Iran: Human Rights Council must convene a special session
Fifty organisations urge the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session to address an unprecedented escalation in mass unlawful killings of protesters in Iran.
Human Rights Monitor Quarterly: Issue 1, Vienna +20, 2013
Please find below the table of contents for Issue 1, 2013, covering news and events from August to November. Chapters can be downloaded individually, and the full publication is available to download here (pdf, 2 MB).
Editorial
Introduction to the Vienna +20 issue
Thematic Focus
Vienna Declaration & Programme of Action
International Developments
General Assembly Third Committee
Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Regional Developments
African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights
Resources
Opportunities for NGO engagement
Calendar of upcoming events – February – June 2013
ISHR thanks Irish Aid and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands for their support to this issue of the Human Rights Monitor Quarterly. The contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and cannot be regarded as reflecting the views of the project sponsors
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