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UN Human Rights - Weekly Update 26 Invitations Call for inputs Report of High Commissioner - "Civil society space in multilateral institutions" - Deadline extended 30 September 2017 Read more REMINDER Call for inputs   Questionnaire in relation to national action plans to achieve the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Deadline 30 June 2017 English - French - Spanish - Russian REMINDER Invitation Seminar on cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage- 7 July 2017, Room XIX, Palais des Nations, Geneva - Deadline to register 3 July 2017 Read more Call for inputs Independent expert on foreign debt - "Guiding Principles  for carrying out human rights impact assessments in relation to structural adjustment and austerity policies" - Deadline 31 July 2017 Read more Invitation Two-day regional meeting for Europe, Central Asia and North America organized by OHCHR for International Decade for People of African Descent, Room XIX at the Palais des Nations, Geneva from 23 to 24 November 2017 Read more Treaty Bodies Update!  Regularly updated news about what committees are meeting, documentation, jurisprudence, etc.  Read more 67th session Committeeon the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (03 Jul 2017 - 21 Jul 2017). Read more 120th Session Human Rights Committee (03 Jul 2017 - 28 Jul 2017). Read more Who's up for election?  Read more Treaty Bodies - Protecting Your Rights.  (Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian- Spanish) United Nations Treaty Body Database Jurisprudence Database Find out more about treaty bodies Treaty Body Sessions Webcast Video - What is a treaty body?    Special Procedures Update!  Regularly updated calendar and news about which Special Procedures expert is travelling where? Read more Latest special procedures communications report A/HRC/35/44 available on the special Procedures communications search website. Read more New Special Procedures communications search website Read more Latest report of cases of human rights violations taken up by Special Procedures.  Read more Acts of intimidation and reprisal for cooperation with the special procedures.  Read more Submission of information to the Special Procedures Special Procedures Database Find out more about Special Procedures Human Rights Council -- UPR Letter from the HRC President: Call for nominations, Chairperson of 2017 Social Forum.Read more REMINDER Working Group Universal Periodic Review -Deadline - Stakeholders' submissions for the 28th sessions: 29 June 2017 Stakeholders should submit their contributions through the online UPR submissions registration system (https://uprdoc.ohchr.org) not later than the day of the given deadline (3:00 p.m.).  Should organizations encounter technical problems using the online system, please contact the UPR Submissions Helpdesk (uprsubmissions@ohchr.org).  Read more - Online portal UPR Submission Guidelines for NGOs.  Read more Current Membership of the Human Rights Council Video - Human Rights Council tenth anniversary 2006-2016 Video - What is the Human Rights Council?    Regional Human Rights Mechanisms Africa Ruling in the matter of General Kayumba Nyamwasa and 6 Others which was rendered on 24th March at seat of  the African Court in Arusha. English - French The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights calls for contributions to the draft study on "HIV, the Law and Human Rights in the African Human Rights System: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Rights-based Responses to HIV. Read more The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights announces the publication of the First Edition of the African Human Rights Yearbook, and invites abstracts for papers that will propose groundbreaking academic style contributions to the human rights discourse in Africa.   Read more Americas The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights continues work on the participatory development of its Strategic Plan and invites civil society to regional consultations.   Read more The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns the deaths of nearly 100 people in prisons in Brazil.   Read more The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presents financial projections for 2017 and opens dialogue to raise funds to defend and protect human rights in the region.  Read more Asia Press release: AICHR judicial colloquium on the sharing of good practice regarding international human rights law, 13 - 15 March 2017. Read more ASEAN, UN join forces to end violence against children. Read more Europe  The Shrinking Space for Human Rights Organisations - New HR Comment by Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. Read more News Demand for Qatar to close Al-Jazeera "a major blow to media pluralism" - UN expert.  Read more  US could do more on privacy rights, UN rapporteur concludes after official visit.  Read more

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