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GENEVA (16 April 2014) - Argentine authorities failed to ensure that a prisoner with disabilities was able to use prison facilities and services on an equal basis with other detainees and are obliged...

GENEVA (10 April 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today expressed alarm at the denial of medical care to two political prisoners in Iran who are at risk of dying in detention due...

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CRC 32nd session 28 January 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child examined today a second periodic report of Iceland, querying a Government delegation on such topics as accident prevention for...