Human rights

OCCUPATION, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS MAIN CAUSES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN,

SAYS UN EXPERT FOLLOWING VISIT TO PALESTINIANTERRITORIES

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ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ESTABLISHES

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY FOR CÔTE D'IVOIRE

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‘jews everywhere must feel that the United Nations is their home, too,’

Secretary-General tells seminar on anti-semitism

Daylong Programme Is First in Series on ‘Unlearning Intolerance’

UNITED NATIONS EXPERT ON RIGHTS DEFENDERS GRAVELY CONCERNED

OVER RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION IN BELARUS

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GENEVA, 21 June (UN Information Service) -- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders issued the following statement today:

UNITED NATIONS EXPERT WELCOMES KAZAKHSTAN’S OPENNESS TO FURTHER REFORMS

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United Nations to hold series of seminars

on theme of ‘unlearning intolerance’

First Session –- on Confronting Anti-Semitism -- to Be Opened by Secretary-General

Round-up of Session                                        

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION

BOARD OF VOLUNTARY FUND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TECHNICAL COOPERATION

TO MEET IN GENEVA FROM 8 TO 11 JUNE

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GENEVA, 4 June (UN Information Service) -- Helping countries that want to help themselves:  that is the goal of the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, which will meet in Geneva from 8 to 11 June 2004.

Expert on HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR ‘DISAPPOINTED’ WITH GOVERNMENT’S COOPERATION

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GENEVA, 1 June (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the situation in Myanmar issued the following statement today:

UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS appeal to israel on house demolitions

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GENEVA, 28 May (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights on adequate housing and on the right to food issued the following statement today: