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A/HRC/27/37: The right to privacy in the digital age (focus on surveillance) - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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In its resolution 68/167, the General Assembly requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in the context...
A/HRC/27/29: Factors that impede equal political participation and steps to overcome those challenges
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This study examines the human rights framework relating to participation in political and public affairs. Discrimination against women, indigenous peoples, minorities, persons with disabilities, human...
Egypt: UN Experts “outraged” at confirmation of 183 death sentences
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Egypt: UN Experts “outraged” at confirmation of 183 death sentences GENEVA (30 June 2014) – A group of UN human rights experts* expressed outrage after a Criminal Court in Minya, Egypt, confirmed...
UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women reviews:
Central African Republic, Georgia, India, Lithuania, Mauritania, Peru, Swaziland and Syria
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GENEVA (30 June 2014) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) begins today its session in Geneva, where it will review women’s rights in the...
Opening Remarks by Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Director
Human Rights Council and Special Procedures Division
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Second session or the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace Geneva, 30 June 2014 Chairperson-designate, Excellencies, Distinguished...
Statement of the Human Rights Council President, Baudelaire Ndong Ella, at opening
of second session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Peace
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Genève, 30 juin 2014 Monsieur Bacre Ndiaye, Directeur de la Division du Conseil des droits de l’homme et des procédures spéciales, Excellences, Distingués délégués, Mesdames et Messieurs, C’est pour...
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women opens fifty-eighth session
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Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 30 June 2014 MORNING The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its fifty-eighth session, hearing a...
CEDAW discusses situation of women in Peru, India, Mauritania and Syria with civil society representatives
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Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 30 June 2014 AFTERNOON The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of non...