Recent Developments in U.S. Human Rights Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, February 10 and 17, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 214 páginas |
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Página 181 - Resolved by the Senate and Route of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the...
Página 182 - Congress strongly urges the President to instruct the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations to...
Página 144 - Act of 1984 provided that the President shall not designate any country a beneficiary developing country under this section if such country has not taken or is not taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights in the country, including any designated zone in that country.
Página 144 - Congress with his reasons therefor. (c) In determining whether to designate any country a beneficiary developing country under this section, the President shall take into account— (1) an expression by such country of its desire to be so designated...
Página 164 - Nothing contained in this Act shall contravene the interest of the United States in human rights, especially with respect to the human rights of all the approximately eighteen million inhabitants of Taiwan. The preservation and enhancement of the human rights of all the people on Taiwan are hereby reaffirmed as objectives of the United States.
Página 181 - House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Congress reaffirms that it is the continuing policy of the United States Government to oppose the practice of torture by foreign governments through public and private diplomacy and, when necessary and appropriate, through the enactment and vigorous implementation of laws intended to reinforce United States policies with respect to torture. The United States Government opposes acts of torture wherever they occur,...
Página 141 - Korea has, according to the fll), the longest average working hours in the world, and one of the highest industrial accident and death rates. Furthermore, as the Korean economy has advanced in recent years, working hours have increased, rather than levelling down toward the averages found in other industrial states. In 1986, industrial production workers averaged 55.3 hours per week', and HO lOO hour weeks were common in the garment and textile industries.
Página 75 - Yatron, and for inviting me to . testify. My name is Holly Burkhalter, and I am Washington Director of Human Rights Watch.
Página 148 - ... b. The Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively Australian workers are granted the right, by law and in practice, to organize and bargain collectively and to be represented in negotiating the prevention and settlement of disputes with employers.
Página 57 - Council in resolutions 1574 (L), 1745 (LIV) and 1930 (LVIII), the main objective to be pursued in the field of capital punishment is that of progressively restricting the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed with a view to the desirability of abolishing this punishment...