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Your views matter: Help the UN Human Rights Office define its strategic direction for 2018-2021

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22 Mar 2017

The UN Human Rights Office is defining its strategic direction for the next four years and would appreciate your input. Please take a brief survey to help us make the best strategic choices to stand up for human rights.

States urged by UN experts to act now against racial profiling and incitement to racial hatred

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21 Mar 2017

GENEVA (21 March 2017) – UN human rights experts* are calling on governments around the world to take action now to stop fear and misinformation about minorities and migrants which are fuelling...

UN expert warns of deteriorating situation for human rights defenders in Palestine and Israel

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21 Mar 2017

GENEVA (21 March 2017) – Human rights defenders working to draw attention to abuses associated with Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territory are being increasingly targeted as a result of...

“Development cooperation is key to realizing rights to safe drinking water and sanitation” – UN expert

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21 Mar 2017

GENEVA (21 March 2016) – Everyone involved in development cooperation is being urged by a UN expert to work together to ensure that the human rights of water and sanitation are available to all people...

Human Rights Council concludes general debate on racism, racial discrimination, implementation of the Durban Declaration

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21 Mar 2017

Human Rights Council MORNING 21 March 2017 The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its general debate on its agenda item on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of...

Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial DiscriminationDebate on racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the context of migration

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21 Mar 2017

Statement by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein High Commissioner for Human Rights New York, 21 March 2017 Excellencies, colleagues and friends, The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...

Human Rights Council holds separate interactive dialogues with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic

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21 Mar 2017

Human Rights Council MIDDAY 21 March 2017 The Human Rights Council during its midday meeting held separate interactive dialogues with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the...

Human Rights Committee adopts Annual Report and discusses methods of work

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21 Mar 2017

Human Rights Committee 21 March 2017 The Human Rights Committee this morning held a public meeting in which it discussed the draft annual report and its methods of work. MARGO WATERVAL, Committee...

Council discusses human rights situation in Haiti and in Libya under its technical assistance and capacity building agenda item

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21 Mar 2017

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 21 March 2017 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Gustavo Gallon, the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti...

Eliminating racial discrimination to build trusting societies

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21 Mar 2017

The UN Human Rights Council commemorates the International Day against Racial Discrimination with a debate on racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the context of migration.