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Committee on the Rights of the Child: Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Antigua and Barbuda
UN experts condemn Viet Nam’s jailing of prominent blogger Mother Mushroom
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GENEVA (30 June 2017) – Viet Nam must end what appears to be a pattern of targeting environmental defenders, UN human rights experts* have urged after the jailing of a popular blogger. Ms. Nguyen Ngoc...
Sustainable development must put people not profits first, UN rights experts stress
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GENEVA / PARIS (30 June 2017) - Governments and business leaders must put people – not profits – first as the world moves towards action on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, UN human rights...
UN Human Rights Committee to review the following countries: Honduras, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Mongolia, Pakistan Switzerland and Swaziland
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GENEVA (30 June 2017) – The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation by States of one of the main international human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
Press briefing note on Iraq, Al Jazeera, Venezuela and Guatemala
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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location : Geneva Date : 30 June 2017 Subject: (1) Iraq, (2) Al Jazeera, (3) Venezuela and (4) Guatemala (1) Iraq We are...
UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges rejects intimidation of Venezuela’s Attorney General
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GENEVA (30 June 2017) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, has questioned the recent decision by the Venezuelan Supreme Court freezing the assets...
Correction to news reports appearing in Qatari media
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GENEVA (30 June 2017) - The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday that it regrets the appearance of inaccurate accounts in Qatari media of a meeting held on Thursday between UN...
Men and boys in the fight to eliminate violence against women
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“We believe that men and boys are part of the solution (to the problem of violence against women)…and we need them engaged to stop violence against women,” said Lana Wells, a professor at the University of Calgary, Canada during a panel discussion on involving men and boys in the fight for gender equity at the Human Rights Council.
UN women’s rights committee to review Barbados, Costa Rica, Italy, Montenegro, Niger, Nigeria, Romania and Thailand
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GENEVA (29 June 2017) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is meeting in Geneva from 3 to 21July to review women’s rights in the following countries: Barbados...