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Human Rights Council hears statements by Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Health and on the Human Rights of Migrants

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27 May 2013

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 27 May 2013 Concludes General Debate on the Update of the Annual Report of the High Commissioner, Decides to Hold Urgent Debate on Syria on 29 May The Human Rights...

Sierra Leone: Equal opportunities for persons with disabilities

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22 May 2013

The voice of persons with disabilities and their rights have been amplified in a new law on disabilities ensuring inclusion on all fronts, in the country’s development and in political plans.

UN disability rights body confirms that equal access to banking services should be granted to all

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16 May 2013

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issues an unprecedented decision on a case involving two visually impaired complainants against Hungary.

CRPD/C/PRY/CO/1: Concluding observations on the initial report of Paraguay, adopted by the Committee at its ninth session

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Concluding observations

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15 May 2013

“Not ghosts, but human beings… persons with albinism”

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Press releases

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03 May 2013

GENEVA (4 May 2013) – “They are regarded as ghosts and not human beings who can be wiped off the global map. They are people living with albinism*, the target of many false and harmful myths in...

IACHR, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Rapporteur on Torture, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, and UN Rapporteur on Health reiterate need to end the indefinite detention of individuals at Guatánamo Naval Base in light of current human rights crisis

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Statements

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01 May 2013

Washington/Geneva — 1 May 2013—The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (hereinafter, the Working Group), the Special Rapporteur...

Guantánamo / Human Rights: “Indefinite detention – will it ever end?”

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01 May 2013

WASHINGTON / GENEVA (1 May 2013) – “The United States must respect and guarantee the life, health and personal integrity of detainees at the Guantánamo Naval Base, particularly in the context of the...

ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING INITIATIVE

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13 Aug 2003

Geneva, 13 August 2003 South Asia Court of Women on the Violence of Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11-13, 2003 The following statement was issued today by Bertrand Ramcharan...

Sub-commission hears reports of its experts on bioethics; terrorism; traditional practices harming women and girls

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04 Aug 2003

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 4 August 2003 Afternoon The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights this afternoon continued its...