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United Republic of Tanzania’s Killey Mwitasi Concludes Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on Law of the Sea

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Killey Mwitasi of the United Republic of Tanzania, the twenty-third recipient of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, completed his fellowship today with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, where he has been conducting research on judicial decisions dealing with maritime boundary delimitation.

Committee Experts Press Serbia to Do More in Ensuring Protection of Minority Rights, Tackling Violence against Journalists, Human Rights Defenders

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Citing critical gaps between a number of admittedly excellent laws and proposed legislative amendments on the one hand, and the actual status of civil and political rights in Serbia on the other, experts of the Human Rights Committee pressed that country today to do more on several fronts, including the protection of minority rights, the effective functioning of its courts and grave instances of violence against journalists and human rights defenders.