UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay delivers a lecture on “Women’s Rights in Human Rights Systems: Past, Present and Future”.
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HIGH COMMISSIONER: MAKE EQUAL RIGHTS A DAILY REALITY FOR ALL WOMENWe strive to ensure the implementation of appropriate laws to make equal rights a daily reality in the lives of all women, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says in a landmark lecture on the promotion of women’s rights in the next decade.
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Human Rights and the Global Economic CrisisHuman Rights Chief, Navi Pillay warns that the current economic crisis may also affect civil and political rights. More ...
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