Opinion
August 3, 2017
Human rights trampled in push to build infrastructure
Op-Ed by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 3 August 2017 One year ago, we awoke to the
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January 5, 2017
Dollars and Sense: How – and why – the private sector needs to stand up for human rights
Op-Ed by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 5 January 2017 In a few days, when hundreds
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December 3, 2015
Opinion piece: “Burning down the house” – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 December 2015 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights likens man-made climate change to being an arsonist burning down one’s
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September 10, 2015
Opinion piece: By reducing the age of criminal responsibility, Brazil would ignore international commitments
*By Mr. Amerigo Incalcaterra In several South American countries -including Brazil- has emerged a discussion over reducing the age of criminal responsibility
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July 28, 2015
Opinion piece: An Excellent Tool for Mainstreaming Human Rights
*by JESSICA BRAVER The process of reviewing a country’s human rights records can become an opportunity to bond human rights with development.
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February 15, 2015
Opinion piece – “Prison systems: a pending debt in South America”
Originally published by Chilean newspaper “La Tercera” on 9 February 2015 Penitentiary systems in South America share a series of chronic
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June 16, 2014
Opinion piece: “A test for democracy”
On social protest and human rights, featured in several newspapers in the region.
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March 7, 2014
Equality and Justice in the Courtroom
By Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights It is natural for a man to respond to a nagging female
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April 19, 2013
Why the exception should not be the rule*
Internment without consent should be applied to situations of absolute emergency; it should be the exception, not the rule Drug use (especially
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March 7, 2013
Statement by the UN Human Rights Chief on International Women’s Day
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay International Women’s Day – 8 March 2013 Violence against women Last month, in the
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