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A/HRC/40/71: Recommendations of the Forum on Minority Issues at its eleventh session on the theme “Statelessness: a minority issue” - Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues
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Summary The recommendations in the present report draw primarily from the discussions and contributions made by participants at the eleventh session of the Forum on Minority Issues, held on 29 and 30...
Statement on the International Year of Indigenous Languages, 2019
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UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 28 January 2019 The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reaffirms the importance of the 2019 International Year...
International Day of Commemorationin Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust:"Holocaust remembrance: Demand and defend your human rights"
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28 January 2019 Director-General, Excellencies, Colleagues and friends, On this day in 1945, the largest Nazi extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated. Some 7,500 people were freed that...
A/HRC/40/41: Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan — Report of the Secretary-General
A/HRC/40/59/Add.1: Visit to Serbia and Kosovo - Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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Summary From 13 to 24 November 2017, the Special Rapporteur visited Serbia and Kosovo to assess the prevailing situation, developments and challenges concerning torture and other cruel, inhuman or...
A/HRC/40/56: Right to food - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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Summary Following the report devoted to the rights of agricultural workers and the paradoxical challenge they face in realizing their right to food, the present report examines two aspects of fishery...
Venezuela: Bachelet condemns killings, urges restraint and calls for dialogue to halt spiralling crisis
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GENEVA (25 January 2019) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday condemned, and called for effective investigations into, the violence that has led to a number of...
Mozambique: UN experts concerned about detention of journalist Amade Abubacar
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GENEVA (25 January 2019) – The authorities in Mozambique must immediately free journalist Amade Abubacar and investigate allegations that he has been ill-treated, say United Nations human rights...
Statement of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, on the conclusion of his official visit to Spain, 14-25 January 2019
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Spanish Madrid, 25 January 2019 Introduction Good afternoon and thank you for coming. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the Government of Spain for the invitation to undertake a...