Human rights - New York
 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has urged Member States to agree to “pursue a model of economic growth that is socially and environmentally sustainable, just and equitable, and respectful of all human rights
” © UN Photo/Milton Grant | Pushing human rights to the outskirts of Rio would be a step backwards from 20 years ago when the first United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development placed human beings at the centre. Civil society and UN experts call for an inclusive, just and equitable outcome at the forthcoming Rio+20 Conference.  All stories |
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| The updated Universal Human Rights Index database puts more than a decade of human rights data and recommendations at your fingertips. |
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| With the UN’s human rights treaty monitoring system stretched, the international community discusses means to strengthen the system and its role in protecting human rights. |
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HR in the news
DRC security and justiceAssistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović has raised alarm over the recent upsurge in violence in the DRC, stressing the urgency for security and justice reforms.
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Meetings and Events
Informal joint event of ECOSOC with the Peacebuilding Commission
From : 13-06-2012 To : 13-06-2012 New York Informal joint event of ECOSOC with the Peacebuilding Commission on "Promoting Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Sudan and South Sudan". |
From : 26-06-2012 To : 26-06-2012 New York State Parties will elect new members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women which monitors the implementation of the Convention. |
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications
From : 03-07-2012 To : 06-07-2012 New York The WG considers complaints from individuals who claim their rights under the Convention have been violated. |
From : 09-07-2012 To : 27-07-2012 New York The Committee will consider State party reports from Bahamas, Bulgaria, Guyana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand and Samoa. |
Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice.
From : 23-07-2012 To : 27-07-2012 New York |
From : 30-07-2012 To : 03-08-2012 New York The PSWG will prepare for the next season of the Committee which takes place in Geneva in September. |
Human Rights Council, Working Group on the question of the use of mercenaries
From : 30-07-2012 To : 03-08-2012 New York Human Rights Council, Working Group on the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, sixteenth session. |
Thirty-second Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
From : 06-09-2012 To : 06-09-2012 New York States parties will elect nine new members of the Human Rights Committee which monitors implementation of the Covenant. |
General Assembly, sixty-seventh session
From : 18-09-2012 To : 21-12-2012 New York Third Committee considers human rights reports. |
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
From : 29-11-2012 To : 29-11-2012 New York Special Meeting in Observance of the
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
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Human Rights Day
From : 10-12-2012 To : 10-12-2012 New York and Geneva |
From : 18-12-2012 To : 18-12-2012 New York State Parties will elect nine new members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child which monitors implementation of the Convention. |
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