples being unjustly treated and prevented from achieving equitable development.
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Photo: womeninbiz.sbresources.com | Human Rights International-Lawyers.Org strives to contribute to promoting, developing and ensuring human rights. It does so by participating in global human rights processes and voicing opinions that reflect fair-mindedness, equal treatment, and respect for all peoples. It participates in the mechanism of the United Nations and regional organizations.
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Photo: humanrightsnigeria.org | Climate Change Climate change is one of the most important man-made occurrences confronting everyone in the world, especially people of the global South. Expert legal advice to governments, peoples, and non-governmental actors is crucial to being able to deal with this global problem. It is a legal obligation for all states to takes steps to ensure that climate change does not prevent the development or interfere with respect for human rights of people, especially those in the global South.
Click here to view our blog Climatechange.blogs.fr
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Photo: whataretheywaitin | Prisoners
Prisoners are among the most vulnerable people in society as they are under the almost complete control of the State authorities. Many States authorities take advantage of this situation and mistreat prisoners.
We will take action on cases of arbitrary detention, unfair trial, inhumane or degrading treatment, torture, inadequate medical care, inadequate living conditions, or other types of abuses against prisoners. We can also help prisoners to find lawyers to take their cases to international bodies if they have exhausted domestic remedies.
We often work to protect prisoners rights around the world to ensure that they are treated in dignity and with respect to their human rights. We have assisted prisoners on five continents and without distinction to their ethnic, national, racial, religious or other distinctions. We welcome enquiries from prisoners who have exhausted domestic remedies and believe they are being detained without a legal basis. We take up the cases of individual prisoners as well as groups of prisoners.
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Photo: topnews.in | Refugees We consider the situation of refugees and cooperate with other lawyers and refugee associations on the protection of refugees around the world. Refugees seekers are among the most vulnerable people in the world because they have fled their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution or other serious reasons. They lack protection from their countries and often must rely on themselves for protection. We assist them in getting this protection.
We can advocate fro refugees rights and sometimes bring cases before international tribunals on behalf of refugees.
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Photo: www.siue.edu | Victims of War We have frequently intervene on behalf of victims of war in Iraq, Palestine, Sudan, Panama, Afghanistan, Somalia, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Libya, and elsewhere. We remain willing and ready to assist all victims of war through legal representation in their claims for damages and in representation to states and international organizations to ensure their rights are respected and to try to end violations of international human rights and/or international humanitarian law. |  Photo: flickr.com | Indigenous Peoples Indigenous Peoples are those who come from a particular country or region. Often they are in a minority or in vulnerable positions because of lack of opportunities equal to those of other groups in the population. They are sometimes oppressed by governments that refuse to recognize their cultural, social, economic, political, or civil rights. We work with or represent many indigenous people who are fighting for their rights in their own country. Among the indigenous peoples with whom we work are the al-Tuwaiya of Oman, the Ogoni of Nigeria, and the indigenous people of Hawaii. In each case the individuals belonging to these groups have been denied some basic human rights, sometimes even the right to recognition as a people recognition. Often these cases are resolved through negotiations with the governments concerned. - Self-Determination and Indigenous People, Friday, 4 May 2012.
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Photo: United Nations | The Right to Health
International-Lawyers.Org has been working with partners that include Nord-Sud XXI, the Peoples' Health Movement and the NGO Forum for Health to encourage the World Health Organization's main plenary body, the World Health Assembly, to adopt a resolution on the right to health for the first time in it 65 year history. |  Image: Philantrophyinmotion.blogspot.com
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