{"id":5871,"date":"2017-02-21T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2017-02-21T06:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:03:55","slug":"40-groups-call-for-prioritizing-human-rights-in-syria-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/02\/21\/40-groups-call-for-prioritizing-human-rights-in-syria-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"40 groups call for prioritizing human rights in Syria talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 40 human rights groups and other organizations say that U.N.-sponsored Syrian peace talks that will begin in Geneva this week should prioritize five key human rights issues during negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The groups said in a statement Tuesday that achieving respect and promotion for human rights during any transition and post-conflict will require key legislative and constitutional amendments to enshrine rights protection in law.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between the government and the opposition are scheduled to begin Thursday in an attempt the end the country&#8217;s conflict, now in its sixth year.<\/p>\n<p>The groups that include Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights say the priorities are &#8220;to end unlawful attacks and to ensure aid access and safe passage for fleeing civilians, detainee rights, justice, and security sector reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/article133967124.html\" target=\"_blank\">miamiherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Some 40 human rights groups and other organizations say that U.N.-sponsored Syrian peace talks that will begin in Geneva this week should prioritize five key human rights issues during negotiations. The groups said in a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/02\/21\/40-groups-call-for-prioritizing-human-rights-in-syria-talks\/\" title=\"40 groups call for prioritizing human rights in Syria talks\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[562,138,1791,2871,1097],"class_list":{"0":"post-5871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-amnesty-international","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-human-rights-watch","11":"tag-physicians-for-human-rights","12":"tag-syria","13":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}