The conviction that human rights are essential to the achievement of universal standards of human dignity and social justice is what drives us. It is also what has brought us together, a group of people of different nationalities, to form Human Rights Everywhere (HREV) and to work for human rights wherever we are and wherever we may have an impact.
This research was submitted in May 2006 as a thesis towards a masters degree in "The Theory and Practice of Human Rights" from the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. The author is a researcher for HREV.