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Statement by President of the Human Rights Council at the opening of the sixth session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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08 Jul 2013

8 July 2013 Mr. Chair, Mme Director, Distinguished members of the Expert Mechanism, Distinguished Indigenous representatives, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to welcome you all on this...

Human Rights Committee opens one hundredth and eighth session

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08 Jul 2013

Human Rights Committee 8 July 2013 The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundredth and eighth session, adopting its agenda and hearing an address by Gianni Magazzeni, Chief of the...

Opening Address by Mr. Gianni Magazzeni, Chief
Americas, Europe & Central Asia Branch
Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division to the Human Rights Committee, 108th session

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08 Jul 2013

Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Committee Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to open the one hundred and eighth session of the Committee and to have an opportunity to...

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women opens fifty-fifth session

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08 Jul 2013

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 8 July 2013 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its fifty-fifth session, hearing a statement...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women meets with NGOs and a National Human Rights Institution

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08 Jul 2013

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 8 July 2013 AFTERNOON Hears Statements on the Situation of the Rights of Women in Afghanistan, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and...

Welcoming Remarks by Ms Navi Pillay,
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the International Thematic Conference on Human Rights
ICPD Beyond 2014 Review Process

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07 Jul 2013

The Hague, 7 July 2013 Excellencies, Colleagues, Friends, I would like to welcome you warmly to the ICPD Review Process and thank you for being here tonight. I am particularly pleased to join in the...

Moving away from the death penalty: spotlight on wrongful convictions

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05 Jul 2013

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Member States to move towards the abolition of the death penalty: “We have a duty to prevent innocent people from paying the ultimate price for miscarriages of justice.“

Statement by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights at the Public consultation on the issue of historical and memorial narratives in divided societies

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05 Jul 2013

5 July 2013 Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, When I started my mandate, I proposed a working definition of cultural rights in consonance with the Universal Declaration of...

Statement by Committee on Migrant Workers on Migrant workers’ rights: 10 years of progress but huge challenges remain

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05 Jul 2013

GENEVA (4 July 2013) - Ten years ago this week, the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW) entered into force. The Committee on the...

UN and European anti-trafficking experts join forces to fight trafficking in persons in Europe and beyond

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05 Jul 2013

STRASBOURG / GENEVA (5 July 2013) – Two key international anti-trafficking expert mechanisms have combined forces to strengthen the fight against trafficking in human beings in Europe and beyond...