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Zeid calls for immediate halt to DRC killings

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20 Feb 2017

GENEVA (20 February 2017) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to take immediate steps to halt widespread...

CEDAW discusses situation of women in Germany, Sri Lanka, Rwanda and Micronesia with civil society representatives

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20 Feb 2017

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 20 February 2017 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of non-governmental...

Opening of the 18th session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

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20 Feb 2017

Opening Remarks by Mr. Adam Abdelmoula, Director Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Monday, 20 February 2017 Palais des Nations...

Major human rights conference for the Arab region begins Monday in Doha

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20 Feb 2017

BEIRUT/GENEVA (19 February 2017) – A regional conference on conflict situations in the Arab Region, bringing together experts from the UN Human Rights Office, high-level Government representatives...

Global Road Safety Film Festival in Geneva

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20 Feb 2017

Statement by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 20 February 2017 Greetings. I’m delighted to be here to support your work. This festival is about prevention – about changing...

International conference on human rights-based approach to conflict situations in the Arab region, Doha - Qatar

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20 Feb 2017

Opening remarks by Kate Gilmore, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights 20 February 2017 Excellences, colleagues, friends, [formal greetings] I wish to thank the Government of Qatar for their...

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights opens its sixtieth session

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20 Feb 2017

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 20 February 2017 Elects New Chairperson and Bureau, Swears in Three New Members The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning...

Film festival: the road to safety

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20 Feb 2017

The 2017 edition of the Global Road Safety Film Festival marks 10 years of raising awareness of safety of the world’s road and preventing road traffic casualties and injuries.

Atrocities will end in South Sudan only when perpetrators 'face consequences' – UN rights official

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20 Feb 2017

“This is a war that has been waged against the men, women and children of South Sudan,” said the UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights, Andrew Gilmour, as he wrapped up a four-day visit to country.

A decade on, UN urges all Governments to endorse convention on enforced disappearance

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20 Feb 2017

Marking the tenth anniversary of an historic treaty to keep people from suffering enforced disappearance or secret detentions, the UN urged all Governments that have not done so to ratify it, as the world body honoured victims separated from their loved ones.