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UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (UDHR) has achievedthe status of customary international law.8. DECLARATION: Document stating agreed-upon principles but which is notlegally binding. UN conferences, like the 1995 World Conference for Women inBeijing, usually produce two sets of declarations: one written by governmentrepresentatives and one by NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS(NGOs). The UN General Assembly often issues influential but legally nonbindingdeclarations.9. ENTRY INTO FORCE: When a treaty has received the requisite number ofratifications by Member States and becomes legally binding upon those states.10. THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMANRIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS: An international TREATYadopted in 1950 by the member states of the Council of Europe to provide aregional system of human rights protection for Europe.11. INALIENABLE: Refers to rights that belong to every person and cannot betaken from a person under any circumstances.12. INDIVISIBLE: Refers to the equal importance of each human right. A personcannot be denied a right because someone decides it is "less important" or "nonessential."13. INTERDEPENDENT: Refers to the complementary framework of human rightslaw. For example, your ability to participate in your government is directlyaffected by your right to express yourself, to get an education, and even to obtainthe necessities of life.14. INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS: Organizations sponsored byseveral governments that seek to coordination their collaboration; some areregional (e.g., the Council of Europe, the Organization of African Unity), someare alliances (e.g., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO); and some arededicated to a specific purpose (e.g., the Office of the High Commissioner forHuman Rights OHCHR, and the United Nations Education, Scientific andCultural Organization, UNESCO).15. INTERNATIONAL BILL OF RIGHTS: The combination of these threedocuments: the UDHR, the INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL ANDPOLITICAL RIGHTS (ICCPR), and the INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ONECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ICESCR).16. INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS(ICCPR) (Adopted 1966, entered into force 1976): Convention that declares thatall people have a broad range of civil and political rights. One of the threecomponents of the INTERNATIONAL BILL OF RIGHTS.Advocacy Workbook, Landmine Survivors Network 27
17. INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL ANDCULTURAL RIGHTS (ICESCR) (Adopted 1966, entered into force 1976):Convention that declares that all people have a broad range of economic, social,and cultural rights. One of the three components of the INTERNATIONALBILL OF RIGHTS.18. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONSWITH DISABILITIES: A Convention adopted by the United Nations inDecember 2006, aimed at securing the rights of people with disabilities aroundthe globe.19. MEDICAL MODEL OF DISABILITY: An attitude toward disability thatassumes that disability is a health problem and emphasizes the “sickness” of thedisability. Rather than emphasizing the whole society’s responsibility to fullyintegrate people with disabilities, the medical model transfers responsibility tothe medical profession to “fix” disabilities.20. MONITORING MECHANISMS: A system described in a TREATY to monitorhow governments comply with their treaty obligations. Most treaties establish atreaty committee that reviews reports submitted by states and NGOs and in somecases receives complaints about violations of that treaty. Also referred to as“enforcement mechanisms.”21. NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs): Organizationsformed by people outside of government. NGOs monitor the proceedings ofhuman rights bodies such as the Commission on Human Rights and are the"watchdogs" of the human rights that fall within their mandate. Some are largeand international (e.g., the Red Cross, Amnesty International); others may besmall and local (e.g., an organization to advocate for people with disabilities in aparticular city; a coalition to promote women’s rights in one refugee camp).NGOs play a major role in influencing UN policy, and many of them haveofficial consultative status at the UN.22. RATIFICATION, RATIFY: Formal procedure by which a state becomes boundto a treaty.23. RESERVATION: A formal statement made by a government when itRATIFIES a TREATY stating that it does not accept one or more of the legalobligation contained in the document.24. RIGHTS MODEL OF DISABILITY: An approach to disability based onprinciples of human rights, as embodied in the UDHR and other internationalhuman rights documents. It actively discourages the CHARITY MODEL and theMEDICAL MODEL of disability and emphasizes that disability rights arehuman rights.Advocacy Workbook, Landmine Survivors Network 28
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