Indigenous communities in Cambodia are claiming their land rights through a communal land registration programme that has seen more than 4,000 people benefit from land titles.
Right to land and protection of culture are key issues for Carwyn Jones, member of a Māori nation in New Zealand and a UN Human Rights Indigenous Fellow.
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang encourages the Government of Paraguay to increase efforts to ensure that indigenous peoples’ rights are respected.
GENEVA – This year the United Nations Human Rights Council has created new monitoring and reporting mechanisms on the situation of human rights in Iran, the freedom of peaceful assembly and of...
The United Nations human rights experts whose names appear below issued the following statement today: Geneva, 4 January 2008: - -“Following and in line with the statement made by the High...
Commission on Human Rights 58th session 3 April 2002 Morning Chiefs of UNAIDS, Red Cross Federation, Senior Officials of Denmark, Peru, and the Republic of Congo Speak The Commission on Human Rights'...
Commission on Human Rights Fifty-eighth session Geneva, 3 April 2002 Statement by Mr. Maurice Copithorne, Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in...
15 January 2001 The Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Maurice Copithorne, has expressed deep concern to the...
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