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Statement of Chaloka Beyani, Chairperson of the Coordination Committee on Ukraine

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21 Feb 2014

GENEVA (21 February 2014) – Representatives of the largest body of independent experts* in the United Nations human rights system today called for an immediate end to renewed clashes in Kiev and other...

UN expert on extreme poverty and human rights launches first official visit to Guinea-Bissau

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21 Feb 2014

GENEVA / BISSAU (21 February 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Magdalena Sepúlveda will undertake an official visit to Guinea-Bissau from 24 February to 1 March 2014 to collect first-hand...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concludes eighty-fourth session

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21 Feb 2014

ROUNDUP 21 February 2014 Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Honduras, Montenegro, Belgium, Poland, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg and Switzerland The Committee on the Elimination of...

Learning to live in peace in Kyrgyzstan

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21 Feb 2014

Following an intense ethnic conflict in Kyrgyzstan in 2010, today students at Osh State University start thinking critically about ethnicity through a course initiated by the UN Human Rights Regional Office in Central Asia.

Discours de S.E.M Baudelaire NDONG ELLA,
Président du Conseil des Droits de l’Homme au Conseil de l’Europe

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20 Feb 2014

Strasbourg, 20.02.2014 Monsieur le Président, Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs, Je voudrais tout d’abord saluer l’heureuse initiative de ce Comité Ministériel d’inviter pour la deuxième année...

Human Rights Council Advisory Committee holds twelfth session from 24 to 28 February 2014

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20 Feb 2014

BACKGROUND RELEASE 20 February 2014 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its twelfth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 24 to 28 February 2014. During the session, the...

UN human rights expert urges Sudan to release reports on last year’s violent demonstrations

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20 Feb 2014

KHARTOUM / GENEVA (20 February 2014) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Mashood Adebayo Baderin, expressed deep concern that the Sudanese...

Mauritania: Follow-up visit by UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery

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20 Feb 2014

GENEVA (20 February 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, will undertake a follow-up visit to Mauritania from 24 to 27 February 2014, to assess new developments...

Hundreds of thousands besieged in Syria

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20 Feb 2014

Sieges imposed by parties to the Syrian conflict leave thousands of civilians trapped facing life threatening shortage without access to humanitarian assistance.

Pillay reminds CAR leaders of individual criminal responsibility for serious human rights violations

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19 Feb 2014

GENEVA (19 February 2014) – As atrocities continue to occur in the Central African Republic, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday reminded leaders in positions of authority...