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Afghanistan: Record level of civilian casualties sustained in first half of 2016 – UN report
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GENEVA/KABUL (25 July 2016) – A UN report on Afghanistan published Monday shows a record number of civilian casualties since counting began in 2009, with 5,166 civilians recorded killed or maimed in...
Committee against Torture opens fifty-eighth session
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GENEVA (25 July 2016) - The Committee against Torture this morning opened its fifty-eighth session, hearing a statement by Simon Walker, Chief of the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural...
Burundi: UN Committee against Torture to conduct special review
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GENEVA (25 July 2016) - The UN Committee against Torture is due to conduct a special review* of Burundi on 28 and 29 July in Geneva, in light of information it has received about the deteriorating...
UN women’s rights experts issue findings on Philippines, Myanmar, France, Albania, Turkey, Uruguay, Mali, Trinidad and Tobago
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GENEVA (25 July 2016) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has published its findings on the following countries which it examined during its 4 – 22 July session in...
Tragedy of Afghan casualties laid bare in UN report
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A record number of civilians were killed or maimed in Afghanistan in the first half of this year – a third of them children.
Migrants cling to dreams as they await uncertain future
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“I ask that God helps me to go to school.” UN Human Rights Office monitoring mission hears stories of despair and hope from migrants in Italy waiting to see what will happen to them.
Statement by Ms Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - Gender conference
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Combatting violence against women in the OSCE region – bringing security home Vienna 22 July 2016 Mr. Secretary General, Mr. Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council, Ms. Minister of State at the...
HRC-mandated Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan begins operations
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GENEVA (22 July 2016) - Members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Ms Yasmin Sooka (Chair), Mr Ken Scott and Dr Godfrey Musila have begun their operations with initial...
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concludes sixty-fourth session
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ROUNDUP Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of the Philippines, Myanmar, France, Albania, Turkey, Uruguay, Mali and Trinidad and Tobago GENEVA (22 July 2016) - The Committee on the...