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Right to health in Indonesia: UN expert to make first visit

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17 Mar 2017

Bahasa version JAKARTA / GENEVA (17 March 2017) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pûras will visit Indonesia from 22 March to 3 April 2017 to assess the realisation of the right to health...

UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances issues findings on Cuba, Ecuador and Senegal

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17 Mar 2017

GENEVA (17 March 2017) – The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has published its findings on Cuba, Ecuador and Senegal, which it reviewed during its latest session, held from 6 to 17 March in...

Human Rights Council holds debate on racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the context of migration

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17 Mar 2017

Human Rights Council MORNING 17 March 2017 The Human Rights Council this morning commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with a debate on racial profiling and...

Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Haiti and South Sudan

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17 Mar 2017

Human Rights Council MIDDAY 17 March 2017 The Human Rights Council at its midday meeting adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of Haiti and South Sudan. Pierre André Dunbar, Permanent...

Council holds general debate on the Universal Periodic Review and concludes the general debate on human rights bodies and mechanisms

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17 Mar 2017

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 17 March 2017 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on the Universal Periodic Review and concluded the general debate on human rights bodies and...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closes twelfth session
Adopts Concluding Observations on the reports of Cuba, Ecuador and Senegal

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17 Mar 2017

Committee on Enforced Disappearances ROUNDUP 17 March 2017 The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its twelfth session this afternoon after adopting concluding observations on the reports of...

National Human rights institutions link international law to local action

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17 Mar 2017

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussien speaks with Beate Rudolf, chair of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions during a recent meeting in Geneva. NHRIs provide an integral link between international human rights law and their countries.

Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based on religion or belief - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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16 Mar 2017

UN experts urge Filipino legislators to reject death penalty bill

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16 Mar 2017

GENEVA (16 March 2017) – Lawmakers in the Philippines are being urged by the UN Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial executions and torture* to reject a proposed Death Penalty Bill which is under...

Commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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16 Mar 2017

Opening Statement by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva, 16 March 2017 Director-General, Excellencies, Colleagues and Friends, Today, we honour the memory...