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UN human rights chief expresses her
grave concern in the escalating
violence in Gaza
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28 December 2008 GENEVA (OHCHR) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed her grave concern and distress at the enormous loss of life in the escalating violence in Gaza. While...
STATEMENT BY PROF. RICHARD FALK, UNITED
NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
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27 December 2008 The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent s evere and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the...
UN Expert Calls on Parties to the Sri Lankan Conflict
to Better Protect the Displaced
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23 December 2008 GENEVA - The Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kälin, has expressed his increasing concern for Sri...
Zimbabwe government and international community must do more
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22 December 2008 GENEVA -- “The severe crisis affecting Zimbabwe is ravaging the country with alarming speed. The government and the international community must do more to rebuild the health system...
UN experts welcome the announcement by President-elect Obama
to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility
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22 December 2008 Geneva – Four independent UN experts* welcome the announcement by President-elect Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and to strengthen the fight against torture...
15 years of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences (1994-2009) - a critical review and stock taking
OHCHR publishes report on
disappearances in Nepal
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19 December 2008 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), released a report Friday on its investigations into a series of disappearances that occurred in Nepal’s Bardiya...
UN WORKING GROUP ON ENFORCED OR
INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES
WELCOMES REPORT ON
DISAPPEARANCES IN
NEPAL
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19 December 2008 GENEVA -- The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances welcomes the report on Conflict-related Disappearances in Bardiya District, presented today by the United Nations...