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Topic 1: The question of globalisation and its impact on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights.
Director: Mirza Salman Hossain Beg

Globalization—the growing interpenetration of states, markets, communications, and ideas across borders—is one of the leading characteristics of the contemporary world. International norms and institutions for the protection of human rights are more developed than at any previous point in history, while global civil society fosters growing avenues of appeal for citizens repressed by their own states. But assaults on fundamental human dignity continue, and the very blurring of borders and rise of transnational actors that facilitated the development of a global human rights regime may also be generating new sources of human rights abuse.
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Topic 2: The question of the realisation in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights of Minority Groups.
Director: Christopher Shute

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The Human Rights Committee is a body of independent experts that acts as a watchdog regarding the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by signatory States. The HRC, by extension, promotes a wider recognition and respect for human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Committee processes complaints from citizens within member States. It then assesses the validity of such claims and, finding fault in the respective State, will urge it to remedy the situation – if no remedial action is taken, the HRC will prosecute the State in question under international law. The HRC works in conjunction with Non-Governmental Organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and lobbies with its partners, amongst other issues, for the abolition of the death penalty.