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EXPERT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND EXTREME
POVERTY TO VISIT UNITED STATES
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18 October 2005 Dr. Arjun Sengupta, Independent Expert of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, will visit the United States of America at...
UNITED NATIONS INDEPENDENT EXPERT STRESSES
URGENT NEED FOR RESETTLEMENT OF
FOUR UZBEK CITIZENS
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18 October 2005 The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights issued the following statement today: The Special Rapporteur on the...
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS
REPORT OF CANADA
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Human Rights Committee 18 October 2005 The Human Rights Committee has considered the fifth periodic report of Canada on how that State party is implementing the provisions of the International...
Message by Louise Arbour, United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights International Day
for the Eradication of Poverty - 17 October 2005
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Poverty is the greatest human rights challenge of our time. While progress has been made in some parts of the world, the overall picture remains abysmal: more than 2.5 billion people subsist on less...
Opening address by Mr. Alessio Bruni Representative
of the High Commissioner for Human Rightsto the
85th session of the Human Rights Committee
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Mme Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Committee, Ladies and gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you to Geneva and to address you on the occasion of the eighty-fifth session of the Human...
MUCH MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO ENSURE
PROTECTION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED OF
SOUTHERN SUDAN, RIGHTS EXPERT SAYS
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17 October 2005 The Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) issued the following statement following a mission to Southern...
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS
EIGHTY-FIFTH SESSION
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Human Rights Committee 17 October 2005 The Human Rights Committee, which reviews the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its 153 States...
Statement by Jean Ziegler Special Rapporteur
on the Right to Food on the Occasion of
World Food Day
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English
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16 October 2005 World Food Day is an occasion to highlight a number of current issues of concern in relation to hunger across the world. In accordance with my mandate as Special Rapporteur on the...
RIGHTS EXPERT URGES TUNISIA TO RELEASE
UNCONDITIONALLY PERSONS IMPRISONED
FOR EXERCISING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
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14 October 2005 The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Ambeyi Ligabo, issued the...