A voice for human rights

A Voice for Human Rights

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197. The International Criminal Bar has now come into existence and held its first General Assembly in Berlin from 22 to 23 March 2003: www.bpi-icb.org.
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219. Further information about the work of the UN Environment Programme can be found at: www.unep.org.
220. Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on Adverse Effects of the Illicit Movement and Dumping of Toxic and Dangerous Products and Wastes on the Enjoyment of Human Rights: www.ohchr.org.
221. 1998 UN-ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention), ECE/CEP/43: www.participate.org/convention/convention.htm.
222. Klaus Topfer, speech to WSSD, 2 September 2002.
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225. OHCHR Press Release, "High Commissioner for Human Rights Calls for Urgent Attention to Situation in Sierra Leone, " 25 June 1999.
226. Anna Lindh, Swedish Foreign Minister and a friend of Mary Robinson, was murdered in Stockholm on 11 September 2003.
227. The Anna Lindh Programme on Conflict Prevention was launched in Stockholm on the first anniversary of her death. www.ui.se.
228. Anna Lindh, "Create a Worldwide Culture of Conflict Prevention, " International Herald Tribune, 18 September 1999.
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233. Michael Ignatieff, "Is the Human Rights Era Ending?, " The New York Times, 5 February 2002.
234. Amnesty International, Amnesty International Report 2002 (London: Amnesty International, 2002).
235. Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe; and Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights on terrorism and human rights, 29 November 2001, available from www.ohchr.org.
236. UNDP Human Development Report 1994: New Dimensions of Human Security (New York: United Nations Department of Public Information, 1994).
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238. International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001), para. 3.18.
239. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Human Rights and Poverty Eradication- A Talisman for the Commonwealth (London: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 2001).
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