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Burundi crisis: Zeid calls for robust action by international community to avert another civil war

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17 Dec 2015

GENEVA (17 December 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today urged the international community to take “robust, decisive” action on the situation in Burundi, to avert...

Finland / Indigenous peoples: New bill threatens Sami’s rights to their traditional lands and livelihood

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17 Dec 2015

GENEVA (17 December 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, today expressed deep concern at the lack of consultation and the reduced...

Human Rights Council opens Special session on preventing the further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi

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17 Dec 2015

Human Rights Council 17 December 2015 The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session on preventing the further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi. The Special...

Statement by Michael K. Addo, Chairperson of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures at the Twenty-fourth Special Session of the Human Rights Council on preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi

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17 Dec 2015

Geneva, 17 December 2015 Mr. President, Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am delivering this statement on behalf of the Coordination...

Human Rights Council decides to urgently dispatch a mission to Burundi to investigate violations and abuses of human rights

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17 Dec 2015

AFTERNOON 17 December 2015 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to urgently organize and dispatch a...

Human Rights Council concludes Special Session on preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi

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17 Dec 2015

ROUNDUP RELEASE 17 December 2015 Council Requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights to Urgently Dispatch an Expert Mission to Document Human Rights Violations and Abuses and Identify Perpetrators...

Comment by High Commissioner Zeid on the CAR review report

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17 Dec 2015

17 December 2015 In the wake of the publication of the report of the Independent review on sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic, the UN...

Statement by H.E. Ambassador Joachim Ruecker, President of the Human Rights Council at UPR Info Pre-sessions
Geneva, 17 December 2015

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17 Dec 2015

Ladies and Gentlemen, At the outset, let me welcome you all to the 12th round of UPR pre-sessions. I am pleased to be with you this morning and grateful to UPR Info for organizing these important pre...

Our rights, our freedoms, always: campaign to celebrate human rights begins

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17 Dec 2015

演员丹尼尔·布鲁赫在日内瓦万国宫的启动仪式上发表独白。© 人权高专办/Danielle Kirby

Recognizing the rights and freedoms inherent in everyone is the focus of a year-long campaign by the UN Human Rights Office, launched Wednesday with a photo exhibition, speeches and a monologue from Hollywood actor Daniel Brühl.

Ban vows to act quickly after report finds UN failed to respond ‘meaningfully’ to Central African Republic abuse allegations

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17 Dec 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pledged to urgently review the recommendations made by an independent panel investigating crimes committed against children by soldiers – not under UN command – in the Central African Republic.