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Appendix B: Mandates, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on Health and Human Rights
Pages 84-85

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... The committee's inquiries and appeals are based on principles set forth in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, a decIaration that has been adopted by the UN member states. It proclaims certain common standards of human rights for all peoples standards that include the right to life, liberty, and security of person; to freedom from torture and arbitrary detention; to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal; and to freedom of speech, conscience, and religion.
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... Its concerns include, but are not limited to, torture, incarceration of health professionals without due process, collusion of health professionals in torture, abuses of psychiatry and other medical knowledge for political purposes, breach of confidentiality and falsification of medical information, and other unethical medical practices involving prisoners or people in detention. The CHHR works to identify such practices through scholarly work and research; to increase public and professional awareness (through periodic meetings, workshops, and conferences)
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