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Stop deporting Haitians on the move in Americas, UN Committee warns
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GENEVA (28 April 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today called on State parties in the region to suspend forced returns and adopt measures to protect...
Briefing notes on Brazil: Missing journalist and indigenous rights defender
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We are concerned about the continued lack of information on the whereabouts and wellbeing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous rights defender Bruno Araújo Pereira in the Javari...
A/HRC/49/55：Privacy and personal data protection in Ibero-America: A step towards globalization? - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
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Ibero-America has seen some highly interesting developments in the area of privacy and personal data protection since the start of the twenty-first century.
Roberto Garretón Merino: A life in service of human rights
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UN Human Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet, colleagues and friends pay tribute to Roberto Garretón Merino, Chilean lawyer and long-time defender of human rights, following his passing.
Strategic Litigation for Gender-based Violence: Experiences from Latin America
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On 21 and 22 October 2020, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), together with the American University Washington College of Law, through its War Crimes Research...
Bachelet alarmed by attempts to undermine national human rights institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Español GENEVA (6 May 2021) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday sounded the alarm over the rising number of threats, attacks and attempts to undermine and...
Forward Together: A Conversation with Former Presidents of the Americas
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The Inter-American Dialogue Video by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet 10 December 2020 It is my pleasure to join you on this Human Rights Day. My warmest greetings...
How is COVID-19 affecting people of African descent? COVID-19 affecting people of African descent?
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Join the regional dialogue for the Latin American and Caribbean on the “Impact of COVID-19 on people of African descent: building back better,”
The Americas: Governments should strengthen, not weaken, environmental protection during COVID-19 pandemic
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Español GENEVA / WASHINGTON (13 August 2020) – Too many countries in the Americas have loosened environmental safeguards in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, when they should be improving them to...