2005 UN Commission on Human Rights: The UN’s chief guardian of human rights?
Includes both general recommendations and individual case studies regarding civilians, among whom are displaced persons, refugees and asylum seekers.
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2005 UN Commission on Human Rights: the UN’s chief guardian of human rights? executive summary
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2003 UN Commission on Human Rights: a time for deep reflection
This document consists of the recommendations made by Amnesty International to the UN Commission on Human Rights. It includes recommendations regarding asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and refugees.
The United Nations Thematic Mechanisms: update 2000: an overview of their work and mandates
The purpose of this paper is to provide assistance to those wishing to submit information to or follow studies undertaken by the thematic mechanisms. The primary focus of the paper is with the mechanisms that take action on individual cases but it also contains basic information about all 22 of the current thematic mechanisms. Includes … Seguir leyendo The United Nations Thematic Mechanisms: update 2000: an overview of their work and mandates
1998 UN Commission on Human Rights: building on past achievements
In this document, Amnesty International pays particular attention to the following themes at the Commission: the human rights of refugees, abolition of the death penalty, the draft declaration on human rights defenders, the human rights of women, and the review of the Vienna Declaration and the Programme of Action and the 50th anniversary of the … Seguir leyendo 1998 UN Commission on Human Rights: building on past achievements
54th UN Commission on Human Rights (1998): statements and press releases issued by Amnesty International
Includes an address outlining refoulement concerns, in view of the decline in the willingness of states to protect refugees and asylum-seekers. The document begins with a section on Israel and the occupied territories.