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International Women's Day

iwdl2010logo.gifMonday 8 March 2010 is International Women's Day. This year the theme is "Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All", in recognition of the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. A large number of events are being held worldwide to mark the day, including many organised by UN entities. Read more...

Haiti and Human Rights

haiti.jpgThe Human Rights Council concluded its 13th Special Session on 28 January 2010 in response to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010. The resolution titled "The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti After the Earthquake: a Human Rights Approach" outlines concern over the medium and long-term consequences of the disaster and invites collaboration with the Haitian government and the OHCHR to identify a human rights approach to recovery for the nation.

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Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism
full_body_scanner.jpgOn Monday 8 March the 13th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council heard a report from the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. The report focussed on the erosion of the Right to Privacy through measures by States claimed to be motivated by security and countering terrorism, measures that can severely impede on freedom of movement, of association and of expression, and stressed the need to integrate the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms into legislation relating to counter-terrorism and not to allow for rights and freedoms to be sidelined by other laws
 
 
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Annual Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

un_commissioner.jpgThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, presented her annual report of the work of her Office on the Thursday 4 March 2010. This was followed by an Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner in which countries expressed their concerns over the geographic imbalance in the staff of the Office of the High Commissioner, the right to development with a focus on the impact of global economic and financial crises, and human rights concerns relating to issues of migrants, racial discrimination, xenophobia and gender inequality.

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Human Rights Commission begins its 13th session with high-level segment

room_xx.jpgThe Human Rights Council opened its Thirteenth session on 1 March 2010, hearing from 17 high-level dignitaries. The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, in her opening statement said that in order to counter deeply-rooted and chronic human rights conditions in many countries, five years ago the UN had initiated a process of reform that proposed several innovations including the creation of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission.  The Council is a conceived forum where responses to inequality, repression, and impunity can be crafted and advocated to build a world in larger freedom. 

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