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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Name: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 34 mins ago - 2 reports

UN human rights office urges restraint in dealing with spreading protests in Brazil

UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday urged the Brazilian authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with spreading social protests in the country, a UN spokesman said.The UN office ... [Published Xinhua News Agency - 34 mins ago]

Entities: United Nations, Human Rights, Protest, Brazil

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

UN Security Council

Syria: What The World Does Not Want To See

TODAY, there is a whole lot of politics by global powers on what happens in battle weary Syria where it is now said that about 93,000 people have been killed since the crisis (revolt) started.Early this month, the United Nations (UN) launched the largest ... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: United Nations, Syria, UN Security Council, Russia

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Sources of UN count of the dead in Syria

"A DataA.1 SourcesHRDAG obtained data from the eight sources listed in Section 1 via dif-ferent mechanisms and at di erent times. Below is a brief description of each source, how and when HRDAG obtained data from each source, and any additional information ... [Published The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ... - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ..., Cation, Human Rights, Syria

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 5 reports

Syria Death Toll At Least 93,000, Says UN

(BBC) -- At least 93,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict, according to latest United Nations figures.This represents a rise of more than 30,000 since the UN last issued figures covering the period to November 2012.At least ... [Published AINA - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ..., United Nations, Syria, Damascus

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Turkish lawyers join ongoing protests

Submitted by Jurist on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 21:13Thousands of Turkish lawyers on June 12 joined the ongoing protests in Ankara and Istanbul by marching out of courthouses in black robes. This came as the result of incidents during the protests the previous ... [Published World War 4 Report - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Protest, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Freedom of Expression

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

93,000 people killed in Syria conflict

Close to 93,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of conflict in March 2011, according to new data published by the United Nations Office for Human Rights ( OHCHR ).Over 80 per cent of those killed were men but the UN Human Rights Office ... [Published United Nations Multimedia - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Syria, United Nations, Human Rights, Barrage Fire

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 3 reports

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

On Syria, OHCHR Didn't See Any Reason to Ask Who Paid for Study Ascribed To It

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, June 13 -- So released by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on June 13? Both the authors of the report at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville have told Inner ... [Published Inner City Press - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ..., Inner City Press, Patrick Ball, United Nations

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

General Debate On the OHCHR Report On South Sudan

Human Rights Watch welcomes the conclusions of reports of the High Commissioner for Human Rights presented to the Human Rights Council at its 21st and 23rd session and shares her view that in the area of human rights, actual implementation remains extremely ... [Published AllAfrica.com - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: South Sudan, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ..., Human Rights

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Rights group says Cambodian land program flawed

New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report that the program, which began a year ago, was designed to be closely identified with Prime Minister Hun Sen ahead of national elections next month, with extensive coverage in state media but no overs ... [Published El Paso Times - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Brad Adams, Hun Sen, Cambodia

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Mali: Report of the United Nations High Commissionner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Mali (A/HRC/23/57) (Advance Unedited Version) [EN/FR]

Source: UN Human Rights CouncilCountry: Mali Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 22/28 by which the Human Rights Council invite the High Commissioner for human rights to present, at its twenty-third session, an ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Human Rights, Mali, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ..., United Nations, Human Rights Violations

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

INDONESIA: INCLUSIVE APPROACH NEEDED TO REALIZE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING FOR ALL

News & Media 11 June 2013 JAKARTA (11 June 2013) â Indonesia faces huge challenges in promoting and protecting the right to adequate housing, âsuch as rapid urbanisation, the concentration of population in high density informal settlements in urban areas ... [Published United Nations Office at Geneva - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Indonesia, Special Rapporteur, United Nations

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 5 reports

UNHRC Navi Pillay to visit Sri Lanka in August

Colombo: UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay would visit Colombo in August on an invitation extended to her by the Sri Lankan government in April 2011.Sri Lanka's Ambassador in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha informed this to the UNHRC's 23rd council ... [Published zeenews.com - May 28 2013]

Entities: UN Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka, Navi Pillay

Quotes

"The Human Rights Office called on authorities to conduct prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations into reports of excessive force" he said

UN human rights office urges restraint in dealing with spreading protests in Brazil [Published Xinhua News Agency - 34 mins ago]

K. whereas according to the Human Rights Watch report '''All You Can Do is Pray ": Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma's Rakhine State', released on 22 April 2013, the abuses perpetrated against the Rohingyas last year, which allegedly involved state agencies, amounted to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing; whereas this report also presents evidence of four mass-grave sites dating from 2012 in Rakhine state;"

'Free Rohingya' Call from Europe to Thailand Wins Rights Group's Backing [Published Phuket Wan - Jun 17 2013]

...According to Mr. Hopenhayn "Latin American countries need to use monitoring mechanisms for international agreements so that they can translate them into public policies. Indicators can be used to build State policies that offer a road map"

UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the Application of Rights-Based Public Policies [Published CEPAL - Jun 14 2013]

"Donors have a right to remain anonymous if they want to. If we felt there was something going wrong with the way statistical analysis is being handled, we might ask questions on that -- but we don't any reason to."

On Syria, OHCHR Didn't See Any Reason to Ask Who Paid for Study Ascribed To It [Published Inner City Press - Jun 13 2013]

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UN human rights office urges restraint in deali... [Published Xinhua News Agency - 34 mins ago]
UN urges Turkey, NGOs to defuse Gezi Park tension [Published Zaman - 4 hours ago]
UN human rights chief calls for restrain in Bra... [Published United Nations Multimedia - 5 hours ago]
World: Special Representative, Briefing Securit... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - 19 hours ago]
'Free Rohingya' Call from Europe to Thailand Wi... [Published Phuket Wan - Jun 17 2013]
Journalists: Increase Reporting On Housing Issues [Published Scoop - Jun 17 2013]
Syria: What The World Does Not Want To See [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Jun 15 2013]
Sources of UN count of the dead in Syria [Published The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ... - Jun 15 2013]
UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the Application... [Published CEPAL - Jun 14 2013]
Letter Urges Enforcement of Business Human Righ... [Published NGO Watch - Jun 14 2013]
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS EIGHT TEXTS, EXTEND... [Published United Nations Office at Geneva - Jun 14 2013]
UNITED NATIONS RIGHTS EXPERT DEPLORES HUMAN RIG... [Published United Nations Office at Geneva - Jun 14 2013]
Turkish lawyers join ongoing protests [Published World War 4 Report - Jun 14 2013]
On Syria, OHCHR Didn't See Any Reason to Ask Wh... [Published Inner City Press - Jun 13 2013]
Syria Death Toll At Least 93,000, Says UN [Published AINA - Jun 13 2013]
Death toll in Syria rises to 93,000 [Published Voice of Nigeria - Jun 13 2013]
U.N. says 93,000 killed in Syrian conflict [Published Public Radio of Armenia - Jun 13 2013]
On Syria Study OHCHR Explains Selection, No Con... [Published Inner City Press - Jun 13 2013]
General Debate On the OHCHR Report On South Sudan [Published AllAfrica.com - Jun 13 2013]
Rights group says Cambodian land program flawed [Published El Paso Times - Jun 13 2013]
Syria death toll at least 93,000, says UN [Published Voice of Russia - Jun 13 2013]
For UN's Syria Report, There "Was No Contract,"... [Published Inner City Press - Jun 13 2013]
Mali: Report of the United Nations High Commiss... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Jun 13 2013]
93,000 people killed in Syria conflict [Published United Nations Multimedia - Jun 13 2013]
UN's Syria Report By HRDAG, Spun Out of Benetec... [Published Inner City Press - Jun 13 2013]
UN study indicates at least 93,000 people kille... [Published Xinhua News Agency - Jun 13 2013]
Funding Appeal for Emergency Programme for Wome... [Published Individual.com - Jun 12 2013]
Congo-Kinshasa: Funding Appeal for Emergency Pr... [Published AllAfrica.com - Jun 12 2013]
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES TECHNICAL ASSIST... [Published Noodls - Jun 12 2013]
INDONESIA: INCLUSIVE APPROACH NEEDED TO REALIZE... [Published United Nations Office at Geneva - Jun 11 2013]

Blogs

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Sources of UN count of the dead in Syria [Published The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي ... - Jun 15 2013] "A DataA.1 SourcesHRDAG obtained data from the eight sources listed in Section 1 via dif-ferent mechanisms and at di erent times. Below is a brief description of each source, how and when HRDAG obtained data from each source, and any additional information ...
Salvadoran Supreme Court Denies Beatriz Her Rig... [Published Firedoglake - May 31 2013] Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . In a stunning decision made worse by the length of time it took to be handed down, the Supreme Court of El Salvador gave a young woman a death sentence on Wednesday by denying “permission” ...
The Ongoing Nakba: The continuous forcible disp... [Published Mondoweiss - May 15 2013] (Image: Alternativenews.org) Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization as a means to ethnically cleanse the territory of historic Palestine from the indigenous Palestinian presence. This Israeli ...
UN Official Tells Government Not to Be Defensiv... [Published Khmerization - May 12 2013] By Lauren CrothersThe Cambodia DailyMay 12, 2013The U.N.’s representative for the Office of the High Commissioner forHuman Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR) on Friday warned the government not tobe defensive about criticism from other countries and civil so ...
Transitions and Durable Solutions for Displaced... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 02 2013] Presentation at the Transitions and Solutions Roundtable, organized by UNHCR and UNDP, Amsterdam, April 18-19, 2013. [1] For at least thirty years, there has been talk of the need to bridge the ‘relief-to-development gap’ or, as it has been more ...

Press Releases

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Scientology: How We Help—Reaching Millions with... [Published CisionWire - English - Feb 20 2013]