Frustration seems to be growing as the Human Rights Council (HRC), with its foundations still not settled, has been accused by some of avoiding urgent issues and failing to explicitly criticize perpetrators of human rights abuses, such as Iran
Frustration seems to be growing as the Human Rights Council (HRC), with its foundations still not settled, has been accused by some of avoiding urgent issues and failing to explicitly criticize perpetrators...
UNPO welcomes the joint statement made by a large number of NGOs proposing the creating of an Indigenous Expert Body (IEB) to replace the Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP). This body would...
Major headway has been made on the final draft of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with it now ready to be presented to the United Nations General Assembly. This development follows...
UNPO supports the call by a range of NGO’s for more time to be allocated at the Human Rights Council for the discussion of additional human rights situations that require attention.
UNPO ‘supports’ an initiative by ‘Minority Rights Group International’ aimed at raising support for the continuance of the mandate of the UN Working Group on Minorities, which will be reviewed...
UNPO welcomes High Commissioner Arbour and Prof. Stavenhagen's call for adoption of the Declaration Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples,...
The Fifth Session of the United Nations' Human Rights Council is held in Geneva from 11 – 18 June 2007. The UNPO Monitor contains articles on the important issues with relevance to UNPO Members that...
The chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Council has presented members with a “take-it-or-leave-it” set of rules for regulating the work of the new body.
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