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UN torture prevention body to visit Ukraine 19 to 26 May
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GENEVA (17 May 2016) – The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Ukraine from 19 to 26 May to assess the treatment of people deprived of their liberty, as well as the...
Press briefing notes on Crimean Tatars
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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 17 May 2016 Tomorrow, 18 May, will mark the anniversary of the 1944 deportation during World War II...
Committee on the Rights of the Child opens seventy-second session in Geneva
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(GENEVA – 17 May 2016) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-second session at the Palais Wilson this morning, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights...
Statement by Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner, at the International Ministerial Meeting on Education Sector Response to Violence based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression
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17 May 2016 May I just say thank you! Thank you to Your Excellencies - Ministers who have lent us your authority to help give redress of this human rights abuse priority. There lies hope. Thank you to...
Greece: “Europe’s lack of political will creating serious suffering for thousands of migrants in Greece” – UN rights expert
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ATHENS / GENEVA (17 May 2016) – “The suffering of migrants in Greece is the result of a complete absence of long-term vision and the clear lack of political will of the European Union,” United Nations...
Human Rights in a Turbulent World: Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
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17 May 2016 Excellencies, Friends, Thank you for this invitation to speak at Brookings, an institution I’ve always admired. It has been one hundred years since you began developing policy ideas to...
Righting the World: Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
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Excellencies, Friends, The world is lurching from crisis to crisis. The generation that lived through the horror of the Second World War, – and which, in the aftermath, built a framework of laws and...
Why we fight: campaigning for LGBT Equality
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To bring attention to the fight against discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex people across the world, the United Nations Human Rights Office has commissioned “Why we Fight” a film showcasing why people choose to stand up against LGBT discrimination.
Protecting rights in a humanitarian crisis
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The Ebola virus claimed more than four thousand lives in Liberia. It was a health crisis like no other. It soon became a humanitarian crisis with emerging human rights violations that needed to be...