However, attention gradually shifted from peace to human rights, with a growing interest in defining violence against women as a human rights offense expressed in the 1980 Copenhagen and 1985 Nairobi meetings. ... The Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women is mandated to collect information relating to violence against women, to recommend measures to remedy it, and to work with other members of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the human rights body that predated the recently created Human Rights Council. ... These reports helped to define violence against women as a human rights v...

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To sustain this palpably ridiculous argument, the right-wingers deny reality with great vehemence. ... (Her name calls up more than two thousand references on the Lexis databases "a huge number by any reckoning "during the ten preceding years.) ... In both cases, the villains who tried to silence her were affiliated with right-wing institutions. ... What's wrong with this picture? ... Using a database that includes the twenty top American daily newspapers, Nunberg tested the Bias hypothesis with the names of ten "well-known politicians, five liberals and five conservatives."" ...

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