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Week 28 August - 8 September, 2010
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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition was first initiated in 1998 by UNESCO. It is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. The date is of particular importance: In the night of 22 to 23 August 1791, an uprising began in today's Haiti that played a crucial role in the abolition of transatlantic slave trade. Every year, cultural activities are organized around the globe to remember this event. UNESCO's "Slave Route" project helps to understand the history of slave trade and therewith fills the silence of the past.
HR Treaty Bodies Newsletter
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The Newsletter features analysis, interviews, reports from the field and ways to engage with the Human Rights Treaty division of OHCHR.
| UN High Commissioner for Human Rights introduces her annual report to the 13th Human Rights Council |
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The Report of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (A/HRC/13/26) provides an update on the activities of the High Commissioner and her Office in 2009.
The High Commissioner highlighted a few outstanding country cases including the treatment of journalists and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka and the arbitrary arrest of demonstrators in Iran as well as responding to questions and issued raised by delegations on the thematic priority of migration and the promotion of a human rights-based approach to this. The Commissioner said that the Office would place a greater importance on eliminating racial discrimination against migrants particularly in regards to economic, social and cultural rights.
On the right to development, the Commissioner stressed that this continued to be a high priority for her Office, specifically aimed at protecting and promoting this right through its mainstreaming. The Office planned to expand advocacy and outreach operations in order to integrate the right to development into the work of the Office and its outreach mechanisms. On human rights and gender, the Office was addressing de jure and de facto discrimination against women and was working to enhance accountability and combat trafficking while monitoring violations of women's rights at the field level.
The Council concluded the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner on 5 March 2010, following which it was to begin with the presentation of thematic reports from the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, presented her annual report of the work of her Office on the Thursday 4 March 2010.