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Backlash against women’s rights progress hurts us all – Zeid
3/7/2017
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Press Releases
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Women
Women rights
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International Women’s Day Statement by United Nations Women’s Human Rights Experts
3/7/2017
Statements/Messages
Press Releases
Women's rights and gender
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Women
Women rights
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End of mission statement of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practiceof its visit to Kuwait1
12/15/2016
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Kuwait
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Women
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30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development by the UN General Assembly on 4 December 1986
12/2/2016
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Special Rapporteur on the right to health
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures
Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
Business and Human Rights
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Independent expert on the effects of foreign debt
Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons
Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
Independent expert older persons
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Health
Right to food
Education
Environment
Unilateral coercive measures
Human Rights and International Solidarity
International Order
Business and human rights
Women
External debt
Minorities
Disability
Internally displaced persons
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Older persons
Indigenous people
Right to development
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International Women Human Rights Defenders Day –29 November 2016
11/25/2016
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Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Women
Women human rights defenders
Human rights defenders
Violence against women
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NI UNA Menos movement is ahead of the problem: the State must catch up and intensify efforts to prevent femicide and other forms of gender based violence against women and girls
11/21/2016
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Argentina
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Women
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Joint statement by the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, Right to Health, the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in law and in practice, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child in support of increased efforts to promote, support and protect breast-feeding
11/17/2016
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Committee on the Rights of the Child
Special Rapporteur on the right to health
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Right to food
Health
Women
Children
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Open statement Habitat III: Shift towards a New Urban Agenda based on human rights
10/12/2016
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Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty
Independent expert on the effects of foreign debt
Independent expert older persons
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Special Rapporteur on foreign debt
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
Special Rapporteur on the right to health
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Adequate housing
Disability
Education
Extreme poverty
Right to food
External debt
Health
Indigenous people
Migration and Human Rights
Older persons
Women
Right to drinking water
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Statement by Ms Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences at the Human Rights Council, Thirty-second session
6/17/2016
Statements/Messages
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Women
Violence against women
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights financial crisis
6/3/2016
Press Releases
Statements/Messages
Business and Human Rights
Coordination Committee of Special Procedures
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Central African Republic
Independent expert on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire
Independent expert on the effects of foreign debt
Independent expert of the S-G on Haiti
Independent Expert on Mali
Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Independent expert on Somalia
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People s Republic of Korea
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Special Rapporteur on foreign debt
Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons
Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
Sp. Rapporteur on religious intolerance
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
Special Rapporteur on the right to health
Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
Sp. Rapporteur on Sudan
Special Rapporteur on Syria
Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Sp. Rapporteur on toxic wastes
Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Representative of the S-G on internally displaced persons
Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
WG on Arbitrary Detention
WG on Disappearances
Working Group on the use of mercenaries
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Independent expert older persons
Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
Adequate housing
African Descent
Albinism
Arbitrary detention
Business and human rights
Unilateral coercive measures
Cultural rights
Disability
Education
Enforced or involuntary disappearances
Environment
External debt
Extreme poverty
Forced eviction
Freedom of association
Freedom of opinion and expression
Health
Human rights defenders
Independence of judiciary
Indigenous people
Internally displaced persons
International Order
Mercenaries
Migrant workers
Minorities
Older persons
Racism and racial discrimination
Religious intolerance
Right to drinking water
Sale of children
Slavery
Summary or arbitrary executions
Terrorism
Torture and inhuman treatment
Toxic waste
Traffic in persons
Truth justice and reparation
Violence against women
Women
Trafficking
Right to food
Human Rights and International Solidarity
Privacy
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