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“Moving together as one: solidarity as the foundation of the UN development agenda beyond 2015”

International Human Solidarity Day - Saturday 20 December 2014

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19 Dec 2014

GENEVA (20 December 2014) – Message by the United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, Virginia Dandan, to mark the International Human Solidarity Day, 20 December...

Press briefing notes on Cambodia and Cuba/USA

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19 Dec 2014

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Subjects : (1) Cambodia / Montagnards, (2) Cuba Date: 19 December 2014 _________________________________ (1...

UN Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice finalizes country mission to Spain

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19 Dec 2014

MADRID (19 December 2014) – At the end of a 10-day mission to Spain, in which the Working Group’s delegation, comprised of Frances Raday and Eleonora Zielinska, visited Madrid, Seville, Bilbao...

Spain: Standstill or retrogression in women’s rights? – UN experts state the challenge

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19 Dec 2014

MADRID (19 December 2014) – A United Nations expert group on discrimination against women today warned that Spain’s efforts to integrate women into public, political and economic life and to eradicate...

Caste-based slavery: Rekha’s story

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19 Dec 2014

After 18 years of carrying human waste on her head in wicker baskets to a dumpsite outside her village—a practice known as “manual scavenging”, Rekha Bai was able to find an alternative livelihood with the support of an NGO awarded by the UN Slavery Fund.

CAT/C/HRV/CO/4-5: Concluding observations on the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Croatia

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18 Dec 2014

“Students must never be targets of violence” – UN expert on the right to education

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18 Dec 2014

GENEVA (17 December 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the acts of terror that claimed an immense...

International Migrants Day: joint statement by ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

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18 Dec 2014

18 December 2014 There are more international migrants today than at any other time in human history. As the Secretary General’s synthesis report on the post-2015 development agenda puts it, ‘we are a...

Secretary-General's message on International Migrants Day

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18 Dec 2014

18 December 2014 On International Migrants Day, we call for the fulfilment and protection of the human rights of the world’s 232 million migrants. Far too many migrants live and work in precarious and...

DRC: Conviction of ‘Colonel 106’ major boost in fight against impunity – Zeid

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18 Dec 2014

GENEVA (18 December 2014) –UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today welcomed the conviction and sentencing of Lieutenant Colonel Bedi Mobuli Engangela for committing crimes...