Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, A/65/162, 23 July 2010
I. INTRODUCTION D. The right to sexual education: its relationship to other rights and the need for a gender and diversity perspective 23. In order to be comprehensive, sexual education must pay special attention to diversity, since everyone has the right to deal with...
Expert consultation : Optional Protocol to provide a communications procedure for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
On 21-22 June 2010, the ICJ in collaboration with the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights organized an Expert Consultation on a proposed Optional Protocol to establish a communication procedure to allow for children who are victims of human rights violations to seek a remedy before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Participants in the meeting included the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open-Ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol. The UN Open-Ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child will next meet in December 2010 to discuss a draft text presently being prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open-Ended Working Group, Mr. Drahoslav Stefane.
Switzerland-expert consultation CRC-agenda-2010 (full text in English, PDF)
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, A/HRC/14/22/Add.1, 2 June 2010
III. TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS B. Sexual violence and other forms of violence amounting to torture or ill- treatment 17. The Special Rapporteur wishes to recall that sexual violence, a pervasive manifestation of gender-based violence, is not restricted to specific...Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, A/HRC/14/23/Add.2, 25 March 2010
ANNEX: TENTH ANNIVERSARY JOINT DECLARATION: TEN KEY CHALLENGES TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE NEXT DECADE 5. Discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression Equal enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression remains elusive and historically...Recent News
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