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A/HRC/49/84: Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan – Report of the Secretary-General
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Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 46/24, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to report to it on human rights in the occupied Syrian...
Human Rights Committee grades countries for continued protection follow-up during COVID-19
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The Human Rights Committee has given top marks to five countries for their follow-up on recommendations to combat domestic and gender-based violence, prohibit torture, adopt a National Human Rights Plan, and protect people on the move.
Brief on violence affecting civilians. January - December 2021
A/HRC/49/43: Seeds, right to life and farmers’ rights - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri
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In the to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, emphasizes that seeds are central to people’s cultures and food systems, and to control seeds is to control life.
Providing better prospect for refugees and promoting peace through gaming
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Lual Mayen spent 22 years of his life in a refugee camp in Uganda after fleeing civil war in his home country, South Sudan. Today, he heads a company that creates video games to promote peace and a foundation to provide access to technology to those still living in refugee camps.
CAT/C/BOL/CO/3: Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture on the third periodic report of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
A/HRC/49/50: impact of thematic reports
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In the present report to the Human Rights Council, which is the sixth and last of his tenure, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment evaluates the reception and utilization by States of his thematic reports as a driver of change in national laws, policies and practices towards the eradication of torture and illtreatment, and he offers recommendations aimed at supporting that process.
A/HRC/49/49: At the heart of the struggle: human rights defenders working against corruption
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In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, analyses the situation of human rights defenders working against corruption and stresses that protection frameworks applicable to human rights defenders should apply to them. The report includes examples of the types of threats and structural difficulties faced by human rights defenders fighting corruption and suggests ways that relevant stakeholders might act to protect them and to promote their work.