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The author took advantage of the opportunity of appearing before a judge to denounce the torture to which he had been subjected and to report the disappearance of his cousins.

Beyond civil and political rights and “naming and shaming”, such advancement now involved greater focus than ever before on economic, social and cultural rights.

[...] [...] first wrote an exposé about the “dark [...]

We regard this designation as part of the international community’s required denunciation and censure of acts of deliberate and criminal violence against children.

Many political prisoners remained in prison or under other forms of detention at year's end, including rights activist Hu Jia; journalist Shi Tao; Internet writers Yang Zili and Xu Wei; labor activists Yao Fuxin, Mu Mingjun, Hu Shigen, Huang Xiangwei, Kong Youping, Ning Xianhua, Li Jianfeng, Li Xintao, Lin Shun'an, Yue Tianxiang, Zhang Shanguang, Gao Hongming, Zha Jianguo, Li Wangyang, and She Wanbao; China Democracy Party cofounder Qin Yongmin; family planning whistleblower Chen Guangcheng; Su Zhimin; Christian activist Zhang Rongliang; Uighurs Tohti Tunyaz and Dilkex Tilivaldi; and Tibetans Jigme Gyatso, Tenzin Deleg, and Gendun Choekyi Nyima.

However, there existed few protections for whistleblowers against retaliation from local officials.

( d ) Welcome the Secretary-General’s efforts to ensure ethical conduct, more extensive financial disclosure for United Nations officials and enhanced protection for those who reveal wrongdoing within the Organization.

Drawing up, also in 2008, a charter of shared principles for all agencies dealing with perpetrators of violence, and then distributing to police stations and community legal centres [...]

The majority of the people who do not trust Dato’ Seri Zambry and his Exco have been proven right as Zambry and his Exco do not want an open debate which will expose them.

Formerly, large numbers of state-owned and private-sector enterprises did not meet the legal requirements for vacations.

It should be mentioned that, according to article 5 of the Internal Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Agency Act, the tasks of the Agency shall include: recognizing, preventing and exposing crimes involving the production and trade in goods, technologies and services of strategic importance for the security of the State, and crimes involving the illegal production and possession of and trade in weapons, ammunition and explosive materials and weapons of mass destruction, as well as collecting and analysing information in a clandestine way.

[...] [...] evidence that a crime of torture has been [...]

[...] [...] “scandals” being uncovered in China are at [...] [...]

In addition, a joint team from the Office of Human Resources Management and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations undertook to investigate another five cases (all civilians) that had come to light.

He had failed to raise funds for the project, a fact discovered only after the exhibition closed, when no one involved in the project´s production was paid and the Italian authorities impounded the art for five years.