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It is too simple to reduce religious motives to mere pretexts for violence – New report

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10 Mar 2015

GENEVA (10 March 2012) – Violence committed in the name of religion does not simply ‘erupt’, but is typically caused by contemporary factors and actors that provide the fertile ground for the seeds of...

UN Special Rapporteur on torture returns to Georgia after ten years

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10 Mar 2015

GENEVA (10 March 2015) – The United Nations human rights expert Juan E. Méndez will undertake an information-gathering mission to Georgia from 12 to 19 March 2015, ten years after the first visit to...

Human Rights Council starts interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

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10 Mar 2015

MORNING 10 March 2015 Concludes Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteurs on Torture and on Human Rights Defenders The Human Rights Council today started its interactive dialogue...

Human Rights Council discusses the rights of persons with disabilities

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10 Mar 2015

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 10 March 2015 Holds Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and an Interactive Debate on the Rights of Persons with...

Experts in Argentina 35 years after

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10 Mar 2015

To mark the 35th anniversary of its creation, the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances hosted its session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Group was created to investigate disappearances specifically in the wake of massive human rights violations in Argentina. The meeting marked the Working Group’s 105th session.

Surge in ‘stunningly vicious' attacks on albino children in East Africa, UN rights chief warns

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10 Mar 2015

The United Nations human rights chief expressed revulsion at a recent spike in gruesome attacks against people with albinism in several East African countries.

CRC/C/JAM/CO/3-4: Concluding observations on the combined third to fourth periodic reports of Jamaica

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Concluding observations

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09 Mar 2015

Human Rights Council starts interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteurs on torture and on human rights defenders

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09 Mar 2015

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 9 March 2015 The Human Rights Council this afternoon began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading...

Statement by Ms. Flavia Pansieri United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights on the International Women’s Day

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09 Mar 2015

9 March 2015 Today, in honour of International Women’s Day, we stand in solidarity with all human rights defenders working for gender equality , and with women defenders who fight for the human rights...

Council holds interactive dialogue with Independent Experts on human rights and the environment and on foreign debt

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09 Mar 2015

MORNING 9 March 2015 Hears Statement from Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Marking International Women’s Day The Human Rights Council this morning held a clustered interactive dialogue with...