Switzerland, March 15, 2019. China on Friday completed its 3rd UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process which its delegation head described as "smooth and successful." "Wide recognitions" were achieved regarding China's human rights achievements, human rights...
On December 19th, 2011 a third Optional Protocol was adopted by the Human Rights Council and the 3rd Committee of the General Assembly, ready to be signed by the member states of the UN. This new Protocol allows individual children to submit complaints regarding specific violations of their ...
Made a partner in 1987, she served on the executive committee from 1995–2004, moving to Chicago in 1999 when she became chairman of the global executive committee. As a member of a Washington-based think tank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Lagarde headed the US–Poland...
Chapter 2 engages with the Gothic trope of haunting to explore how (post)colonial terrors affect current experiences of (un)belonging for British Muslims, focusing on Pakistani Muslims and the affective, psychic and temporal dimensions of national (un)be
Paragraph 19 (dd), Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, Report of the Forty-Fourth Session, Geneva, A/AC.96/821,12 October 1993. Keane (Citation2004, 220). Both Turkey and Honduras have closed their borders to asylum seekers, citing environmental damage as their justificat...
Its Select Committee on International Development acknowledged in a 1998 report that it took two and a half years for the government to “establish an effective welcoming project”, and that they had provided the bare minimum in terms of migration assistance [para 23 in 64]. The 1996 package ...
"Around the world, there is a pushback on women's rights," the UN chief said while addressing the opening of the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63), noting "that pushback is deep, pervasive and relentless." ...
A South Sudanese warlord who abducted about 89 boys from their school has offered to let them return to finish exams as long as they are then given back to him to fight, United Nations global education envoy Gordon Brown said on Wednesday. ...
On the Committee and the election of its members, see Arts. 28–39 ICCPR. In the literature, see the references at the end of this chapter, with specific regard to books and commentaries. 6. This important human rights treaty was signed in New York on the 16th December 1966 and entered...
habitat- the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds" home ground environs,surround,surroundings,environment- the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" ...