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10,000 people a day must be freed to end slavery by 2030

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19 Sep 2019

In her latest report to the Human Rights Council, UN expert on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola, says that emerging global issues are putting more people of risk of being exploited or enslaved.

Scourge of slavery increases amid new range of global issues, says UN expert

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09 Sep 2019

GENEVA (9 September 2019) – In a world where over 40 million people are enslaved and one in four victims is a child, the scourge of modern day slavery is only likely to increase as a result of...

Challenges faced in receiving 1.4 million Venezuelan citizens at the centre of Colombia's dialogue with the Committee on Migrant Workers

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06 Sep 2019

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers 4 September 2019 The numerous challenges generated by the reception of 1.4 million Venezuelan citizens were at the centre of the...

SUB-COMMISSION BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN AND HUMAN RIGHTS; CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY; AND TERRORISM

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30 Jul 2003

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 30 July 2003 Afternoon Sub-Commission Expert Reports on Issues and Modalities for Effective Universality of International...

STATEMENT OF BERTRAND RAMCHARAN
ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
PRESENTING THE REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

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23 Jul 2003

23 July 2003 Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Economic and Social Council, ladies and gentlemen, The history of the United Nations has offered us one important lesson: we cannot achieve...

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03 Jul 2003

ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER AND HAITI AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHT COUNTRY’S KEY HISTORICAL ROLE IN FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY

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02 Jul 2003

2 July 2003 The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Haitian authorities have agreed to work together to highlight the two-hundredth anniversary of the slave rebellion that led...

10,000 people a day must be freed to end slavery by 2030

Scourge of slavery increases amid new range of global issues, says UN expert

Challenges faced in receiving 1.4 million Venezuelan citizens at the centre of Colombia's dialogue with the Committee on Migrant Workers

SUB-COMMISSION BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN AND HUMAN RIGHTS; CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY; AND TERRORISM

STATEMENT OF BERTRAND RAMCHARAN ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PRESENTING THE REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

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ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER AND HAITI AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHT COUNTRY’S KEY HISTORICAL ROLE IN FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY

STATEMENT OF BERTRAND RAMCHARAN
ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
PRESENTING THE REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL