UNPO at the UN

Nov 24, 2006

Human Rights Council to Resume Suspended Second Session

The Human Rights Council will resume its suspended second session on Monday, 27 November to take action on deferred draft proposals, after which it will immediately begin its scheduled third session.

Nov 24, 2006

Human Rights Council to Resume Suspended Second...

The Human Rights Council will resume its suspended second session on Monday, 27 November to take action on deferred draft proposals, after which it will immediately begin its scheduled third session.

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Nov 20, 2006

HRC: Resumed 2nd and 3rd Regular Session

From 27 November until 08 December 2006 the Human Rights Council will meet again in Geneva, under the chairmanship of Ambassador de Alba. The agenda includes the working methods and future agenda of the...

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Nov 09, 2006

How to Put U.N. Rights Council Back On Track...

Seven months after the UN GA created a Human Rights Council to replace the much-maligned Commission on Human Rights, the new council already has garnered a level of condemnation that its predecessor took...

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Oct 26, 2006

Panelists Push for GA Approval of UN Declaration...

On Thursday 26 October, 2006, a Panel on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The event was co-sponsored by several...

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Oct 10, 2006

Children of Ethiopian Minorities Ignored

The Committee on the Rights of the Child concerned by failure to consider minorities in recent Ethiopian report

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Sep 27, 2006

"Promoting Freedom and Democracy in China" -...

On 26 September 2006 WEI Jingsheng, Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, and HUANG Ciping, Secretary-General, spoke at a briefing organised by the Transnational Radical Party (TRP).

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Sep 27, 2006

UN Human Rights Council Briefed on Human Rights...

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar focuses on the persecution of political opposition and minorities in his report

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