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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
COVID-19: States should not abuse emergency measures to suppress human rights – UN experts
GENEVA (16 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged States to avoid…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
International Women’s Day – 8 March 2020“The time to act is now” – UN experts urge men and boys to become women’s rights defenders
GENEVA (6 March 2020) – A group of UN experts* has called on men…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
International Women’s Day Statement by United Nations Human Rights Experts*6 March 2020
_Twenty-five years after the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women, no country in the…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with the special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
Concludes Interactive Dialogues with the Special Rapporteurs on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Human Rights Council concludes dialogue on foreign debt and starts dialogue on freedom of religion or belief
The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its interactive dialogue with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky,…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
States should not use religious beliefs to justify women and LGBT+ rights violations – UN expert
GENEVA (2 March 2020) – States should repeal gender discriminatory laws grounded on religious…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2020
Commemorating 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, UN experts call for urgent action…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
Pakistan blasphemy death sentence for Junaid Hafeez is “travesty of justice”- UN experts
GENEVA (27 December 2019) – UN human rights experts* have condemned the death sentence…
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OHCHR – Special Rapporteur on FoRB
China urged to disclose location of Uyghur academic Tashpolat Tiyip
GENEVA (26 December 2019) - UN human rights experts* have expressed alarm at the…
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