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Senior UN rights official exhorts nations to focus on landmine victims
4 December 2009 - States must step up efforts to help landmine victims – including women, children and indigenous populations – in especially vulnerable situations, a senior United Nations human rights official has said.
Citing progress, Ban urges further support for Burundi’s peace process
3 December 2009 - The peace process in Burundi has witnessed significant progress in recent months but the country needs help to ensure successful elections next year and to tackle challenges such as human rights abuses, corruption and weak institutions, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.
Philippines ‘massacre’ must spur reform, say UN rights experts
2 December 2009 - The recent killing of 57 people in the southern Philippines, including some 30 journalists, must be seen as a watershed moment for the country, two independent United Nations human rights experts said today, stressing the need to bring the perpetrators to justice and take measures to prevent such crimes in the future.
UN expert urges global trade talks to prioritize needs of world’s hungry
2 December 2009 - As the World Trade Organization (WTO) holds a ministerial-level gathering on global food security, a United Nations human rights expert today appealed for the trade community to place hunger high on its agenda and to join multilateral efforts to eradicate the scourge.
UN rights chief says Swiss ban on minarets ‘clearly discriminatory’
1 December 2009 - The United Nations human rights chief spoke out today against the Swiss ban on the building of new minarets, calling it a discriminatory and deeply divisive step which risks putting the county on a “collision course” with its international rights obligations.
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- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Address Twelfth Annual United Nations Student Conference on Human Rights, 4 December - 2 December 2009
- On Human Rights Day, 10 December, Secretary-General Invites People Everywhere to Join UN, Human Rights Defenders Worldwide in Fight Against Discrimination - 1 December 2009
- On World AIDS Day, Secretary General Says Commitments on Prevention, Treatment Can Be Achieved ‘Only if We Shine the Full Light of Human Rights on HIV’ - 30 November 2009
- Girl Child, Eliminating Racism, Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism among Issues, as Third Committee Approves Five More Texts, Concludes Session - 24 November 2009
- Secretary-General Meets with Members of Panel Tasked with Probing Alleged Human Rights Violations during Events on 29 September 2009 in Conakry, Guinea - 18 November 2009
- Secretary-General, in Message on International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, Urges Ending Discrimination, Reaffirming Women’s Human Rights - 18 November 2009
- States Parties to International Civil and Political Rights Covenant Elect Mahjoub El Haiba (Morocco) to Fill Vacancy on Human Rights Committee - 9 November 2009