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UN WORKING GROUP ON ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY
DISAPPEARANCES CONCLUDES EIGHTIETH SESSION
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29 November 2006 The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances issued the following statement today: The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary...
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Concluding observations
Concluding observations
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL NOTES WITH CONCERN SERIOUS
HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN DARFUR
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Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 28 November 2006 Calls on All Parties to End Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a decision on...
UN EXPERT CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL FLOOD ASSISTANCE FOR SOMALIA AND APPEALS FOR EVEN-HANDED ENGAGEMENT TO FORESTALL CONFLICT
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28 November 2006 The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Ghanim Alnajjar, issued the following statement today: "I am deeply concerned about the flash floods that are...
COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION
OF INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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Human Rights Council MORNING 28 November 2006 The Human Rights Council this morning adopted a resolution on the effective implementation of international instruments on human rights and deferred to a...
WORKING GROUP ON ARBITRARY DETENTION
REITERATES CONCERNS REGARDING
SADDAM HUSSEIN TRIAL
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28 November 2006 The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued the following statement following its forty seventh session, which ended on 24 November: "Following the recent conclusion of Mr. Saddam...
Keynote statement by Yak?n Etürk, UN Special
Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its
causes and consequences “Changing
attitudes to combat violence
against women”
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Spain, 27 November 2006 Distinguished participants, It is with great honour and pleasure that I deliver this keynote speech on the occasion of the Council of Europe campaign on the elimination of...