News and Media 2010
Australia's Universal Periodic Review
08 July 2010
The Attorney-General’s Department is coordinating preparation of the Australian Government’s National Report and is now seeking public comment on the draft National Report.
Source: Australian Government
Clinton steps up campaign against governments applying a 'steel vise' on social activism
04 July 2010
BAKU, Azerbaijan - On America's Independence Day, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is challenging what she calls a global crackdown on human rights, lamenting a "steel vise" squeezing the life out social activism.
Source: The Canadian Press
Address by Mr. Bacre Ndiaye at the Seventeenth annual meeting of special procedures
28 June 2010
I warmly welcome to you at this seventeenth annual meeting of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council.
Source: OHCHR
France's implementation of its UPR recommendations and commitments
11 June 2010
Mid-term review of recommendations and commitments taken at the moment of France's UPR
Source: Mission permanente de la France auprès de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève
EIGHTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL’S UPR TO BE HELD FROM 3 TO 14 MAY 2010
03 May 2010
Fifteen Countries Will Get Their Human Rights Records Examined – Review on Haiti Postponed
Source: The United Nations Office at Geneva
UN Human Rights Council: Governments’ Efforts to Suppress UN Report on Secret Detention Fail
05 March 2010
Amnesty International expressed satisfaction that the UN Human Rights Council has rejected efforts to suppress a report by UN independent experts on the worldwide use of secret detention in the name of countering terrorism.
Source: Amnesty International
Tracking Human Rights Worldwide: State Dept. Country Reports
23 February 2010
Country Reports essential element to promote human rights worldwide.
Source: America.gov
UN Expert on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism concludes visit to Tunisia
09 February 2010
On the last day of his official visit to Tunisia from 22 to 26 January 2010, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, issued the following statement.
Source: Geneva Institute for Human Rights
Counter-terrorism: UN human rights expert to visit Tunisia
22 January 2010
Note that this visit takes place within the framework of Tunisia's voluntary commitments, presented in its national report to the UN Human Rights Council, during the Universal Periodic Review.
Source: OHCHR and http://www.infotunisie.com/?p=31920
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Countries reviewed during the February 2010 session
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Egypt
Egypt presented itself at the 7th session of the Universal Periodic Review (February 2010). Its delegation was headed by Mufid Shihab, Minister of State for Legal and Parliamentary Councils. ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina presented itself at the 7th session of the Universal Periodic Review (February 2010). Its delegation was headed by the Minister of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia ...
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Slovenia
Slovenia presented itself at the 7rd session of the Universal Periodic Review (February 2010). Its delegation was headed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Žbogar. ...
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Iraq
Iraq presented itself at the 3rd session of the Universal Periodic Review (December 2008). Its delegation was headed by H.E. Mrs. Wijdan M. Salim, Minister for Human Rights. ...
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