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Emerging Impacts of COVID-19 on the Human Rights Situation and Peace Process in South Sudan
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GENEVA/JUBA (23 June 2020) – The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan welcomes the renewal of its mandate, as it provides an opportunity to continue working on building sustainable peace in...
COVID-19 has exacerbated the historical neglect of dignified mental health care, especially for those in institutions: UN expert
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中文 | Español GENEVA (23 June 2020) – The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed decades of neglect and underinvestment in mental health care, an independent UN expert said today, calling for the ultimate...
Human Rights Council agrees to start forty-fourth session on 30 June 2020, concludes its forty-third session
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Human Rights Council 23 June 2020 The Human Rights Council held a brief meeting this afternoon during which it decided that the forty-fourth session would start on Tuesday, 30 June. The Council then...
Human Rights Council closes forty-third regular session after adopting 43 texts, including on establishing a fact-finding mission on Libya and on asking the High Commissioner to report on systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent
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Human Rights Council Roundup 23 June 2020 Extends Mandates on Situation of Human Rights in Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria and Mali, and Thematic Mandates on...
Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territory Occupied since 1967 on the role of the EU with regards to the looming Israeli annexation of parts of the Palestinian West Bank
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I urge the European Union and its member states to recognize, and act upon, the rising exigency to address the deteriorating human rights, humanitarian and political situation in the Occupied...
The First Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development - Statement by Mr. Bonny Ibhawoh, Chair of the EMRTD
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Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 11:00-13:00 (EDT)/17:00-19:00 (CEST) Virtual private meeting Thank you very much colleagues for having the confidence in me to elect me as the chair of the Expert Mechanism on...
The First Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development - Opening remarks by Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger (Austria), President of the Human Rights Council (2020)
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Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 11:00-13:00 (EDT)/17:00-19:00 (CEST) Virtual private meeting Good morning to everyone who is joining us from overseas, and good afternoon to those participating from within our...
The First Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development - Opening statement by Mr. Todd Howland, Chief, Development, Economic and Social Issues Branch
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Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 11:00-13:00 (EDT)/17:00-19:00 (CEST) Virtual private meeting Distinguished experts, It gives me great pleasure to deliver opening remarks at this first session of this new...