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“I didn’t feel human”

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Stories

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16 Sep 2022

Photos may or may not depict ‘Mo’ but have been provided by the grantee organization. Credit: © Pacific Links Foundation

The UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery funds the Compassion House project, which helps hundreds of thousands of people who remain enslaved today.

UN expert says contemporary forms of slavery affecting minority communities, urges action to end discrimination

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Press releases

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Published Date

15 Sep 2022

GENEVA (15 September 2022) –Minority communities in all regions of the world are subjected to contemporary forms of slavery, a UN expert said in a report presented to the Human Rights Council today....

Malaysia: UN experts denounce gender-discriminatory citizenship law

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05 Sep 2022

GENEVA (5 September 2022) – UN experts* today denounced a recent court decision in Malaysia that denied women the same rights as men to automatically confer citizenship to their children, saying...

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

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Press releases

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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...

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

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Press releases

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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...