Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Human Rights Abuses

Deliberate maltreatment of groups of humans beings including violations of generally-accepted fundamental rights as stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.

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Deliberate maltreatment of groups of humans beings including violations of generally-accepted fundamental rights as stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.

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4 entry terms
  • Abuse, Human Rights
  • Human Rights Abuse
  • Rights Abuse, Human
  • Rights Abuses, Human

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2004

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  • Human Rights (1973-2003)

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  1. I01w.880w.735w.384

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Human Rights Abuses. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D045809. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D045809
  2. Human Rights Abuses. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11376059