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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights opens fifty-seventh session

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22 Feb 2016

Hears from Non-Governmental Organizations regarding the Situation in Kenya and Canada GENEVA (22 February 2016) - The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights opened its fifty-seventh session...

Almost five years on, Syria is a country destroyed with civilians paying the biggest price: UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria

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22 Feb 2016

NEW YORK/GENEVA (22 February 2016) – As the conflict in Syria is poised to enter its sixth year, civilians bear the brunt of intensifying hostilities conducted by an ever-increasing number of warring...

CRC/C/BEN/CO/3-5: Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Benin

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Concluding observations

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21 Feb 2016

Message by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the International Dialogue on the Intersections of Culture/Tradition with Human Rights Related to Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa

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20 Feb 2016

20 February 2016 Dear friends, I would like to express my admiration for the vital work that you do to defend the human rights of lesbian, gay, bi, trans, intersex and gender non-conforming people...

Statement by Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, to the Security Council, on South Sudan, 19 February 2016 (as prepared for delivery).

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19 Feb 2016

Mr. President, Thank you for inviting me to brief members of the Security Council on the human rights situation in South Sudan. When the Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict was signed in August...

Special Rapporteur on violence against women finalizes country visit to Georgia

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19 Feb 2016

Georgian version TBILISI (19 February 2016) – At the end of a five-day visit to Georgia, which took her to Tbilisi, as well as to the Kakheti and Shida Qartli regions, Ms. Dubravka šimonović, United...

Vanuatu’s record on women’s rights to face scrutiny by UN Committee

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19 Feb 2016

GENEVA (19 February 2016) - Vanuatu’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 24 February. Vanuatu has ratified the...

UN human rights expert welcomes the end of EU unilateral sanctions on Belarus

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19 Feb 2016

GENEVA (19 February 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and unilateral sanctions, Idriss Jazairy, welcomed today the decision of the European Union to lift most sanctions...

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women considers reports of Mongolia

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19 Feb 2016

GENEVA (19 Feburary 2016) - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women today considered the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of Mongolia on its implementation of the...

Human rights goes digital in Tajikistan

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19 Feb 2016

For the first time, people in Tajikistan are now able to gain access to vital human rights information with a new website launched by the Tajikistan government with the support of the UN Human Rights Regional Office for Central Asia.