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Enforced Disappearances: progress and challenges in South America
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To pay tribute to those who have disappeared, as well to their families and friends, the United Nations proclaimed 30 August as the UN International Day of the Disappeared.
Press briefing notes on Guinea, Gambia, Iraq and South Soudan
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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location : Geneva Subject : (1) Guinea (2) Executions in the Gambia, Iraq and South Sudan (1) Guinea We are concerned about...
Mission to Bolivia by UN expert on racism
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GENEVA (31 August 2012) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere, will carry out an official visit to Bolivia from 4 to 10 September 2012, to gather first-hand information on...
Death Row / Iraq: UN expert strongly condemns ongoing executions, reiterates call to halt them
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GENEVA (30 August 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, strongly condemned last Monday’s execution of 21 individuals within...
Israel: “The Rachel Corrie verdict, a defeat for justice and accountability, a victory for impunity” – UN expert
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GENEVA (30 August 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, condemned this week’s ruling by an Israeli judge...
Gambia executions an unfortunate setback for human rights protection -- Pillay
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GENEVA (30 August 2012) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday she was deeply disturbed that after 27 years without any official executions in the Gambia, nine death row...
Enforced disappearance … not only a crime
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(Joint statement by the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the Committee on enforced disappearances to mark the second United Nations International Day of the Victims of...
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Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo violating human rights
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“The deterioration of the overall security situation in North Kivu following the M23 mutiny and related ruthless attacks against civilians is extremely alarming,” said Special Representative for the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) Roger Meece.