Примеры использования Violence and atrocity на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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Recommendations to prevent violence and atrocity crimes.
Session participants will identify key factors that create and maintain minority groups' vulnerability and exposure to violence and atrocity crimes.
Improving prevention of violence and atrocity crimes.
The seventh session will provide an overview of existing international and regional standards and principles relevant to the protection of persons belonging to minorities from violence and atrocity crimes against them.
Draft recommendations on preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities.
Special focus will be on how gross and persistent discrimination and inequalities vis-à-vis social, political economic and cultural rights increase the vulnerability of poor, marginalized minorities to violence and atrocity crimes.
A set of draft recommendations on preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities will be presented for consideration by the Forum.
The first panel looked at the global perspective and the role of United Nations mechanisms, as regards preventing violence and atrocity crimes against minorities.
Among the key elements of strategies to prevent violence and atrocity crimes are the promotionand protection of minority rights, good and inclusive governance, and the effective management of diversity.
Note by the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák, on preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities.
The seventh session will consider the theme of"Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minoritiesand will seek to provide all participants with substantive and tangible outcomes in the form of thematic recommendations.
On 24 November 2014, the day preceding the Forum session, OHCHR held a"Dialogue on the role of the United Nations in preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes against minorities.
They will consider the situations, environments, processes and factors leading to violence and atrocity crimes, including deficits in good governance, rule of law or in the respect for human rights.
Session participants will address how different stakeholders, including national Governments, civil society, minority groups and regional and international actors,can play an effective role in helping to prevent violence and atrocity crimes against minorities.
The duty of States to protect their populations from violence and atrocity crimes, irrespective of national, ethnic, religious, linguistic or other identity, transcends any specific State ideology, religion or value system, and is entrenched in universally accepted human rights instruments.
In that context, the draft recommendations recognize that comprehensive implementation of minority rights and the existence of adequate institutional and policy frameworks can effectively contribute to the prevention and response to violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities.
States have the primary responsibility to protect their populations from violence and atrocity crimes irrespective of national, ethnic, religious, linguistic or other identity, and should take immediate action in compliance with national and international law to stop violence as rapidly as possible and by all appropriate and proportionate means.
Participants will identify and address challenges relating to policing and security as factors directly linked to the exposure of minorities to violence and atrocity crimes, as well as inclusiveand proactive approaches to law enforcement and protection strategies.
Participants will be encouraged to share specific scenarios where persistent challenges and human rights violations expose minorities to frequent the threat of violence and where systematic discriminatory practices and patterns of abuse make them vulnerable to violence and atrocity crimes.
The Forum's seventh session washeld on 25 and 26 November 2014; its topic was"Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities", and it aimed to increase awareness of the obligations of States under international law to protect minorities against violence by creating and/or strengthening institutionaland policy frameworks for minority rights protection.
The work of the Forum on Minority Issues takes into account the great variety of country and minority situations and the fact that, consequently,different measures may be required to prevent and address violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minority groups within a given State.
In their efforts to prevent and address violence and atrocity crimes against minorities, all stakeholders are strongly encouraged to build their initiatives upon the four key pillars of minority rights protection: protection of existence; protection and promotion of minority identity; equality and non-discrimination; and the right to effective participation in all areas of civil, political, public, economic, social and cultural life.
The range of acute protection challenges confronting the international community today, including those related to the rise of extremist groups, highlights the urgent need to provide earlier and more effective forms of support to States to prevent the slide into systematic violence and atrocity crimes.
While the primary responsibility to protect populations from violence and atrocity crimes lies with national authorities and law enforcement bodies, under this agenda item, participants will discuss the role of neighbouring States, and regional and international bodies under the principle of the responsibility to protect and its legal corollary obligations, including when a State is the perpetrator of or implicated in violence and atrocity crimes.
Ms. Izsák(Special Rapporteur on minority issues), introducing her report on the effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic,Religious and Linguistic Minorities(A/69/266), said that the violence and atrocity crimes perpetrated against minorities was a tragic reality that affected communities in every region.
In that regard, the present draft recommendations provide State authorities, decision makers, public officials, minority groups, non-governmental organizations, academics and others, including media, with an overview of practice and concrete solutions to prevent violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities, as well as appropriate responses thereto at the national, regional and international levels.
II. Preventing and addressing violence and atrocities against minorities.
The violence and atrocities committed against civilians, including killings, rape and the destruction of hundreds of villages, have been documented in gruesome detail.
While violence and atrocities continue in Darfur, some grass-roots reconciliation initiatives are also taking place.
At the end of the second millennium, and in the wake of the divisions,wars, violence and atrocities that have often marked its years, the human family needs a moment of self-examination.