17th April 2013
Human Rights and Democracy Report 2012
This year it will be 65 years since the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Open any newspaper or news website today and you find depressingly many and varied examples of continuing breaches of those universal rights in countries around the world.
Advancing respect for universal human rights is a priority for UK, and EU, foreign policy. For that reason, every year the Foreign and Commonwealth Office publishes a Human Rights Report. The Report covers our global human rights priorities and countries of concern. On 15 April our Foreign Secretary William Hague launched the FCO Human Rights and Democracy Report 2012.
If you follow the Embassy on Twitter or Facebook or read my last blog you will know how the UK as G8 President is prioritising the issue of tackling rape and sexual violence in conflict. This year there is a new section on the Preventing of Sexual Violence Initiative in the Report.
At the launch event the Foreign Secretary was joined by two guest speakers; Dr Ahmed Shaheed, Human Rights Council special Rapporteur on Iran, who shared his insight into the work of the UN and Madeleine Rees from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and a member of the PSVI steering board spoke more widely about the violence against women, including sexual violence.
We want to know what you think too. On the FCO’s Human Rights and Democracy homepage you can submit your comments on this important issue.
- Read the 2012 Human Rights and Democracy report
- Follow on twitter @FCOHumanRights with hashtag #hrdreport
- Read the previous FCO Human Rights reports
I Think that discrimination against woman is still obvious in most of the countries that actually signed on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
if governments of these countries are serious about Human Rights they will come up with laws that will help in reducing the discrimination against woman,but we can see that even the governments are biased to men almost in every aspect of life , special in middle east .
Dear sir
Where is the human rights you talking about am a father of tow chlid and awife they live all in uk I received apaper from ukboarder agencey deprive me from my natrulaisation while am away from my family I went back to jordan for visit and couldnt go back to my family my kids cause of adecidion from home office to take of my passport so I cant go back to myfamily in uk where is the human rights I tried my best to call and mail all the goverment agency to appeal but no answer is it fare to be away from my kids and u talking about humanity and rights for people to live good life and with there family thx again