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Human Rights Watch announced today that it is releasing a series of archives highlighting the extraordinary efforts of human rights defenders in Rwanda and abroad, to warn about the planned 1994 genocide and attempt to stop the killings. The documents painfully illustrate leading international actors’ refusal to acknowledge the slaughter of more than half a million people and act to end it.
This year started with a focus on the ongoing war in Ukraine, human rights in China, and the situation in Afghanistan. And now?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75 today. Meet the people in charge of upholding it at the UN.
Human rights - UN Commission, Council, 1946-2006: Between 1946 and 2006 the UN Commission on Human Rights, created as a subsidiary body of ECOSOC, served as the UN’s central policy organ in the human rights field. For the first 20 years of its existence, however, the commission believed itself to be unauthorized to deal with human rights complaints. During its first two decades, therefore, and together with other UN bodies such as the ILO, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the Commission on Human Right...
The first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights talks to SWI swissinfo.ch about why he accepted what's known as the toughest job in the UN.