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A/HRC/35/33: Report on cross-border law enforcement cooperation in business and human rights cases
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Summary Owing to the reference to law enforcement, in the present study the Working Group focuses on cooperation with respect to the investigation and prosecution of criminal and administrative law...
Operations of the Voluntary Trust Fund for Participation in the Universal Periodic Review - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mexico: official visit by the UN expert on safe drinking water and sanitation
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GENEVA / MEXICO CITY (26 April 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, Léo Heller, will visit Mexico from 2 to 12 May to gather information and...
Two-thirds of torture victims supported by UN Fund are migrants and refugees
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GENEVA (26 April 2017) – Two-thirds of the nearly 50,000 victims of torture supported every year by the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture are migrants and refugees, according to the Fund’s...
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination examines the report of Finland
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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 26 April 2017 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the twenty-third report of Finland on...
Venezuela / Protests: UN and IACHR Rapporteurs condemn censorship, arrests and attacks on journalists
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WASHINGTON/GENEVA (26 April 2017) : Two experts on freedom of expression of the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemned today the practice of censorship and internet...
Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group to hold twenty-seventh session in Geneva from 1 to 12 May 2017 marking the start of the third cycle
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Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group 26 April 2017 BACKGROUND RELEASE The twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group...
Committee against Torture considers report of Afghanistan
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Committee against Torture 26 April 2017 This afternoon, the Committee against Torture completed the review of the second periodic report of Afghanistan on its implementation of the provisions of the...
Bahrain’s human rights record to be reviewed by Universal Periodic Review
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GENEVA (26 April 2017) – Bahrain’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 1 May 2017 in a...