Burundi

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Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi

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Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders - Mission to Burundi (A/HRC/31/55/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice - Mission to Burundi (A/HRC/30/42/Add.1)

Report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi (A/HRC/17/50) in French

Report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi (A/HRC/11/40)

Report of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi (A/HRC/9/14)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 30/27 - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Burundi (A/HRC/32/30) Advance Edited Version

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights and the activities of her Office in Burundi (A/HRC/12/43) 

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Burundi is emerging from a long and painful ethnic conflict between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis which, between 1972 and 2000, cost the lives of approximately 300,000 Burundians and left hundreds of thousands displaced. In line with the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Accords of August 2000, a new Constitution was elaborated and adopted by referendum in 2005, establishing the terms by which the two ethnic groups would share power and recognizing fundamental human rights for all Burundians. The Arusha Accords also provided for the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms.
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