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Statement by Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
to the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations Ministerial meeting of 25 September 2014 “Regulating the veto in the event of mass atrocities”

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25 September 2014 I would like to thank the organisers of this meeting, France and Mexico, and particularly Minister Laurent Fabius, for leading this important discussion on whether the Security...

A human rights approach to reducing child deaths

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With more than 6 million children dying before their fifth birthday last year, health decision and policy makers are being offered a more holistic way to look at child mortality. The UN Human Rights Office and the World Health Organization (WHO) have designed the technical guidance for applying a human rights-based approach to improving child mortality rates. The guidance note was launched during the 27th Human Rights Council session.

At high-level event, UN officials call for end to death penalty

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The continuing application of capital punishment is a “primitive” practice which has no place in the 21st century, United Nations officials declared today, as they pressed global leaders to set course towards abolishing the death penalty and advancing a more progressive judicial agenda in their respective States.