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Bachelet urges Saudi Arabia to reveal all it knows about disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi

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16 Oct 2018

GENEVA (16 October 2018) --Two weeks after the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged the Governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey...

Business dragging its feet on human rights and investors are watching, say UN experts

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16 Oct 2018

Spanish New York (16 October 2018) – Too many companies globally are ignoring their human rights responsibilities and governments are failing to regulate and lead by example in business practices, a...

Human Rights Committee considers the initial report of Belize

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16 Oct 2018

Human Rights Committee 16 October 2018 The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its review of the initial report of Belize on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International...

Death row ‘reserved for the poor’

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16 Oct 2018

For those executed despite never having committed a crime, the death penalty is the ultimate injustice. What compounds it is that only poor people – denied access to legal safeguards that could have mitigated the punishment – are ever sentenced to death.

Report of mission to Austria focusing on the human rights of migrants, particularly in the context of return (2018)

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15 Oct 2018

In 2018, OHCHR visited Austria in order to assess the human rights situation of migrants, with a particular focus on laws, policies and practice related to the return of migrants to their countries of...

Report of the Human Rights Council - Thirty-ninth session(10–28 September 2018)

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15 Oct 2018

CMW/C/MDG/CO/1: Concluding observations on the initial report of Madagascar

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Concluding observations

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15 Oct 2018

"Promotion and protection of human rights: comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action"

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15 Oct 2018

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet Third Committee Agenda Item 74: Promotion and protection of human rights 15 October 2018 Distinguished Chairperson...

Statement by Mr. Jens Modvig, Chairperson Committee against Torture, at the 73rd session of the General Assembly

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15 Oct 2018

New York, 15 October 2018 Chairperson, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends, This year, we commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a major human...

Statement by the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment at the 73rd session of the General Assembly

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15 Oct 2018

New York, 15 October 2018 Mister President, Distinguished Representatives, Observers, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great honour that I address this Assembly in my capacity as the United Nations...