Corruption in all its forms constitutes a violation of the human rights of the people who experience it. Governments who are complicit in corruption are failing in their duty to protect and promote human rights. The struggle for human rights and the struggle against corruption are intimately and inextricably linked because corrupt governments are no respecters of human rights.

Corruption has a devastating impact on the environment. It is the enemy of environmental protection and a major obstacle to environmental management. Where natural resources are abundant, the incidence of corruption appears to increase. Corruption helps accelerate the exploitation of resources without regard to environmental impact. Natural resource development is usually capital intensive and this commands the attention of corrupt politicians and officials.

Its impact is difficult to measure directly because corruption normally occurs within institutions, which have other inadequacies and weaknesses. It is therefore difficult to separate out corruption as an independent variable especially because corruption appears to be both a cause and effect of inefficient and unaccountable institutions. What is clear is that, when taken with other forms of institutional weakness, corruption is a cause of low economic growth.

Eradicating poverty requires macroeconomic stability, economic growth, improving institutional capacity, and investing in services such as education and health that particularly benefit the poor. High levels of corruption can threaten economic stability, slow down growth, weaken institutional capacity and reduce the resources available for social programmes.

The life and property of all citizens in an Islamic state are considered sacred whether a person is Muslim or not. Racism is incomprehensible to Muslims, for the Qur'an speaks of human equality in the folowing terms: O mankind! We created you from a single soul, male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, so that you may come to know one another. Truly, the most honored of you in God's sight is the greatest of you in peity. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (49:13)

The new law does three simple things about the rights and freedoms in the European Convention on Human Rights: It makes it unlawful for a public authority to violate Convention rights, unless, because of an Act of Parliament, it had no choice. It says that all UK legislation should be given a meaning that fits with the rights, if that's possible. If a Court says it's not possible, it will be up to Parliament to decide what to do. Cases can be dealt with in a UK Court or tribunal.

Corruption has a negative impact on the scale, form and growth rate of private sector development. It has both direct and indirect consequences for the conduct of business. Corruption helps distort the market by redirecting economic activity from one sector to another. In so doing, corruption destroys the structure and pattern of economic development and reduces the efficiency of economic activity.

Paradoxically, increasing the flow of aid can increase the levels and costs of corruption. Most obviously, it provides new resources to plunder but, more subtly, it is fungible, interchangeable, which simply means that money going in for one purpose frees up other money for another, potentially corrupt use.

The CECC recognizes that only the Chinese people can decide China's direction and future, and that the United States cannot impose its will on the 1.3 billion citizens of the PRC. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which both China and the United States took part in drafting, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights set high human rights standards for all nations.

Freedom of conscience is laid down by the Quran itself: "There is no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clearly from falsehood; whoever rejects evil and believes in God has grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And God is All-Hearing and All-Knowing." (Quran 2:256) The life, honor and property of all citizens in a Muslim society are considered sacred whether the person is Muslim or not.

The mission of the Kansas Human Rights Commission is to prevent and eliminate discrimination and assure equal opportunities in all employment relations, to eliminate and prevent discrimination, segregation or separation, and assure equal opportunities in all places of public accommodations and in housing.

With Martus, human rights NGOs will have access to the information technology tools they need to manage their most important asset: information about human rights abuses. By carefully making the tools usable to someone with basic experience with electronic mail, the technology currently available to more powerful entities will be made accessible to the grassroots activist community.

It's your music - we're just giving you another way to sell it! You will maintain your rights to do whatever you wish with your project at all times. Our contract is non-exclusive, which allows each of the artists that we represent to pursue any other type of situation that may assist in reaching any goals that have been set personally or for the project itself. The LightningCD distribution contract allows us to make reproductions of your project for sale.

Every person has dignity and value. One of the ways that we recognise this fundamental worth is by acknowledging and respecting a person's human rights. Human rights are concerned with equality and fairness. They recognise our freedom to make choices about our life and develop our potential as human beings. They are about living a life free from fear, harassment or discrimination.

KHRP sends delegations of human rights observers to the Kurdish regions to observe trials and to participate in fact-finding missions. Depending on the nature of the mission, observers are required to conduct interviews with victims of human rights violations, human rights defenders, civil society organisations, journalists, political parties, intermediary human rights bodies and governments.

Responding to locally and regionally voiced concerns, KHRP sends professionals to the Kurdish regions as part of its work to enhance the capacity of victims or survivors of human rights violations or their defenders, who are frequently also the subject of harassment or ill-treatment. To date, training seminars have taken place in Turkey , Armenia and Azerbaijan .

I am writing in reply to your e-mail of 24 May 2007, from which it can be concluded that you consider the Swedish authorities to be undemocratic. You appear to have referred the matter to the European Court of Human Rights and to the International Court of Justice. You have written to the European Ombudsman, whose task is to investigate complaints about maladministration by EU institutions and bodies.

But having a 'saint' as president who is personally immune to corruption does not ensure that the government will be equally pure. When levels of corruption are high, it is possible to determine a structure of corruption that stretches from the lowliest clerk to the presidential palace, from the rural areas back to the capital and each layer of corrupt officials blames the one above them.