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UN Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them Website: www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/hrcindex.aspx
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 September 2016

10 October 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Summary report of the annual full-day of discussion on women's human rights

14 September 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Conference Reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia

5 September 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Country Reports

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: protecting victims of trafficking and persons at risk of trafficking, especially women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

20 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Elimination of female genital mutilation : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

19 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

The right to a nationality: women's equal nationality rights in law and in practice : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

18 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

18 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

18 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Elimination of discrimination against women : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

15 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences on her mission to South Africa

14 June 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Mission Reports

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