United Nations Commission on Human Rights Simply begin typing or
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our editors for review. declaration on rape In 1993 the United
Nations (UN) Commission on Human Rights (replaced in 2006 by the
UN Human Rights Council) declared systematic rape and military
sexual slavery to be crimes against humanity punishable as
violations of women’s human rights. In 1995 the UN’s Fourth
World Conference on Women specified that rape by armed groups
during wartime is a war crime. The jurisdiction of the
international... enforcement of human rights For the first 20
years of its existence (1947–66), the UN Commission on Human
Rights concentrated its efforts on setting human rights
standards, believing itself unauthorized to deal with human
rights complaints. Together with other UN bodies such as the
ILO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), the UN Commission on