The Commission on Human Rights, at its forty-seventh session (28 January-8 March, Geneva), covered a wide range of topics, including the rights of mentally-ill persons, environment-related issues, slavery and the sale of children.UN Chronicle...
"We are deeply worried that if these tendencies continue unchecked, the Human Rights Council may run the risk of repeating the same mistakes and failures of the Commission of Human Rights," said Ma, who is China's Permanent Representative to theUnited NationsOffice at Geneva. In light of this...
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Suc said two or three council meetings may take place at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Friday on the final day of the month-long council session, what is normally a busy day when states vote on human rights resolutions. The UN staff council has called for a second full-day strike on...
Protection of women’s rights Protecting rights of LGBT community and that of racial and ethnic minorities The UNHRC was created under the auspices of theUnited Nations General Assembly (UNGA)to replace the UN Commission on Humans rights due to the reason that it was under severe criticism as ...
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In 1994, the then PM Narasimha Rao sent Khurshid and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then an Opposition leader, to argue India's case at the United Nations Human Rights Commission ( UNHRC) in Geneva following a Pakistan- backed resolution against the country. ' I want to take India's global status ...
Geneva, 13 December 2024. This information hub, which will progressively expand to cover more countries, has already documented 274 cases of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders across 17 countries (Bahrain, Belarus, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Iran, Jordan, (…) | – | Staff ...
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The Saudi Human Rights Commission declared in an English-language statement in 2020 that "no one in Saudi Arabia will be executed for a crime committed as a minor, in accordance with the Royal Order of March 2020." The royal order never transpired, and the Arabic...