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Türk addresses conference on child rights

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My warm thanks to Child Rights Connect for the invitation to speak today. Congratulations on your 40 years of commitment to child rights – my Office is very grateful for our past and continuing...

Know the past to change the present

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Taking concrete action against racism and colonialism can be as simple as changing a name. United States elementary school teacher Bianca Jones and her students did just that, when they embarked on a quest to change the name of a park in a predominantly Black neighbourhood in Chicago – from that of a slave owner to that of abolitionists -- succeeded.

A/HRC/53/38: Advancing accountability for serious human rights violations related to the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

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In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, examines the practical gaps in accountability for serious...

New treaty would codify right to development

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The right to development is the focus of a new international human rights convention currently being drafted as requested by the Human Rights Council. The Convention on the Right to Development will, among other things, codify the right to free, active and meaningful participation in development and in fair-sharing the benefits from development.