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Interactive Dialogue Statement at Human Rights Council, 43th Session, Karima Bennoune, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights

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04 Mar 2020

Good afternoon. Today I will present two country reports followed by my thematic report. Country Report I: Poland First, I turn to my report on Poland. I congratulate Poland on its investment in the...

Twelfth Session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues“Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities”Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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28 Nov 2019

Geneva, 28 November 2019 Distinguished President of the Council, High Commissioner on National Minorities, Co-chairs, Excellencies, Colleagues, Friends, I am pleased to be present at the opening of...

UN forum to tackle the issue of Education, Language and the Human Rights of the Minorities

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25 Nov 2019

GENEVA (25 November 2019) – The voices of minorities from around the world will be the focus of the 12th United Nations Forum on Minority Issues to be held in Geneva on 28-29 November. Guided by the...

Statement by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights on the importance of public spaces, presented at the 74th session of the General Assembly

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31 Oct 2019

NEW YORK 22 October 2019 Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning, I was pleased to visit Maldives and Tuvalu this year, and will report on my findings to future sessions of the...

Preliminary findings and observations on visit to Tuvalu by UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rightsKarima Bennoune

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25 Sep 2019

Funafuti, 24 September 2019 Context I would like to thank the Government of Tuvalu for the invitation to visit the country. This mission was the first one by a Special Procedures mandate holder since...

Tuvalu cultural survival at risk from climate change, says UN human rights expert

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25 Sep 2019

GENEVA / FUNAFUTI (25 September 2019) - The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, has ended a fact-finding visit to Tuvalu in the South Pacific with a call for the...

Tuvalu: UN expert to visit to assess cultural rights

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16 Sep 2019

GENEVA (16 September 2019) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, will visit Tuvalu from 18 to 25 September 2019 to assess efforts to implement...

Nationalist groups and endangered languages raised by experts as the Committee on Racial Discrimination examines the report of Mongolia

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16 Aug 2019

16 August 2019 - Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination raised issues concerning nationalist groups and endangered languages as it considered the combined twenty-third...

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples9 August 2019UN experts urge decade of action to aid survival of indigenous languages

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07 Aug 2019

GENEVA (7 August 2019) – In a statement to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UN human rights experts* are calling for a decade of action to protect and promote the use of...

A/74/255: Report on the importance of public spaces for the exercise of cultural rights

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Thematic reports

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30 Jul 2019

For her 2019 thematic report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur addressed the importance of public spaces for the exercise of cultural rights and the challenges that must be addressed so that everyone can access and enjoy such spaces.