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" Every year on 28 January; events are held to mark International Privacy Day. The initiative dates back to the agreement in 1981 of a new international treaty known as Convention 108, which was championed by the Council of Europe, an international organization with almost every European country as a member. The treaty remains the only legally binding international agreement on data protection, outlawing the
sharing of sensitive data, and encouraging the development of national laws on data privacy."

1. " there were only 56 member states of the UN at the time, so the vastmajority of todav's 193 member states were not involved directly in the discussions overthe UDHR or in the final vote, and the debate over human rights has since taken new directions, thanks in part to the views of societies and states with often different ideas about what constitutes a human right. The UDHR remains our key source of reference, though"

2."While these ate examples of social restrictions on rights, more common are the restrictions imposed for political reasons, including the numerous instances around the world of political prisoners"

3."LA related problem is that of prisoners of conscience, a notable recent example of which was the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent many vears under house arrest between 1989 and 2010 because of her resistance to the military government of Burma (otherwise known as Myanmar"

4."Twhile there would be few significant legal developments for several centuries, the idea of natural law emerged from the writings of thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), and John Locke (1632-1704). Their views suggested the existence of a common human morality in that everyone had an inherent sense of right and wrong, and that rights were not dependent upon
states to declare them or documents to legitimize them"

5."Meanwhile, one of the more flagrant Wiregards for human rights was found in the persistence of slaveriaFeu conditions reflect the limits on human freedom quite as comprehensively being a slave, which means being defined as the personal property of the slave"

6."Searal orientation and gender identin. A prominent new aspect of individual rights concerts sexual rights, including not just focused issues such as arranged marriages, but broader questions relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, including the right to choose a partner of the same sex, and the right to alter one's own sex or choose one's own gender identity"

7."Given the nature and the amount of information contained in the samples, the court argued, their retention had to be regarded as interfering with the right to respect the private lives of the individuals concerned."

8."States have also occasionally argued that they have a 'right' to intervene directly, and without UN approval, in the event of gross violations of human rights, based on the doctrine of humanitarian intervention"

9." This argues that when states cannot protect their citizens from genocide, ethnic cleansing, or similar violations of human rights, the international community must step in, ideally with UN approval. The term humanitarianism implies a general concern for the welfare of humans, but has often overlapped with human rights concerns."

10."In 1922, the International Federation of Human Rights was founded in France to bring together ten national human rights organizations. Today it has nearly 200 affiliated organizations in nearly 100 countries"